Our Weekend

Two things first....

1) This is my third post today, so there are two new posts below this

2) Last reminder that I'm going private....if you haven't already e-mailed me your e-mail address and you want to read my blog, once private, then let me know, and I will add you.

OK, so the theme of these last three post seems to evolve around perfectness. I had a perfect day at the coast a few weeks ago and a perfect three day weekend over the 4th. Now I will share our perfect weekend.

Saturday Sabah and I got up early, and decided to hit some garage sales. I didn't have anything in mind that I needed to get for Sabah, but I did have a few things that I was actually looking for for myself. After a quick trip to target, we spent a very nice morning going from garage sale to garage sale, and then headed to a neighborhood nearby for the Mississippi Street Fair. At the conclusion of our morning, Sabah ended up with the following items:


And me? What did I come home with? Well.....



I only got the video because it was the last garage sale and I hadn't purchased anything for myself and was feeling left out. The shampoo I got at target and only added it to the picture so that I looked less pathetic. I'm afraid it had the opposite effect though. Ha!

Anyway, Sabah got her first tricycle, and she LOVES it. She also got a new (to us) step stool for the downstairs bathroom, two new videos (and on a side note, she had NEVER watched Dora at my house, and her daycare claims to not watch much tv, yet this child LOVES Dora the Explorer....how does that happen?), a new dress from the street fair (always trying to support our local vendors), a new babydoll from one of the MANY african themed booths at the street fair, a brand new pair of shorts, some new pencils, and a new book. Not a bad haul for not needing anything. She was quite spoiled Saturday.

Her new dress is just so darn colorful, I couldn't pass it up (and like I said, I do try to support the local vendors)



And an up close picture of her new dolly. It too was just so darn cute, I couldn't pass it up. We named her Salayha (Suh Lay Ha), but call her Sally:



After a nap at home, we went down to Kruger farm to get some fresh berries as our contribution to a dinner at a friends house in BattleGround. We then headed north for some food, fun and friends.

Sabah was at the same orphanage, at the same time as Ruby and Roman, and in fact, I was able to take pictures of the two when I went to pick Sabah up. Ruby and Roman came home a few months later. Ruby is two months older than Sabah and Roman is two months younger. It was so so so so much fun to see them together. Sabah and Roman actually hit it off the best, and the two of them had so much fun playing in the little pool. Their laughter and giggling had us all cracking up. Sabah also got to play on a trampoline for the first time.





We had a wonderful dinner of BBQ chicken and veggies, and fresh berries for dessert. And as a parting gift, we got a new kitty!!!!! She is a calico and just the sweetest, fiestiest thing ever. Our other cat Otis HATES her right now, but I'm sure he'll get over it. He's been in a bad mood ever since we came home.




Sunday was equally as great. My sister came over WITHOUT her three kids, and though I love love love my niece and nephews, it was really nice to have her all to myself (well, I shared her with Sabah). We just ran some errands, and then hit a couple of garage sales, before stopping at a local park for a few minutes of fun:






After that, we then stopped at our favorite Ethiopian restaurant for lunch. I've said this before, but Sabah LOVES Ethiopian food. She now insists on breaking off the injera herself and scooping up the food. It's so cute, because she doesn't actually scoop the food, she just tears of the TINIEST piece of bread and dips it in the food (like the food is a sauce), and then eating it thinking she actually has food (other than injera) on it. It takes us FOREVER to eat, but she has so much fun. I do feed her so that she gets the other food and isn't just eating injera.





Again, home for naptime. While Sabah slept, I prepared a picinic dinner of fresh (off the cob) corn, grape tomatoes, grilled chicken, Orzo pasta, mixed with ricotta cheese, sour cream, lemon juice and lemon zest. We recently switched to a healthier, Organic when we can, diet, and so I'm always trying new recipes, and this was one of them. I think 80% of the items were organic, so I was pretty proud of myself. The recipe sounded YUMMY, but in reality, it was just ok. Probably won't make it again.

But anyway, after her nap and snack, we headed over to McCoy park with our dinner (including more berries and watermelon) for the 1st concert in the park series. We got our litte spot on the grass, had our dinner and enjoyed the music: