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 

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

Mama, daddy and baby date day... and the first ballet class in 3 years.

So we have been thinking about this date day for months. I kid you not, MONTHS. 

I read so many articles encouraging mothers to venture out to the movie theater with newborns but I just could not bring myself to do it. I know as a single woman I always loved kids and babies but it would annoy me if there were crying babies around with parents not really interested in being considerate to others. I am the kind of mom that I will let my plans get delayed if it means others don't have to be subjected to our kid's screams. SO it took me finding a kids movie, 2 months after it opened, at 10:35am on a Tuesday morning to agree to take Andrew. There was one other person (older man) but otherwise the theater was empty. Andrew did great! He watched about 2/3 of it, and slept for awhile in the middle.

Afterwards we window shopped through the entire mall (it is humongous). We found good places to shop for Andrew for Christmas, I became bent on visiting a Bath and Body works soon, and we also found an awesome tea shop where we want to purchase some tea, beet sugar and a set. Yup, we're turning into those kind of people ;-P

Sunday we relaxed and went to the beach with friends.

Here are some pictures of our week so far :)

Napping in his tent

Reading with Daddy

Loving being messy!

Sunset Beach

...at Sunset

Tuesday (the big date day) we went to Citrus Park to see a movie and window shop

He's getting SO BIG

Ready for the movie!

Intently watching the movie while gulping down a bottle

Making a "kissy" face

First time the little man has fallen asleep on me in a long time.

No pictures from ballet class but it was really fun! We went early, chatted with some of the dance moms, met the teacher, talked about how there will be a live screening of Carlos Acosta in Royal Ballet's Don Q here in TAMPA (!!!!!), and chatted a bit with the other dancers. Our friend never showed up but most of the other dancers were very nice and welcoming. The teacher reminds me of a teacher I had as a kid, Lydia - she was a lot of fun.

 By about the 4th combination I was drenched "glistening" with sweat, it's such a good workout! I was a little bummed that I didn't get any corrections, but afterwards the teacher told me about the Intermediate/ Advanced class days so I think that maybe means I did okay haha. I definitely want to stick in the beginning class for a while though, it's good to go back to the basics especially after not taking a class in three years. Also, I'm out of shape and semi un-flexy for the moment. I do, however, kind of want to try to go every week rather than once every other week.... we'll see if that happens.

Will have another update blog later this week about our very big/long/trying day that tomorrow will be.

TTFN! <3