Annnnd another weekend is done, folks. And as usual, it went by waaayyyy too fast.
It was an eventful uneventful weekend – does that make sense? B and I didn’t have much planned, because I leave for a week of work travel today and needed some time to pack and catch up on work. That being said, it was semi-eventful. We spent some time in urgent care (spoiler: I’m okay) and also finding ourselves locked up in a Mormon church (semi-long story). But fall is here! And it’s beautiful.
The weekend started with a Friday evening trip to urgent care. Don’t worry – I’m okay. I had been running Friday morning with Mary and accidentally tripped over a sign post that was on the sidewalk. I flew in the air and ended up seriously bruising my thigh and since it was pretty painful, hot and swollen, I decided to get checked out before flying for work. Good news – it’s just a muscle contusion and I should be back running again after a few days of ice and rest. And I’m clear to fly 🙂
After finding that out, since B and I were already on the west side, we decided to try a new place for dinner that has sen on my list – Forage. It was really good! We started with drinks and oysters at the bar and then got seated for our food. I’d definitely go back – we both loved our food and it was a neat, large place with lots of seating.
Saturday morning, B and I decided to go apple picking. It’s amazing how much time we have when I’m not running 🙂 I love apple picking and it was the first time we’d gotten to go this season. We came home with some apples, cider and an apple fritter.
The apple fritter was seriously the size of my face.
It was just about 11 a.m. when we were through apple picking, so we decided to explore the area. Turns out the first Mormon church happened to be just a few miles away. We stopped in and a tour was just starting. We were told the tour would be about 40 minutes, but we could leave early if we needed to. We had to be back in Cleveland by 12:30, so we decided to at least take part of the tour and see the church before heading out. Let’s just say the tour lasted about 1 hour and 15 minutes and we were not able to just leave the church at any time – we tried to leave the church but the door wouldn’t open so we had to wait until after the tour.
the first Mormon church
After we left the church, we booked it to the baby shower. It was a co-ed shower, so B was invited too! It involved bowling, food, some spiked apple cider AND homemade apple butter and jam for favors. Not a bad way to spend a fall Saturday 🙂
Mom- and dad-to-be giving a speech at the shower – bowling in the background!
The weekend also included some other fall stapes – baking and the Browns.
apple bread
I baked some apple bread with the apples we bought AND since it made two loaves, we brought one over to Dave and Anson and saw baby Celia again. She (and B) were ready for the Browns game!
The Browns ended up losing in overtime (ughhhh) but Sunday evening also included dinner with B’s family. It was the perfect fall meal – London Broil AND apple cake for dessert.
Linking up with Katie and Erin today!
Some questions for you:
- Do you like apple picking? Have you gone this fall? um, of course!
- What’s your favorite apple recipe?
- Coed baby showers – yay or nay? I say yay! The one we went to was so much fine
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that orchard looks lovely! i looooove all things fall & appley and orchardy and yep. fave apple recipe is a healthy apple crisp with a cinnamon granola or oatmeal topping (mmmm). that baybeee, omg so cute. hope your leg is back to hundo p quickly, girl! ouch!
Healthy apple crisp sounds delicious! I may have to look up that recipe. And thank you! I ran 4 miles today, Slowly my leg is feeling better. I was not able to do that this weekend!