My Weekend in Lafayette

On Saturday I went down to Lafayette to visit my St. Joe friends.

I got to drive down 65 and see a bunch of this...

and a bunch of this.

One of them recently got a house and was having a cookout. I brought a wonderful veggie tray (which I forgot to take a picture of it), some veggie straws, and some new fat free brownies that I've never tried before. Even though there were plenty of people there not on a diet, they ate them and liked them anyways. I ended up having a hamburger and a little bit of all the stuff I brought and drank water the whole night which I thought wasn't too bad.

I found this at Meijer if you are curious.

I ended up staying the night in Lafayette and hung out with my friends again on Sunday. While they were either at church or sleeping off the effects of last night, I went out to do a little shopping. I didn't have much time, but I went to Gordman's and Wal-Mart. I found some cute stuff to use in my office at work at Gordman's. At Wally World I found High School Musical curtain valences for only $1.00 a piece! I'm gonna spend more money than that to buy tension rods to hang them up!

We got breakfast/lunch/ brunch or whatever you call eating at 11:00 am at Denny's. Here is a confession: I've never been to Denny's before. I heard it was pretty greasy, fatty, and unhealthy. I was able to find something that was high in fiber with healthier sides, so I got it. It was banana pecan pancakes, egg whites, and turkey bacon.

We then went back to Kristen's house and played some Rock Band for a while. When I'm at home and play I usually sing. Several of my friends like to sing and not play the instruments. I was on drums most of the time. I'm not very good at them so I might need to take some time to get better at them before I see them next.

Once again it was time for that drive down 65 back home. I managed to get a picture of the Iroquois River and an interesting advertisement. 

I got the "nice" side in this picture going northbound. If you go southbound, you get the side that says "Hell is Real."

I ended up back home around 5:00, so I didn't get much else done besides watering my garden, a few dishes, and cleaning the kitchen. Here is to a productive week next week with my bathroom reno!

Five Year Anniversary

Saturday was an exciting day. I got to see some out-of-town family for a little bit and it was my hubby's and my fifth wedding anniversary.

I'll start with the family. They live in Georgia and drove up here to see their mom and grandma (my aunt). While up here, they drove around to see some other family members. I forgot to take pictures when I was there which happens to me quite a bit, but I've been better about it since beginning this blog. Anyway, it was nice to see them and how much the kids have grown. I remember them being so much younger like in the pictures below and not as preteens.

We grilled out for lunch and had hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, tuna salad, watermelon, a veggie tray (brought by me to make sure to stay on plan a bit), chips/dip, apple pie, and cake. I forgot to take a picture of my lunch, but I had a small hamburger (no bun, just ketchup and mustard), some potato salad, lots of veggies, and a few bites of pie and cake. I think I did pretty well considering what I normally would have allowed myself to eat.

After lunch I went home to get ready to go out to eat with the hubs for our anniversary. We went to a nice restaurant called Tiebel's. That is where the hubs proposed to me, so I suggested we go there. We agreed to no gifts and just a nice dinner and evening together.

Us five years ago on our wedding day.

Us all dressed up to go out last night.

We both had what we usually get when we go there (which is usually only once or twice a year). He had the lake perch and I had the fried chicken dinner.

I had vegetable soup and a salad with Italian dressing.

I'm so mad at myself now... I thought I had a picture of the fried chicken dinner, but all I found was a picture of the turkey dinner! Well my chicken dinner at least came with the same mashed potatoes. As a side note, I do take the skin/breading off of my fried chicken and just the meat. I did take a couple of bites of the breading last night though...

 After dinner we went home and just relaxed and spent time together. I was half asleep by 9:00, but kinda watched/kinda dozed off through a movie. We both (especially the hubby) like Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies, so we watched one of the best worst ones called Space Mutiny. Mike and the robots have some good lines in that one.

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