Weekend Recap: Working and Working

This might be my most boring post to date, but I couldn't break my streak!  Actually, Andy and Ben had fun the entire weekend, I guess I'm just the bitter one who had to work.  (I organized a conference at work so I kinda had to be there.)  Anyway, while I was working, the boys were doing some serious father-son bonding.  They went to REI, out to lunch, looked at an open house (we're not moving--at the moment), and played outside.  I was thinking Andy was going to be exhausted when I got home, but the house was spic 'n span and he was bragging about how much fun they had.  Meanwhile, I crashed immediately after Ben went to bed.  Since I didn't take any pics on Saturday, I'll just post a photo that makes me smile....and makes Andy cringe.

On Sunday, I somehow told  convinced Andy that it was a good idea to rearrange our bedroom furniture AND paint the walls.  He wasn't loving the idea, but he kept an open mind, as I requested before sharing my amazing thoughts, and he willingly went to look at paint with me.  I think it helped that we had just added a few more fall decorations + the fall candles were going; how can you not be in a happy mood with all of that goodness!?  With Ben's help, we ended up picking a nice "steel wool" grey.  Assuming we apply the paint in more than a few random spots, I'll post pictures some day.  Clearly, Ben was as excited about paint shopping as his momma!

After a productive day of house projects, we went to Andy's parents' house to celebrate his bro's birthday.   Benji got to play with his one and only cousin, so of course he was taking the big kid toys every chance he got.  It was a wonderfully relaxing way to end a fall weekend.  While I feel like I got gypped (spelled correctly per dictionary.com) of a weekend day, thankfully I took off a few days this coming weekend to make up for my Benji deprivation.

Happy October!  It might have been in the 80's today, but an apple pie is in the oven so it's FALL!