Weekend Update

Our weekend was quick and fabulous.  

Here is our life in photos.

Cafe Rio Burrito.  Delicious.

Air & Space Museum with Mitch's Parents.

Baby Sam.  I am obsessed with him.  

Miss Mary Kate.

Day 1 of Mitch's Birthday week.  Dinner at Founding Farmers.

Day 2 of Mitch's Birthday week.  "True" Homemade shortcake, according to Shelley.

Watching mission videos.  Love this video of Jenna.

Mission happiness.  Remember how I gained 30 pounds on my mission?  Totally worth it.

Kites and Abby.

Abby came this weekend. We always love to have her. Our weekend was fabulous. We went running around the mall, chit-chatted like old friends, ordered Chinese food (for some strange reason, I always want to order Chinese food), went to the Kite Festival on the mall, tried a new restaurant called ShopHouse in Dupont, Mitch and I went to prom with his school, got Mon-u-Mint concrete at Shake Shack (I am a little obsessed), watched conference, and ended the weekend with a delicious Sunday dinner with friends.

Happy Sunday.

Claire at the Kite Festival. She is so cute. Can you see all the kites? There were loads of them.

Miss Mary Kate. Yes, I am so obsessed with her. Hence the reason for all the photos.

Don't you just love her so much...

Mitch and the kite. He's kind of turned into a runner these days. Awesome, right?

Abby and Mary Kate. We are all a little obsessed with her.

She has been the only baby in the family for a long time.

Pratt (Henriod) Family. We love them.

The Weekend

Our weekend looked a little bit of something like this:

-Running around the Tidal Basin while 2,000 tourists forgot how to walk.

-Went to Del Ray in Alexandria and fell in love with the Dairy Godmother.

-Running and basketball Saturday morning.

-Homework.

-Hunger Games. I loved it, so did Mitch.

-Dinner at Shake Shack, Danielle introduced me to the Mon-u-ment concrete and I am hooked. I might have to go there everyday. Ok, not really I hate driving up to Dupont way too much. And parking can be terrible.

-Chilled with Peter. We love when he visits.

-Had lunch with Matt, Mark and Peter on Sunday. We also love when Matt visits.

-I actually paid attention in church for almost all of the meetings. This is a huge accomplishment for me.

-Mitch started watching Lost over spring break and now we are both addicted, even though I have already watched it. Of course, we stayed up late watching it last night. Of course.

Us running at the Tidal Basin. We look awesome. The Cherry Blossoms really are stunning, it's like nothing that I have ever seen.

Where we ate Friday night. Delicious. It was even warm enough to sit outside.

Weekend Update.

Run.

Chit Chat with Emily.

Union Station (12:30 pm)= Mitch. Homeless man tried to enter my car. SCARY.

Took Dance.

Taught Dance.

Serendipity with Friends.

"The World's Fastest Indian"

Helped Andi Unpack.

Homework for Mitch and me.

Church.

Superbowl with Family & Friends.

Still obsessed with Mary Katie.

My life.

Wish I was wearing this 80's Prom dress tonight to Mitch's PROM! Purple is my new favorite color.

1. This was part of my latest conversation with my sister-in-law:

Abby: Have you been able to cook this week?
Sarah: Not once. I am pathetic.

I seriously am pathetic, we haven't cooked since last Thursday, eight days ago. You may be wondering what we eat: cereal, milk, more cereal and sandwiches. Great diet. No wonder Mitch always want to go out out.

2. I just ate, tried to eat, a mushy apple. Probably the worst tasting thing in the world. And the worst part of my day. I haven't been to the store to buy real food in three weeks. (Costco organic milk lasts for ages!)

3. I taught dance last night for the first time since May and I loved it so much. I always love teaching. But today I can't move my back or my hips or my thighs for that matter. I think I am a little sore from pilates, ridiculous, but all the same. My body hurts.

4. Mitch and I are going to prom tonight with his school. I am so excited, who doesn't love prom? Still have no idea what I am going to wear.

5. I have always heard people say, "My life is completely out of control. I can't get organized, I never get dinner fixed. I haven't been to the store in weeks. My house is a mess." And I would wonder how on earth people actually felt like that. I have turned into this person. I have no idea when or how it happen. But this is me. My life has zero structure. The only things I get accomplished each day are: work, a little bit of spiritualness (I know this isn't a word, but it's going to have to be for the time being) and most likely exercise. Everything else in my is out of control. I am back to sleeping way less than eight hours a night. I slept for five hours a night all through college and until I moved to Minnesota. Once I got to Minnesota and slept for eight hours a night, I vowed to never sleep less than sever hours a night again! And hear I am, never sleeping eight hours a night. I can't tell you many times I hear people tell me I look tired, it makes you feel like a million bucks. (This is a joke, please laugh). We eat dinnermost nights at ten, my most usual breakfast is a bag of dry cherriors and any type of fruit I can find. I should be more productive on the metro, but I am too focused on listening to Harry Potter. I am obsessed with the books on tape. I have already listened to most of them at least three times.

All in all life is chaos. But don't be confused, good chaos. Chaos full of joy and life.

Did I mention that the Kunz family left? I already miss them and they have only been gone one day.

And to top everything off, I haven't watched my shows in weeks. Good thing next week is looking pretty open, especially since Saturday is my last day of work at J.Crew. Yes, I quit. Yes, I am sad. And yes, I had to quit so that I could have some structure in my life. Just a little would be nice.

Happy weekend to everyone. Tonight think of Mitch and me dancing at Prom. I seriously can't wait.

Happy Weekend.

Boo.

(This is the movie I watched for over an hour on the treadmill, I didn't see the ending but loved the 80's clothes through the entire movie. And it was the perfect way to start off my Halloween weekend.)

Happy Halloween! Who doesn't love HALLOWEEN? I seriously love it. Reasons why I love Halloween:

1. The best excuse all year to eat loads and loads of candy. I love baby Twix the very most. And of course Tootsie Rolls, I craved them on my mission.
2. A great excuse to dress up. My best costumes were in college. There were many instances of dressing up as pigs with much pride.
3. Trick-o-Treating. Tonight, I get to go with the Kunz's family. I am so excited.
4. Did I mention that I can eat all the candy I want without feeling the least bit guilty?

Weekend Update:

This weekend was the best, the BEST. Seriously the best. Rach and John were here. The Kunz family is still here.

First, I have to mention that I ran 8.4 miles on the treadmill this Saturday. This might be one of the biggest accomplishments of my life, seriously. You might think I am joking, I'm not. I usually have a breakdown on the treadmill by at least mile three. It was raining like crazy outside and Teen Witch was on TV. Also, I have a half marathon in two weeks and my longest run in months has been six miles. Lets just hope I finish the half, let us all hope.

On Saturday we went to the American History Museum and I loved it. It might be my favorite museum on the Mall. We saw the American Flag. It was beautiful, I am proud to be an American. We also saw Dorthy's shoes. They are full of fabulous red sparkles, I would really love to try them on. We saw Julia Child's Kitchen, I would love to have so many elements of her kitchen. I especially loved her copper pans and her stove. And we saw the First Lady's Dresses. They are so exciting. My favorites were Jackie Kennedy's and Mary Lincoln's.

We also went to the Phillips Gallery on Saturday and it was well worth the $10. They have a Degas exhibit. I identify so much with these paintings because of my love for dance. I am fascinated by how well Degas captured the movement of dance in a painting.

Sunday we went to hear Ali and Alex speak, best sacrament meeting ever. I didn't even fall asleep and that is a really big accomplishment for me. I am so glad they are my friends.

And we got lucky enough to go to a Raven's game in Baltimore. Rach's really good friend, Christina lives there and her husband plays for the team. It was really exciting and I don't even like football. Mitch was in HEAVEN. After the game we went to the family area and watched all the players walk out of the locker room. I even saw Michael Oher, just really exciting.

Rach left today and yes, I already miss her. She is the best. Lucky for me, the Kunz family doesn't leave until Thursday and Andi comes Friday. I can't wait to play all weekend long.

One last thing....it snowed on Saturday, real BIG snowflakes fell continually from the sky. Crazy October weather, good thing I was able to ride my bike into work today. The sky is perfectly blue without a cloud in the sky.

Happy Halloween! I hope you all eat lots of candy and wear a fabulous costume.

Weekend Report.

Work. Sleep. Beautiful run through Georgetown. More work. Miracle of finding Mitch. Errands, loads of them. Time with Claire and Baby Mary Katie. Cooking. Lots and lots of cooking. Dinner with fabulous friends. Celebration of two birthdays. And NCIS to top the weekend off.

Happy belated weekend.