love, laurie

it's summer and that means it's the perfect time for ice cream. we love homemade ice cream and homemade ice cream cakes! today is national ice cream cake day , and i'm dreaming about the homemade carvel ice cream cake and the homemade peanut butter cup ice cream cake i made for ryan's birthdays.

we love visiting ryan's parents' cats. they are super friendly, but they aren't always interested in playing. the other day they had a great spurt of energy and played for a while with a few balls. we joked that we had to document it since it was a rare occasion.

i met up with ryan on monday night after work because we had to run an errand together for work. we were starving, and nowhere near home, so we decided to grab a bite for dinner. we don't often eat at chain restaurants, but there happened to be a chili's restaurant where we were, and we don't have one of those near our house.we made a little monday night dinner date out of it. we didn't think that was a bad deal at all considering all of the things we chose would have normally totaled $47.here's the thing though

back in the winter, my parents gave me a gift certificate for a private reiki session with one of my former dance teachers. it took me until june to get a chance to schedule it, but i was happy to get an appointment for last tuesday. i took the day off work and took a drive down for the session. it was so nice and peaceful, especially since the weather was gorgeous outside!