Weekends

We all love the weekend. It's a break from the daily schedule of life. At least it is for most people. We have a lot of friends who either work every Saturday or have a changing schedule and work the occasional Saturday or Sunday. Even so, if you have school age kids, your weekend will be different from your average week day.
For us, weekends are a time to relax. A time to play. A time for projects around the house. Those are James' favorites. (not) His favorite is sleeping. And watching college football. (Just over 7 weeks until football season begins!)
We have had a busy summer. Well, busy for us. We have been to my mom's in Iowa, Colorado for camping with James' family, mission trip to Paola, KS with the youth from our church, Iowa again, hosting my family, celebrating Judah's birthday and my 30th birthday... We have had a lot of events on our calendar!
This weekend was our first weekend with nothing on the calendar in a long time. The last "free" weekend for us was June 9-10. Before that James' mom was here for 2 weekends. Before that was the always busy month of May. It's just been a long time since we have had a peaceful weekend at home. I was really looking forward to having some time to relax and get some work done. So here's what the weekend looked like (in no particular order):
-we raked and bagged half the leaves from our back yard (that makes 13 bags) (yes, it's July but according to Asa, it's fall at our house) The boys played in the sandbox while we worked. They would occasionally run over to get blown away by the leaf blower.
-I started organizing all of our paperwork and shredded a bunch of stuff
-James made a logo for the next teaching series at church
-we went on a mini shopping spree to Children's Place ($24 spent) and got Asa a backpack for kindergarten :(
-we ate ice cream and popsicles
-we made Chipotle burritos (they were good but not the same)
-I wrote up a menu for the week and went to the grocery store
-James and I watched 2 movies: Fifth Quarter and Casa de Mi Padre
-James took a nap
 I'm not sure what the kids did all weekend. I think they were home...
 The productivity continued into today. I had two browning apples so I made individual apple crisps which James and I enjoyed after the boys went to bed tonight.

 I also baked a cake for James to take to a baby shower at work tomorrow. He decorated it while I was at a meeting this evening.

 

 And I made strawberry rhubarb jam. I haven't tasted it yet but I am very glad that the jar lids sealed!