Family Time and the Biggest Garage Sale Ever!

This weekend was my family’s garage sale. We had more stuff than you could possibly imagine. Most people stopped by and asked “Do you still have anything left in your house?” The sad answer is…yes. I’m pretty sure that we had that largest garage sale in the entire neighborhood.

My mom had pulled things out of our attic that I had never seen before. I had no idea we had so much junk in our house growing up! I’m glad that we were able to help her clean out. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to move all that stuff.

The garage sale was exhausting and took up most of my Friday and all of my Saturday. At the end of the day, we still had a lot of things left, but that’s okay. We made several trips to Goodwill and plan to make even more in the near future!

On Saturday night, I got to spend a bit of time with my niece, Emery. She’s so cute.

We had some fun with her during the day after the garage sale. She definitely found some items that she wanted. Like this sombrero and tiger. I think the hat looks fabulous, don’t you?

via James

We ended up taking the hat to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants in Austin and putting it on a random statue. It’s my job to take note of it every time I go to the restaurant to see how long it lasts there. I’ve always wondered if the staff would notice an extra statue here and there, Some restaurants are so overly decorated, I’m sure it’s hard to remember. We wanted to bring the tiger and put it on a shelf somewhere, but we didn’t have a way to bring it into the restaurant. We’ll save that for next time.

For most of Sunday I ended up sleeping the whole day. Catching up on some Zz’s. I watched some Netflix and just chilled out. It was kind of nice. I definitely could use some more sleep though.

I didn’t take many pictures of food this past weekend because I was distracted by the garage sale, family, and all sorts of things. But no worries – I’ll start back up again soon. Ian has been out-of-town for the past week and gets back tonight. So, I won’t be “off-my-game”. I’ve had some challenges cooking for one this past week. But I’ll cover that another time.

What did you do this weekend?
Have you had a huge garage sale before?
Do you have any recipes that are good for “cooking-for-one”?