I know that the weather will remain in the 80’s here until about November, but I see Labor Day weekend as the end of summer. I welcome fall with open arms. Bring on the football, cooler temps, pretty leaves and fall clothing. I celebrated this morning with my first PSL of the season!

This weekend, we didn’t do too much. We are all still recovering from being sick. And if I recall back to Friday night, I am pretty sure Chris worked for like five hours while I watched Young and Hungry. Do you watch that show? So cute.

Anyways, Saturday was the start of college football!!! We hung around the house all day and watched games, cleaning while Zoe napped. There is something refreshing about a bathroom deep clean, no? I steamed the floors and bleached the shit out of every inch of surface in there. Everything is so sparkly and clean! We had both TVs in the living room going with different games. I was a little nervous that Alabama started the season with such a tough first game….but we pulled out a big W!!! I kept the football snacks healthy, we enjoyed some sweet potato nachos. Chris had the Hues lights set on red all evening, hence the weird colored pictures.

We managed to have breakfast all weekend, which was delicious. Zoe and I headed out to do our grocery shopping after her morning nap while Chris cut the backyard.

On Labor Day, Chris had to go to work for a little while. Zoe and I headed over to my sister’s house for lunch and got to hang out with her family and my mom for awhile.

I made Italian sausage stuffed zucchini boats for dinner last night which turned out pretty good!

And that is pretty much our weekend! We did start Catastrophe on Sunday. So far, we like it. It is something different. Have you seen it? I am so ready for the fall shows to start back up! I hope you all had a great weekend! Linking up with Biana.

I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love the fact that Zoe is super into books!!! She loves looking at them, holding them, chewing on them. I love it! For only being on this earth for five months, she sure does have quite the collection!!! Can I just tell you though, like adult books, all children books are not created equal! Man, there are some real duds out there. Part of Zoe’s bedtime routine includes reading a few bedtime stories. These are our favorites!

The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton

Shout out to Laura for gifting Zoe this book! This is our absolute favorite. In fact, I have the entire thing memorized and I often recite it to her while she is in the bathtub. The book goes through these cute little animal’s bedtime routine. They scrub. scrub scrub in the tub, put on their pjs, brush their teeth, exercise, turn off the lights, etc.

An Ocean Adventure a Sparkle Board Book

Join Titch on his ocean adventure and meet all kinds of sea creatures. Will he return home in time for bed? Zoe loves all the pictures in this book. This is the first book that she really paid attention too when she was younger.

Little Owl’s Night by Divya

Little Owl meets all kinds of night time friends as he heads home before the sun comes up. The end of the book, his mama describes how the night ends and day begins and I always get goose bumps reading those few lines. The background is black instead of white, so I really think it helps the little kiddos really see the pictures.

On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman

Cue all the tears and emotions on this one! This was one of the very first things I bought Zoe. I stood in the aisle at Target reading this one and crying ugly tears because of how beautiful it truly is! This would make such a great baby shower gift!

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

I feel like this one is a little cliche, but there is a reason! Zoe just loves this book and it is one of the first ones we read every night.

Do you have any favorite bedtime books? I read these ones over and over again to Zoe and we never tire of them! I think that is what makes them such good choices.

I kicked off my Friday the best way I knew how, with a Caramel Brulee Latte and a Cranberry Bliss bar from Starbucks!

Laura had to cancel our burger date for lunch, totally lame Laura!!! (It’s ok, we are going today instead!!!) So I decided to grab some Chick Fila and run some errands for lunch.

Friday evening, Chris and I headed to World of Beer to meet with his new hire for awhile. I guess it was our last hurrah? I stayed out way past my bedtime, we were out after 10pm!!!! It was fun though and I was proud of myself for hanging.

Saturday morning was operation do all the things. I cleaned the house, organized some baby stuff and then Chris and I put together a shelf for her closet and I got to finishing her closet as well. Hopefully her dresser will be in our house this week and I can finish setting up everything…well except the curtains. I forgot we haven’t gotten curtains yet. Always something, am I right??? The rest of the day was about football so we ordered some Landmark BBQ and enjoyed the games.

We were also able to squeeze in a quick viewing of Elf before the Alabama game came on!!! That is one of my favorite Christmas movies and I am trying to get in to the November/December spirit since it was still hot. Here is proof, the radio station is playing Baby, It’s Cold Outside but clearly my car had to squash that dream by telling me it was 73 degrees. Better than 83 I suppose…but still!!!!

That Alabama game was something. I found myself yelling at Kiffin several times. As in “RUN THE BALL!!!!!” I can’t tell you how happy I was when Hurts finally ran one in the end zone and Griffith made a field goal. There were so many mistakes in that game and it was intense all four quarters! I thought I might put myself in to labor.

Sunday I started putting together the pack and play and then ran to the grocery store and got all that taken care of because Sunday afternoon I had a sweet little one year old birthday party to attend!!! After I got home, we caught up on a few of our TV shows and called it a weekend.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Linking up with Biana.