What a weekend

This past weekend flew by with all we had going on. It started off great when I went to see Grindhouse Friday day with Jason and the crew. I was looking forward to seeing the newest Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double-header and wasn't disappointed. I recommend this one only to those who like gory, violent, over-the-top, cheesy action films. I loved the Rodriguez one more with all it's insane violence and zombie attacks, and I usually hate zombie type movies. Friday night got better with Mike and Nina coming down for dinner. I haven't seen Nina in awhile, so it was great to catch up. We had a lively dinner discussion about relationships and marriage. Then Shawn's high school friend Marco met up with us. Nina and I ended up crashing about 11:30. I woke up when Shawn finally made his way to bed at 4:am. It never fails when Marco comes to town that the guys have to stay up super late playing games. They are the most competitive bunch I've ever known.

Saturday started with Shawn getting up and going to work for a few hours while I graded essays. We went to Thai Swan for dinner. Yummy! Thanks Jason for introducing us to this great place. The highlight of Saturday though came during the day when I was grading essays. I started feeling the oddest "jerks" in my lower abdomen. At first I thought it was my ligaments stretching as the doctor had told me it's normal to get shooting pains in my sides once in awhile, but then I noticed these were different from the stretching pains I had gotten before. I am almost certain these new jerks as I like to call them are from the baby moving. Yep, I think I've finally started feeling the little baby doing somersaults, kickboxing, and anything else he/she feels like doing to send mommy into twitches. It is seriously the strangest feeling I've ever had. I'm scared of what it'll feel like next once baby starts really kicking and punching me. Oh the joys of motherhood.

Sunday morning Shawn and Mike when golfing, which was good since I had to finish grading the essays. Plus, Shawn worked 61 hours last week, so I encouraged him to get out and do something fun. We went to Barb and Ed's for Easter dinner later on. It was a great feast as usual. It was a blast watching Avery do her first Easter egg hunt. I'll have Shawn post the pictures on our website in a couple of days. The sad part of the hunt though was every time Avery picked up an egg she shook it and said empty. She doesn't need any candy yet (the girl is already an Energizer bunny), so the little one will have to wait until next year to get goodies in her eggs.

This week starts my insane schedule for the rest of the month with Arbonne events, school, Chamber of Commerce events, Relay for Life meetings, family visiting from out of town, Greg and Tracy's shower, and the thing I'm most looking forward to Arbonne's National Training Celebration in Las Vegas. It truly is the party of the year and I can't wait!