A Pretty Perfect Weekend

We started off our wonderful weekend celebrating Joe's birthday on Friday. To be fair, Friday day was not looking to spectacular for me. After having two failed homemade lemon meringue pies (dropped one, and over cooked the filling of the other) I was pretty much ready to have a breakdown. My plan had been to make Joe his favorite pie and surprise him with painting the office (his long awaited office remodel is finally here). However, after the failure of the second pie I was out of ingredients, nearly out of time, and Linnea had woken from her nap. My sister happened to call right then and she and Eric offered to come over and paint the room, and help with the baby while I got the pie stuff going! What a blessing!!! Everything worked out perfectly by the time Joe got home. Kaiah and Eric then babysat while Joe and I went on a wonderful birthday date. THANK YOU KAIAH and ERIC!

Saturday continued to be wonderful. L slept in (which meant we did too!). We had a leisurely morning and then headed into downtown. After exploring the shops together I headed to Pioneer Mall and Joe and L went Powell's. Joe needed some King Arthur books for the research he has been doing, and I had been wanting to do some baby free shopping. A few things I learned from this trip
1) All though it is really nice to have some time to myself to clothes shop I really missed my family and kind of wished I was with them exploring Powell's (for those non-Portlanders out there Powell's is a book lovers dream, three city block of new and used books!)
2) I want a stylist to pick out my clothes for me. I think after the body morph of pregnancy I am really out of the loop of fashion. I did hit some great sales, especially at Express, but couldn't help but think how nice it would be to just have someone to do the shopping for me. Who have I become?
The best part about Saturday was, ok we really have become parents, after we got home Joe got L into bed and then we CLEANED! We worked together and got the entire house done!!! Even our bedroom. It was like our pre-baby days, it was WONDERFUL. It was so nice to be doing it together, and it was so nice to get both the downstairs and the upstairs cleaned at the same time. It seems, normally it is usually one or the other.

Sunday, today, was our 6th wedding anniversary, so we packed up and headed to Cannon Beach! We had a joyful time wandering the cute little shops, and strolling the beach. We even ran into Joe's Aunt April, what a fun surprise! Linnea LOVED playing in the sand, and was covered head to toe. I am a bit scared I may be finding bits of sand in her diapers for the next month or so. It was a wonderfully relaxing way to spend our anniversary (not to mention how relaxing it was to come home to such a clean house!). It is funny how romance molds and changes in the different stages of your marriage. For today, or actually the whole weekend, was very romantic. I don't mean it was romantic in a passionate way, but in a way that made my heart be re-captured by Joe.