Seis de Mayo

This year Travis and I didn't spend Cinco de Mayo 

cooking up carne asada and drinking cervezas.


¡Salud!

Instead we helped move Travis' sister and her family into their new home.

It's a lovely home, and we are very excited to have a pool back in the family.

But needless to say, by the end of the day,
we were all pretty exhausted.

So we decided Sunday, Seis de Mayo, would be our day to relax.

Aside from doing laundry and a little grocery shopping,

Travis and I spent the day doing the simple things we love.

Like sleeping in.

(...until 9:30!! Gasp!)

I took the dogs for a nice, long run through the neighborhood nature trail.

T'was a lovely day for a run.

 

Afterwards I spent some time hanging

out with them in our backyard.

Guinness and Raja enjoyed their new frozen bone toy.

I read a book and soaked in the sun.

I laid on my picnic blanket,

 & they stepped on me a few hundred times

while they chased each other around. 

(I get no respect around here.)

Nope. Not when it comes to puppy play time.

 

I watered our plants and got excited that all 
of our flowers are coming along quite nicely.
Fresh new blooms in Spring really make me happy. 

 Hydrangeas are a fav of mine.
These started as centerpieces for my bridal shower.
3.5 years later, they are flourishing!

Later, I painted my nails.

(One of my favorite passtimes.)

Ooh la la!
We watched the Dodgers lose to the Cubs in the 11th inning.

(LAME! Guerra you're killing us! )

And then watched the Lakers beat the Nuggets by four points.

(PHEW!)

And inbetween the games we made a pretty tasty dinner.

Crabcakes. Salad. And corn on the cobb.

This was the farthest you could get from Mexican cuisine,

but Seis de Mayo is less traditional than it's Cinco counterpart.

I chopped the veggies while Travis mixed together the readily made ingredients.

And while he fried up the cakes, I made our favorite salad.

(Lettuce, almonds, cranberries, feta cheese & Linn's Ollieberrry salad dressing.)

YUM!

We cooked the corn on the cobb,

 & poured two glasses of our favorite chilled Sweet Red wine.

And voila! Dinner for two!

I admit the portion sizes were entirely too generous.

But it's the holidays... and holidays = fat kid status.

Bon Appetit, en español! :-P

It was a delicious dinner, and a nice end to a hard working weekend.

Although our Cinco de Mayo was celebrated a day late,
and totally untraditional in all regards, 
it didn't really matter.
Because holidays are all about enjoying good company 
and taking some time to relax and unwind. 
And we did just that.


Happy Seis de Mayo! 

¡Ariba!


XO
Aimee

If you'd like to try the crabcake recipe, check it out here.