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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

5 Year Anniversary and Some Family Fun

Hello to you Plankerville.  I just finished doing my Wednesday produce thing and finally found myself some time to tackle an update on the 'ol blog while the boys are still napping...for now :-)...

We had some fun in these parts over the weekend.  Around here, we like to get the weekend started on Friday morning.  Why wait til Friday night??

We kicked off our morning with some fun in the kitchen making cookies to bring to a BBQ on Satruday night.  The boys were quite the little helpers...


...and very resourceful too if you ask me.  Lesson learned -- dumbbells double as stools when needed...


...we're definitely getting our money's worth out of that purchase.  Haha.

I got some very appreciated alone time later that day when the boys went to go play with some friends who were generous enough to offer their services for most of the day on our anniversary.  I owe them BIG time!!

Friday night, Mickey and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary with a little date night...


...it's always nice to get away from it all and spend some time with just the two of us.  Doesn't happen often these days...we need to work on that.  Mickey got me quite the gift... 


...custom-made with black diamonds he brought back from Afghanistan.  I'm a lucky girl!!  Can't believe it's been 5 years already.  We've had our ups and downs, good times and bad, but he's still my favorite person in the world and I can't imagine my life without him.  Not a day goes by that I'm not grateful I married him.

It was back to the family grind on Saturday morning.  We kicked it off with a little family run with the stroller to get some morning-after-date-night bagels before heading off to Lowes for somebuilding... 


...our superheroes were quite the little builders, as usual...I'm not biased or anything.  :-)   

And there's nothing like a shirt with a cape to make you feel incredible... 


...I'm pretty sure he actually thinks he has superpowers when he wears that shirt.  It's darn cute!

With our projects complete, we popped by Starbucks to indulge our caffeine and chocolate milk cravings before heading off to our next stop of the day-- MAXx's barber shop... 


...we finally found local haircut success.  So long bowlcuts from anyone but Oma.  Joanna rocks!

We spent a mellow afternoon at home doing the nap/workout/relax thing.  Nothing like a good PiYo session to help make you feel good after a few too many celebratory glasses of wine last night.

Before we knew it,  it was time to head off to a bbq with some of Mickey's work friends.  It was a fun family night.  After a late Friday night, we had no trouble calling it a night Saturday night and getting some good sleep.  

I woke up ready to run...not really, but I had plans to meet up with my running buddy and who am I to let her down?  I was actually glad she talked me into it the day before and loved getting out there to log some miles, get some girl time in, and catch the supermoon before the rest of the day got underway...


After Saturday's jam-packed morning, Sunday begged for a more relaxed vibe for our family time.  We obliged with a lazy morning and eventually a bike ride down to the green market for some local honey.  The boys were SO cute walking around just like this... 


...totally unprompted brotherly love.  Melt my heart!!

We made sure to find time to check for catfish and turtles...


...and got a refreshing morning pick-me-up too...


...the iced coffees at Stuart coffee company hit the spot ONLY on Sundays, when Blue Door isn't open in Downtown Stuart :-) They win out for us any other morning of the week when we're downtown.  

I spent some more time with my spiralizer on Sunday evening... 


...they did an excellent job with my candy cane beets which were DELICIOUS in this recipe you MUST TRY!!  Beets, goat cheese, pecans...what's not to love??  

Monday morning was back to business as usual with my little superheroes.  We hit up our last Monday play group of the summer. This time the sand table was a hit... 


...they made some cute crafts with the bug theme too... 



...the rest of the day was spent in typical Monday fashion with some errands and chores.  Nothing to exciting to report there.

Tuesday got off to a lovely start with an early morning run before tackling the rest of the day.  Story time was a hit with these books...


...it was a counting theme :-)  We followed it up with some time inside enjoying some beverages and practicing our letters with coffee stirrers... 


...take note parents of little ones.  It's easy coffee shop entertainment.  

We spent the rest of our morning at the library and had a mellow rest of the day.  It was just what the doctor ordered.  Any now suddenly it's suddenly the middle of the week and time to gear up for Wednesday night story time.  We've got a farm theme tonight.  Here's to hoping the weather cooperates and we can have a fun night with our friends.  We're in the home stretch of the week...woohoo!




Friday, May 30, 2014

Friday Fun

Happy Friday!!!!  Hope yours is off to a great start.  I know ours is :-)  I'm especially enjoying my quiet house with my napping boys right now after a fun-filled morning.  I'm even sipping on this lovely beverage hoping its just the pick-me-up I need to jumpstart a fun weekend...


...it's only been in my fridge for a month haha.  I'm normally a black coffee drinker these days except for the occasional cappuccino splurge but this little concoction isn't too shabby.  

I wasn't sure it was going to happen after pressing snooze I don't know how many times, but we did manage to kick off our morning with the last T25 workout of the week.  Dynamic Core and Speed 2.0 are in the books for week 3. 


Double-down Fridays kick my booty but I'm never sorry I got it done, especially when I get it out of the way first thing in the morning.  Only 2 more weeks til I'm done with the program.  

The boys woke up halfway through my workout and entertained themselves with their current favorite toy -- legos while I finished up.  This morning's design was a bit more free-spirited but here's our handiwork from last night...


...it's fun building with them.  

Once we were fed and cleaned up, we headed off to deliver some birthday cards to our favorite local barista... 


...I love helping the boys learn how good it feels to brighten someone's day.  It was fun!!  We love you Miss Abby!!!

Our next stop was the library where we found a bonus surprise in the parking lot...


....the firefighters were kind enough to let us climb aboard...  


Needless to say, our day was made!!

They headed off and we headed inside for the Family Place where the toy of choice today was the monster truck...  


...it was jumping over EVERYTHING!

Colton also hopped on this little baby toy that brought back memories from the first time they rode it there...

  

...apparently he hasn't outgrown his need to growl like a lion when he rides it.  Silly Colton!!

We headed upstairs to check out some books before we left.  Today's choices were 100% boy...



...Gross Out! and the Fly Guy series, all definitely books I never imagined would be checked out on my account before I became a mother of boys.  Needless to say, we've devoured them today.  Fun stuff! 

 The Gross Out! book even has a recipe in it... 


...and yes, we decided to try it out...


...those are the tastiest owl barf balls I've ever eaten :-)  (They're really just no bake cookies.)

The rest of our day has been spent cleaning up the trampoline so we could jump on it leaf-free...


...helping dad pack up some army stuff...


...and (slowly but surely) refining our cutting and pasting skills...


....thanks This Reading Mama for the printables.  

Time to unplug and gear up for the weekend.  Hope yours is fantastic!!




Thursday, April 10, 2014

Time Flies When You're Having Fun

Someone told me recently that "the days of parenting are long but the years are short."  Sometimes,  I do agree, but lately I feel like our days have been flying by.  Of course, days spent with two three year old boys are always busy and always an adventure so it's hard for life to feel like it's dragging on.  They also say, "time flies when you're having fun."  These days, I think I have to agree with that statement a bit more...of course I'd amend it to say "time flies when you're having fun...or keeping twin 3-year-old boys alive and out of trouble :-).  Here's a glimpse into how our time has flown this week...

We've taken several bike rides on our new "big boy bikes" to feed the "chicken duck"...


...we visited Blue Door a couple of times for story time and chocolate milks...


Tuesday mornings' Story Time selections were...


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Wednesday night's selections included...


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Mason charmed a little newborn friend of ours...


(he might just make a good big brother one day after all :-)  )

We got some Omaha steaks which means we had some fun with dry ice...


...3 year old boys are so easily impressed :-)

We got some cool new headlamps from a friend who knows my boys EXTREMELY well...


...they haven't stopped checking everything out with them since they opened the package.  Their favorite activity so far is checking out each others' mouths :-)

We saw Daryl Strawberry at the Jupiter Hammerheads game...


I have a feeling the $25 we spent on the Knot Hole Gang was money well spent...


....the boys have so much fun at the games.  Hot dogs, lemonade, peanuts, balls and bats flying into the stands, etc.  What's not to love, right???

We also had some fun in the gift shop imagining what Mickey would look like with hair...


....we like him better bald :-)  

Of course we had several visits to the park...



...the swings continue to be a huge hit with these two smiley boys.  I love getting my runs in en route to the park.  Exercise for everyone...SCORE!!

The boys also got to check out one of their birthday gifts yesterday...


...sidewalk paint.  Why didn't I think of that??  SOOO fun!!

I did a little painting myself doing some prep work for Abigail's upcoming bachelorette party...


...almost done :-)

We also squeezed in a little train spotting...


...and a little splashing in our pool...


We fixed our pool heater and we're enjoying the warmer temps already.  We're really looking forward to summer and daily dips in the pool.

 Oh, and Mickey and I got a couple of kid-free hours at for a little open house in conjunction with some work he's been doing...


...they even took our picture for us.  How nice!  Those country clubs sure know how it's done :-)

Now we're gearing up for a gorgeous weekend with Leah in town...


...there's plenty more fun in the plans for this weekend and we can't wait.  Yay for exciting weekend plans :-)