Friday night we grilled a lean piece of sirloin, sauteed mushrooms in beef broth, butter buds, garlic and parsley (they taste sinfully rich) and make a big lettuce and vegetable salad. After dinner we all went outside and did an hours worth of yard work together with Connor mowing and Fred and I weeding, weed-wacking and deadheading.
Our hydrangea are looking gorgeous so I had to cut some of the blooms and bring them inside to enjoy -
Saturday was Fred's birthday. We gave him his presents in the morning (a Best Buy gift card, a Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Maker and an assortment of BBQ/Grilling items). He wanted to go see a movie and as hot and humid as it was on Saturday, a dark cool movie theater was the way to go. We decided to forgo scoring points for NOT drinking soda pop and indulged ourselves with soda and popcorn. It was worth it. His birthday choice was Knight and Day with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. I'm not a big fan of Tom Cruise, but the movie wasn't bad. It wasn't a totally waste of two hours and it's what my hubby wanted to see. Afterward we went to Walmart and bought each of us a cheap tennis racket and a couple of cans of balls. The Botts' are going to take up tennis as a family activity, or at least for the next eight weeks.
When we got home, we decided to make homemade pizza using Flatout Bread. I've bought Flatout quite a few times, but have only used it for wraps. Our Dietitian Elizabeth suggested using it as a pizza crust. We made our own individual pizzas - Connor's of course was cheese, but we did rope him in to trying a couple pieces of Canadian bacon (he didn't like it...surprise, surprise), Fred used Canadian bacon, pineapple and cheese and mine had cooked chicken, mushrooms, artichoke hearts and cheese. We did use a jarred pizza sauce, but only used a couple of tablespoons per pizza, so it can't be all that bad. The results? They were a pretty darn good alternative to take out pizza.
Sunday is weigh in day for Fred and I and I was pleased to see that I was down a pound! and Fred was down two pounds! Not bad for being on vacation and having to eat out a lot.
Slept in Sunday morning until 10:00am! I never do that, but it was lovely!
Took my niece and a friend of hers to our local aquatic center for a couple of hours and even Connor drug himself away from his film editing to join us. My sister and our friend Paul joined us for dinner. We had a pork stir fry made with lean pork loin, mushrooms, red and yellow peppers, cabbage and bean sprouts. I made the Lundberg's long grain brown rice that was given to us in our bag of groceries from Hy-Vee. I also had some more of the lettuce/vegie salad I had made the night before.
After dinner and after Paul and my sister went home, Fred, Connor and I went up to the tennis courts at Haines Park and hit some balls around for an hour. It was so much fun! and Fred and I aren't too damn bad. Connor had been talking smack since we bought the rackets on how he was going to kick our butts, but guess what? We showed that little smack talker...in fact, he was so surprised at our tennis abilities that he copped an attitude and started this whole "I'm bored, this isn't any fun, when can we go home" BS because we were kicking his butt....LOL! We made him stay.
I'm off tomorrow.....then back to work.....I'm not really bummed, it's inevitable, so there is no need to get depressed about the thought...it is what it is. I'm glad that I've scheduled my summer the way I have, I don't think I'm working a full 5 days in a week until after Labor Day. I like taking the bulk of my annual leave during the summer. It's just the way I like it.
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