baber weekend

:: Winding down our Sunday...just got done with a delicious dinner. I made ravioli lasagna, salad, and garlic bread for the family. I had sausage, zuchini, spinach and diced tomatoes cooked in the wok, with salad. I also made some lemon poppy seed muffins, made with almond meal. Very yummy!

:: The more I'm paying attention, the more I am thinking that I have a problem with gluten. I bought this book on Saturday night so that I can become more educated and delve a little deeper. I am looking forward to reading it. I have such a long, long list of books that I want to read, plus multiple magazines. It's never ending and I keep adding to it! Currently I am reading two books and 4 magazines.

:: Friday evening, Chris, Aspen and I had dinner with Greg and Lauren at Casa, and then spent the rest of the evening at Lauren's house drinking some wine. Aspen went to hang out with her friends, and we enjoyed our evening too.

:: Saturday, Chris and I woke up early and headed to the farmers market. We met Greg and Lauren there, and bought all kinds of goodies -- tomatoes, zuchini, cucumbers, cantelope, and fresh pork sausage. Nom nom!! Afterwards, we stopped at Lowes, and then Chris and Neeley worked on the shop. I went dress shopping for my friend Amy's upcoming wedding. More on that in the next bullet :) That evening, Chris and I had dinner at Jason's Deli, and then spent some time at the book store. We hadn't done that in awhile and it was fun. Then, we grocery shopped and headed home.

:: For the dress -- you might remember a previous post where I showed photos of the dresses I had found online. Well, of course, the actual store did not have all of them. Dillards had 2 of the 10. :( I tried on almost every dress in the store, including the junior department. Of the 2 pictured, I tried on the red one with the flounce, and the electric blue one. From the photos, the blue dress was actually the one that I was leaning toward. I did like it, but there was just something that wasn't quite right. I was wanting COLOR, but alas, the one I ended up with was black/white. Here it is. It came down to this one, which looks very nice on, and I can also wear to work -- and another one that was more trendy but fit great, only it was too short to wear to work. It also had 3/4 sleeves, and that would be too hot for an August outdoor wedding in St. Louis. So, I went with practical, because spending money on a dress is better if I can rewear to work! The best part! I had set a budget for myself...and the dress I chose was cheaper than expected. I was able to also get a Fossil bag that was on sale for 50% off, and was still right at the budget price!!! Woo hoo!! It was a great shopping day.

:: Sunday, church was great -- and afterwards, we were invited to attend the youth service so that we could hear the mission trip testimonies. It was crazy to be surrounded by so many teenagers who are on fire for God! It was quite inspiring, really. They have their own youth band that played worship music (teenagers) and the energy there was amazing. Then one after another got up to talk about something that had happened to them on their trip. This summer, there has been a trip to Ireland, Mexico and Dallas. It was really great and I am glad we were invited. From there, normal Sunday stuff...

:: Aspen's 18th birthday is this Tuesday! So hard to believe. So I will be posting about that this week. I also plan to begin sharing tidbits from the book The Politically Incorrect Wife...I learned so much from this book and feel that it is worth sharing since most of my readers are women. I look forward to that.

Hope you all have a great week ahead!!!