As much as the Fourth of July is my least favorite holiday because I HATE FIREWORKS - I do love an extended holiday weekend. At Chapman we usually get two days off for the fourth. This year it fell on a Monday so Monday and Tuesday was off giving us a nice long holiday weekend.
We got cut early on Friday (Even though I work from home Fridays so I'm already there) but I was able to get some chores, errands and random crap done before the weekend started.
So - there was a random Wednesday before the weekend started that was Mom and my Glen Ivy Day. We had wanted to do something super special for her 70th birthday and kind of a thank you for all she did for us during the wedding, so a day at Glen Ivy seemed perfect. She had never been so that was even better. I also made sure to book her a facial and myself a pedicure. We had an absolutely wonderful relaxing day.
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Time to chill!
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Mom is ready!
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Basically could sit here all day
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Saturday the Hernandez Clan came over for a couple of hours of pool time. Then Petey had his 50th Birthday Celebration! He invited a small group to dinner at a really great Thai place in Garden Grove. It was so wonderful to see some faces I haven't seen in person in a few years! Yay Rudies!!
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Scottie and his mini him - Silas
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Pete with the ladies!
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Happy Birthday Petey!
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Pete's bestie
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Hi Rob!
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Mom & Dawn
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Terri wasn't sure what to make of the odd coconut dessert jelly thing
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Our group sans Scottie and fam
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Now I may have drank a bit too much that day...so our 5am wake up call on Sunday to hit Mount Baldy for a hike was a bit rough going for me at 1st, but once we got there it was goddamn gorgeous!!! Pat took us up to a place called Ice House Canyon. We wanted to get up there early for parking and beat the heat, and it was just lovely! Even though the parking lot was already full, we did score a street spot down the road (which later would have been impossible to find) and hit the trail. We're both a bit out of shape, so we tried to keep light and did around a 5 1/2 miler. It was uphill basically the entire time, so it was a bit rough but just awesome. We hit a side trail called Chapman Trail then headed back after what we thought was the end. It was truly beautiful! So many gorgeous trees and a running stream that actually had water in it! We also came across a few cabins and what looked to maybe be remnants of cabins. We ended the morning on the way out at a little cafe attached to the Baldy lodge that was just delicious!
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Hello Gorgeous
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At the end...sort of
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Love me some trees
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This broken tree branch makes the best bridge!
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Yeah, I'll just live here
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Mimosas to celebrate not killing our selves!
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The rest of the day we just chilled and worked on recovering from the hike. Monday (the fourth) brought Cori and Tom over for Brats and Pool Fun - no pics unfortunately, I guess we were just enjoying the moment! Around dusk the war zone began and Pat and I hid in the house with a movie on loud, trying to keep my poor Luna calm. DID I MENTION I HATE FIREWORKS? Let's just say we didn't sleep well that night.
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My poor baby
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Tuesday did some more errands and had lunch with Maria since we're both off- of course we had sushi!
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Sushi is always presented so pretty!
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So with the exception of the assholes shooting off bombs all weekend, it was really a nice weekend off! Very chill. Did some stuff. Saw some peeps. Relaxed. Just what the Dr ordered!!
Now can we please always have 4 day weekends??
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