May 10, 2015

Weekending: Mother's Day Edition

Happy Belated Mothers Day all you beautiful mamas, mamas to be and mamas of angels out there!
 
I hope that everyone got the day that they wanted whether it was spending it alone and quietly, with your kiddos, on a mothers day date with your husband, with your mama friends or with your own mama (in law)
 
Me...I spent it with my guys and it was exactly the day I hoped for, especially since I spent all Saturday on the couch with a crazy headache and an overall feeling of yuckiness and laziness
 
oh oh oh and before I forget on Friday Logan gave me the mothers day gift he made for me at CDC and I almost cried because he was so so so proud of it and presented it to me with the biggest smile on his face. He explained to me that it was a tree but he didn't want a green tree like everyone else he wanted a yellow tree and he decorated it because I like decorated things. SO SWEET....cue the tears!
 
 
 
I'm not gonna lie I woke up in a MOOD on Sunday morning! I don't know why but I do know that I hadn't heard Isaac mention Mother's day at all and I was pretty irritated about it. I didn't even get a Happy Mother's Day when I woke up from either of them which didn't help. I was up for about an hour cleaning up before Isaac came out and told me to shower and get dressed while he gave Logan a bath and got him dressed. Y'all they surprised me and took me to the bases Mother's Day Brunch and it was so nice! They even had ice sculptures...ICE SCULPTURES (If you didn't already know or couldn't tell I LOVE ICE SCULPTURES) They had amazing food, a dessert table complete with a chocolate fountain and even gave all the moms flowers as they were seated. I didn't get a ton of pictures because I was too busy stuffing my face but I did manage to get these
 
 
 
 
After brunch they took me over to the BX and got me the Shark Rotator Professional Lift Away Vacuum......you guys I have been talking about this vacuum for like 6 months ever since I first heard about it on the White Walls and White Walls Suds Facebook pages but we had a perfectly good Dyson Ball that cost an arm and a leg and there was no reason to get a new expensive vacuum. Well guess what?!!?! My Ball died and I was left with no vaccum so this gift was partially out of necessity and partially because I have been mentioning it every day for 6 months but whatever the reason was IT'S MINE AND I LOVE IT!
 
 
 

 
 
 
Overall it was an amazing low key day where I stuffed myself and got to take a mid day nap which is always a win. What did you do for Mother's Day?

April 26, 2015

The Showa-Kinen Flower Festival 2015

I hope that everyone had a good weekend!!! Normally I would post my weekend recap buuuuuut let's be serious I worked on Saturday so I did NOTHING worth writing about Friday night or Saturday after work because I've been beat lately. I will say that the weather on Sunday was gorgeous and that gave us the opportunity to take the train about 15 minutes to the Showa-Kinen park so that we could see the flower festival that was going on. I didn't know what to expect but I did know that it was supposed to have a bunch of tulips that I couldn't pass up.
 
One we got there I was surprised at how cheap it was for us to get in. It was 820 yen for Isaac and I to get in together (410 each) and Logan was free since kids under 6 are free. They have so much to do there which is nice. You can rent paddle boats, ride your bicicyle on the multiple trails, there is a water park, many playgrounds and much more. you could easily spend all day here and Logan was in threenager heaven.
 
 
 
 
After walking for about 3 minutes we ran into the beautiful flower gardens which were hard to miss. I spent so much time walking around, admiring the beauty of the nature we were surrounding by. I know if you know me by now you are aware that spring, flowers, sunshine and my boys make me one happy lady.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
So beautiful!
 
We ran across a man painting and enjoying the scenery
 
 
 
 
A nice man noticed that we wanted to take pictures and offered to take a family picture for us and despite the language barrier it worked out
 
 
After spending about an hour or two walking around we sat down to watch the street performers that they had, grab some ice cream and so that Isaac could grab a beer
 
 
 
 
it was a great, inexpensive way to spend the day and I am so glad that the weather was finally nice on the weekend and we didn't waste it by watching TV inside
 
 
 
How was your weekend?