Lundeland: What. A. Weekend.

This past weekend was supposed to be our "rest and recoop" time - and it was anything but. For the last six weeks we have either had house guests or have been houseguests out of town. So we were excited for a weekend at home to relax with nothing to do. Nothing soon turned into HUGE house projects and fun family dinners! Here's the recap...

Friday: Friday night we were planning on visiting Ryan and Steph for a Lundemacher date night! It has been a few weeks since we got some QT with them so we were really looking forward to it. Steph of course went all out to make our date night special with 4 fancy courses and yummy drinks. The only problem is 30 minutes before we were about to leave the house she got sick with a fever, so our date night was cancelled! Luckily by Sunday she was back up and running!! So with unscheduled time on our hands, we ordered a pizza, rented a movie and had our own date night. I decided to make a homemade cheesecake my friend Jean blogged about - and it did not disappoint. I asked Matt if he wanted to help me make it and he said, "no, I'm good" - only to take over!!! It was so cute! So it brought us back to the start of our blogging days when we dedicated this blog to Friday Night desserts! The cheesecake came out of the over and looked perfect so we saved it for Saturday.

Saturday: We slept in - until 8! After catching up on ESPN for about an hour we got dressed, grabbed breakfast at Starbucks/McDonalds and headed to Lowes. We had a particular project in mind (which I will keep a secret until we actually do it) but when we got there - we were distracted by the garage organizers. Dumped our original project supplies and used Matt's birthday gift card to buy Rubbermaid strips to hold stuff up in the garage. We got home and did a complete renovation of the garage. It might not be easy to see all of the great space we opened up from the pictures - but I just LOVE it! Next step is to paint in there. I know it is just a garage - but the walls are so dirty! We finished up just in time to shower and meet Joe's parents at top golf. The boys played a few rounds while Kelly and I took Joe's mom for pedicures. Love that woman!!!! We ran home at 6, threw some ribs on, made homemade fries and enjoyed dinner with Brian and his dad. We joked that it felt like that episode of the office when Pam and Jim get to Michael's place for a dinner party and Jan announces she is going to start the roast that will take 3 hours. We didn't get to eat until 9 - but it was worth it and great spending time with Brian and his dad. (And the cheesecake was a hit!)

The Before picture

After

Dinner with Brian and his dad!

Our yummy cheesecake

Sunday: We planned to relax. We "slept in" until 8:30, started some laundry and Matt made coffee while I whipped up a batch of some homemade breakfast bars. They came out of the oven right as Lucas stopped by to drop off our giant Jenga game. I made him stay for breakfast and the next thing we know, Matt and Lucas are on their way to Home Depot to rent chainsaws to take down some trees. Lucas had some stumps at his house he wanted to get rid of, and then we had a huge 30 foot tree in our front yard we wanted to take down (It was out of control and killing all of the grass in the front yard.). 7 hours later, cuts and scratches everywhere we (mainly Matt and Lucas) had successfully taken the tree down with no damage to themselves, our house, or our neighbors house. I was saying my prayers of Thanksgiving!!! We showered and got dressed just in time for Kelly, Joe, Carissa, Brian and Joe's family to arrive for dinner. This was by far the highlight of the weekend. It was so fun to get to spend time with Joe's family. They are just as amazing as he is!!!!

Boys and their power tools...