It’s Monday again!

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Hello all, hope you had a wonderful weekend.  We were busy again seeing friends and narrowing down a new SUV for Dave.  Here’s what we did this weekend.  On Friday I was so happy to spend the entire day with KJ!  I got to Lauren’s house early so she had plenty of time to get to work.  As I was driving there I almost hit a dear.  It ran right out in front of me and I slammed on my brakes and just missed it.  Thank God.  My heart was racing and I was thinking that today was not my day to meet my maker.  I am so glad the deer made it across the road without causing an accident.  Anyway, I got to Lauren’s in plenty of time and we even had a few moments to go over KJ’s schedule for the day.  Whenever I babysit KJ, I also make arrangements to make dinner for Lauren and Christopher so when they get home all they have to do is relax and enjoy each other.  My mom used to do that for me and I appreciated it so much.  I made a wonderful beef barley soup in the crock pot.  I had a bowl for lunch and it was delicious.  Super easy recipe, you can click on the link to view it.  It’s so good that I made it today before work for our dinner tonight.  Beef barley soup recipe

Here is my little buddy!  He is such a character- he must laugh at least 50 times an hour.  I feel like a kid when I spend time with him.

We stayed home Friday night and watched a movie I picked up from the library- Atomic Blond with Charlize Theron.  We really enjoyed it.  Her body is amazing and she did plenty of her own stunts in this action packed movie set in Berlin 1989.  The film is based on the graphic novel titled The Coldest City.  I am sure there will be a sequel to this movie.  

On Saturday we ran first thing.  We were able to log another 3 miles on the calendar. Errands the rest of the day.  We met friends for dinner at a local restaurant called Bigalora- a wood fired pizza Cucina.  We chose this place because of the Brussel sprout thin crust pizza and the craft beer selection.  We were in heaven.  They had so many wonderful stouts to choose from.  I ended up with Founders Backward Bastard and Dave ordered a Dragonmead Armageddon Grand Cru. Sehr Gut!!  

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On Sunday we decided to go to the North American Auto Show in Detroit.  

This is one of the SUV’s Dave is interested in.  He wants to purchase the new vehicle from the factory in Volvo’s Overseas Delivery option.  Volvo pays our flight to Sweden and two nights in a hotel in exchange for purchasing a new car/SUV.  We would add a few days more to explore and make it a real vacation. We will see what he ends up purchasing.  He is still in the research mode.

This could be my dream car 🙂
The Auto show was packed, they are expecting record numbers this year.  A good sign for the auto companies and for Detroit.  

Since we were already downtown, we headed to the new Founders Brewery.  The brewery opened its doors on December 4th to a large crowd and it’s been crowded ever since.  

While there, we of course had to have a few samples!!  We also bought a couple of shirts in the gift shop. 🙂
I posted this pic on Sunday night on Instagram.  Spring really is just around the corner (58 days away). 

How was your weekend?  How are your New Year goals going??  We are still plugging along and trying to eat healthy foods, exercise daily, and drink beer only two days a week.  So far, so good.  We have also cleaned out the pantry and reorganized it and today Dave is home cleaning out his closet; all in an attempt to get organized and make our lives simpler.  

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