Weekend Family Fun

Hello, last week of February!?!

How was your weekend?
Our was awesome.

Friday started with my 6 week postpartum check up.

Old Navy has some amazing clothes lately!

Leggings, long tank, and an over sized long sleeved shirt are my bffs.

I did get the "Go ahead" from my doctor.

However, as for my pelvic pain,

he said it may take 3 months to completely heal.

He suggests walking for my 'workouts'.

 Take advil and baths for pain.

And listen to my body.

Well, after walking in Target and the grocery store

I could feel it getting aggravated, so basically that just sucks.

I'll try a chiropractor this week (even though the dr said it probably won't help)

Moving along...

Daddy babysat while I was out and about, so that was great!

When I got home it was time for cuddles

We had a fun little evening in.

Eating sushi and leftovers.

And loving this one.

Saturday I cleaned the house.

We also had our first play date!

My friend Jamie brought her son Blake {3 weeks older} over

In typical baby fashion, they played a little,

ate some more,

and slept a lot!

It was great to catch up with another new mommy!!

Saturday night my husband was going to grill...

but then at the store stumbled upon another idea.

We are not huge lamb lovers,

but they had these organic ones and Joe saw the recipe:

Pesto & Panko.

Yup, that's it!
I whipped up my own pesto and he slathered it on,

sprinkled panko and baked it in the oven.

It was pretty good!
A totally different taste than other meats,

but a nice little treat nonetheless.

We watched the movie Argo and thought it was great!
Sunday brought family fun day!

We packed up and headed out to my dad's for the day.

It was the first time my niece met my daughter.

We didn't get to give our niece her Christmas presents

or her birthday gifts {hers is the day after Brooke's!}

So she had fun opening lots of gifts!

 

BTW when did Barbie get to be such a hoochie? 

Has she always been?! haha

 Nana & Papa with Brooke

 Uncle Joey having a picnic with Adri

We went outside to see my husband fly his helicopter...

It was cold!

We devoured "Family Steak" and mashed potatoes.

It was delicious.

And before we knew it,

it was time to go.

I only wished we lived closer than 45 minutes away!

I love family weekends.

It's so hard to get a lot of great pictures...

I'm having so much fun just enjoying the time!
I need to get better at that.

Here's to a great week ahead.

Week of July 4th Festivities

 The week of the fourth my mother & her boyfriend came up from Charleston, SC.

I prepped by getting my nails did a purdy firecracker red...

and tried to stay cool in this 80-90+ degree weather!

I cannot imagine being more than 3.5 months prego in this heat,
I feel for my other pregnant mamas out there!!

We tried to stay cool by playing with the water

on July 4th.

My niece learned how to spray a water gun!!

 She loved getting Uncle Joe!

 She's so cute.

 My mom's boyfriend Mark & his grandson,

Aiden.

 Adri & Aiden were very good friends!

They loved the organic grilled chicken wings & organic juice boxes

My prego pose

loving our new hangout spot!

 It was a relaxing day full of good times and lots of yummy food!

The next day we took the wee ones up to Niagara Falls.

Stopped for a Timmy Ho's doughnut of course...

{I snuck the pix from my driver's seat!}

 Walked through the aquarium and saw the cool sea lions!

 We had lunch at Hard Rock & looked over the falls.

And while I haven't gotten into much detail about my  mother's and my relationship,

I can say that we have worked through many of our differences and

I am very thankful that we can be a part of each others lives.

Life is short and full of lots of turbulence;

you can make the choice to forgive and move on

or you can wallow in your own self-pity and hurt.

I choose happiness above all else.

After my mom & Mark left, hubs finally had a whole weekend off.

What'd we do?
Took a long, long drive...

listening to country songs,

stopping to get drinks & snacks at gas stations,

and eating at a small town sub shop.

 We ended our hot day time date,

by walking on the beach and putting feet in the water.

It was a fabulous week and I am still recovering from all the festivities!
This prego hadn't done so much in a long time.

I am such a summer girl,

and so very happy to be spending it with people I love.

Weekend Re-cap!

While I tried to get Joe to rest his sprained ankle as much as possible, {he was a typical guy and still continued to do things, such as stack firewood! Men!}

We did have our niece Adrianna, Friday-Saturday and enjoyed havin the "little french fry" spend some QT with us.

We stopped briefly at library. She picked out some SPOT books (wanted nothing to do with some mouse Halloween book my friend's twins loved!)

Uncle Joey suggested we make a run to Toys R Us.

 We came home with a doodle bear you can draw on & set of dolls-Olivia her family

 When changing into this, she did this hilarious "Arrrrrrrgh" with a wink.

 In the morning we made some crafts for family.
So serious!

Sunday I enjoyed some organic coffee with some International Delight's Pumpkin Pie Spice Creamer & a bagel with pumpkin cream cheese.  Anyone else on the pumpkin spice kick?!

Our Holly Wally in her pink camo
 

And me in our office trying to type this, only to find out that I had to stop because it was interfering with  Sunday's NFL ticket  to watch the 49ers game on our Ipad2!!

Oh well, at least San Fran won & I still got to finish this..just a little later.

Be sure to check by tomorrow, as I'll be announcing my first little giveaway...a clue:
It involves  a few things, perhaps the color purple & also lots of laughs.

Hope you have a wonderfully happy week!