Weekend Wrap Up!

This is sort of a long one! Grab a cup of coffee and hunker down OR scan through the pics. I won't be hatin'!

Or just check out Paul's weekend highlight... dancing to some FUNK with some ladies at the Fuzzy Few carnival in Hummelstown!

I was so tired all day because JELLY was a DICK all night long. Sometimes in the middle of the night, he gets so crazy that he does anything for food. He'll meow, scratch the closet door, knock stuff off Paul's bedside table... He'll sit on Paul while he is sleeping and just stare at him with those little "I'm hungry" daggers coming out of his eyes. He was relentless, so we didn't get a lot of sleep.

I love him, but he can be a dick.

In the morning, we went over to my SIL's house to hang out with her and the kiddos. We had a lot of fun talking, playing with the kids and WEEDING. Do you all know how much I love to weed? Well, Debby let me weed her garden! It was so satisfying. I am being serious. There's nothing like pulling a weed out and getting all the roots and stuff!

Ellie and Clark

 Clementine

That afternoon, I almost convinced Paul to skip the gym and take a nap with me instead (who am I!?) but he wanted to workout. Since I am his ride, I went along and ran in a local park across the street. The run was pretty crap-tastic. The endorphins weren't even worth the 55 minutes of crappiness that it took to run 6 miles.

But that evening we had something super fun to do! We went to our first carnival of the year! Paul and I love carnivals because it's a cheap way to have a lot of fun. This was the Fuzzy Few carnival in Hummelstown, PA (a suburb of Hershey).

First, we did a lap to people watch and check out the food. Then we set up our lawn chairs so we would have good seats to see Soul Solution, a Harrisburg Area funk band. We saw them perform before, so we knew how good they were!

 

At one point there were some older ladies dancing. I dared Paul to go dance with them for an entire song and he did! Here is the proof...

Paul's got the moves!!!!

There were about 150 people watching the band and only 5 dancers. :)

This was my first bra-less outing after declaring I don't wear bras anymore. It felt great! Eat your heart out, Hummelstown!

Unfortunately, I felt ill when I got home that night. I didn't notice a lot of smoke at the carnival but there was some. My throat hurt and my stomach was queasy. It was totally from the secondhand smoke. I am just not used to breathing that in anymore! I am so glad times have changed and there are laws about where you can smoke. I remember in college that all the smokers would stand outside the building where I had English class. So if I wanted to go in the building, I had to walk through a crowd of smokers. It's so different now and I love it! But then there are certain places where you still just have to smell it, which sucks.

That morning, I headed up to my hometown of Millersburg to spend the day with my family. First, I went on an awesome run with my brother. It was hot and sunny but we conquered the hills and I felt good! The run was hard, but it was supposed to be hard, so I felt accomplished.

Then my family and I went over town to see some of the bike races going on at the Tour De Millersburg. There were several different kinds of races over the course of Saturday and Sunday including time trials, crit races, and a road race. We got to see some of the crit races.

Midway through watching the races, I realized I was only about two blocks from my friend Emily's house. Emily and I have been friends since high school. I texted her to see if she wanted to walk down to hang out. She had just put her twins down for a nap so she said she'd come down. I needed to go to the bathroom, so I ran up to her house before she left. Well, by the time I got out of her bathroom, a very unexpected appointment came up that her and her husband had to jet off too, so I offered to watch the babies! I was glad to help my friend out. It was just one of those moments when the universe aligned and I showed up on their doorstep to use the bathroom at the exact moment they needed a baby-sitter.

Since the babies were sleeping, I just chilled in the a/c watching Dr. G Medical Examiner (autopsies!!!!!!) and made friends with their kitty, Bron.

When they got home, I walked back down to the bike race for a little and then headed home. We had  a GAME NIGHT to host!

In attendance: Bob, Rachel, Randy, Michael. We laughed so hard our bellies hurt. BEST GAME NIGHT EVER!!!

Wow, Sunday. Is anyone even reading this still? This wrap up is getting long! Okay, I will make Sunday short and sweet...

1. We lifted at the gym.

2. We cleaned the whole house, did the wash, tidied up the yard, and did an exhaustive cleaning of the "spots" Chrissy likes to pee in. It seems like it doesn't matter what we do, the house smells like pee!!!!

3. We watched a lot of Big Brother.

4. We ate carbs.

5. I chilled on the couch with Jelly.

Do you like weeding?
Does secondhand smoke make you feel sick?
Any good carnivals around here we need to hit up?
HOW DO I GET THE CAT PEE SMELL OUT OF MY HOUSE????