Friday Finds

Friday! Friday! Friday! Yippie!


Tomorrow is suppose to be a rainy one so I think Aiden might love making these.

These devo plan..yes.

When I was doing my Dressing Me post I did a little drooling over this, this, and these.

We love the Crockpot around here and I think this would be convenient.

Thinking one of these may help with our little huge lego collection.


We are off for a Disney night!!

Dressing Me

I am not the most fashionable dresser but at times I can put together cute outfits. Thanks, Pinterest!

Most of my clothes are a few years old and I just find ways to restyle them. I have bought or been given a few new pieces but for the most part they are older or second hand (thrifted or Instagram sales.)

I do this post to show how I make what I have work - most of the pieces I have are no longer available to purchase but maybe you can find something in your closet to make it work. If I can provide a link I will - if not have fun in your closet!

Necklace: Target - old

Cardigan: Banana Republic (Instagram sale: thecuratedcloset)

Tank: Target - old

Pants - JcPenny's -old similar

Shoes: Target similar

Braclets: Alex + Ani

Cardigan: Target similar

Top: Elle (Instagram sale: thecuratedcloset)

Skirt: Target - old

Top: Loft - no longer available

Skirt: Loft - no longer available

Shoes: Target - similar

Bracelets: Alex + Ani

Clearly I am not a fashion model but I hope this helps you put together an outfit and helps me with outfit choices. 

Linking up with the Pleated Poppy. 

Weekend Update & a Disney Adventure

Friday was Rodeo day here in Osceola county and I was at the ABHE Annual Meeting so Aiden got a Mimi day. By the time I got home it was bedtime. 

Saturday: We all slept in and then enjoyed the warmer weather outside. 

Then we loaded up and headed to Oviedo for a co-ed baby shower for Jesse's brother and sister-in-law. We are pretty excited for Baby Emma to make her debut.

Jesse won 3rd place (copper bottle) in the bottle chug challenge! He was pretty proud - excuse my side pictures I was competing with the big cameras and I only had my iphone :( 

My kids know how to party. 

She loves her Uncle Jake! It must be a red head thing. 

Sunday we headed to church. 

Someone picked out her hair bows, socks, and shoes by herself. It was a little over kill but she was happy.

We headed home for lunch and changed and headed to Animal Kingdom for some afternoon fun.

But first Starbucks!

The Festival of the Lion King was our first stop. This is one of our favorite shows. 

So excited to see our favorite characters. 

Then we headed to the Safari. 

Clearly they are really excited!

The animals were pretty active. The safari can be hit or miss but this was probably one of the best ones we have been on. 

Here's my Disney tip of the week - Each park has a baby care center - inside the baby center they have nursing rooms, changing tables, and a room with seating and a disney movie or show on and it's air conditioned!! We stopped in to fill up our water bottles - they also have water dispenser and ended up staying for a quick snack and A/C break.

We headed home and got the kiddos in bed by 8 - I am so glad they can't tell time yet! Then Ellie came over and hung out with the sleeping kids (aka - watched our Netflix) while Jesse and I had a grown-ups only grocery trip to Target. {ps - Yoga pants are $10 this week!!}

Hope you are having a wonderful week!

Friday Finds

Because you can never have enough Peeta.

This may or may not have made me cry. #disneyside

Have you used zulily before? I usually order my Toms from here when they are available. But I couldn't resist this shirt for Felicity. There may or may not have been Toms in my cart as well!

Sign Language and Let It Go...be still my heart

Breakfast on Saturday

I hope everyone is having fabulous Friday - I am enjoying the ABHE annual meeting!

I leave you with my cuties!

*if you order from zulily I get a $15 credit

Rocking the Lunch Box

I have shared on here Aiden's lack of eating during lunch at school so when I was offered the chance thru Influencer to sample some great lunch options I was really excited. Aiden was also pretty excited. I waited not so patiently for my envelope of coupons for free products to arrive. We got coupons for Annie's Homegrown, Honest juice boxes, Rudi's bread products, and Applegate. We headed off to Target for a little shopping fun. Aiden got to pick out the items which he had a great time with. 

He settled on cheese pizza bagels, a multi pack of Annie's snacks(it came with cheddar bunnies, chocolate chip bunnies and square cheddar crackers), Rudi's whole wheat bagels, and the ham & cheese half-time. - I have no idea why I didn't take a picture of all his goodies but by the time I remember he had gobbled them up!

On Monday we packed a nice lunch. I added peanut butter for the bagel but Aiden wasn't impressed with that. He loved the Annie's bunnies - He made sure that I sampled them too and I agree with him - they are pretty tasty. So the next day we switched out the bagel for the cheese frozen bagels (We cooked them the day before and I slip them into snack bags) those were a hit! 

That sweet boy could not wait to show me his lunch box and we have been on a roll ever since. He is so excited to share his empty lunch box each day. 

The pizza bagels made for great lunchs and a nice afternoon snack - we both enjoyed those. 

The Rudi's bagels weren't a huge hit with Aiden so I ended up eating most of them. There were okay but not as good as fresh ones. I think next time I would chose something else, like the tortillas. 

The Applegate half-time snack was a great afternoon stack for Aiden. I am glad we didn't send it to lunch with him since he had some trouble getting the packaging open. But he gobbled it right up. He just wanted to know where the drink was!

Aiden loved the honest juice boxes as well but they were a little hard for him to open sometimes. We ended up adding the Annie's multi-pack and bagel bites to our weekly shopping list. 

My mom was so proud of me that I came up with this whole Rock the Lunchbox idea and I felt bad when I had to break the news to her that it really wasn't my idea but thanks to Influencer, Aiden has been rocking his lunch box the last 3 weeks! 

You can join in the fun too, click here for coupons to help you #rockthelunchbox

~ I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.

Weekend Update

Valentine's Weekend was a great weekend. 

 We spent Friday night per normal - pizza and a movie - we picked up Alexander and terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day - it was so funny both the kids liked it and we all shared some great laughs. 

Yummy heart pancakes for breakfast. 

Lots of playing and a Chick-fli-a lunch with our little valentines before they headed off to Grandpa and Grandma's for a sleepover. 

Jesse and I make a quick stop to Ikea - thinking about a new dresser for our room. 

Then we made our way to the AMC Dine -in theater at Downtown Disney. We saw Jupiter Ascending -enough sci-fi for Jesse and enough flirting for me. 

A little sleeping in for us and we headed to church and then a parents only trip to Target which was wonderful! Then our sleeping children came home and stayed sleeping! Holy cow the things I got done! 

Once those sweet kiddos woke up we headed to a fun night at the fair (it's so nice we just walk across the street.) We stayed up too late and ate too much junk food but it was wonderful. 

Felicity spent the first 20 minutes like this

but once the animals were introduced she was totally on board. 

They did a little 4-wheeling. 

I love that these college kids just love my kids-Felicity stuck to sweet Macie like glue and would call for her. They were playing fish and it just melted my heart. 

We came home and fell into bed. 

This sweet man sent me flowers at work and I heard a rumor that a new Alex & Ani was ordered - he sure is a keeper

Here's to a great week ahead! 

Friday Finds & my first Ipsy bag

A few things I found this week


I know the SuperBowl was a few weeks ago but we are still talking about that shark so why not talk about Katy and God too.

This is one brave mom I think Felicity would dress me like a princess and Aiden would pick pj's and t-shrits everyday.

A kid friendly recipe and helps get rid of boxed foods.

I told Jesse I would be seeing this in the theater.

The office supply hoarding in me is squealing with joy over these.

and the chocoholic is jumping for joy about this.

I found plenty of posts on 50 shades of (insert your choice of words here) but over all I am a strong believer in junk in = junk out. So I didn't read it and I won't be watching it.

Also today my first Ipsy Glam bag arrived. I looked at a couple different subscriptions before I settled on the glam bag and so this month is pretty good. Here a picture of all my goodies:

I am most excited about the Eva NYC/Up All Night Volumizing Spray. Not becuase I need volume -AT ALL but because it's also a texture spray which is good for messy buns!

I already tried the lip gloss and it's a little too club going for this momma. It isn't sticky like most glosses but the color is not me.

Enjoy your weekend full of pink and hearts!!!

Note: By clicking the ipsy link above and subscribing I will recive ipsy points that can be used to purchase extra items. 

February Goals

Let me just be honest this week has flown by. I have written 3 post this week that just didn't get posted. I mean you can't really post a weekend update on Thursday (it was a good weekend, a bestie disney day and a dinner with good friends.) I spent the first half of the week in Gainesville (no I didn't become a gator while I was there) with my mom and now it's Thursday night and here I sit exhausted from this week and not feeling that great - already in bed! But I need to accomplish something in my life this week so here are my month goals - 2 weeks into the month.


Here's how January went:

Take down Christmas decorations - we did this and I only forgot 2 things!

Send out Christmas  New Year letters to our families. - well I hand delivered some and my mom took some to send so feel special if you got one.

Sort and decide which pictures to hang - notice below

Continue with my daily devotions - I use this plan by Jen, I am currently working my way through Ephesians 1. - I failed at this - my excuses are not valid and disappointing.

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February

Send 2 letters - I know who I want to send them too

Clean up and organize the craft nook - this area is embarrassing right now and completely unusable.

Sort and decide which pictures to hang

Continue with my daily devotions


 
 See previous months here!

Friday Finds

As we head into another fun weekend I leave you with my finds from the internet this week:


Jimmy Fallon will forever be my favorite for this skit.

Even as a working mom these pictures are my life!

The debate on yoga pants and leggings is funny at times but I found this perspective from a guy interesting. If you want to know I wear my yoga pants in the comfort of my own home and my leggings with a shirt that covers my behind :)

As a working mom I want Aiden and Felicity to see my love.

These pants are pretty cute, keeping my eye on them.

I am a sucker for a cute black cardigan and this one is on sale.

I leave you with my sweet little 100 year old Aiden. Yay for the 100 days of Kindergarten done!

Have a fabulous time this weekend!

Weekend Update

This was a weekend that I didn't want to end. It was hard to leave it.

Thursday afternoon Jesse and I left work early and headed to downtown Orlando and checked into the Aloft Hotel. Jesse had a work party there a few years ago and we always wanted to visit so we thought this was a good time. It's an office building that was turned into a hotel so the rooms have interesting features. We changed and head across the street for dinner at The Boheme Restaurant. They had me at nutella lava cake! It was a wonderful meal with my cute guy. We then headed to the new Dr. Phillips Center to see Disney's Newsies. The show was AMAZING! I could not take my eyes off the stage. If it comes to a stage near you...GO!

Friday we slept in! We even missed breakfast it was glorious. We headed to Mall of Millenia to return a few things and pick up a new pair of jeans. I settled on the girlfriend jean at Gap, they had a darker wash in store that I chose. I had some Gap cash to spend. We had a nice lunch at P.F. Changs and then headed to Epcot for a little fun on Test Track. We also looked for the new coffee cups but found out they had been pulled. We grabbed a tea and hopped on the monorail for a ride over to Magic Kingdom and I was very lucky to get one of the last three tumblers they had in stock thanks to some very nice ladies who decided they didn't need an extra one - made my whole day. I also picked up the coffee mugs because my cabinet of coffee mugs isn't already over flowing. ;) We then checked into a hotel off Disney property. We did a little outlet shopping before we headed to Downtown Disney - which is still under construction, it is going to be really cool when it is done but right now it's a little bit of a nightmare. But we parked across the street and walked over. We decided to do a flashback to our newlyweds days and catch a movie and popcorn for dinner. We saw Into the Woods and we absolutely loved it. If we go to Downtown Disney we must go to the Lego store (according to Jesse and Aiden.) Jesse has been saving his Lego points to purchase the Star Wars  Red Five X-Wing Starfighter (aka Luke Skywalker's ride) He was pretty excited to finally add it to his collection.

Saturday we meet my mom and the kids at Magic Kingdom and had a day full of fun. The park was a little busier than I would have liked but the weather was beautiful and we made it work. We finished off the night with Logan's Roadhouse for dinner (peanuts and hot roll always entertain the kiddos.) Then we all fell into bed.

Sunday we slept late and mommy woke up sick (oh allergies and sinuses how I loathe thee) so it was a pretty slow Sunday for us. We made a quick trip to Target for the basic groceries.When we came home Felicity and I took naps and then we headed to the Big Game Party we(Student Life) were hosting for the students. There we a ton of students there and plenty of food and it was a great night. I honestly only watched the last 4 minutes of the game but those were the ones to watch! I was on the Seahawks bandwagon but mostly because I like their uniforms (if it's not SEC I don't really watch!)

Hope you had a wonderful weekend and beginning of the week (these allergies have been kicking my butt all week.)