anniversary brunch, Football! & Sadie♥

we had a pretty great weekend.

Saturday was our anniversary.

we got SUPER spoiled with lots of beautiful cards tucked with a little dinner money from Grandmas and Mimi's.

Granny watched both boys Saturday afternoon and then also took Pauly all weekend which was a lovely gift for us to celebrate our 6 years of wedded bliss.

we kicked off our "date" by going downtown and walking through the Farmer's Market & then I saw this...

growing up, us girls, had a little hatch-back Ford Escort - his name was "Buck Snort" and

I'll-be-darned

if I didn't see a sign that said Buck Snort Rootbeer.After we got our fix of organic jams, handmade aprons and garden-fresh turnips - we made our way to a little bistro called the Red Feather Lounge.

I had only been there one time before - far before I was a mother - it was in late hours of the night and we were just stopping in for a drink.

I didn't know they had an upstairs so when the hostess started heading up a flight of stairs I was excited to see where she was taking us.

There was only one other group up there and they soon left which left the whole top floor

all.

to.

us.

Moi

& Moi ♥ we loved the glasses.

they were made out of used wine bottles.

got us thinking about reusing, recycling and so on. we also loved their wine cellar.

very cool.

we had mimosa (cocktail with champagne or white wine and oj) &

we decided to split our meals -

so i ordered a delicious apple pecan salad

and

Ben ordered ham and eggs benedict.

mine was divine

and

i kinda regretted doing the "split" part of the deal

and

so did Ben.

next time, no splitting :)

(sorry, no pics of the food - i was too busy devouring it) but none of it was near as cool as paying for your anniversary brunch with this.

just the two of us. then we went home to watch football,

GO BSU!!!

cheat on my diet with some subpar chinese food

and rescue this little darling.

this beautiful female golden retriever was walking up and down the road

near our home.

i had seen her when i was in my kitchen and she was walking along with a family and i thought, why is that family taking their dog to the football game? weird.

sure enough about 5 minutes later a gal knocked on our door asking us if she was ours.

the gal tried to get humane society on her cell, but it was Saturday afternoon -

so there was no answer.

long story short - i told the lady that i would take care of her

and after the game my hub went around to the neighbors

and thank God we found her daddy.

it was precious when he came to get her from our backyard - with Ben leading the way, i saw the man behind him and then i heard him call her name... Sadie!

i could see her eyes lighting up,

she loved him and he loved her.

i couldn't believe her name was Sadie.

Sadie, was the name of my sister and brother-in-law's golden that passed away last year.

in my heart of hearts,

i totally believe that little Sadie,

in her own little sweet way,

came by to say hello to us on that beautiful Saturday afternoon.

Rest in Peace, Sadie Brown