Riveting Weekend Recap

And so ends another too fast weekend. We spent half of our weekend running from one place to another and the other having doing a whole lot of nothing.

Saturday was incredibly busy. I kicked off the day in Marblehead just after 6AM for Floating Hospital's Cycle for Life. It was a fabulous event, and the morning was picture perfect, see? Marblehead is now on my list of places I'd like to live.

I headed home around 10 so we could head off to a first birthday party. We were so happy to be able to go to Paxton's first birthday party. Juli and Alisha put on a great party -- Arden was so excited about it because they hired Wendy, who happens to be Arden's music teacher, to play for the party. She played for an hour and had kids of all ages mesmerized. Arden loved it and we continue to be certain she will lead her own garage band one of these days.

Until Wendy arrived she was contemplative and well, let's be honest, totally anti-social. But she looked cute in some new Gymboree duds from Grandma Joanne and Pops. The shirt has a horse on it. Dora approved.

Jumping and singing with Wendy....

Musical conga line....

We left the party a bit early because we had to get down to pick up our CSA box, then headed home to drop it off and go to Bobby and Mandy's house for dinner. We came bearing gifts...Dora made peach jam yesterday, so we took them a jar. We have quite a generous batch in our fridge that we'll probably have to freeze.

Arden talkign to Grandma Mary, inquring on the status of a package that is supposed to contain chips, while waiting for Uncle Bobby to get the video game working, as evidenced here:

We ordered Chinese food, just like last time, as that is what the little dictator requested. It was a fabulous evening that ended with Godiva and great coffee. I think we should make these dinners monthly. Maybe one of these days we'll pry Annette out of her precious North End to join us in the burbs.

Arden entertained herself with Lego Star Wars (or some such thing) until 9:30 when she shut it off and laid down on the floor. This was our cue to leave.

Today was the opposite, slow and lazy. We're ready for the week, with meals planned and clothes washed and ironed. And we're only 12 days away from vacation.