Good Weekends always Fly by!

So this weekend was a very good one, but it seems that the best weekends always fly by so quickly!

On Friday Jonathan and I had a date night. We went to Andy's Pizza, a place right across the street from us, that we had yet to check out. It turns out we like the place a lot and are considering it for family dinner with our families, but Dino's still has slightly better food. After that we went shopping in Jefferson Commons, and with Jonathan's blessing I got a new pink dress for Sarah and Devin's wedding. Jonathan got some new kicks, that he totally enjoys for two reasons, they were cheap and they give him about 2 inches.

I worked Saturday morning, but it was a very low stress saturday and was done by noon, so no biggie. When I got off I got changed and headed to a baby shower with my Mom. The shower was for a friend of ours from church who has been trying to get pregnant for three years and has been through a number of mis-carriages. It was so wonderful to see her happily carrying a beach ball under shirt (now 8 months along).

Saturday night Jonathan and I ventured over to the new Fresh Market right around the corner from us and bought some delicious bleu cheese burgers and rolls! I can't wait to go back and explore the store longer when it's a little less crowded. Jonathan grilled the burgers and toasted the buns, and though his perfectionism wasn't satisfied completely, I totally enjoyed mine! After we decided we ate way too much for dinner and there is never anything good on TV saturday night, we hopped in the car with Mackenzie to head over to Riverview Park, about a mile and a half from our house. They have a two-mile paved path, so Mackenny and I ran, and Jonathan rollerbladed. I was pretty proud of myself, I was able to run the 2 mile path in 16 minutes. Basically 8 minute miles, and since I never run for speed, only for distance, I was excited to see how well I could do if I push myself.

Sunday morning, I woke up to do my usual weekly 'long' run, I was supposed to do 7 miles this weekend, but I think the 2 mile speed run the night before took a little out of me so I did 5 1/2 miles and decided the two runs together equaled more than 7 and that's fine. After, I maintained my Sunday morning routine, and went to church and 'brunch' with the brunch bunch from church. (We have been going to breakfast together after church for about 5 or 6 years). Then it was home to get ready for our 'photo shoot'. Or should I say, Mackenzie's photo shoot. Jonathan has been working very hard to promote our business Arf! Pet Care (www.arfpetcare.com), and we are now getting another article written about us, this time in the Virginia Pilot extension paper "Inside Business". Like our article in the Daily Press, when the photographer came to take pictures of 'us', it really meant Mackenzie with Jonathan and I holding up the background. Either way it was fun, and I was impressed by how well behaved Mackenzie was.

Finally, after the photo shoot, Jonathan and I got ready to go to the free Mercyme concert at Busch Gardens. We met up with my my brother, and a couple friends from church. The concert was great, and I was able to trick Jonathan into doing something 'churchy' :) After the concert we rode Griffon in the dark, which was awesome!! I also did my 'special' run/swim out of the park, which embarassed Jonathan, but everyone else seemed to enjoy.

Overall we had a wonderful weekend, and when I write about it, it seems like we did so much, but it definitely went by so quickly. I wish fun weekends would go slow like work weeks, and work weeks would fly by like fun weekends.