I can’t even remember what we did Friday night, it seems like so long ago. But at the same time, the weekend flew by!

Yesterday morning, we woke and headed straight outside to work on our to-do list. The list wasn’t too long and consisted of cleaning out the garage and cleaning up the front yard (getting rid of leaves we missed that were hidden by the snow!). I felt like we were in the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie because each time we did something, we felt the need to do something else. So here is what happened, it all began around 9am yesterday morning after Brady had an omlet and I had AB banana toast!

• cleaned out the garage, got rid of boxes, put away tools …
• raked out front gardens and bagged leaves….
• ripped out 3 bushes from front gardens and chopped up…
• raked out all bed in backyard and bagged leaves…
• raked out veggie garden to prep for planting…
• borrowed neighbors rototiller and ’tilled garden…
• raked out leaves that were down the side of our deck and discovered a new gate we didn’t know existed…
• hooked up our new Bose outdoor speakers that I gave Brady for a wedding gift last June…
• broke up all sticks from our recent big storm and put them in a huge bin for kinling for fires…
• sanded and prepped our little grill table (where we put the food before it goes on the grill) for repainting…
• baked the neighbors cookies to thank them for letting us use the rototiller
• vacuumed the entire house because we had tracked so much dirt in from the yard work
• washed the white tile kitchen floor because it looked like a mud bath (don’t ever put white tile in a kitchen…or anywhere for that matter!!)
• showered because we were GROSS!

Here is a pic of our cleaned out beds:

And notice one of the new speakers on the right – Brady did a great job hiding the cord under the deck!

And the cookies for the neighbors….

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Then after our super speedy clean up:

Brady’s cousins (twin guys our age) and their wives came over after a wedding in Columbus! They live in Cleveland and so they stayed the night. The wedding was in the afternoon so they arrived around 7pm. By the time they got here we were exhausted! They weren’t starving so we just threw together some snacks:

Veggie Plate with Sabra Hummus:

Chips with fresh salsa:

Spinach/Romaine salad with strawberries, apples, goat cheese and almonds:

Pizza made of thawed bread dough:

We relaxed, ate and watched basketball. Lights were out here by 11:00 pm last night!

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