Long Weekend Luxuries

 

            I won’t lie: the weekend wasn’t quite as restful as we had hoped. But it did have a whole lot of goodness packed into it, and we were able to spend the entire thing together, which is always the best part. I thought I’d share with you some of the fun we did get to enjoy!

            Friday night we tried something new with our milled flour adventures: made our own pizza crust and breadsticks. We learned a few things with this one. First of all, we learned it was delicious and I honestly liked it better than store pizza. But we also learned it’s not a quick adventure. We ate about three hours later than normal, and I was getting hangry! We’ll have to figure out some new ways to start the crust earlier in the day rather than beginning the first step after work. We also learned we can freeze some of the crust, which we did, but I’m not sure yet how much we’ll like it when we make the pizza later. We’ll see!

            We made a chicken alfredo pizza, with chicken, homemade alfredo sauce made with almond milk and Greek yogurt, onions and tomatoes from our garden, spinach, and cheese.

            We had a stunning sunset that night and enjoyed coffee out on the patio. That was a pretty perfect start to the weekend!

            I already told you about our monthiversary on Saturday – complete with small group and some homemade baguettes and bruschetta. (Didn’t bring home any of that!)

            Sunday we had church, and then we enjoyed lunch on the patio and a little bit of rest in the afternoon. (We watched The Truman Show while we rested; so fun to see the set after having been to Seaside!) That evening, we dropped off Ryan’s truck to have it fixed and went to have a chat with Lowe’s about our refrigerator that didn’t show up when it was supposed to. While we were there, we grabbed some mums for the porch and I found porch pillows on clearance for $5 each! I think we had just moved to Kokomo the last time we purchased porch pillows, so they were looking pretty sad.

            We had another gorgeous sunset that night – and there were tons of pontoons out for sunset cruises. I think everyone was enjoying one last long weekend!

            I had a lot of grand plans for yesterday, but we didn’t have as much yesterday as plans. We spent three hours (together) in the kitchen cleaning produce, making granola, working on making our own hamburger and hot dog buns, and getting everything washed and reorganized between projects.

            We had a chance to stop by our old boss (Rob’s) house and see his family – and a couple of our former tenants were there too! We got to see our little buddy, and he was happy to see us! (Melt.)

            Picked up Ryan’s truck, came home to have hot dogs on the grill (too hot for a fire) with tater tots and spinach tots (for me), and then we hustled to get in a walk for Lexi before the sun set.

            It’s back to the regular schedule today. I’m sure grateful for some time off with Ryan and for all the pretty skies God painted!