It's a Beautiful Day...

Finally, the sun came out this Monday morning and decided to give us a much-needed break from the cold. Unfortunately, Krem.com states that our sunny days are over for awhile. I intend on fully enjoying the sunshine while it lasts.

This weekend was really quite nice. The weather was decent, my list of things to do was significantly smaller than last week's and Jersey appreciated some much-needed "her" time. Probably my favorite part of the weekend was cooking some new dishes for me and Grant. On the menu were:

• Pesto and Mozzarella Stuffed Chicken
• Beef and Spaghetti Macaroni (we used Penne and it looked much better than this picture)
• Taco Salads (no recipe needed...just naturally delicious)
• Oreo Cookie Cheesecake

The cheesecake has lasted us through the entire weekend and I'm pretty sure it ranks at the top of my dessert list. Thanks AllRecipes!

Jersey very much enjoyed the weekend since she got to go swimming twice! At first, I was worried that the long winter gave her brain damage because it seemed that she forgot how to swim. I threw her ball, thinking she would fetch it like normal, but instead she looked at me like, "why would you do that?" and barked at the ball, eagerly requesting it come back to shore. After a few minutes of watching the ball slowly float further and further away and me deciding whether hypothermia was worth a $2.99 floating ChuckIt! ball or not, she finally grew a pair and went all in...a perfect 10 bellyflop. After that, her body totally went into swim mode, despite the fact that the water was probably about 35 degrees. After about half an hour, her body was shivering uncontrollably and I decided to be a mom and take her home to get warm. On Sunday, we took her back to the lake and tried to get her to jump off a dock, with little success. She finally kind of fell in after going NUTS that we threw her ball in the water and realizing it wasn't coming back on its own. She later found a 7 foot stick/tree that she wanted us to throw and that pretty much pooped her out. She's been sleeping ever since...and I did check to make sure she was still breathing.

We went and saw Smart People on Saturday and I would definitely recommend it. Very enjoyable indeed and the free small popcorn was an added bonus! I was pretty surprised that we were the youngest two in the crowd and our fits of laughter often did not match those of the surrounding company. But I would definitely say that it's a movie I would feel mostly comfortable sitting through with my mom.

I'm seriously considering taking the rest of the day off and sitting in my front yard enjoying the sun....