Father's Day 2015

SO LATE!! Sorry! But I'm saving up quite a few blogs to post and now that I have my computer back from a nasty virus that ate all my files, hopefully I'll be on top of things now.
Here is my crazy late Father's Day post! :)

Well, unfortunately Jesse has to work for Father's Day. Boo. BUT the weekend before he had off so I decided to make some of his favorite foods and have us take a road trip to a new place! We visited Caldesi Island State Park and while it definitely didn't have as much interesting things as I had hoped it would, it does have beautiful beaches and the water was clear and beautiful! Here are just a couple pictures:

You can also watch our vlog on it here

Hope all you Daddies feel special and loved this weekend. Happy Father's Day!!
TTFN <3 

Our weekend!

Well, I didn't take many pictures but here's what I've got. 

This weekend we tried to relax a lot and just have fun. SO, Friday we stayed in with a movie, Saturday we grilled hot dogs and made s'mores at the pool, and Sunday we stayed out all day! 

First we went to Granny's house, helped her set up a few things and hung out, then we went to the mall which unfortunately was closing (sigh), and then out for pizza and watched some planes coming in.

Very low key but that's how we like it.

Hope you had a great weekend break! TTFN <3

We love soccer!

A while ago, Andrew started soccer classes - we were really worried about how he would be about participating but he surprised us at how well he did!

Backtracking... we really try, I swear, to get him interacting with other kids. Jesse tends not to spend much time with other parents/ doesn't have time to and I am a total hermit since moving here (I'm trying - joined a book club and once we have money we'll be dancing and I'll *hopefully* be doing this stroller strides group thing. Just not there quite yet, haha). So we try to take him to the playground and parks often, but I swear we never run into the same people twice. Our next door neighbors have two twin toddler boys which would be great, but again, we've only seen the parents twice. Sigh.

We take him to music class once a week which helps, but most of the kids are younger. And actually, we've noticed that if I am with, he's more clingy. So we've started making Tuesday mornings father/son time. I get two hours to catch up around the house, tackle something special or just chill which is AWESOME and it's great for them to be getting time one-on-one. Apparently Andrew is very comfortable wandering around and is a great cleaner-upper haha!

SO, back to the point, soccer. He worked with another kid to score a goal, ran all over, participated in all the activities, even ran an obstacle course which had a tunnel - and with barely a pause he crawled through a tunnel for the first time EVER. It was awesome.

Also, I am a snack coordinator for our group. When did I become a soccer mom? Where is my minivan? Ha ;)

Saint Patricks Day 2015

Hope y'all had a wonderful day spent with your loved ones - safe and full of green stuff ;)

Andrew and I had some quick breakfast before waking Jesse up and heading out. This was our third year attending the Mayor's River O'Green Festival and by far, the most fun we've had.

We got a great spot to watch the river being dyed, shared a delicious orange-mango popsicle, had some food, some drinks, played in the sprinklers, got some fun free loot and I got a nice tan, haha!

What we've been up to lately...

Photo dump!

We took Andrew to see the Spongebob Movie - he loved it, sat quietly, ate a TON of popcorn, and was smiling the whole time!

I made munchkin some edible playdough and we cut out shapes (definitely want to get some little tools for him to play more next time)

 Went shopping at Wiregrass/ rode the train with daddy!

Andrew got some awesome light-up Paw Patrol sneakers for soccer

Also here are our mommy-and-me TOMS shoes, and hubby's new watch for work

Then recently we went to music class downtown, found an awesome playground/water park/ice cream shoppe/pier and then went to a free day at the Glazier Children's Museum:

Had to go buy a new trash can and pillow for Andrew. His grandparents bought him this sweet puppy pillow pet back a while and Andrew LOVED it. Literally, he refuses to lay down to sleep without it. SO, when it had been peed on a million times and it's nose was super dirty we decided we really needed to replace it. I was super worried that he would be upset since it would be different (they didn't have any of the puppy dog left) but he picked out a seal and held it all the way home and is now obsessed with the new one. I still snuck his old one out while Jesse distracted him though haha!

TTFN! <3

♡Our weekend♡ 2.21.15

Because hubby worked Valentine's weekend, we had to make our date night the next weekend... well, it ended up turning into a date weekend, haha!

Saturday afternoon, we dropped Andrew off at Granny's and then headed to the movie theater. We saw

(And thought it was great! Everyone in the theater was laughing, it's actually pretty funny)

After getting home we relaxed a bit (I had made sure that all the housework had been finished that morning), we dressed up a bit and headed to Malios for a yummy steak and seafood dinner.

It was so nice getting home to a clean apartment, not having to be quiet or clean or make dinner... we opened a bottle of wine and curled up to watch FRIENDS, haha!

Sunday we slept in. As. Late. As. We. Could. Lol seriously, most glorious thing ever, not having to get up for Andrew- the puppy was outside and no hotel checkout time. SO good! We ate some muffins, turned on the pre oscars coverage, eventually got a ton of sushi 

and then got ready for Hollywood Night!

We had a lot of fun again this year at the Oscar's event but we both agreed that it might be more fun to have a viewing party next year :)

Andrew's first road trip ~ a bit past due

Here is a photo dump of our road trip back in September for my cousin's wedding....

It was great- Andrew was a great little traveler as usual. We saw awesome stuff, relaxed a little, had a great time at the wedding, saw a satellite launch and spent some fun family time together.

We also experienced an allergic reaction with Andrew at the Space Center which lead to a huuuuge puking episode right before getting on the return bus, my legs got bitten like crazy at the wedding, Andrew caught a cold for the last half of the trip which he graciously shared with me (ha), and our AC broke and we shelled out $400 to temporarily fix it (it stopped working just in time for a humid 90 degree drive through the everglades lol) BUT still a great trip with a ton of fun memories. And nice to see most of my family from back in Minnesota.

The strange little crab who hung out right in front of our Key West hotel room

Little man all dressed up for the wedding - accidently ended up in the same outfit as the groomsmen!

At the Ernest Hemingway House.... where his love of cats began.

He became an expert in helping daddy push these (we stayed in a new hotel every night for about 6 days)

Breakfast on the balcony in Key Largo - my favorite memory of the trip

Cocoa beach....it was cold and windy

Ready!

Hugging daddy on the pier at hotel in Fort Pierce

This was actually the first picture we took, just about an hour or so after getting on the road

Some of the MANY chickens on Key West

Bed head and eyes glued to Spongebob the morning after the wedding