Georgia Road Trip!

This past weekend, hubby and I headed up to a small town in Georgia for a friend's wedding. It was a lot of fun, some nice alone time with hubby and helped my wanderlust urges a bit ;) Along with the wedding, we explored Savannah a bit - Wormsloe Historic Site, Bonaventure Cemetery, the Davenport House, and The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Here are some pics!

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 

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

Our weekend

This has been a very full few days! 

Friday hubby was sleeping off an overnight shift and it was POURING and storming and there mas massive flooding in our area so munchkin and I had a nice lazy day at home. I had candles burning because the power was going off occasionally. Andrew has always been interested in candles and, well, they live on the half wall behind the couch. I may have mentioned he can now climb ONTO the couch.... and well, you can probably guess the rest. I had grabbed his left arm but before I grabbed the other he reached out and swatted down one of the burning candles. Honestly, I was in such a panic that something would catch fire or Andrew would get hurt that I really just sat and laughed about it all after.

We did try to remove the wax with ice and an iron/cloth but no dice. We're going to try to rent or use a steam cleaner but otherwise, we threw out the one throw pillow that was collateral damage and my mother-in-law suggested making slip covers which sounds pretty good! Thankfully they sent me an awesome sewing machine for Christmas so I'll get to try it out soon :)

Saturday we woke up bright and early to road trip to the East coast. My cousin is getting married on the beach out there so we offered to go take pictures and measurements of the house they are renting-- it's gorgeous! Can't wait for September! We quickly viewed a hotel we may stay at and then headed back. Again I have to say that Andrew is such a little trooper. We were gone for 9 hours and not one angry peep out of him. Amazing little kiddo.

Later that night we left little man with granny and did the grocery shopping for the week. 

Sunday we were able to get to church and saw the confirmation ceremony which was a lot of fun! There was a new person running the nursery though and Andrew and another little boy were "egging" each other on (one would cry and then the other would start) so Jesse left part way through to calm him down and bring him in for communion. 

Afterwards we had a living room picnic and watched "Frozen". Andrew loves that movie and was bouncing around to the songs haha

After dinner I introduced hubby to "Mary Poppins" and hoping to show him "Saving Mr. Banks" one of these days, too.

Today was so nice, hubby did so much with munchkin and the house. It was wonderful! We also went to the park and little man had a great time sliding and climbing around and ringing the bells, etc. When we were about to leave, though we realized he had hurt his toe, the nail was torn and bleeding a bit so once we got home we took care of that, had a nice big lunch and took naps.

Lastly, here's our dinner menu:

Monday: Salads and leftover Chicken Chili

Tuesday: Hubby's favorite, Breakfast-for-Dinner. Probably pancakes with bacon

Wednesday: BLTs and green beans

Thursday: Tuna Pasta and garlic toast

Friday: Leftovers

Saturday: Steak and garlic potatoes (before heading to the ballet!)

Sunday: Corned beef hash with eggs and hashbrowns (a favorite of mine and my mom's)

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TTFN <3

Applesauce: Good to the last drop.

Weekend adventures!

Hokay, so long story short, the reasons why I have been MIA lately are: we've had lots of out-of-state visitors, busy schedules, appointments galore and yes even some pretty substantial personal issues going on so far in 2014. BUT we're not going to talk about that, we're going to talk about the weekend  :)

Friday we spent home, went for a long walk and made some yummy peach smoothies -- Andrew's first smoothie! And he LOVED it, Even "asked" for more, haha

Saturday was quite full. We went to a member's only event at the zoo....

They had a special Sea Lion show/ free pictures with Stella and Kitty, and we purchased our own little stuffed Stella ;)

They had VERY fishy breath ;)

Later, we went to Walmart, Whole Foods, Target, Payless and Lenscrafters. We were able to get all the groceries, new sneakers for me and some good boots for Andrew and I got 2 scratch-free pairs of glasses, yay!

My husband went to pick up my car from it's oil change and then we became couch potatoes for the rest of the day.

Sunday we slept in so we missed going to church BUT we did go to Bok Tower gardens! It's their 85th year and it is peak season, so we walked around admiring flowers and lounged in the shade by the tower blowing bubbles and walking the little man all over.

Had to end the evening with Shamrock Shakes, of course ;-P

In other news, I *think* we have our travel plans completed. We're flying to Minnesota for 2 weeks for my brother-in-law's wedding next month and we're so excited! They are Andrew's godparents and it'll also be the first time Andrew is at a big family event so it'll be lots of fun!

Alright, off to clean! I am definitely going through one of my OCD phases again haha

TTFN! <3