Hello all! We had an excellent lengthy (a bit too lengthy, to be trustworthy…) weekend final weekend – the children had been off college on Friday, Monday, AND Tuesday. We determined to not go anyplace as a result of we did so many journeys within the fall and it’s simply been good to remain put for a minute, however by Saturday we had been form of regretting that call a bit. 😉

The children had been going stir loopy so we ended up deciding to get out as a lot as potential for recent air the remainder of the weekend because it all the time helps everybody’s moods. It was a cold however sunny weekend – the solar all the time helps quite a bit for me with desirous to go outdoors!

On Sunday morning we took a household outing to Huntley Meadows, one in every of our native favorites.

Sure, Wes remains to be in shorts (he’s obsessed).

He loves the woods. And naturally needed to have a strolling stick like Daddy and Riese!

We noticed this actually cool fowl – a blue heron, I believe?

Riese is into sprinting/operating actually quick proper now, and after the boardwalk space the loop ends with an extended flat stretch (possibly 1 or 1.5 miles value) within the woods, so she and I raced for many of it with plenty of breaks interspersed. It was tremendous enjoyable – I like operating together with her. Can’t wait to do extra of it as she will get older!

Riese and I additionally obtained out for an enormous hike on Monday morning with my pal Jen and her two youngsters. We met up in Potomac Overlook park which is one other favourite as a result of the children love all of the rock scrambling down by the creek.

Wes stayed at residence with Matt as a result of the rock scrambling would’ve been an excessive amount of for him, and in addition so Riese and I didn’t should rush again for his nap time. We had such a blast on the market!

For our picnic lunch mid-hike I packed us our favourite tuna salad with avocado – Riese loves it.

Plus some unpictured string beans and clementines!

In different lengthy weekend information, my highschool bestie Jenny was on the town visiting! We had a woman’s evening out together with her sister Gretchen and our pal Lara from highschool. I all the time love hanging with these girls.

We went to Wren in Tysons and the meals was completely scrumptious (however the firm was after all one of the best half). As standard once we are collectively, we ordered an entire slew of stuff and shared every thing. Right here is only a sampling of a few of the objects we loved, not every thing!

We additionally had a very enjoyable huge group play date (once more simply me and Riese – Wes and Matt stayed residence) the subsequent day. There have been 10 youngsters between all of us they usually had an absolute blast. Riese and I arrived at 2:30 and didn’t depart till 7:30! Want all of us lived nearer and will do this on a regular basis.

I don’t have a ton of residence cooked meals footage to share with you this week as we actually ate out quite a bit as a result of all of the socializing, and once we had been residence we simply had fundamentals. However I did snag an image of this stir fry we had one evening. All the time a win!

Yum. In case you want sauce concepts, see this publish: combine + match stir fry recipes.

And sure, that’s avocado within the stir fry (added simply earlier than serving)! We’ve been consuming a LOT of avocado recently as a result of Matt unintentionally purchased 3 BAGS of avocados as a substitute of three avocados through our grocery supply order final week! Whoops!

Along with some avocado tuna salad sandwiches loved with Riese, I’ve had plenty of avocado toast, plenty of avocado on prime of fundamental lunch grain salad bowls, avocado smoothies (avocado is surprisingly good in smoothies, I promise), and in addition some omelettes with avocado. I don’t hate all of the avocado, I’ll be trustworthy!

I hope you could have an ideal weekend, associates. I’ll see you again right here on Tuesday with a brand new recipe!