My Weekend With Mr. H!

Now that Mr. H and I have two very busy little girls, alone time is something that we most often dream about.  But this last weekend was a dream come true for us when my parents said that they would have the girls overnight so that we could re-charge.  It was just what we needed and we had such a great time!

We had plans to drop the girls off with my parents at 1pm on Saturday.  The weather was kinda overcast and dare I say cooler compared to the normal July days.  So I was super excited that wearing jeans and a military jacket wasn't a completely ridiculous idea.  :)

 A couple weeks ago I blogged about how I had balayage done to my hair.  I loved it, but I wanted it to look a little bit more dramatic.  ;)  So I brought home the supplies I needed from work and Friday night before I did this...

 It's a lot lighter on the ends now, and I was excited to try something new.  (I wouldn't recommend doing this on your own though friends.  This was actually my second attempt at home.  And remember I'm a stylist so I'm supposed to know what I'm doing.  ;)  My hair was pretty dark so my first time the ends were a bit too orange for my liking.  So this time I actually toned the mid section with two colors first, and then I re bleached my ends until they looked light enough, and until I was too scared to let bleach continue to sit on my ends.)

Summery don't ya think?

So after we dropped the girls off at my parents house we had lunch at The Islands.

Then we headed out to Fullerton to check out a brewery that my cousin told us about.

I text Chad on our way and asked him to meet us there.

 The brewery Bottle Logic, has only been around for a year, and it was seriously the neatest place.  
Really cool decor, and even better, really really awesome beer.  
We had fun getting to visit with my cousin and I told them that I wondered if our old neighbor had heard of this place because he and Mr. H used to always love swapping craft beers.  And not 5 minutes later, he came walking up to the brewery with his girlfriend!  It was too funny.  We miss living across the street from him and it was fun to sit down and catch up!

After a while we said our goodbyes and our next stop was the Angel game.

 Mr. H is a huge Mariners fan, and my Uncle Dave gave us his tickets for the night!  So nice of him and Mr. H was thrilled to be at this game to see King Felix pitch.  It was a good time, but I won't lie, I was more excited for our next day to begin because we were headed to the beach all by ourselves!!!

Do you know how easy it is to just go to the beach and only worry about yourself?  I do now!  
It's like a MILLION times easier than taking your kids.  (That's fun too, but a different kind of fun.) 

We slept in until 7:30, leisurely drank two cups of coffee, actually got to watch the news instead of My Little Ponies!  Then we threw our suits on and took off.

 I went with a friend last week to a new spot in Laguna and couldn't wait to take Mr. H.  
This cove is just so neat and the water is so clear and so beautiful!

 It was a gorgeous day.
And we just soaked it all in.
We love Laguna.
We love the beach.
And we love that we are lucky enough to be able to hop in our car and drive there within an hour.

We laid in the sun.
Read our books.
Ate some snacks.
Explored the tide pools on both sides of the beach.
Saw bright orange ghirabaldi fish (the state fish we learned), and lots of crabs, and birds, and seals.
And just when I was thinking that we had gotten to see a lot of wildlife that day, we were out in the water up to our necks for a dip to cool off when...

 a SHARK swims RIGHT BY US!!!!!
That's right a shark!
A real one!

Alright, fine, it was a 3 foot leopard shark which is full grown and apparently harmless, BUT STILL!!!!!
A SHARK!!!!!

I think I got up on top of the water and ran to the beach so fast!!
And so did everyone else around me!
It caused quite the stir on the beach though.

We asked the lifegaurd about it and he sort of laughed at how harmless they are.
But I couldn't help but feeling like Vince Vaughn in the movie Couple's Retreat when he gets stuck in the water surrounded by sharks.  We had a good laugh about it.

 And truth be told it was a beautiful shark. 
It's leopard spots were very visible and it was pretty to look at.
Pretty after the fact that my legs were no longer within grazing distance of it's jaws that is.  ;)

 After our near death experience shark encounter, we dried off and left the beach around 4pm to go have an early dinner before heading home.
I love all of the shops in Laguna, and we popped into one of our favorites Art For The Soul.
I've lusted after these handmade lazy susans for so long now and I took pictures of my favorite ones this time...

I want one for our kitchen table soooooooo bad.

The one above reminded me of our girls and things we are trying to teach them.

And the next one I loved the saying around the outside and the colors, and I loved that the pictures reminded us of our new backyard.

 These pieces are so unique and truly works of art.  
Some day.

We had dinner at one of our favorites.  Big Fish.  Sitting on the patio overlooking the ocean with the breeze blowing in.

It was the perfect day.

We got to my parents around 7pm, and came home by 8.

And at 1am Claire yelled down the hall that she had just thrown up.

Womp womp womp.

Our getaway weekend was officially over.

Claire was tired today but never threw up again.

I spent my Monday cleaning and laundering and lysol'ing everything.

I'm hoping no one wakes up sick tonight.

Instead I'll cling to memories of the salty ocean air.

Hope your weekend was good too.

I was super excited to receive my first package from Stitch Fix today!!!!  Look for that post with the details later this week.  :)

Furniture, Food, and Pics from the Weekend

Well, our Spring Break is officially over after tonight.
So here I am trying to squeeze in one more blog post.  Who knows when I will do it again!

Remember how I told ya that we found a media console for our new house?  It was this one from Sams Club...

 Well, Friday I was out looking around at Home Goods and TJ Maxx, and I saw this one and liked it SO much better!!!

 So I text the above pictures to Mr. Hass, and he liked it better too.
Enough said.
I ran to the nearest sales guy and asked him to take my piece off the floor so that no one else tried to steal it from me and later that night we went and picked it up.

 We had to borrow my Mom's suburban.
Things like this don't fit in the Prius very well.
Hmmmm.
I'm beginning to think the Prius is just not going to be big enough for me to drive around town shoppin' for my new house.
This could pose a problem for me.  ;)

 After we got it home and put it inside I liked it even more!
I think it is going to look so pretty in our new family room next to the brick fireplace!!!

Here's a few random pics of some recent eats this last week.

 I've made turkey meatballs lots of times before, but I haven't made the recipe in my Weelicious cookbook and man was it good!  

 The shrimp tacos that Hannah declared she was NOT going to eat.  Funny thing is that both girls ate them right up.  And they were gooood.

 This last weekend I bought a delicious loaf of whole wheat sourdough from the Farmer's Market and this morning the girls and I had french toast with the bread and fried eggs with fresh salsa and cilantro from the market too.  I think Claire declared that her "best meal ever".

 Friday night Hannah spent the night at a friend's house for the first time ever!!!
It was a birthday party for a girl in her Daisy troop.
The mom had the whole troop plus a couple more to stay and she said it was several of their first time's staying over somewhere.
I said I would be texting to see how it was going, and that I was fully prepared to run down and pick her up once she got tired and realized she wanted to come home.
But I was shocked when she fell asleep there and stayed the whole night!!!
The girls went to sleep at 10:30pm and slept until 6:30am.
The funny thing is that I'm the one who couldn't sleep.
I didn't expect that, but it was so strange knowing that Hannah was not across the hall in her room.  Plus I was afraid to fall asleep in case she woke up at midnight in a strange place and cried that she wants to come home.  
It was mighty quiet with just Claire at home.  
We got ready to go pick Hannah up and it was only 8:30am.  I had to get Hannah at 10 and normally I can never disappear in the garage to go workout in peace with both girls home because they open the door every five minutes with their fighting and what not. But with just Claire Bear at home, she watched a movie while I even squeezed my workout in!  It was great!  

 We picked Hannah up and came straight home to chill out.  I could tell she was so tired, but she didn't get extremely weepy like she usually does when she's over tired.

That night I picked up our sitter and Mr. H and I met up with some friends at The Mission Inn for dinner.  I always love going to downtown Riverside.  I love any downtown actually.  Mr. H drove me by the hospital to show me all the new developments going on at his work and then we went in for dinner.

 It was a really fun night.
And afterward Mr. H and I even had energy to walk across to a new bar we wanted to check out call Prohibition, but it was spelled Pro A (upside down A) Bition.  It was neat, live music, cool atmosphere.  We stayed for one drink and then headed home.

Mr. H has been working this weekend, so this morning I decided to start packing up the kitchen.  I packed 5 boxes full, and it took me half the day.

 The stack of boxes in the garage is getting bigger everyday.  

 And the inside is looking more and more bare.

 We've also had time to sell a few things on Craigslist before we move too which has been nice.  Tomorrow we are listing this rocking chair.  Makes me a little sad to see it go as it was our first baby purchase when I was pregnant with Hannah.  We were so excited and proud when we bought that rocking chair.  

Mr. H has patched all the holes and painted the walls.
And tomorrow it will be 21 days to go!!!!!

CAN.  NOT.  WAIT.

New Year and New Adventures

A couple days before New Year's my mom and Noah met my girls and I at the theater to see Walking With Dinosaurs.  It was very cute and we all enjoyed it.

On New Year's Eve we stayed in and watched Pirates of the Carribean with the girls.  

They hadn't seen it before and it was fun to watch a movie as a family that we all enjoyed.

I made the girls homemade chicken nuggets dipped in almond flour and parmesan for dinner and Mr. H picked up some sushi for us.

Dinner was delicious.
And after the little people went to bed, we popped open a bottle of bubbly.

And then we watched Breaking Bad.
We just recently finished the show and what an ending!

My cousin Katie told me how much she was enjoying this cookbook, so I ran out to find it and I'm so glad I did.  I love it!

I've made several things already and each recipe has a beautiful photograph to go with it.  I love the photos in the book just as much as I love the recipes!  My mouth was salivating as I flipped through it.

Last Friday night our sitter came over and Mr. H and I had a quick dinner at RA and then saw a movie.

Before picking her up we got In-N-Out for them for dinner.
We saw American Hustle and were both SO dissapointed in it.  It was slow and we were bored and seriously wishing we saw something else.

The next day Mr. H was off work and we had no plans.
The weather was sunny and 75, and I was a little antsy after being home with just the girls for 8 days, and the girls, as always, had energy to burn.
So I suggested we attempt to hike up Skyline.
We've never really taken the girls hiking other than "exploring" the trails when we go to Oak Glen every year.
We weren't sure how far we'd even get but we decided to give it a whirl.

And we were SO glad we did!!

They had SO much fun!  

We all had a blast.
We wound up hiking 2.5 miles out before we decided to turn around before we pushed our luck.

The girls begged to do it again so we made plans to go with my parents the next day.

After our hike we got some Miguel's for lunch and just relaxed before heading out to see my cousin's high school basketball game in Yorba Linda.

Before we left Hannah had to show me how far she could shoot her bow and arrow that Santa left her.

And we're off...

The girls love watching Dee play.  They sit in the stands so well and this time their friend Peyton was there too and they were soooo excited to see her.

After the game hugging Dee with their Uncles being silly in the background.

The next morning we packed a lunch, filled up our water bottles and backpacks, and set out for more adventuring at Skyline!

It was another gorgeous day and my parents were really glad they joined in.
We can't wait to do that again.
And talk about a great way to wear the kids out!!
They were so nice and tired afterwards, and my parents took them back home to their house so that Mr. H and I could shower and catch a matinee!!
We can't even remember the last time we saw a matinee?!
I just finished reading The Book Thief a couple days ago, and after sitting through American Hustle and being so dissapointed that we didn't see The Book Thief instead, we knew that's what we were going to see.
It was great!
Different than the book as always, but a great movie.

It was one of the most perfect weekends I've had in a long time.
And now we're on our last week off from break before school starts again on Monday.
And I'm not going to lie, as much as I hate our early start time around here, I love routine.  And I'll be happy to get back to that.
I want to try and start waking up an hour before I have to start getting the kids up to have a little time to myself to wake up and have my coffee first.  But that means getting up at 5am, and it sounds good in my head, but we'll see how well I am able to execute that plan.  
Sleep is awfully nice at 5am too.  

Happy New Year to you all.
Hope 2014 treats ya well.