Magnum P.I.

What a great weekend!! Aaron and I went on a date on Friday night. We didn't do anything too horribly exciting, (dinner and a movie), but it was definitely a much needed date!! The only thing that would have made it better is if I hadn't worked 11 hours and Aaron 13 hours before the start of our date...

But, we got to sleep in on Saturday morning, which was nice. We woke up around 9:30, threw on some "going out in public"clothes, brushed our teeth, and headed up to Cold Stone to wait in line**. After an hour, we got our free ice cream for a year and were on our way back home. After we got home, we ate lunch and then took a nap. Yup. A nap. It was great. Aaron had to close that night, but it gave me an opportunity to get some cleaning done. When he got home, we watched a movie, ate popcorn (with parmesan cheese...yum!!), and snuggled.

Sunday morning we started prepping our house to be painted. The back of our house has the most windows, pipes, meters, etc... that needed to be covered and taped before we could start, so we did that together. Then Aaron started painting. We were able to borrow an airless sprayer from his dad, but unfortunately the last person to borrow it had left the tip on, which had caused it to rust, so we had to go up to Ames to buy a new tip at Lowe's. We made the best out of our trip though and stopped at Panchero's to grab some lunch. Once we got home with the new tip, it only took us 3 hours to paint the entire house!! We had a great little system down - while Aaron painted the west side, I covered the windows and scraped on the north side; as he painted the north side, I prepped the east side... We were soooo happy to be done with our project for the day by 3:30. It left us with our entire evening to just relax and spend some time together.

We harvested a bunch of broccoli and beans from our garden. We've already frozen a couple gallon sized Ziploc bags worth of beans and had 5 or 6 meals, but our plants just keep producing, so we gave about half of what we picked last night to a neighbor, whose bean plants aren't doing so well this year. While we were over there, my job search came up and our neighbor said she would give my name to a friend of hers who has tons of contacts in the area and has gotten several people their jobs, including both of our neighbor's daughters. Hopefully that will open up some new doors for me!! In other garden news, we have over 2 dozen tomatoes on our one tomato plant right now. Only 1 is turning red so far, but we should have plenty of tomatoes in the near future!! We also have a few peppers growing, lots of carrots-although none are anywhere near ready to pick- and our watermelon vine is getting huge!! We bought some insect spray yesterday, so hopefully the bugs won't get to the tomatoes and other plants before we do!!

** As a side story- Aaron and I learned quite a lesson while waiting in line at Cold Stone. There was a girl directly in front of us in line who was waiting all by herself. To pass the time, she decided to make a bunch of phone calls to catch up with some people. After listening to her talk for 1/2 hour, I know more about this girl than I do some of my friends. For instance, she was telling someone in her family all about how her little sister had lost her virginity. I'm guessing that is something that was not meant to be shared with the family. Aaron and I were very uncomfortable, to say the least, to overhear her conversations. The lesson learned: Do not have private conversations in public!!