Happy Monday everyone! How was your weekend? Mine was filled with lots of sleep and apartment cleaning. There were also some fun events squeezed in there, too! 😀 Make sure to link up to your weekend snapshots at the bottom of this post!
Josh and I met up downtown after work on Friday for the YAP Art Crawl. It’s a fun event in Omaha where you travel from bars to art galleries on a bus!
We got to check out some fun stores.
Eat lots of indulgent food.
Tour some incredible spaces.
And even add our own touch to a piece of artwork!
I created the navy skyscraper. I’m pretty sure it’s the least artistic part of the painting, but considering how much wine I had had by that point in the night, I was happy. 😉
We had so much fun at the YAP Art Crawl. After it ended, we proceeded to hit up the Maria Bonita taco truck right next door.
Two tacos of happiness.
The next day, after sleeping in, I headed to Quaker Steak & Lube for a charity event one of my bosses at work was hosting. Her husband was killed in a motorcycle accident three years ago. To honor his memory, she created an annual motorcycle ride designed to raise motorcycle safety awareness. It’s a great cause and was an incredible event. I don’t know much about motorcycles, but I have been amazed at how much the community rallies around this event.
Sunday was a busy day of cleaning and running errands. Once we got all that done, Josh and I headed over to Midtown Crossing to see Pitch Perfect 2. Josh and I loved the first movie, so we went into this one with pretty high expectations. It completely met them all! It’s very rare for a sequel to be as good as the first movie, and this one totally was for me. It was also a new story in its own right, which I really appreciated. I loved the music, laughed out loud numerous times, and thought the plot was great! Josh and I give this movie two big thumbs up!
After seeing Pitch Perfect 2, Josh and I laid low for the rest of the night. I splurged pretty heavily on Friday, so I tried to keep it light on Saturday and Sunday. This Whole Foods kale salad hit the spot and didn’t make me feel guilty after eating it. I wish the salads I make at home would taste as good as this!
Questions of the Day: What was the highlight of your weekend? Did you see Pitch Perfect 2? Does your town have food trucks?
P.S. I’m giving away a vacuum!
Lovely photos! xo
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Thank you lovely!
Love that you do so many different things!
Irene
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Thanks Irene! It was a fun weekend!
Sounds like you had a great weekend! Happy Monday!
It was an awesome weekend! Thanks Tara!
Yayyyy so glad to hear that PP2 met your expectations – I was a little nervous that the sequel would disappoint. Can’t wait to see it. Happy Monday!
I hope you love the movie! I really enjoyed it!
you guys always have such fun weekend plans!
It was a really fun weekend! I hope you had a wonderful Monday! 🙂
The navy skyscraper is not the least artistic part! That is so cool that you got to participate in that! It looks like an fun weekend! <3 Tacos!
Aww thanks Heather! It was a really fun weekend! And I am always up for tacos! 😀
It looks like you had a great weekend! That painting would be so fun to do!
It was a lot of fun!! I wish I was more artistic so I could paint more often!
Looks like a great weekend to me!! 🙂 I can’t wait to see Pitch Perfect 2…I may just go solo one night this week!
I hope you go see it soon! It’s a great movie!
The art crawl sounds like such fun! Question, have you thought about sharing a post each month with cool things to do in Omaha? I was mentioning you to my friends and said you seem to be in the know while I hang out at home.
That’s a really good idea! A lot of my readers are not from Omaha but I think a once a month Sunday post could be a lot of fun!
Hi Erin! That’s totally cool you got to add to a painting. And I finally saw Pitch Perfect 1 this weekend and loved it. Happy Monday to you! 🙂 Thanks for hosting the link-up!
I hope you get to see the second Pitch Perfect soon! It’s really good!
This post just reminded me that I need more taco trucks in my life!
I love taco trucks! They deliver cheesy carby, guacamole goodness to my belly! 😀
Mmmmm tacos! And I”m so glad to hear PP2 is awesome–I can’t wait to see it!
I hope you love it! I thought it was such a good movie!
Sounds like you had a super fun weekend! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Leah! It was a great weekend!
Looks like you had a great weekend! I love the artwork. And I love the idea of this linkup, but that would involve writing about my weekend before a whole week has elapsed, which rarely gets to happen! ;-p
Thanks Leslie! It was a great weekend!
Looks like a fab weekend! That art crawl sounds fun!
Thanks Jessica! The art crawl was so much fun!!
Your pictures are beautiful. Sounds like you had a nice weekend . I love the artwork and how you were able to add to it. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Kim! It was so fun getting to add to the painting! I just wish I had a little more talent to add! 😉
These are great photos and the food looks great!
Thanks Yanique! The food was delicious!
Oh my gosh, what a fun weekend! That art crawl looks like a blast! I would love an evening like that with my husband. And I love the ongoing collaborative painting you got to add to, so cool!
Thanks Brooke! It was such a fun weekend! Josh and I loved getting to add to the painting!
Love the Starry Night reinterpretation!
It was so fun! And such a beautiful collaborative piece!
What an amazing weekend! I love the photo of the painted hot air balloons (are they made from old lightbulbs?) How fun!
They are made from lightbulbs! They actually work and make a chandelier! Isn’t it awesome?
Your Friday night sounds amazing! I went to a street food event this weekend which looked similar to your adventures on Friday! Loads of different food vans and art all around! Love the idea of the weekend snapshots, I may do a review on the event I went to so I’ll have to link you in when it’s up!
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I’d love for you to link-up! I do this every Monday! 🙂
Hi! this linkup is great! So many cool posts to discover, I will for sure come back next week do share a weekend snapshot post! The tacos you ate this weekend look delish and the painting looks like fun.
Yay! I’d love for you to join my weekend snapshots next week! I do it every Monday. 🙂
It looks like you had a great weekend! That art crawl looks so fun. I’m excited to go see Pitch Perfect 2 this week! Happy Monday 🙂
Thanks girly! It was such a fun weekend! I absolutely loved Pitch Perfect 2! I hope you get to see it soon!
Great photos. Looks like you had a great and full-filled weekend.
The highlight of my weekend was watching my son win the varsity 800 and finishing second in the varsity 400 in his high school league track meet on Friday. Watching your child achieve things is more meaningful than doing things yourself.
I’m excited to get to experience that someday! Congrats to your son!!
Your weekend always sounds busy but great! I need to do more activities other than blogging I think. 😉
Grace
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It was a great weekend! A lot of fun! 😀
That is so cool that you got to add to that painting!
It was a lot of fun!! I just wish I had more artistry to add! haha
It looks like you had a beautiful weekend! I would love to participate in a painting activity. Since moving to Texas, I have falling in love with tacos. I need to watch Pitch Perfect 1. I am putting it on my list 🙂
Ohh I’m jealous of all the amazing Mexican food you must have in Texas!! Mexican food is my favorite!
Looooove taco trucks! Some of the best food I’ve had has come out of food trucks. That art crawl sounds fun. I like unique events like that.
I had a super busy weekend which included lots of travel, and watching the first Pitch Perfect! The friend I stayed with hadn’t seen the first one so we decided to watch that before she went to see the second one. I love Fat Amy! She’s hilarious!
I love Fat Amy! haha She’s just as funny in the second one too!!
sounds like an awesome weekend…besides the apt. cleaning part 😉
Yeah that part wasn’t so fun! But yay for a pretty apartment now! haha
I enjoyed your photos. That crawl looks like fun. I keep reading/hearing that Omaha is a great place to live.
It is an amazing place to live! I feel so lucky to be able to call Omaha home! 🙂
I neeeed to go see Pitch Perfect 2! I have heard nothing but good reviews about it all weekend!
I hope you get to see it soon!! I loved the movie!!
Looks like you had such a fun weekend! And I’m happy to learn Pitch Perfect 2 earned your stamp of approval, I’m dying to see it!!
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I hope you get to see it soon! It was such a good movie!!
I love this! So jealous you saw Pitch Perfect 2, my girlfriends and I are going to it on Friday night after a margarita date and I can’t wait : ) Those tacos look amazing too!
Ohhh Pitch Perfect 2 and a margarita date night sounds like a blast! Have so much fun!!
Ahhh, so glad to hear that Pitch Perfect 2 was on fleek. We wanted to go see it this weekend but ran out of time.
I hope you get to see it soon! It is such a good movie!
I’m intrigued by the lovely mini hot air balloons – are they lights?
They are! I really want to put them over my dining room table!
Love the cityscape art, so neat! I’m really into cityscapes. 🙂
We have a lot of food trucks here, but I haven’t really tried many of them. Should work on that. LOL
I love a good food truck! 😀
Loos like an awesome weekend! Love all the art and I want to see Pitch Perfect 2 asap!
I hope you love Pitch Perfect 2! I thought it was a great movie!
I’m so jealous of your weekend, haha! I love the art crawl idea…I wish there was something like that here in Philly. Thanks for sharing your fun weekend!
Aww thank you Louisa! I’m sure Philly must have an art crawl of some sort! They have such an awesome art scene!
What a fun weekend! I’d love an art crawl and love the idea of a group painting! How fun is that? I’m so glad you liked PP2.. I can’t WAIT to see it. So excited!
I hope you get to see Pitch Perfect 2 soon!! It is such a good movie!!
Looks like an awesome weekend! I can’t wait to see Pitch Perfect 2 and I love food trucks!!!
Food trucks are so good! I love how many have been popping up around Omaha lately!
Okay how do you find out about all of these events that are going on?? You make Omaha seem so exciting!!
Omaha is so exciting! I just find out about things through people I know and activities I’m involved in. Yap is a club the Joslyn has for young art patrons. It’s so fun and they do cool events like this all the time!
That looks like a fun weekend! I think I might have been the only person in North America under the age of 50 who didn’t know about Perfect Pitch 2 until my kids told me about it. Apparently there’s a first part, too, that I didn’t know about They didn’t get it when I told them that I hadn’t seen Rocky, either, so what did they expect 🙂
They are both so good! You should watch them if you get a chance! 😀 And you shouldn’t feel bad, I haven’t seen Rocky either! haha