We’re additionally planning to sneak in a brief in a single day tenting journey the boys this weekend and figured it will be well worth the effort even for a single night time because the campground we’re visiting is simply over an hour away.
I hope to snap pics and have a recap to share with you guys on the weblog sooner or later on Monday however till then, let’s chat about some easy issues which are making us smile this week, lets?
Issues I’m Loving Friday
Yesterday Ryan and I celebrated 15 years of marriage! Ryan shocked me with a mini model of our marriage ceremony cake (so good!) and we laughed so much as we flipped via a bunch of the previous scrapbooks I made Ryan through the years. The boys couldn’t recover from Dad with shaggy blonde hair in just a few of the pics! Wanting again on previous photographs makes our school relationship days really feel like a lifetime in the past however, on the identical time, it’s wild to me how shortly 15 years have come and gone. It’s been 15 years stuffed with a number of strikes and jobs, infants, journey, consolation, pleasure, heat, loss, peace, laughter, enjoyable and so, a lot love.
Marriage has been the largest reward and I’ll all the time say sharing my life with Ryan is the very best determination I’ve ever made. I learn someplace that your partner is the one member of your loved ones you really get to decide on and that is one thing I discover so lovely — the choice to actively select one another each single day. Ryan is my school sweetheart-turned-husband, the individual I will be most myself with, my protected place, my consolation, my unwavering supply of assist, my sincere check-in, the very best accomplice I might think about to lift our boys alongside and eternally my house. I’ve spent greater than half of my life with Ryan (we’ve been collectively 21+ years!) and it’s nonetheless not sufficient. I do know a handful of you on the market have been right here with us on this area earlier than we even bought married and we so, so respect you becoming a member of us via life’s ups and downs and supporting us alongside the way in which!
I’m coming to you late this morning as a result of I labored out at 5:30 a.m. after which hit the bottom operating with the boys to attend their annual Halloween parade! Chase and Ryder’s faculty does a “Parade of Fiction” yearly on Halloween morning and it’s all the time so enjoyable to see the creativity some youngsters and households pour into their costumes.
This 12 months, Ryder needed to be Jack and the Beanstalk as a result of Jack is a personality he loves within the Land of Tales collection that has our large youngsters fully immersed in a magic fairy story world! Chase opted to put on Ryan’s previous area go well with from area camp and go as an astronaut from There’s No Place Like Area! They’ll morph into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for trick-or-treating tonight however I all the time love seeing the entire e-book character costumes the children put on to highschool on Halloween a lot!
I’m so enthusiastic about this one!!! A magic wand that you would be able to set as much as flip your Christmas tree lights on and off!? I imply, how cool is that!? I really needed to arrange a notification so I might seize it shortly when it was again in inventory because it sells out continually (I simply checked and it’s in inventory once more proper now however I don’t know for a way lengthy!!) and was thrilled when it arrived earlier this week. I’m planning to have our Elf on the Shelf convey this one for the boys on December 1 and I believe they’ll assume it’s the good! One in every of my largest joys as a mother is bringing slightly magic into my youngsters’ lives through the holidays and that is one thing I hope shall be a small approach to just do that!
P.S. In case you are like me and are a sucker for vacation drinkware, Goal additionally has the cutest vacation juice glasses proper now!! They appear similar to the Anthropologie ones however are solely $7.99! I believe they’d be so cute for vacation gifting stuffed with sweet and a present card and wrapped up in cellophane with a fairly bow. They’re one other Goal discover that’s promoting out loopy quick however they appear to be an merchandise you would possibly be capable of discover in-store or order on-line for in-store pickup (that is what I simply did and I’ll decide mine up later at the moment)!!
Generally these endcap offers work like a allure! That was the case with these natural mango gummies after they caught Rhett’s eye at Goal just a few weeks in the past. I flipped the field over and once I noticed the one ingredient within the gummies is natural mango, we threw a field in our cart and a brand new favourite snack for the boys was shortly unlocked. The boys all actually love dried mango, however these are a enjoyable various as they’re nonetheless dried mango however the texture is extra just like a fruit snack.
Style: Modern Romance / My ranking: B+
What a enjoyable, steamy, breezy little romance e-book! This e-book is slightly on the lengthy facet for a lighthearted modern romance learn however someway it held my curiosity and by no means felt too redundant regardless of finally understanding precisely the place it was going the complete time. It had actually enjoyable banter, a inventive plot and a handful of humorous moments that had me smiling as I flipped via the pages.
From Amazon: Aiden Valentine has a secret: he’s fallen out of affection with love. And because the host of Baltimore’s romance hotline, that’s a little bit of an issue. However when a younger woman calls in to the station asking for relationship recommendation for her mother, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.
Lucie Stone thought she was doing simply positive. She has job; an unbelievable household; and a wise, barely devious child. However when all of Baltimore is abruptly scrutinizing her love life—or lack thereof—she begins to query if she’s as blissful as she believed. Perhaps slightly extra romance wouldn’t be such a foul factor.
Everybody needs Lucie to search out her blissful ending…even the good-looking, temperamental man calling the photographs. However when sparks begin to fly behind the scenes, Lucie should make the ultimate determination between the radio-sponsored fortunately ever after or the person within the headphones subsequent to her.
Turkey Vegetable Meatloaf (The final word consolation meals however veggie-packed and wholesome!)
Oatmeal Pumpkin Protein Pancakes (A filling, protein-packed breakfast!)
QUESTION OF THE DAY
What’s one factor making you smile this week?
