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

Day 26: The past year

Well, have I been good about this blogging challenge or WHAT, hahahahaha. Sorry for my being MIA for pretty much the entire month. It has been so crazy over here! BUT I am back and determined to be better about blogging and Instagramming. So, here goes.

This time last year we were renewing our lease here at our community, Andrew was 8 months old and Jesse had not yet entered Graduate school. The fall and winter were pretty unremarkable, just lots of family time, struggles with insurance, etc.

In January we had my In-Laws down for Andrew and Jesse's birthday month which was a lot of fun. Also our besties came down for a week a month later and we did SO much. It was exhausting but such a blast.

In March we went to the Oscars show at the Tampa Theater which was soooo cool! Hoping to do it again this coming year.

April brought my brother-in-law's wedding and a trip up to Minnesota for Jesse to perform the ceremony and a quick trip up north to the Twin Ports.

This summer has been pretty uneventful, and then September brought my cousin's wedding and a roadtrip down to the keys (details to come!)

Well, the munchkin has pulled down my purse so I better go before my ID disappears forever ;)

TTFN! <3

College and Grad School

So, I dropped out of college in Spring Semester 2012. I was an officer for a student organization called "Attitudes" (a dance org) and was choreographing and dancing in the end of year performance, but I was working a ton, we were planning a move to Florida and I've never particularly liked going to classroom classes, I prefer online. I spoke to my department head about trying to make it work from a different state, but it really seemed unlikely.

SO, I have been looking into online classes at Ashford University and SNHU and they both have European History classes which is what I want to do. I am hoping to apply early in 2015 and maybe start in the fall of that year doing one class a semester, and then hopefully once Jesse graduates I can move to full-time.

Jesse just had his first week of grad classes and even though it's great he only has to go 2 days a week, we can already tell it's gonna mix things up quite a bit.

I am so, so proud of him. He has been talking a bit with one of his professors about a research opportunity, is doing a pretty good job so far keeping up with things/ finding time for readings and such between work and family stuff. And he also just nabbed an ideal shadowing opportunity he needed for class. Psychology is what he is passionate about and it shows. He is going to thrive in this atmosphere, surrounded by great professors, academic opportunities and surrounded by others passionate about the same things. So happy for him :)

Anyhoo, this is why I've been MIA this past month. It's been a struggle finding last minute finances for things he needs, getting everything together, etc. Also I feel like I am being so lazy! It's like I'm in a standstill waiting to move to a new place. We're hoping to leave mid November and I'm so ready to change things up. For one, I don't feel comfortable in our current surroundings. Our porch is disgusting, there has been crap floating in the pools here and they has to install cameras at the local park due to car break-ins and criminals running from the cops. No joke. So, I'm not about to head out to any near-by locations with my little guy so he and I are both stir crazy and I just can't stop daydreaming about all that extra space for him to run around in. 

We are taking a big road trip in less than 3 weeks now though so hopefully that will help :)

Well that's all my blabbing for today, I'll post more fun stuff next haha

TTFN <3

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.