Wow! This week flew by and we really didn't do anything other than take the occasional walk, play outside and check out a couple of neat little grocery stores. One of them is The Fresh Market in the high-class area of River Ranch. It's pretty much a small scale version of Whole Foods Market. Matt and I were really impressed by it, but not by the prices, which we expected them to be high anyway considering the area of town. It's one place that we'll only be able to shop at occasionally for a special occassion.

The other place we checked out was Little Veron's, which is mostly a meat market. What I LOVE about this place, is that they have a lot of stuff made up that you can buy and just reheat, like Chicken Spaghetti. Matt got fish stuffed with crab dressing and said it was really good. I got a container of homemade Chicken Salad and it was just like my friend Jessica's chicken salad, which I love! She gave me the recipe for hers, but I think I might just buy it from there!

This is one of the jobs I did this week that I thought turned out pretty cute! I was a little worried when I first started working on it that it wouldn't be that cute, but once I put the ribbons on it, I breathed a sigh of relief! This is for a little girl (yes, her name is Bradley) to use for her backpack at school this year, so I hope her and her mom like it!
I have been searching all over for a cute initial garden flag that doesn't look like everyone elses (you know those fleur de lis flags that EVERYONE has)! Well, I found this one on this site by chance, really, and I couldn't resist getting it because it was a) different from everyone elses and b) really cute!

While waiting on my cute little garden flag to arrive, I've been looking for a wreath for the door that had some bright green in it. I finally just decided to try my hand at making a wreath out of nothing but ribbon (and of course, the round foam base). Basically, all I did was tie strips of ribbon in knots all the way around and then attached a ribbon on the back to hang it with. I even bought a little wooden "T" and painted it lime green, but after multiple tries I couldn't get it to stayed glued to it, so I just have to be happy for now with this. Of course, now that I've done this, I can't help but think how cute it would be to do one with Halloween ribbon, so I guess that will be my next project! (By the way, Matt says that the wreath looks "morbid" because it's black. I told him to leave me alone!)
We have a busy weekend planned. Matt's parents are coming to visit and we are going to take them out for their birthdays (Matt's dad's is Sunday and his mom's is next Friday). We also are going out to dinner with Matt's cousin tonight and I guess somewhere in there we'll have some birthday cake and maybe I'll get to sneak away and see JULIE & JULIA this weekend too, although I think Matt said he wanted to see it too, so maybe we can make it a date! I read the book BEFORE seeing the movie and before I even realized it was going to be a movie, which I really hate because now it's not going to compare to it. I'm going to be analyzing everything because I'm sure it won't follow the book all the way, which is the entire reason I never went to see MY SISTER'S KEEPER, because I read in an interview with Cameron Diaz that they changed the ending up and it wasn't like the book. Now why would you go and do that? Change the ending? That's not like changing a minor scene in the middle...it's the ending! It's what makes the book! Ok...I'll quit ranting about that, but if you saw MY SISTER'S KEEPER, but haven't read the book, I encourage you to read the book and find out how it really should have ended!

Off to check on Sleeping Beauty! She fell asleep in the chair watching THE INCREDIBLES for the gazillith time this week and she doesn't have a Pull-Up on, so I'm hoping she doesn't have an accident while sleeping. She has been doing awesome going to the potty...I just haven't been brave enough to put her to bed without Pull-Ups. I'm not quite ready for the middle of the night sheet changing! :)

Have a good weekend!