beach.

a few weekends ago worker man and i went to the beach for the weekend with barbie and ken.

sidenote:  barbie and ken have been very concerned about what their blog names would be.  their neighbors refer to the soon-to-be [soon as in this saturday!!] mrs. as barbie....so i figured it would be good for continuity's sake.

anywhoo...back to our beach trip.

we spent the weekend with them:

obviously they're concentrating pretty hard but i promise, most of the trip they looked like this.

[minus the sweet yellow tint of the light]

we had a blast.

the nice thing about the weekend was that we didn't have to entertain the fellas.

they found plenty to keep them busy.

they started out the weekend with some...legos {suprise}

on saturday morning they moved on to cornhole.

worker man and ken stretched out.

getting ready for the big tourney.

then they met the competition.

i think worker man and ken thought they would have this competition in the bag.

a little action-shot.

the one, lonley spectator.

doin' what she does best.

spectatin'.

they lost.

then, they headed to the arcade.

to come home with their big prizes.

bff rings.

thankfully, those things aren't super-high-quality, so they broke in a few hours and had to be thrown away.

thankfully.

[and yes, the only reason worker man is in ken's lap is for documenting this sweet moment.  he didn't stay like this for long...thankfully.]

for supper on saturday night, i had the genius idea that we should walk down the beach to a restaurant by the pier.  no one realized it was a mile down the beach till we were already about halfway there.

but the food ended up being good and we got to sit overlooking the ocean, so it was good.

after the hour treck back to the beach house from supper we decided to play putt-putt.

barbie and i scored the only hole-in-ones of the game.

we scored them on the same hole.
we were pretty stoked :)

ken wore duckboots all weekend so he was super pumped to go wading in the nasty putt-putt water.

on the way home from putt-putt we got to experience a little concert.

[notice i said experience, not enjoy -- just kidding ken]

we seriously had a wonderful time.

i got a lot of pics of barbie and ken and me and worker man on the beach but this was one of my favorites :)

the guys were probably off mourning the loss of their bff rings.

sweet.

worker man informed me last night that he has not been very impressed with my blogging lately.  he said all the posts from this week had been pretty lame.

so sorry.

and now, i feel the pressure.
which means there's definitely not going to be anything remotely fun.

so there.

but, worker man did just show up at my office like this:

{so sweet}.

addicted.

fall is here.

yay!

shoutout.

craziest thing happened today.

f.m.i.l called and let me a message telling me to call her right back.  she said she had something that she needed to tell me really fast.

so i call her back to find out this story.

she traveled to the city where worker man's sister lives to help her paint today since their family just moved to this city and bought a house.  they decided to take a break from lunch and go grab some mexican food. 

beside the restaurant was a cupcake shop where a friend of their family works.  so they decided to stop by and say hello. 

well, while they were waiting to talk to her, a girl walks up to them and says, "umm...so i know this is going to sound stalkerish but yall are graham craka's family, right?"

i think f.m.i.l was a little shocked and had to ask her to restate the question.
so she did and f.m.i.l affirmed that indeed, she is f.m.i.l.

she had recognized worker man's family from pictures on the blog.  she actually found me through kelly's korner when i did the show us your life post about our wedding.

so, yes, that is pretty awesome :)

plus, this makes it even more interesting...

this reader has just moved from delaware and just happened to move to our state in the city where my sister-in-law lives, where my mother-in-law happened to be with her at the same time delaware was in a cupcake shop to visit a family friend beside the mexican place where they ate lunch.

small world, huh?

delaware, you need to start a blog :)