Saturday on a long holiday weekend!

I  started my Saturday doing what I do every single morning, Yoga followed by planks and my dumbbell weights. After Steve and I went to Menards to get a wheel for the Wheel barrow. We ended up just buying a new one instead of trying to find a wheel. It was time to get rid of the old one! 

While at Menards, lights were on sale marked down more then the normal 11% on sale weeks. I finally decided on a light I liked and we ordered it. It's similar to this light but more lights on it and all rubbed bronze to match all our other lights. Now to wait for it to arrive in the store and then to install. I'm excited to switch out our old stair light and put in a new one. Next is to get a new kitchen sink. Soon just waiting till that too goes on sale. 

We picked up a truck load of mulch Friday afternoon so we were ready to put it in the back yard. We need at least another truck full of mulch! It didn't cover under our porch since I used some for our berm. Next week, we'll finish it up! Good thing it's only $45 per truck full so in all we will have spent $135 on mulch. Still need black dirt, sod and grass seed! I did a little tree cutting and weed removal also and mowed the front yard. I'm saving the back yard mowing for Sunday! 

Here's the deal

I've been buying a few Groupons and Living Social deals. I've never been much of a got to buy that on line deal. I am now a buyer. I purchased a ring on line, a brewery deal and now a Kayak river deal. All we will use and now we have fun plans to use up these deals before they expire the end of summer. 

Its sooo green outside now. I love spring/summer even in the rain! Ifs always far better then snow! 

Just doing a little morning yoga before I go to work. I have a busy, busy work schedule today and I need to get going earlier. 

I made some of those crack candy bars for my customers today. Yum.. I used dark chocolate and white mixed to swirl them together topped with peanuts. Love this quick and easy candy. They are in the freezer and hopefully, will be cool enough to crack asap! 

Dieting has not gone very well this past week. Ugh! I just am at a block. Staying around 1500 calories for the day. I had Chinese take out last night since Steve went out for drinks with his brother. I had been wanting Chinese food for a few weeks now and figured why not order some up! It was delicious! Just not staying under my 1000 calories for the day. I was also pretty lazy again. With this rain and cooler temperatures, I just feel blah. Didn't want to work on home projects or do anything other then watch TV and read the news on my phone. I suppose there is no rush to do any of my projects. 

What I did do, worked, went for a 1.5 mile run and that was about it other then stop at the bank and pick up takeout. I did catch up on TV, Amazing race and watched a really good movie Drift. I guess you could call that an accomplishment! 

Our weekend plans are going to include installing this new sink! We have enough Menards cash back money to purchase this sink set for the kitchen. I'm soooo tired of our current sink. It doesn't drain right and the hard water deposits on a black sink are just not good. It will be nice to start fresh with all! I'm hoping Steve gets around to putting this in on Monday. Its going to rain, go figure so a no excuse indoor work on project day! Maybe I'll even paint those doors upstairs! 

A Night Out for our 20th Anniversary.

Here we are 20 years later on our Anniversary, May 22nd 2019! Did we change much? 

 We had dinner reservations in Minneapolis at the Capital Grill. We let them know a head of time it was our Anniversary and they were really good about making us feel special. Look at the beautiful dessert plate with happy anniversary stenciled in chocolate. Love that idea! 

Before dinner we stopped at Rock Bottom Brewery and had some happy hour drinks. 

I should have brought the cribbage board but we weren't sure if there was enough time to play a game. Turns out, we did have time but no cribbage board. They do make their own beers. I tried a raspberry/cranberry sour that was pretty tasty and $2 off per glass. 

I went shopping Wednesday afternoon and found this cute spring dress on clearance at TJ Maxx for $29. I could not pass it up. Size 4 and it fits! I did need help zipping it up! 

I bought the white sweater too and that was not on clearance but it was still around $20/$25? I realized Steve probably needed new black pants since he doesn't wear dress pants often and lost more weight and I think the last pair he bought was pleated. Outdated and needed new tapered legs and no pleats in the front or cuffed pant legs! lol.. I really miss having to dress up for work every day. I hardly ever dress up now. Not sure when I'll ever wear this dress again but it was nice to have an occasion to get dressed up and go out on the town. 

Dinner was excellent. We both got a salad but different, and we shared the potatoes and mushrooms since it's all A la Cart. We both also got the beef tenderloin 10oz. Far too much food and I was stuffed. I am sure it was the most food I've had to eat in months! Next year, if we go back we need to share a meal. Far too much meat for one person! Plus, its not a cheap place but lucky for us, Steve had a birthday gift card that we used and of course went over that amount on the meal. 

We definitely liked the food and thought it was a great place for a special occasion. I said we need to do this every year. Not sure why it took us 20 years to figure out we need a night out at a good restaurant to celebrate just us. You just can't do that on a birthday!