Big step

Well, this past weekend was a first.  It all started out as normal.  Great workout at the gym.  Lunch.  Lounge.  And then.....

We packed Brody and Ava's things for a night at my parent's house!  Yep, big step.  Ava's first night away was when Brody was born (3 years old).  Brody's first time was Saturday (19 month). 

We had planned to take our first ever weekend away from the kids this past weekend and go to Tunica.  It was some where neither one of us have been to and it was only about 4 hours away, but our heating/ac unit finally went to the Big units in the sky.  I felt kind of bad going to spend money and gamble when we just dropped a chunk of money on a new unit. 

We will go probably on our anniversary in April now.

Any way, back to this mama relinquishing the reigns.....for 12 hours.  haha

We got them all packed.  Ava was super excited and had their whole night planned.  My sister still lives with my parent's and she was excited to. 

Ava requested pizza for supper and chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast the next morning.  Smart girl.  Brody is still nursing 2 times a day and I was curious if this break would be the final whoorah for us.    We dropped them off....quickly so I wouldn't think about it too much and off we went.

Clint and I went to Opry Mills Mall.  Side note...we walked 2 miles around the mall on our date! (Thanks Fitbit)  We went to a restaurant called Claim Jumper.  Ordered adult beverages and talked.  I really like my husband.  He is funny and sarcastic and we really do understand each other and am ok with that haha!
 
We stopped on the way home and got me a bottle of Reisling and him some Crown Royal Apple for him. (that stuff has a whopper of a kick)

And then we did what all exciting parents do with a night without kids......we caught up on our DVR and I went to bed and he played his game on the Playstation 3.  Exciting!!!!!

I was able to sleep a little longer and get up and run an uninterrupted 4.5 miles on the treadmill before church. Winning!

Good for my heart, my parents brought them to church the next morning, so it was a whopping 14 hours away from them, but we were all so excited to see each other!!

I can survive a night without the kids.   Did Brody stop nursing?????   No.  Nothing changed.  I am going to have to research how to wean this kid.  I will never regret nursing either of my kids.  (Ava 16 months and Brody is going on 19 months) But I am ready to let that part of my life go.  My stubborn and adorable son isn't quite ready yet.   We will see I guess!

Have a great day!!

Shopping, Date night, Enjoying a Sunday

  Hey there sunshines!  I hope your weekend with swimmingly!  Ours did! Y'all getting ready for Turkey day or 6 of them?!  We have 2 this year and that is plenty!  We are doing Clint's side of the family at our house on Thursday and then my side of the family on Friday at my uncle's house.  That is after Black Friday shopping with Clint!  It is one of my favorite dates of the year with him! It will be our 5th Black Friday date!  We get up with the "crazies" and shop.  We have no plan, we just shop and laugh at the crazies!  Good times!

On to our weekend.  Saturday morning we got up and got ready and hit up a warehouse sale full of sports tailgating paraphanalia.

Seriously, it was a warehouse!!  This sale only happens once a year for 3 days.  We got Clint's dad'd Christmas present and a few other things for us.

No buggy here, you get a WAGON to carry all of your stuff around!  Ava loved it!

We needed a few things for our fridge, so we hit up Whole Foods. 

I will be honest, I prefer Trader Joe's over Whole Foods.  I know some people might scoff at me, but that is my preference!

I hadn't had breakfast and Clint was getting hungry after we stopped at Target and got a few more things. 

Enter Noshville.  It is a New York Delicatessan and pretty good.

She is telling us a great story!!

(That's not coffee in her cup either, but water. )

We came home and I ran 3 easy miles and we did a tag team house cleaning.  I pretty much keep our house clean because I am home 2 days of the work week, but it does get lived in and things are out of place.  It took us about 45 minutes to pick up. 

Clint's mom's friend was visiting from New York and she wanted us and Clint's brother and his wife to go out in downtown Nashville with them. 

My parent's kept Ava for us, so it was a date night!  We weren't sure what to expect, but off we went!

We all met at the Hard Rock Cafe.  They wanted the whole Nashville experience!  Our server was awesome and comet o find out lives in our town.  Small world people!

After supper, we took off walking.  We wanted to go to a "honky tonk" (country word for bar).  The only draw back was that my MIL's friend's daughter was only 19.  Ohyea, and she didn't have her ID on her.  Makes going to a bar very difficult!!

Finally, we found a place that would let her in ID free until 9pm with a parent.  It was only like 6pm, so in we went!  Let me tell you I have not laughed so hard in a long time!  My MIL is a dancing MACHINE!!  She got out on that floor and had not a care in the world!!  I had had one beer at supper like 2 hours before, so I didn't drink anymore, but let Clint partake in a few brew-has.  But people watching and watching my MIL was priceless!!   Being sober was never more fun!!!

Sunday I got up and ran another easy 3 miles and then we got ready for church.

It was a breathe of fresh air for my week! 

Lunch was at my uncle's house and we had tacos and banana pudding!  Favorite meal ever!  We had that for our Rehearsal dinner for our wedding!

We came home for a long afternoon of NOTHING to do!  The house was clean, well I did 2 loads of laundry and hung them to dry, but that was nothing really! 

We played, we watched tv, we snacked.  Clint started playing Call of Duty, so I scooped Ava up and we came down to the kitchen and made Wheat Banana muffins. 

My awesome helper.  Her helper, Piper, was falling down on the job!

Look at these beauties!! They were so moist and yummy!!

Well, this morning I took off of working out and slept another hour. yay!

I need to get some work done at the office!

Have a great day and I'll see ya soon!