who's that handsome man?

Just my sweet man! The Ole Guys may have lost, but what I really care about is this poster.

what a week!

This past week has be so actioned-packed. Phew! I sure was exhausted 90% of the time, but who wants to remember any of that? Let's focus on all the fun, happy positives this week brought to us...

1. We had a nice Meggie Time dinner on Monday.
2. There was a 40%-off day at work, yeahhh!
3. Richard and I visited with our sweet Del for date night. (One thing I never have to worry about is being without a nice cold class of white wine at Del's!)
4. Richard and Bob were able to hang out.
5. We had some late-night drinks + grown-up time around the fire-pit with Matt, Ioana, Debbie and Aaron on Friday.
6. CJ sent me the most hilarious text: "Ooh, shit... Sir Laurence Olivier, circa 1940, could smack me around a little."
7. R and I got to have lunch with Del and her former boss this morning. (Seeing her twice in one week! The best!)
8. Richard and R3 are having some quality boy time at the Cub Scouts awards ceremony tonight.
9. I recorded some amazing movies: "The Women," "Ball of Fire," and "Giant." Hellooo, Kylie Time!
10. I finally painted my nails, you guessed it, sparkly gold.
11. I've eaten a million clementines! My new favorite bed-time snack!
12. R has a derby game tomorrow. :)
13. We finally cleaned up the patio.
14. Meggie sewed a blanket for Emmy for her upcoming birthday. :)

I've learned a long time ago that living a fulfilling life and being well-rested are two separate things... and I certainly complain much after looking over this list! Tonight I just look forward to a nice comfy cuddle with my sweetie, watching a fun movie, and having some drinkies. Relaxing after all the hustle and bustle of this week is the name of the game. Who knows, we might even go to bed early! Ohh, we're so cool. ;)

play date!

 

We had such a blast on Saturday after spending some quality time with some of our favorite people. We met Matt, Debbie, Aaron, and Veronica at AAC (after riding the Dart!) to watch Matthew play hockey. As with any sport, I know diddly about hockey other than Matthew's team won, so yeah!

^Aaron and Richard flirting

Sadie comforting Matt, who sat by himself for a hot minute ("This is where the cool people sit!") | Forever obsessed with R3's new chipmunk smile...!

Little muppet face!

Afterwards, we met up at the Hafele House (sans Matt) for a good ole-fashioned... veggie cook-out! Richard and I have slowly tweaked a veggie fajita recipe that is likely to mess up any carnivore and it's one of our favorite meals to share with others. We did cook some ground beef, too, because lawd knows our sweet Matthew+R3 weren't going to have any part of it. ;P But all the girls had veggie tacos, or at least a bite thereof. Win!

She's such a ham, isn't she?

Richard, providing some pre-dinner entertainment. :) Goodness, he's so handsome!

Not pictured: hummus and refried beans! Om nom nom!

We wrapped up dinner semi-early, and Sadie was very insistent on throwin' down a hula-hoop challenge with Veronica afterwards. (We manage to evade the decision of "who won...") And then, I don't know how this happened!, but the next thing we knew, nearly everyone was playing some sort of sport outside. There was basketball, street hockey, rip-sticking, baseball... most often all at once! There was obviously too much fun activity going on to photograph, so just trust me. ;P (If you can't tell by the lack of Richard and Emily, they were upstairs the whole time playing a much coveted video game and only came down to feed. Whatever!)

Needless to say, I slept pretty well that night! (If I didn't have to work on Sundays, I would have slept really well...!) We are so lucky to be friends with the most adorable people. :) It's so nice to get together and just be big kids (who drink booze and eat healthy veggies, but that's totally allowed).

(Note: Meggie was at Scarborough Faire with Nicki-poo the whole day. I'm convinced she missed out. ;P)

public transportation

On Saturday, we had a date to meet the Hafeles at American Airlines Center to watch Matthew play some hockey. Yay! We live so close to a Dart station that we decided it would be fun to ride a train  to-and-fro instead of drive. The kittens had never been before, so needless to say, they were a little excited...

So exited to ride with her feet up!

My new.favorite.picture.

 

obsessed

Quentinnn...!

randos

Sadie loves her knew notes board | R3 and Emmy found this outside our apartment and brought it to me :) 

Emmy and Sadie getting treats from sweet Maria at Whole Foods one Saturday 

LOVED these pigtails Sadie did all by herself! 

c/o R's cell phone :)

happy list

1. Getting some quality Kylie Time this Saturday while R & D were at a Nascar race.
2. All the ice cream consumed in the past 3 days. (Ugh, totally forgot about the glory that is ice cream cones)
3. The RJD2 Pandora station Richard as honed in fabulously.
4. Watching "Mr. Mom" for the first time (OMG, SO CUTE.)
5. Finding that "Django Unchained" is available on-demand the first day of it's DVD release (this was literally the first thing I did after waking up this morning. PRIORITIES, people!)
6. Getting caught up on all my blog posts. :)
7. Salad! Spring time salads!
8. My new make-up routine.
9. CJ and I's champagne dinner last week.
10. The 45-minute phone call with Hilary that felt like 5 minutes.
11. Sweepy bangs!
12. How sweet and supportive and understanding my sweet boyfriend is.
13. Going to bed feeling all warm and fuzzy and cuddly and heavenly. (Freshly shaven legs contribute to this sensation immensely.)
14. The glorious spring sunshine!

a crazy amount of derby pictures all in one place...

God bless the Internet!! Richard has had a couple of derby bouts in the last few months, and I missed out on both. (One was in Pheonix--so that's ok!--and one was on a Friday that just required some Lone Kylie Time... ;P) I just love how much my sweet man gets into this game, and I love, almost just as much, how much he doesn't mind if I miss more games than I attend. No matter what, I'll always be there when he gets home so excited to hear all about it!

Unfortunately for the Supreme Derby Go-ers, my only long-lasting knowledge of these bouts was that  Dallas Deception lost (in a fight!) to the Pheonix Rattlesnacks, but my derby sweetie managed to bring home the MVP Blocker award!, and that the Dirty Mother Truckers (Richard's first derby team!) brought in their first ever win against the Brotherhood on the opening night of Clover Cup... and that's it. Not much in the Commentary Department right here, but the fact that I care enough to comb through miles of derby pictures accounts for something, RIGHT?!

Dallas Deception @ Pheonix

February 23, 2013

look at dee panda socks!

previous 11 photos via Hidden Trails Photography

previous 7 photos via Snapping-Dragon

Grudge Match at the Clover Cup (Dirty Mother Truckers v. The Brotherhood)
March 22, 2013

previous 2 photos via J. David Cummings

previous 3 photos via Duane Baker Photography

previous 3 photos via R&R Photography

A fun little newspaper one of his teammates made. :)