Friday, December 5, 2014
#carriedaway: week 45
Week 45:
Day 329: I order one phone case a year and adore it all year long.
Day 330: I try really hard not to play favorites. But they are totally my favorites.
Day 331: love my turkeys!
Day 332: lots of tackling for these two at the turkey bowl today
Day 333: oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree...
Day 334: if this tree is still standing come Christmas, it'll be a miraculous thing.
Day 335: how nug feels about Monday.
Thanksgiving
Dear gracious, I am BEHIND on my posting!
Time to recap Turkey Day 2014.
It was an awesome Thanksgiving. That is putting it mildly. To be honest, I think this was one of my most favorite Thanksgivings of all time. Well, I have to put it in the top 5 because Eddie proposed on Thanksgiving in 2005-- so that will always be the TOP TOP, but this was right up there!
We started the day by doing a popup workout together. And it was awesome. Eddie went with me and we got our booties kicked and it was awesome. The boys went over to Katie's house to play with her kids and had a blast.
After workout, we went to get some breakfast and we called mom who had made the cutest breakfast ever...
While the kids ate on these turkeys, we turned on the parade. Mr. Andy was AMAZED with the parade. Each float that came out he would gasp and was just blown away over and over and over again. He was SO fun to watch watching the parade!
Our good friends, the Fitches came over for Thanksgiving. They were going to go spend it with family, but with a sick grandparent, they were unable to....we were SO thankful to have them join us! We also had Carrie Beth fly in and Tricia and Tommy were able to come too, before catching a flight to Colorado to spend the holiday with his family. My aunt also joined, so we had the perfect little crew over at mom and dad's house!
We had to wait until the end of the parade to see Santa-- everyone wanted to see Andy see him arrive- ha! And then we all flew to our house to shower and get dressed and get the food heated up before retuning by 1... it was a little chaotic, but it was so fun!
Andy loves Lee-- they were excited to see each other!
We sat down to eat around 2... we had poppers at each place setting; something we have all come to LOVE. These lovely hats are a product of the poppers...
We took Bruce over there with us...it was too long of a time for him to be in his crate... after eating, we took him on a walk through the neighborhood to try to wear him out (and work off some of the food we ate!)
We came home to find the children pants-less. We don't know why. Andy had some little "marks" in his underwear so he changed to a spare that my mom had...which were little girl ones she keeps for Catherine... then Lee spilled on his so he changed...so Andy and Lee were both wearing little girl undies...
This made us laugh so hard...
These two were putting on quite a show for us... we were all laughing non-stop... two personalities right here!
Here were my boys eating dinner/lunch....
And more after....
Thanksgiving is about spending time with family and friends and I am so beyond thankful that I was able to spend this day with both. It was wonderful holding hands in a circle before eating and having my dad say a blessing...because we are certainly that: BLESSED!
What a great Thanksgiving!!!
Time to recap Turkey Day 2014.
It was an awesome Thanksgiving. That is putting it mildly. To be honest, I think this was one of my most favorite Thanksgivings of all time. Well, I have to put it in the top 5 because Eddie proposed on Thanksgiving in 2005-- so that will always be the TOP TOP, but this was right up there!
We started the day by doing a popup workout together. And it was awesome. Eddie went with me and we got our booties kicked and it was awesome. The boys went over to Katie's house to play with her kids and had a blast.
After workout, we went to get some breakfast and we called mom who had made the cutest breakfast ever...
While the kids ate on these turkeys, we turned on the parade. Mr. Andy was AMAZED with the parade. Each float that came out he would gasp and was just blown away over and over and over again. He was SO fun to watch watching the parade!
Our good friends, the Fitches came over for Thanksgiving. They were going to go spend it with family, but with a sick grandparent, they were unable to....we were SO thankful to have them join us! We also had Carrie Beth fly in and Tricia and Tommy were able to come too, before catching a flight to Colorado to spend the holiday with his family. My aunt also joined, so we had the perfect little crew over at mom and dad's house!
We had to wait until the end of the parade to see Santa-- everyone wanted to see Andy see him arrive- ha! And then we all flew to our house to shower and get dressed and get the food heated up before retuning by 1... it was a little chaotic, but it was so fun!
Andy loves Lee-- they were excited to see each other!
We sat down to eat around 2... we had poppers at each place setting; something we have all come to LOVE. These lovely hats are a product of the poppers...
We took Bruce over there with us...it was too long of a time for him to be in his crate... after eating, we took him on a walk through the neighborhood to try to wear him out (and work off some of the food we ate!)
We came home to find the children pants-less. We don't know why. Andy had some little "marks" in his underwear so he changed to a spare that my mom had...which were little girl ones she keeps for Catherine... then Lee spilled on his so he changed...so Andy and Lee were both wearing little girl undies...
This made us laugh so hard...
Here were my boys eating dinner/lunch....
And more after....
What a great Thanksgiving!!!
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Thankful.
I have so much in my life to be thankful for. I try hard to be grateful year round... not just on a day in November.
My boys are my biggest blessing. I am honored to be their mom--- and I am forever grateful to them for giving me the title of mom! I adore these two wild things and I want to soak up every minute with them.
Eddie is another blessing in my life... love him and his love of our boys.
I am a happy lady and feel so thankful that God has given be these blessings. I will be stealing some extra kisses from these boys (all 3 of them!) this Thanksgiving.
My boys are my biggest blessing. I am honored to be their mom--- and I am forever grateful to them for giving me the title of mom! I adore these two wild things and I want to soak up every minute with them.
Eddie is another blessing in my life... love him and his love of our boys.
I am a happy lady and feel so thankful that God has given be these blessings. I will be stealing some extra kisses from these boys (all 3 of them!) this Thanksgiving.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Weekend Update
I got home from Miami Wednesday night and taught at the preschool Thursday morning. Nothing says "welcome back to reality!" like getting you and your kids ready and out the door to teach 10 two year olds bright and early!!! It was a great day, but I was pretty exhausted come Friday. I taught popup Friday morning and had some fun plans to go out Friday night, but honestly, I hadn't seen Eddie in about a week (I left early Sunday morning before he woke up and came home Wednesday night, and he left Wednesday afternoon and didn't get home until Friday) and I missed him! We hung out Friday night and I went on a clean-out spree. I started with the downstairs playroom-- there's so much stuff in there that the kids don't even like to play in there! Then I moved to the upstairs playroom. It was in sane the amount of STUFF we have that we don't play with any more. We donated a TON to goodwill and I gave some of the barely used stuff to a friend with a little boy.
Here's some random shots from the weekend...
Friday he was all set for school....
Friday afternoon, the boys played in the backyard and had quite the football game going on. It was hilarious to watch them running around like crazy...and tackling each other like crazy. I posted a video to instagram where Cal tackled Andy-- pretty hard. I shouldn't laugh about it, I know, but it is kinda awesome to see brothers playing like brothers.
As I worked on the downstairs playroom, the boys were in awe of all of the things I was "discovering." Suddenly, they LOVED the barn they hadn't played with in 3 years, and the "race car mat they haven't touched in years was their "most favorite thing ever!" Once they went to bed, the real progress was made. Andy found a Santa hat and promptly put it on his head and watched my every move deciding if I was a good girl or not.... spoiler alert: I am not a good girl, according to Andy.
Saturday morning, I cleaned out my closet-- another item on the list that was much needed. I started a goodwill pile on the floor a few months ago and it has been growing and growing-- I needed to bad it up and take it in! In between filling bags, we wrapped presents for a birthday party we had for two of our favorite people! Cal insisted on making them a card-- I thought this was so sweet....
The party was a blast- it was a Peter Pan and Tinkerbell theme and they had a gem stone mining company come and set up a station outside-- it was SO cool!
Eddie and Dustin matched head to toe-- we were all dying laughing. What are the chances?? hahaha
There was a lady painting faces at the party. Both of my boys are pretty anti-face paint. They just aren't a huge fan of it on their face. But Andy was intrigued at this party. Could be because the face painter was gorgeous and super sweet...could be because he saw Janey having it done and she wasn't scared... so Andy started small and got a little batman symbol painted on his arm. Then he got down and would stop staring at it.
Then I told Andy she could paint anything on his face, like a tiger or anything else. He immediately said he wanted to be a tiger. He walked right over and waited his turn to become a tiger...I was cracking up the whole time. But in all seriousness, this is a really big step for a kid like Andy-- who is scared of everything.
He held on to the arm rests of the chair the whole time... just in case...
Almost done.... he wasn't so sure of things...
All done! My little tiger!
He LOOOOOVED his face painted. LOVED it! He wanted to stare at himself nonstop and was just grinning ear to ear the rest of the day.
Janey had her face painted....along with her legs and feet! She certainly wasn't afraid!
After the birthday party, we stopped by mom and dad's house for a bit and then I ran home to let the dogs out and then we headed over to another friends house for some time around their bon fire outside! It was a cooooold night but we had so much fun with our friends.
The boys were thirsty so we sent them over to the cooler thinking there were juice boxes in there...they found some beer and thought it was sprite.... we were all dying laughing. Guess you had to be there, really, but this made me laugh so hard.
Sunday morning I hit the grocery store for all of my Thanksgiving day items and then I worked (hard) on the upstairs playroom. This is not an easy task with two "helpers." I finally finished and the closet looks better than ever....
....and the playroom is still looking pretty clean too! Hopefully we can keep it like this for at least a week....???
Sunday afternoon, Cal had swim practice. Andy has been dying to try swimming again and is pretty adamant about having lessons. I emailed the girl about lessons on and she was free before practice on Sunday. Andy was THRILLED when I told him he was getting a lesson. He immediately found his goggles and was so happy.
He took his lesson very seriously and was smiling the whole time he was swimming.
He ended the lesson by jumping in and swimming to the side... can you tell how serious he is??
I was exhausted Sunday night. Flat worn out. I wanted to take a bath and Eddie didn't want to deal with Bruce and his antics (he is locked in the kitchen, but has learned how to escape the kitchen now that he's growing) so he came in the bathroom with me-- not a very relaxing bath! I was paranoid the entire time that he would jump in the tub. Eddie finally came up and got him. Cute face though!
Can't believe it is already time for THANKSGIVING!!! Get on those stretchy pants....! I will be eating way too much, but I am also planning on working out a bunch. Local friends- there is a FREE popup class on Thursday morning and then a regular class on Friday that I am teaching.... just in case you've been wanting to try it!
Happy turkey time!
Here's some random shots from the weekend...
Friday he was all set for school....
Friday afternoon, the boys played in the backyard and had quite the football game going on. It was hilarious to watch them running around like crazy...and tackling each other like crazy. I posted a video to instagram where Cal tackled Andy-- pretty hard. I shouldn't laugh about it, I know, but it is kinda awesome to see brothers playing like brothers.
As I worked on the downstairs playroom, the boys were in awe of all of the things I was "discovering." Suddenly, they LOVED the barn they hadn't played with in 3 years, and the "race car mat they haven't touched in years was their "most favorite thing ever!" Once they went to bed, the real progress was made. Andy found a Santa hat and promptly put it on his head and watched my every move deciding if I was a good girl or not.... spoiler alert: I am not a good girl, according to Andy.
Saturday morning, I cleaned out my closet-- another item on the list that was much needed. I started a goodwill pile on the floor a few months ago and it has been growing and growing-- I needed to bad it up and take it in! In between filling bags, we wrapped presents for a birthday party we had for two of our favorite people! Cal insisted on making them a card-- I thought this was so sweet....
The party was a blast- it was a Peter Pan and Tinkerbell theme and they had a gem stone mining company come and set up a station outside-- it was SO cool!
Eddie and Dustin matched head to toe-- we were all dying laughing. What are the chances?? hahaha
There was a lady painting faces at the party. Both of my boys are pretty anti-face paint. They just aren't a huge fan of it on their face. But Andy was intrigued at this party. Could be because the face painter was gorgeous and super sweet...could be because he saw Janey having it done and she wasn't scared... so Andy started small and got a little batman symbol painted on his arm. Then he got down and would stop staring at it.
Then I told Andy she could paint anything on his face, like a tiger or anything else. He immediately said he wanted to be a tiger. He walked right over and waited his turn to become a tiger...I was cracking up the whole time. But in all seriousness, this is a really big step for a kid like Andy-- who is scared of everything.
He held on to the arm rests of the chair the whole time... just in case...
Almost done.... he wasn't so sure of things...
All done! My little tiger!
Janey had her face painted....along with her legs and feet! She certainly wasn't afraid!
The boys were thirsty so we sent them over to the cooler thinking there were juice boxes in there...they found some beer and thought it was sprite.... we were all dying laughing. Guess you had to be there, really, but this made me laugh so hard.
Sunday morning I hit the grocery store for all of my Thanksgiving day items and then I worked (hard) on the upstairs playroom. This is not an easy task with two "helpers." I finally finished and the closet looks better than ever....
....and the playroom is still looking pretty clean too! Hopefully we can keep it like this for at least a week....???
Sunday afternoon, Cal had swim practice. Andy has been dying to try swimming again and is pretty adamant about having lessons. I emailed the girl about lessons on and she was free before practice on Sunday. Andy was THRILLED when I told him he was getting a lesson. He immediately found his goggles and was so happy.
He took his lesson very seriously and was smiling the whole time he was swimming.
He ended the lesson by jumping in and swimming to the side... can you tell how serious he is??
I was exhausted Sunday night. Flat worn out. I wanted to take a bath and Eddie didn't want to deal with Bruce and his antics (he is locked in the kitchen, but has learned how to escape the kitchen now that he's growing) so he came in the bathroom with me-- not a very relaxing bath! I was paranoid the entire time that he would jump in the tub. Eddie finally came up and got him. Cute face though!
Can't believe it is already time for THANKSGIVING!!! Get on those stretchy pants....! I will be eating way too much, but I am also planning on working out a bunch. Local friends- there is a FREE popup class on Thursday morning and then a regular class on Friday that I am teaching.... just in case you've been wanting to try it!
Happy turkey time!
