Let’s wrap this past weekend up so that I can get on to the fabulousness that is this week.

Yesterday morning we just hung out at home and I made my famous Whole Wheat Oatmeal Waffles. I didn’t take a picture, but they looked the same as always…like this:

Then while Chad slept in I let the boys open the Halloween box from their Great Aunt Kathie. Chewie gets very excited whenever a box is about to be opened.

He must inspect it before he will allow the boys to dive in.

He does not like to be excluded.

Eventually he realizes that it is not a box full of Milkbones and gives up.

Chad’s Aunt Kathie is awesome and always sends the boys a box of fun stuff for the major holidays. They are very spoiled. Thank you Aunt Kathie!

I was not up for working out Sunday morning as I was totally still recovering from my epic 55+ mile bike ride on Saturday, so after they opened their box we headed out to the mall.

I had ordered a denim jacket from Macys.com, but had to return it because it was not as depicted on the website. It was supposed to be 3/4 length sleeves and in reality it was short sleeves. Who wants a short sleeved denim jacket?

Luckily the sales associate was really nice and got a manager who was also really nice and they refunded my entire purchase price including shipping. I was an extremely satisfied customer and would have bought a different denim jacket at Macy’s, but I couldn’t find one in the entire store that I liked.

Next we went to Loft where they were having an additional 40% off of sales and clearance items. I ended up buying two skirts and four tops for about $82! I love Loft.

As we were walking down to Hot Topic per Cal’s request, I stopped into American Eagle and found a denim jacket I liked and it was about half of the price of the one I returned to Macy’s. Score!

This is for a family photo shoot that we are doing in November which is going to be urban themed. We’re all wearing blues and blacks and grays.

The boys were very well behaved in the mall so I let them each buy a t-shirt at Hot Topic where the t-shirts were buy one, get one half off on Sunday only. Cal got an Assassin’s Creed III shirt and Mack got a Disney Gargoyles shirt.

Next we went to Tropical Smoothie for lunch.

They have great kids meals there! I had a turkey avocado sandwich which was really good.

After we left Tropical Smoothie we met Chad at the new Sam’s Club that just opened at 22nd Avenue and 34th Street.

There is another Sam’s Club in St. Pete but it is not very conveniently located for us. This one is much closer to our side of town.

Exciting!

Okay, maybe all Sam’s Clubs are alike, but it was still exciting for us.

These motorized skateboards were pretty exciting.

And expensive.

Sam’s has something for everyone.

Of course there were tons of samples.

We bought a bunch of stuff including items for dinners for most of this week.

When we got home Chad let the boys open the Halloween box from his parents.

I’m not sure if this one was Chewie-inspected first or not. I was in the other room doing something else…probably writing a blog post or reading a blog post or Tweeting or something.

Money! Thank you Gramma and Paw and Nana!

Apparently Chad thought this magnifying thing was cool.

Thanks for the Ruth Hunt candies and the Trader Joe’s goodies Karen!

Chad made some delicious grilled skirt steak and an Asian slaw from Sam’s for dinner and after the boys went to bed we watched The Walking Dead. So so so good.

Not from Sunday, but this morning was the first day that Mack has worn long pants to school this year! It was chilly, in the low 60’s.

He was also sporting his new Gargoyles t-shirt.

Okay, done with the weekend. Fun stuff happened today. Gotta get on it!

Cya.

p.s. I’m feeling bad for all of the people who are getting hit by Sandy. We know what it’s like to have a hurricane bearing down on you. Florida has you guys in our thoughts!