Oh weekends...

Why do you have to be so short??

This weekend, in particular, was one of my favorites :). But...as it always is with good, fun things...the end comes too quickly.

Friday I worked til 3:30. I gave an in-home eval on a little 2-year-old cutie and then headed home to cleancleanclean. I feel like my home is NEVER clean enough! It's the never-ending battle...

After cleaning, I went grocery shopping and then hurried home to get Jeremy and the two of us went to Chili's to have dinner with our friends Paul and Lisa. After dinner we headed back here to our house where we watched a movie (Batman Begins...my favorite EVER!! :)) and I took breaks to work on making cupcakes for a baby shower I was hosting the next morning. We actually didn't go to bed until 2 am Friday night! I am FAR too old for that kind of foolishness!!

Jeremy had to work Saturday (perhaps we should've gone to bed earlier!!) and I got up when he got up to get ready for work so that I could start finalizing shower things. I got the gifts put together (I had organized the group gifts and had a gift from her mother as well that had been shipped here). I went to Schnucks to get flowers and balloons and some fruit for sangria and to Friar Tuck's to get wine for the sangria. Then, I headed over to Jillian's to set up! :)

It was a reallly fun day. Jillian wrote about it on her blog here :). It was great to be a part of something so special.

Last night...we were exhausted. We did go to Meathead's for some burgers and fries with my brother Dan and his girlfriend Laura. It was great to spend time with them, as usual :). However...speaking of burgers and fries....and the milkshake Jer and I split there as well...and the cupcakes I mentioned above...man, I need to get my eating back under control. I've been reallllly bad about it lately and really need to get back on a healthy bandwagon. I've really been lax with myself lately and need to get things back under control, particularly because I haven't been able to work out to the extent that I would like because of my running injuries.

After dinner, we came home and watched some tv and really just layed around. We went to bed relatively early, which was great.

This morning I left home around 9am and stopped at Starbucks for a venti :). After filling up with gas, I hit the road for the quad cities. I drove home to my parents' where I dropped off my car with my dad...who changed my rear brakes for me (he had done my front brakes a few weeks ago when he was in town here). My mom and I then went to my friend Jen's for the birthday celebration for her son Jon's birthday. It was great to see so many people there!

After spending time at the party, we went down the road to my grandparents' home. My grandfather just got out of the hospital and a rehab facility on Tuesday. It was great to be able to visit him at home...and he seems to be doing really well. He was his usual joking self, so that was wonderful :).

Around 5 we headed back to my parents', where I had some soup and chatted for a bit before heading home around 6:30.

It was a great weekend...full of fun and friends and family :). I was hoping to get some work done tonight...but I'm exhausted and will probably just go to bed soon. We'll see :).