Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day weekend. I had a pretty great one myself! It was low-key, allowing me to get some freelancing and reading done, but also filled with friend and family time. Let’s discuss some of my top moments!
1. Treating myself to a haircut! I didn’t do anything crazy with my hair this time. I’m hoping it will be long enough at my next appointment to chop it all off, but we’ll see. My hair grows at a glacial pace, so it might not be until the end of this year before I can do so. (I’m growing it out to donate again… it needs to be at least 8 inches in a ponytail to donate and right now, it’s about 7 inches, but I’d like it to be at least 10 inches so it’s not too short when I chop it off.) My stylist also curled the ends, and it looked so cute and voluminous. I can never get my hair to look like this on my own, so a picture had to be taken! But of course!
2. A Starbucks date. After my hair appointment on Friday afternoon, I met a friend at Starbucks to work. I had some freelancing work to get through, and she had grading and lesson plans (she teaches at our local college) to do, so it was perfect! We used to meet up every Friday night to work on our fiction novels, but we had to stop when her teaching schedule became too much. So now we meet up, but work on our respective projects! It’s the best arrangement, and I got a ton of work done Friday night.
3. A “Galentine’s” date. My friend Bri invited me over to her place on Saturday night for dinner, dessert, and a movie. I am so glad she invited me over because I really didn’t want to spend Valentine’s Day alone. I needed this! We made DIY pizza, watched Clueless, made an incredible dessert, and then gave ourselves manicures. We searched how long does it take gel nail polish to dry beforehand. It was such a girly night, and it was exactly what I needed. I love this girl to bits and pieces, and we are “two cookies cut from the same dough,” as she likes to say.
4. Sleeping in on Sunday. Life with a dog means sleeping in is very rarely an option. Dutch usually wakes me up around 7-7:30 on the weekends needing to go out, but we slept in until 10:30 on Sunday! My mom took Dutch on a long walk (3.5 miles!) on Saturday night, which I think completely tuckered the old man out. It was so nice to sleep in!
5. Friday Night Lights! I’m almost finished with the first season, but it’s taken me forever! On Friday night (ha), I got through a few episodes, after not watching it at all for many months, and I fell back in love with the characters and the town and the whole show. It’s so wonderful. Coach Taylor is just my absolute favorite.
6. Dinner with the family. We have family in town from Georgia so we got the whole gang together for dinner, which was super fun. There were 17 of us, I think, at dinner. We went to a little pizza place in St. Petersburg, and it was so, so nice. Especially to see my grandma. Recently, we found out her cancer has returned and it’s devastating and heart-breaking, but she’s ready to fight once more (this will be her fourth bout with it). She’s the strongest woman I know, and we’re all ready to fight right along with her.
What were the top moments of your weekend?
Loooove the hair and that girls night dinner looks delicious! So sorry to hear about your grandma, but here’s to a quick (painless) fight so she’s back on her feet in no time!
Highlight of my weekend was definitely my baby shower – it felt a little surreal to be celebrating our baby, but it was so much fun and such an amazing showing of love for Lemon!
I love your hair and your eyes!
Sounds like a love filled weekend, Stephany!
My top moments:
1. Making a fool out of myself along with Anita and her boyfriend to crack up tired marathoners at mile 24. They either loved us or hated us.
2. Spending Saturday and Sunday night with my guy. I hadn’t seen him in a while!
Your hair is gorgeous!
This past weekend I loved:
* seeing Kingsman with my hubs and dad. Such a great movie. Highly recommend it. (The main character boys are adorable with fabulous accents, too!)
* Girl time on Saturday afternoon while the boys spent time at their diaper party.
* Successful baby shower yesterday. Everyone had a great time.
* Pizza with our friends up the street, hanging with their toddler and breathing a sigh of relief that my baby shower planning days are behind me.
I am so sorry to hear about your grandma. That is heartbreaking. I do love your hair! The color is stunning on you. You can really pull off just about any color. Three things I loved this weekend: obsessing over baby pictures of my new cousin, copious amounts of snuggle time with Nala, killing it on my 8 mile treadmill run with no breaks.
I had such an awesome weekend as well and I’m going to post about it tomorrow but it included a sunny trail run, two awesome yoga classes, a lobster dinner for Valentine’s Day and a trip to the beach. Our weather was just outstanding once again, sunny and so warm. It feels like April not February around here! I don’t know how we’re getting such amazing weather when the rest of the country is getting hit by major blizzards but I’m not complaining!
Sounds like a most fabulous weekend. Love the haircut and the apple dessert looks amazing! Also hurray FNL, I seriously love that show so much.
Your hair looks great! And yay for sleeping in. I totally feel ya on not being able to sleep in anymore when you own a dog! 😛
I’m so sorry to hear about your grandma. I’ll be keeping her in my thoughts and prayers!
I love when I get my hair done extra fancy at the stylist. But I never seem to get my hair done on a day when it would help to look good. I really need to time my hair cuts better!
Your hair looks great! I love getting my hair cut as it’s the best my hair looks for months. 😉 I have been getting my hair cut every 6 months but I might need to increase the frequency to every 3 months as I just love having that fresh cut hair feeling.
I am glad you had a great weekend and were able to celebrate the V-day holiday with a friend as I know that can be a lonely night for some… Sounds like you guys had the perfect celebration. I’m sorry to hear about your grandma, though. 🙁 That is so heart breaking that the cancer is back. 🙁
My weekend was awesome since we were on vacation. Highlights were getting a free mocha from a coffee shop on Saturday (someone was having a birthday and picked up the tab – crazy!), going hiking together, checking out wine country, walking on the beach, and grilling dinner together!
That apple dessert looks heavenly! And I mean, it’s totally healthy because it’s fruit.