Such a fun weekend! Friday night my family and I went out for dinner at one of the yummiest-spots-around for my brother's 27th birthday. Here are the grounds leading up to the restaurant...

I had the most magnificent Macadamian-crusted Sea Bass! After dinner Scarlet chased some black ducks around on the way back to the car and then had us laughing so hard on the ride home that my mom peed her pants! Scarlet sang her own made up blues song that might make her famous on YouTube if I recorded it!

Instead of birthday cake we shared a variety of yummy gourmet birthday cupcakes:

Scarlet was happy to see that Grammie and Poppy's pool is now open!

It was a gorgeous evening and we sat outside and relaxed.

And visited with poor little Katie, who is getting put to sleep on Monday due to kidney failure. I adopted her 13 years ago when I was living at home for a bit after moving back to the area from CA. And though I moved out of my parent's house a few months later, no one wanted me to take her, so she's been with them ever since. Poor thing. She lost half of her body weight in this past year. She's not suffering now, but she will be soon, so Monday she will be sent off to kitty heaven.

Saturday was the peak of beautiful weather! At dinner on Friday Scarlet talked everyone into going to the zoo the next morning, so that's what we did!

After the zoo Scarlet and I spent the rest of the day relaxing, grocery shopping, running errands, reading, journaling, doing laundry etc. And then we woke up to our pretty lake looking like a mud puddle!

Every 5-6 years they let out the dam to drain it and repair the walls. So ugly! Hopefully it will be filled back up soon!

So today (Sunday), another incredible day weather-wise, had Scarlet begging for the beach before I even opened my eyes! So off we went!

I was in heaven! This here is where I am most relaxed and living in the moment! And I couldn't believe that it's only May 20th in Buffalo and the water wasn't too cold to swim in!!

Though chilly, we both got in up to our chests! It was beautiful.

Once we got home and showered I made my favorite summertime edible: fresh salsa!

And then since we were in the A/C decided to put the old bananas to use and make banana bread, which smelled up the house in the best way!

And now I'm hanging out for the rest of the evening on the back patio relaxin' like it's my job.

Hope your weekend was nice too! xo