Easter Weekend!

Whew! What a jam-packed weekend!

Saturday Andrew had soccer as usual so we got up early, ate and dressed and headed out the door. Afterwards we got some lunch and then went to meet the Easter Bunny at Whole Foods Market. Andrew clung to me and kept an eye on the strange creature during pictures, but gave him a high-five once we said we were leaving - what a kook. 

After a nap, we took a nice long walk as the sun was about to set, made some yummy fried fish and asparagus (recipe will be posted soon!) and had a LATE night. We had dinner later than usual and then at the last moment realized munchkin still needed a bath - AND we hadn't dyed eggs yet! So we got our crap together, dunked the eggs in the dye, washed the little guy, pulled the eggs out and off to bed he went.

We also had to put together Andrew's basket - we filled a few eggs with some ANNIE'S snacks, THIS book, some bath toys, bubbles, and a Thomas engine. Here are some pictures:

Sunday morning we got up late - couldn't possibly have to do with the fact that we all got to sleep so late - made bunny pancakes and hunted Andrew's basket. We went to the later service at church (where munchkin did a great job being calm and quiet) and then off to granny's for more baskets, an egg hunt, and dinner. And then we stayed for a nap, a few movies and leftovers teehee ;)

Hope everyone had a wonderful, peaceful holiday weekend!

The weekend!

We had a pretty full few days here this weekend!

On Thursday Andrew had an appointment to get a couple vaccinations, so we went to the pediatrician, survived the whole ordeal (on our own/ without daddy) somehow and went to get frozen yogurt. Mama had a little corner of Cake Batter with chocolate chips, and little man had Strawberry and Mango with strawberries, blueberries and kiwi.

The yogurt shop was just a few blocks from where 'Granny' works so after yogurt we drove over to visit and had a little tour of her office/ met a whole bunch of co-workers.

Fridays are our normal grocery shopping days. Every other Friday it's just myself and the munchkin so we headed out for a few very quick stops as we left late and hubby had an afternoon appointment. We made our usual stop at Whole Foods, and then hit up Target. After spending a bit more than anticipated there, as usual, we stopped for a smoothie at the store's Starbucks. I wish I would have bought it on the way in though -- have you seen those awesome new detachable cup holders for the carts??? SO cool. The things I get excited about....

We made it back JUST in time to pick up Jesse and head to his appointment. 

Saturday morning we all headed to the zoo for the "Chill Out" event. Kind of a bummer that we didn't really get to enjoy any of it. #1 we were a bit late so we missed the Elephant talk and seeing them get cool treats, #2 we only had about an hour there so we weren't going to get to see the Orangutans either. SO we went to the Penguin exhibit, saw them get some treats, played in the water park of the Wallaroo Station and then got a Push Pop to share and headed home. 

...We don't give Andrew sugar often whatsoever. He didn't have any other than muffins and fruit for his first year, had a carrot cake with applesauce sweetener for his Bday, and has really only had frozen yogurt twice since then. He's had a couple small cookies also over long periods of time but this is by far the most sugar he has had in such close succession! Luckily after the initial "Why are you taking it away from me?!?" whine, he's pretty chill about having a limited amount.

After dropping Andrew off with his Granny, hubby and I headed to the beach to meet some friends. We stayed in the water for hours, went to Red Lobster for some yummy dinner and then headed home in time to put Andrew down for the night. We both have some very nice sunburns to commemorate the day haha!

Sunday was just a lazy day, got some laundry, dishes and vacuuming done, watched a movie with Andrew, he tried popcorn for the first time,

and we just hung out. And then hubby and I finally watched "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". Now we can't wait to see the next one!

Hope y'all had a great weekend, and no sunburns! Haha!

TTFN! <3

Pictures of our crazy fun weekend :)

This weekend was so busy! But also a ton of fun. It's weird still (after a year) to not be able to call up/ go hang out with our Duluth friends but I like the people that hubby finds to be friends with him us, hehe.

Friday was an errand day! We hit up the Ghetto Walmart down the road from us to get a new Coffee Maker. My friend/ ex-coworker Tara was awesome and gave me her smaller coffee pot when she was moving and it has served me very well for something like 2 1/2 years. Having a baby though means needing more caffeine to be made at once so we bit the bullet and shelled out some bucks for a bigger one.

Out shopping

Car we drove behind for a while. We sat wondering what their decal on the right side was and then realized it was just a very artistic area of missing paint haha!

Next was Babies R Us for a "clip-on" highchair. We loooove the highchair we have, from our friend Katie but currently we have so little space it was just getting in the way. So until we get a bigger place, Andrew is sitting up to our table in this baby. 

A few small stops and then hit up our Whole Foods store for a few groceries, including carrots, multi-grain oatmeal, broccoli, kiwi, apple spinach puffs, mango and sweet potatoes for the little man. We are trying hard to get him feeding himself but other than his bottle and teething biscuits, he just doesn't get it yet. He WILL, however, guide our hand to his mouth when we hold up a puff, haha!

Little Man's first bubble bath

Playing in mommy and daddy's bedroom

Making an Autumn wreath

Saturday we took another ballet class which was WAY more exhausting than the first class we went to. I'm glad we went though because you feel so great afterwards! Exhausted but great :)

Then we went to a faculty tailgate party by USF and the Bulls game afterward. It was a lot of fun! We got free goodies, lots of yummy food, several beers, and face tattoos! The game was a lot of fun too, Bulls won 26 to 20 against the Cincinnati Bearcats!

At the tailgating party

Andrew's tattoo kinda came off on one side haha. P.S. scotch tape take those suckers right off! And it didn't even phase the little guy

beers outside of the stadium

Little man overheated a bit partway through. Yay for getting ice from the soda people and having an extra dirty diaper bag along!

The Buccaneers pirate ship, an authentic replica!

Bulls game!

Sunday we spent the day at the beach with some friends, we do this every 2-4 weeks for the most part. It's always a lot of fun lounging on the beach, bobbing in the waves, and drinking of course! After putting Andrew to bed that night we were REAL cool cats and watched documentaries on YouTube about the Suicide Forest in Japan, Ghost Cities of China, and Life in the DeadZone (Chernobyl) until 3am. We're such dorks. 

Sunset beach

Being goofy in the tent with daddy

Hope y'all had a great weekend!

TTFN <3

New things I'm loving~

The last 39 hours have been c-r-a-z-y. Seriously. I picked up a transcription job for the evening and wasn't feeling it even before I started. I had been tired all day so I decided to drink a "Natural" energy drink. Bad idea. I mean it was delicious and really genuinely woke me up but what I did not anticipate was how proactive I would want to be. I ended up contacting several companies about affiliation and found a few new sites but took me a few hours to settle enough to really delve into the tape.

7am rolls around and I am finally done, my eyes starting to feel like they are coated in velvet they are so tired. Well, I laid down just past 7, slept for around 30 minutes, woke up around 8 to Andrew fussing, fell asleep again after hubby got home for about 20 minutes and then Andrew was up for the day. And I swear I tried to nap when he did but I think I was past the point of exhaustion -- you know that feeling? When you are so tired you can't fall asleep? Yeah it sucks. So here we are 39 since my last decent sleep and I am somehow still going. 

This evening we even got our crap together, and went shopping! We hit up Michaels (Pssst they have a great sale on this week! AND I got three glitter pumpkins half off plus a candle half off (they have 3 large candles for $10) and spent less than $10!) Seriously if there are any other autumn obsessed persons out there, CHECK THIS OUT. It is like my crack. I have more coupons from this last visit burning a hole in my purse :-S

Stopped by our beloved Whole Foods Market for some broccoli/ spinach to make baby food, plus some other essentials to get us through the week. I am determined to try some Autumn- inspired beer there next week!

We definitely stopped by the liquor store for some Vodka beer for the beach this weekend... sure felt classy holding a 1.75 in one hand and my eight month old in the other. Hey we're from Minnesota, we got this. ;-P

And of course what trip is complete without Target? Earlier today I decided to use this awesome website Ebates to look into buying some diapers for the little man... turns out they were on sale! So I used my RedCard (I highly recommend-- even if it's just the debit card like ours is... I shudder to think how in debt we would be if we had credit there) and got an additional 5% off PLUS free shipping. AND I got some cash back through Ebates as well. Score, score, double score.

Also, have you heard about the Cartwheel thing at Target? I just was introduced to it today so I don't know much about it but it looks interesting. Check it out and see what you think!

Zulily - I have heard of and seen this before but never cared enough to get through the initial "sign-up" at the beginning but oh. my. goodness. They have such cute stuff! I am going to be styling the little man like a total prep and they had the cutest three piece set (Jeans, button up and puffy vest) for less than $20!

Okay and last but not least, I am very, VERY excited to say I am advertising Amazon.com! You will probably have noticed the extra ads around for them... haha. But seriously. I shop on Amazon probably once a week at the least. It is a strange week that goes by without me at least putting something in my cart and then occasionally talking myself out of it. We have been very slowly collecting all the seasons of FRIENDS (just ordered Season 9 of 10 this week) and we literally have it budgeted into  our 'Entertainment' fund.

SO....

Shop at Amazon.com!

:)

P.s. for those of you with Netflix, try a free trial of Amazon Prime! I used to looooove Netflix but started getting annoyed with it and then they raised the prices.... Prime is one lump payment per year but cheaper than Netflix if you use it a decent amount. I really loved it and hope to get it again one of these days when we have some extra moolah laying around :)

ALSO.... Halloween is just around the corner!! I am beyond words excited!!! Last year we had a few trick-or-treaters and WAY too much candy (we split the candy up into sandwich bags and smuggled it into the movie theater hehe). This year since I am not pregnant I am wondering about dressing up.... don't know what to do/ be but it'd be fun to go out with the hubby that weekend too-- the first year we were together on Halloween he wasn't 21 yet so we didn't get to do much. The second year we went and had a blast, third year we went on the wrong day and it was booooring and last year we stayed in due to the uncomfortable preggo lady.

Andrew will be....*drumroll please* a MONKEY! I am sooooo excited to see his little face in that suit. Don't worry you will get ridiculous amounts of pictures plastered all over here and FB :)

Alright well that's it for now I think. I'm going to go attempt to pass out for a few hours. Happy weekend!

OH and p.s. if you are on facebook, you should go "like" my page... :)

TTFN <3