Taxes, A Pork Roast and Hand and Foot

Nick and I have a bad habit of staying in bed all weekend lately.  He says it's got to be my pregnancy hormones making him tired.  Haha, probably huh?  After getting half of my toenail brutally ripped out, I didn't sleep a wink on Friday night, so I didn't have a problem sleeping all day.  We did go to my sister Faith's Saturday night.  She and her husband Ron invited us over to have dinner and do taxes.  So glad he does that for us!!!  I also made a huge pan of peanutbutter chocolate brownies that were gone within a matter of minutes!

It's always fun to go up and visit family, we chatted, played games, ate food.  My favorite was when we played Clue and the rules kept changing by the minute.  My nephew Kendal ultimately won that one.  And we also played Catch Phrase, where you'd better watch your nose because the little prompter things tends to get thrown as the timer starts to quicken.  I'm happy to say that Faith and I won that one!

Then last week, we got a package in the mail from my parents.  My dad is so cute.  He sent us a dutch oven, and when I called to thank him for it, he said he remembered randomly that I didn't have one and decided to get it for us!

So I told Nick we needed to celebrate with a pork roast.  Mmmmm pork.  Very bad for you, but oh sooo tasty!  After an eventful church full of pokes and jabs to my defenseless ribs, we ran home and started chopping veggies: onions, potatoes, mushrooms.  Then we threw everything into the dutch oven and let it slow cook for 4 hours, filling our house with the aroma of extravagant deliciousness.

We invited Karl and Amber over to help consume our celebration.  Even in the blender, it tasted amazing.  Nick has decided we are cooking the rest of our meals in it from now on, haha.  Amber provided dessert by making lemon bars from scratch that everyone loved and went back for seconds of.

After dinner, we settled down to play games.  First we played this supper hilarious game called Bubble Talk, where you vote on captions for random pictures.  The best one had to be a close up of a dog's butt with the winning caption of "if you love it put a ring on it".  Then, we played a couple rounds of hand and foot, a card game that is super addictive.  Amber and I have been on a complete losing streak for the last, oh I don't know, 10-15 games.  It's been pretty sad.  So we were determined to come out on top.

Sadly, we lost the first two....again.  but!  made a spectacular come back and put the boys in their place by winning the next two!  Good thing it was time for bed after that, I was happy to end on a winning note.  Hahaha.

I am so grateful for amazing family and friends!  And Dairy Gold chocolate milk....teehee