: Summertime To:Do List :

I posted this photo on my Instagram the other day and got an overwhelming response from it so I thought I would share it here too! 

 

First off, this is not an original idea, someone else that is much more creative than I thought of it, but I loved it and thought you would too.  

The boys and I just sat down one day and thought of all the fun things that Summertime is to them...hence the "water gun fight" & "fly a kite" ones and I'm sure you can tell which ones I have part in "keep routine" & "back to school shopping" :: It was super easy to do and fun for the boys to look forward to checking something off of our Summertime list!

Hope you're getting lots of fun in these Summer days and enjoying the little moments, like eating an ice cream cone or having a water fight! 

I'm off to get some errands done while the boys are at VBS :: Hoping to make the 3 hours stretch to more like 5 :: Happy day Lovelies! 

{XoXo}

: What I love Wednesday :

Wednesday; it doesn't feel like Wednesday. It should be Thursday.  Now if you know me, or you've been following my blog for a while I always find that weeks speed by, but for some reason not this week. 

This week is VBS at a lovely little local church :: Most of our buddies go to it, so it's filled with great biblical based education as well as a morning with their friends {and me with mine!}.  Cole doesn't do to well with me going  for the whole morning but he get's over it pretty fast and ends up having a great time. 

: Here they are on their first morning of VBS :

Anyways, on to my "What I love Wednesday" it's been forever since I have posted one so I thought today would be just as good a day as ever to start back up again!

I've been looking at getting this necklace for months, but can't justify the price for "fashion jewelery" but oooh, I love it! And I found one here for 1/4 of the price, mighty tempting!

 I've been using witch hazel as toner before bed and once I get up and I love it!  It's super cheap {as in $1 for a bottle} and it's helped my skin retain moisture, which in the Summer it easily looses!

 

Found these super cute shirts for my boys, daddy has a big pony polo and thinks the boys should have one too, and seriously they are SO cute, no!??!

 

The original owners of our home had a beautiful english garden. Since we moved at the end of September we didn't really know what was going to come of our garden, but the other day I walked out to see what I thought was a bush blooming with these lovely flowers.  I love fresh flowers {& free to boot!}

 

 You know those fancy-schmancy fruit & veggie cleaners that you can buy for upwards of $5/bottle?  Well I found out that using hydrogen peroxide mixed with water achieves the same!  So go to your local super market and avoid the fancy-schmancy sprays and get yourself a $1 bottle of hydrogen peroxide...I love it!

 And last but not least, I spent yesterday afternoon organizing our food cupboards {boy it was about time!} and can I say I just love a nice neat organized pantry!  It's the simple things that give me just pure joy {no joke!}

Well I'm off to attack another room that needs organizing, not sure which one, the laundry room or the spare room but since the sun is hiding behind the clouds today really there are no excuses! 

Later Lovelies! 

{XoXo}

Cole's Preschool Graduation

 

Our littlest big boy graduated from Preschool at the end of June, it's amazing how two years goes by incredibly fast!  

We have loved his teachers and I've seen them almost every day for the past three years including Jacob's schooling there, so it will be odd to not see them come this September! 

Here is the graduate along with biggest brother

 Accepting his diploma and year-in-memories binder & cd from Mrs. Brenda, she was definitely one of Cole's most favorite teachers. He's cried at least 5 times {we're talking inconsolable tears} since he's graduated over missing his teachers, it's so sweet!

 Our family and the graduate with crazy monkey ears and a very put on smile {lol}

Things to remember...

Cole has a vast and deep vocabulary and knowledge of the words he uses ie) 

"that was the most fantastic end to a wonderful day" after watching the sun set

"Well I better go ask the humans" about wanting to buy back our old house

"that's phenomenal, just phenomenal!" about daddy bringing home a glazed doughnut for him

Cole wakes up at the crack of the day and goes hard, the first thing he says as he skips into our room is "GOOOOD MORNIN' aren't you SO glad I didn't come into your room last night?!!  I tried very hard to stay in my own bed."  When  I respond "but you did come in to our room", he then says "oh that's really too bad, 'cause I was trying SO hard to stay in my own bed" 

When Cole get's mad at Jacob his first response is to ask me to sell him {Jacob} and if that doesn't work he says he's going to find a different family, apparently we're really tough to live with! LOL

Coley, you capture the hearts of anyone who is blessed enough to meet you.  Your little brain works overtime at creating things.  You're amazing at praying from your heart and continually bless us with your love towards God. We pray as you walk boldly into grade school that you don't ever loose the passion you have for God!  

Love Always, Daddy&Mama

 {XoXo}

: Summer is here & I'm not :

School has officially been out for 2 weeks and the past 2 days are the first two days we haven't had plans through the wazoo!  

There have been celebrations, lessons, play dates, weddings to help with...the list goes on!  So to say that I'm thankful for these past two home days is a vast understatement! 

I've also been on a little bit {okay big bit} of a roller coaster about my weight, I try and try and try and nothing changes.  I'm at a complete loss as to what to do as it encompasses my whole brain/life some days.  Let alone the stress it adds to our marriage...phew, sometimes life is just down right hard! {can I hear an amen!!?!} 

Anyways, I wanted to stop by and say, I'm not dead, we are living well and full of life!  

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: Here's a few photos from around our place today :

I'm working on getting our family photo wall all coordinated so I had to paint out some frames, they have been on the wall for 6 months but I needed them to be all the same color, it was driving me nuts!  And see that umbrella stand, it got a fresh coat of paint too...watch out, Mama has the spray can! 

 Laundry dear, we are close friends don't you know!?!  This pile is currently blowing in the wind in the back yard, I love breezy Summer days!

 Working on organization of the house, duties & projects I want to accomplish this Summer, before Anniversary celebrations, traveling, weddings & Cranberry Creek starts back up again! 

{And loving my new-to-me $5 starbucks mug}

Just a random broken pot on our back step, it decided to grow some allisum, can't throw away the pot now...it's got JJ's favorite flower in it!

 This is the looks of the boys room right now.  We are trying to teach Cole how to make his bed, this is what he thinks "made" looks like...Jacob on the other hand has it down to a fine science!

I walked into the family room to see my little munch all dressed up in 26 degree weather head to toe in his dragon outfit...he proceeded to blow fire at me ;) Man that kid makes me laugh!

That's all for now lovelies, enjoy the sun!  

{XoXo}

: Fathers Day 2012 :

This week has been such a blur...between end of the year celebrations {2 for each child} plus fathers day on Sunday then my nephews dedication as well.  Oy vey, what a week!  

But let's just chat about fathers day :: We usually do our fathers day celebrations with Paul on Saturday as both our dad's are celebrated on Sunday.  But this year I have been fighting a raging cold and when I woke up on Saturday it was a full blown cold.  Plus there was something happening with Paul's family so he had to go off for the better portion of the day and so we didn't get to celebrate on Saturday. 

 

So Sunday morning I woke up at the crack of dawn and made a nice little home made breaky for my man, my baby daddy ;)

French toast was on the menu

 With a nice side of fresh strawberries & cream

 

Yummo :: Poor Mr. L was a little shocked by the early wake up as Sunday mornings we easily sleep in till 8 am and by all wonders and miracles end up at church on time at 9am.  So a 7am breaky came really early to our bleary eyed faja. 

 Mr. L & the boys...they gave him a new car magazine and a new O'neil t-shirt, I got him a pair of golf shoes he had ooogled over at Costco a while ago, however they were a half size too small, but thankfully he found his size in another Costco.

Mr. L :: I'm so thankful that God arranged for us to be together and for you to be the father and daddy to our boys, we cherish and love the man that you are.  No need to shout it from the roof tops for it's evident by your provision and dedication to our family that you love us eternally.  

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And to my Daddy, thanks for always being there to celebrate the small and the big milestones, for knowing that I can trust you and for being an excellent example of what I should look for in a man.  God blessed me when he gave me a Dad like you.  Love you always & forever! 

 I'll be back posting on all of our end of the year celebrations this weekend.  The forecast is calling for rain and thus we'll be hunkering down and getting cozy, happy summer ;) 

{XoXo}

: Insta Friday :

This is a fly by post today, I'm home for an hour {now only a half hour} then I'm off back to Jacob's school for the rest of sports day...but in the meantime here's our week in intagram photos

Jacob playing tug of war at his sports day this morning :: He's on the yellow mustang team

 Outfit of the day today :: sporting the yellow for the yellow mustangs

 During my summer planning session in the afternoon I came across this quote in my Erin Condren planner :: Love it!

 Went and visited this little {big} guy at the beach the poor little hump back didn't make, he died on White Rock Beach

 

These white beauties were blooming behind our house on a walk the boys and I took the other day, you should smell them :: AMAZING!

 Beautiful little things in a jar can often times distract me ;)

 Marm & I had coffee at this sweet little coffeehouse, literally a coffee-house

 Marm & her latte

 mmmm....coffee love!

 Got to spend a girls day here - Hampton styled resort, great friends, great lunch!

 My very first peony :: I'm in love!

 

Outfit of the day on Wednesday

 

 Beautiful beach trail

 Friends we caught up with at the beach, great to run into you A&A!

 Happy Birthday Uncle Jamie - he's 26!

 

Grass stained knees

 Beautiful $5 flowers from Trader Joes

 Hamptons meets country :: trying to choose paint colors

 Solo trip grocery shopping :: Bliss!

 Dear sweet soul that bought my coffee one day :: Love you Jessi!

 Early morning conversations with this little dude

 Eye lashes I envy!

 Oh there you are Mr. Sunshine!

 Greek yogurt & fresh blueberries :: Yum!

 And that's it {phew!} :: Now we're off to the rest of sports day and maybe a stop by McD's for an ice cream treat after!  

Happy Friday & Happy Father's Day! 

{XoXo}