Weekend Shenanigans: How is it already Monday?

Where did the weekend go?!  I finished the Big Ten Diving meet on Saturday night.  What a long week!  I was absolutely exhausted on Sunday and did enjoy a little cat nap.  It was sandwiched with lunch at my mom's with the whole family and then dinner at my in-laws.  Now it's back to real life- working, coaching, and trying to do some laundry!

Happy Week,

Women's Big Ten Swim & Dive Meet

Sorry friends but I will be MIA for the next couple of days as I will be working at the Women's Big Ten Swimming and Diving meet!  I'm the diving coordinator- sounds official right?!  Well I will be at the pool for the next few days, working the table and making sure all scoring is official and such and cheering on my Gophers of course!  So excited to watch some amazing diving!  Hope you have a good rest of your week as well!

Cheers,

Weekend Shenanigans: Double update

So I've been a really bad blogger lately.  We went to Arizona last weekend and then last week just took off and I never really caught my breath!  So here I am trying to catch up.

So last weekend like I said, Ryan and I went to Phoenix last weekend to visit my best friend from college, Allison and her husband Kyle and their sweet baby boy Austin!  We got out of Minneapolis on Friday morning and landed in time for lunch in Phoenix!  Friday night we grilled out at their home and enjoyed delicious burgers!

Saturday we headed to Scottsdale and the ASU campus for some site seeing and yummy lunch!  And Saturday night we went to a steakhouse for dinner.  I'm brief about my details because really the whole weekend, Ryan and I just enjoyed soaking up time with our friends and darling Austin!!  I took so many pictures...

 

 

Sunday our flight got delayed by 4 hours so we enjoyed a leisurely lunch and shopping before heading to the airport.  

This last weekend Ryan and I got some projects done around the house.  I had dinner with Gretchen on Friday night at Blvd. and Saturday evening at Sunsets with Tracy.  Then we had a wine night with Megan later on Saturday.  Have you heard of the Traveling Vineyard.  It's like a tupperware party but with wine.  We did wine tastings and then got to order wine from the collection- super fun!

Sunday, Ryan and I did some more housework and a gym workout before Dustin and Liz came over for dinner and movie night!  Yummy burgers and Aladdin!  Perfect!

I promise to be better about blogging now...

Cheers,

Our European Trip: Ostia

I'm making a strong push to finish up our European trip blog posts!  After this, only one more to go!

After any early train from Florence to Rome we hopped on the train to Lido de Ostia!  It's a beautiful city on the coast.  It reminded me of the Florida Keys.  I didn't take too many pictures here but this was our room and the view.

Cute Dustin right?!

 After we rearranged our beds so that Ryan and I could sleep next to each other- originally the single beds were on each side of the full bed- we went to lunch at a pizza place.  We figured that it was a happening place back in the 60s and 70s but today it is pretty quiet and only a few people around.  We made our way to the beach and soaked up the sun for a while.  The ocean was FREEZING!

Ryan and I took a stroll to get some gelato- yummy!- and then for dinner the Hannays went to a fancy restaurant and I don't remember where the Squires went that night.  Ryan and I found this top rated place online and we thought we would try that however when we got there at 6:30, we were informed the place didn't even open till 8pm.  We are clearly Americans.  So Ryan and I found this incredibly little place that served wine and appetizers for $7 for the two of us!  It was delicious!  Such a fun find!  

After the appetizers and wine we did a little shopping on that little strip and then went over to the restaurant - 8:05pm of course!  We enjoyed a huge meal!  A complimentary drink, a complimentary appetizer, then our first course of wine and bread, then salads, then 1st course of meal, and then a 2nd course of the meal, followed by a complimentary dessert, and finished with our own dessert.  Can you talk about being stuffed!? What we couldn't understand was how Europeans can eat this late and not be tired the next day and overweight?!  Obviously a different way of training your body but I went to bed stuffed and woke still full!

Cheers,

Our European Trip: Florence, day 2

 I can't believe I haven't finished documenting our European trip!  Wow!  Where has time gone and what the heck have I been doing?!  We woke up in Florence and it was Liz's birthday!  So we started the morning with some yummy cappuccinos.

We enjoyed a guided a tour all day.  Unfortunately I don't remember the name of our guide but he was VERY passionate about art history- making for a lot of ART HISTORY!  He was incredibly knowledgeable  We walked for over 6 hours and saw a ton!  I'll let the pictures do the talking...

This guy was a real man standing as a statue.  These are all over Europe and they like to jump at people.  One 'statue' scared Liz!

 

Chalk drawings...

 

After we got back and Ryan and I did a little shopping for family we got ready for dinner.  What we thought or hoped was going to be a romantic, quiet restaurant was not but it was delicious!  If the lighting had been warmer, it would have been perfect!  Regardless, the food was great!  And we shared a giant bottle of wine!

And we finished the night with dessert at the Gucci museum!  It was an adorable place and Dustin treated everyone to champagne and yummy treats!
Happy Birthday Liz!

Weekend Shenanigans: Low Key

With Ryan up north ice fishing with his dad and brother, I got to have the house to myself.  I loved it!

Friday after work I got my nails done with Annie- a new tradition that I'm loving!  Afterwards we went to Blvd for happy hour!  Yummy!  When I got home, I did a little organizing and sorting of all the boxes that have ascended on our house since my parents' move.

Saturday was brunch with Ally at Good Day Cafe- again yummy!  Do you see a theme here?!  The afternoon was full of sorting and more unpacking at my parents.  Does anyone else think they will never be fully moved or unpacked?  I know my siblings feel this way!  Saturday evening, I went shopping with Danielle to Pier 1, Home Goods, Target, and Whole Foods!

Dupree did a little treating begging...

Sunday I went to church, worked out and by then Ryan got home!  I sure did miss him!  

We went over to Tim and Ellie's house to watch the super bowl game!  Tim and Ellie's little man, Landon is sooo adorable and I basically snuggled him all last night!  What a cutie!

Hope you had a good weekends!

Cheers,

Happy Friday!

Heck yes!!!  It's Friday!

I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend!  Hope yours is just as relaxing!

Cheers,