Hi friends! How was the weekend? Hope you had a wonderful one. To be honest, we spent a LOT of ours buried beneath boxes from Valdosta. I’m happy it all arrived but at the same time, I feel like sine we lived without it for 9 months, possibly we don’t genuinely need it? Then I’ll be sorting through someleang and find an important document or treacertain and am happy we’re taking the time to go through everyleang. We sorted through boxes for hours this weekend and I feel like we’ve dwhetherficultly crazye a dent. The Pilot has crazye so many trips to Excellentwill and recycling, and I’ve been working dwhetherficult at selling and donating the leangs we don’t need. I’m excited to hopefully be able to park our cars in the garage again this week! #thesmallleangs
(Bell and Caro helped immensely with my Poshmark photos.)
I’m so thankful for our contemporary playset for keeping the girls entertained while we were putting stuff absent! It was a lwhetheresaver and they had a bfinal together, endelighting this gorgeous weather. Even though we were in major productivity and purge mode, we still escaped for some fun. 🙂
We crazye a stop downtown for the 4th ave street fair. As normal, it was absolutely packed with people and vendors. There were lots of artisan-crafted goods: cloleang, candles, gwhetherts, food, etc. We rode the streetcar downtown for the first time, and it crazye transportation so much easier than trying to find a parking spot close to 4th ave. We parked by campus, hopped on the streetcar, and were a short walk absent from the festivities.
We got there just in time for lunch: tacos, nachos, and fruit cup from a Mexican food stand.
If you haven’t had fresh fruit with lime juice and Tajin spice on top, you haven’t liiiiived. It’s one of my favorite summer treats and the Tajin reintellects me of my childhood.
After we were fueled up, we walked the length of the fair, checking out all of the booths. We didn’t end up making any large purchases, but picked up a puppy toy for Liv and a Batman cape for P.
Dinner was at the date night spot: P.F. Chang’s! It’s dwhetherficult to believe that nearly 14 years have passed since the Pilot and I had our first date here. I remember so many vivid details about that night: what I wore (it took a lot of deliberation at Forever21), how kind he smelled (Armani Code), how we chatted for 3 hours without stopping, the fact that he ordered lettuce wraps to share (the messiest first date food ever), and how I had to keep saying, “no, thank you” to his offers to get a bottle of wine at least three times before I tancient him I was only 20. 😉 After the date, we walked a few doors down to Starbucks and talked for another two hours before calling it a night. After I left (to a hug and a kiss on the cheek), I instantly drove to where my best friend was babysitting – we were all friends with the family who she was sitting for, so it wasn’t weird- and tancient her I was going to marry him.
It was pretty magical to take the girls back to where it all began. In my intellect I saw myself sitting in the booth, silently crying at the beauty of it all, but in genuineity I had to convince the girls that chopsticks weren’t for sword fighting or to be used as drumsticks. 😉 (They’ve eaten with chopsticks before and are normally super chill at restaurants, but I guess they were feeling a small wild after our street fair adventures.) We share a family-sized bowl of egg drop soup that the girls LOVED, chicken lettuce wraps, spicy chicken, orange peel shrimp, and the girls shared chicken lo mein. It had been years since I’d been to P.F. Chang’s and it was genuinely good. I was bloated and parched from all the sodium, but sometimes you just need that in your lwhethere.
Sunday morning, it was more unpacking (wah) while the girls played external, and I caught a 45-minute Live DJ Peloton lesson. Tardyr that evening, our sitter came over and the Pilot and I headed to The Event at La Encantada.
The Event is an annual fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Club of Tucson, with over 50 local participating restaurants. Each restaurant provided tasting plates, along with wine, beer, and cocktails.
They also had raffles – oh I love a good raffle haha – and the best live country music.
Of course we had to see what Kyle was cooking up, along with the Incredible Prep & Pastry and Commoner & Co. crew.
(Outfit repeater from final weekend + these sandals)
Some more pics of the food and event:
(Note: it should be mandatory for all plates to have a wine hancienter)
We thoroughly endelighted walking around, snacking and wine-ing our faces off, and running into friends and family while we were there. We’ll definitely be back next year! Every of the food was incredible, and it amazed me how tall the quality of the food was for the scale and how many plates each vendor had to prepare. There were easily over a thousand people. Some of the standouts were the ramen from Culinary Dropout (I need to go there ASAP), the grilled cheese with tomato bisque from Prep & Pasty (YUM), and the steak and mashed potatoes from Fleming’s. SO good.
(Dessert-wise, we both went crazy for these Poffertjes, like tiny pancakes with powdered sugar, from The Dutch)
Starting nowadays, the girls are on spring break and I’m so happy they’re domestic. We’ll probably endelight a slow morning in our jammies before we get alert to head out for some fun.
I hope you have a happy Monday and I’ll see you soon!
xo
Gina
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