Date Night!

We kind of made a spur-of-the-moment decision and made arrangements for a date night this past Friday. Jesse has been working so much and I've been on toddler duty 24/7 almost entirely on my own and we both really needed a break.

SO, he called me from work one night and asked if I wanted to go see Dave Coulier / Joey from Full House do a comedy show at Improv - well, that's a no-brainer, right? ;) And since we are then right across from the movie theater, we decided to catch the last showing of "The Gift".

We dropped munchkin off at Granny's, and headed off. Improv was a blast! We ate fried pickles, laughed a bunch, and even got a picture with Dave!

Afterwards, we had to BOOK IT to the Theater across the street, grabbed a drink, and made it just in time for the movie. Jesse says it kind of fizzled at the end (and I do agree) but I thought it was pretty good. And the guy who played Gordo did an amazing job - so creepy! :)

Afterwards we went home to play video games, slept in and cleaned a bunch. Andrew stayed at Granny's longer than we had planned but it was so great getting him back. I missed that munchkin!!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!! 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 :)

Hubby's Golden Birthday!

Well, my hubby had his Golden birthday today... and is currently in class, poor guy. But we made a weekend of it!

Friday we went out for dinner at one of our favorite places, Smokey Bones. It was my mother's birthday on Jan. 19th so we brought her with us and had a great time - munchkin had a blast eating out and people watching :)

Saturday we took Andrew to the children's Gasparilla Parade. It was the first time we've gone to any Gasparilla events and it was a lot of fun - definitely wanting to go the more events next year.... here's more about Gasparilla. We also went to a work dinner for Jesse and two of his co-workers that all had birthdays this month. Munchkin got lots of beads... hubby got lots of drinks ;)

Sunday was the biggest event. My mother came over to baby-sit and we took off for a hotel. We watched a movie in our room and just hung out and sipped some wine for a few hours. Then had a cab called to take us to the Theater - we had dinner upstairs with a show-themed menu (which was delicious) and then walked down to the theater just before show time. We saw Book of Mormon which was fabulous! SO funny! 

Afterward we went to Ciro's Speakeasy for a cocktail and then retreated back to the hotel. 

In the morning we sat by the river and ate breakfast before sprawling on the bed and watching cupcake wars until check-out haha!

Happy birthday, hubby - you are wonderful <3