the top ten things I love this week

And by this week, I mean last week.

1. Nathanael's rum molasses spice cookies. Best cookies he's ever made, and I can't stop eating them.

2. The beautiful weather (although it's not happening right now)

3. Both organizing the laundry room and having it organized. I love both parts.

4. My new olive colored Toms!

5. The Beaverton Farmer's Market. It was amazing, and so huge! Nathanael and I split a sausage roll from Pacific Pie Co., one of our favorite dining places, and bought a teddy bear full of yummy honey. Not to mention, all the samples were amazing, and made a great lunch for Ezekiel! I can't wait to go back next week with my market basket and buy all kinds of produce and other stuff!

6. The season finale of The Office. I LOVE it when episodes are an hour. I miss Michael, though.

7. The pictures I got of Ruby as a flower girl in a wedding. She was and is so beautiful!

8. Playing Mad Dog with Nathanael on Family Night and beating him 2 out of 3 games!

9. Joining Nathanael and Ezekiel on their Saturday morning outing at Public Domain. Ezekiel was clearly very comfortable sitting next to Nathanael on the bar stool at the espresso bar eating a zuccini muffin, but it was also clear that he wasn't real sure why I was there.

10. Making kale chips. I saw Gwyneth Paltrow make them on Ellen one day, and I was intrigued. Then, I got a bunch of kale in my produce box last week, and I knew exactly what I was going to do with it. I tore it, washed it, tossed it in olive oil and a little salt, and baked for 15 minutes. Tasty snack!

This is going to be a great week!

What I did last weekend

What I did last weekend, in no particular order

1. Went to a lovely ladies bible class where we studied the Song of Solomon and 2 other women in the bible.

2. Worshipped God with some people I love.

3. Took Ezekiel to the zoo for the first time! Thanks to the the Wells family for the tickets.

4. Got dinner to go from Red Robin. YUM.

5. Got oil changes for both our cars. And, neither of them needed any extra work! Hooray for productivity and just oil changes!

6. Took a nap. Ahh, luxury.

7. Went for a couple of Ezekiel-style walks (one of which meant Nathanael and I sat at the top of the driveway while Ezekiel ran up and down the driveway)

8. Finished Bossypants (thanks Tina Fey!) and started Matched.

9. Went to the Cheney's house for dinner and good times. They also recently moved to the Portland area, but it has taken us 9 months to make plans to get together. Lame.

I hope everyone else had a lovely weekend as well!

the top ten things I love this week

1. My Mother's Day gift. 3 books from Nathanael and Ezekiel! All ones that I've been wanting to read:

Bossypants
Matched
Under the Banner of Heaven

2. Family time. We went for a walk after dinner last night AND tonight!

3. Watching Ezekiel enjoy his grandparents and their pets last weekend. He LOVES them all!

4. Having the slider open today, because it is such a lovely, warm evening

5. Chocolate peanut butter ice cream. I couldn't stop thinking about it yesterday, so Nathanael bought some for me.

6. Ezekiel's and my walk to the bank today. 3.2 miles!

7. Community: the first of 2 paintball episodes (it was actually on last week, but we watched it this week). Loved it.

8. Hearing Ezekiel master new words. Add to the list: beep, cracker, home, uh-oh, more, avocado (sounds more like ca-ca)

9. The plethora of birds that are singing and chirping outside the open slider right now

10. Summer reading program at the library! Ok, this doesn't start until June 1, but I'm particularly excited about it this week.

Last weekend we went to Bremerton to spend it with Nathanael's parents. We drove up Friday after work, and as soon as we walked in the house, Ezekiel acted like he owned the place. He clearly feels comfortable and loves it there. We went to breakfast at the farm house on Saturday morning and to Nathanael's cousin Jake's wedding reception on Saturday afternoon. It was a fun day. We got lots of fun gifts that Dan brought us back from China, but I can't talk about my favorite one yet, because of some of you that I know read this.