Just an awesome weekend

The title says it all. We had an awesome weekend in our wonderful Arizona. The weekend started of windy as heck. Friday, the winds we were waiting for on Wednesday kicked in. I was glad I didn't put the baby gate back up around the pool. (don't worry it's up again now). However, once Friday afternoon blew in (har har), the wind had stopped and the nice weather worked it's way into the weekend.

On Friday night, I hung out with women from my MOPS Club. It was Bunco night at someone's house. If no one knows what Bunco is, I'll break it down for you: It is a mindless dice game someone made up so women can have a moms night out and have an excuse to eat, drink and socialize. I LOVE IT!!!! I love that I can play the game without thinking, I love that I got to hang out with some totally awesome women, and I love that I went home with my cheeks hurting so much from laughing. It was just what I needed right now.

Saturday, we literally spent all day at the Tucson Festival of Books. I've been to the National Book Festival the previous four years and I have to say, the Tucson festival kicks the DC festival's ass. Not only did EVERYONE in the family come home with a book, but I never saw so many local and/or self published authors in one place. It was so motivating to see them all there. I kept thinking "I can do this. I can be here next year!" I think I need to make that my goal...

The kids were really wonderful at the festival too. We were there from 10am-4pm and only Stefan was mildly fussy at times. The kids loved getting a free book, seeing the Ronald McDonald show, and they loved the Science City the festival set up there. Even Merrick did the experiment at the Raytheon tent.

Today, after starting out a bit blah, I threw Kevin out of the house and told him to take a bike ride in the desert. Then I took the kids on a bike ride to a nearby park. After that, we took Signal for a walk. Then neighbor girl came over to play with Tori for a bit. I kind of started to crash by this time, but we made it through dinner. Now, I'm writing this after a break of playing the Sims.

I think to sum up, this weekend was another weekend where we got to go out and see how cool it is to live there. There seems to be always something going on that is fun and gets us out of the house. Next weekend, Kevin found a benefit event going on for women in aviation. Hopefully, we can get a play ride for us and the kids for 20 cents/lb. How awesome is that???

Well I'm off to bed, and I hope to enjoy the first week of spring break. It's going to be awesome to not have to wake up to an alarm clock or not have to be anywhere. Woo hoo!!!! Hope you all have an awesome week!