Easter Weekend Recap || 2018

Happy Monday! I hope everyone's Easter weekend was wonderful! We celebrated all weekend long, including attending three Easter Egg hunts for the little ones.

Saturday kicked off with cinnamon rolls and the G Prep Easter Egg Dash. It lasted all of about 5 minutes but Lincoln had a blast racing around with all of the other kiddos picking up Easter eggs off of the football field. That afternoon, Kevin took the boys to the park and my little brother came over and helped me prep some food for Easter Sunday brunch!

The Easter bunny stopped by our house Saturday evening and come Sunday morning when the boys woke up, they excitedly tore into their Easter baskets. Easter baskets were quickly followed by a backyard Easter egg hunt. That tricky bunny left eggs all over our backyard!

Afterwards, we all got ready to head to mass with my family before heading over to my parents for Easter brunch. Mass was a little long, but the kiddos were rewarded by yet ANOTHER Easter egg hunt. Once the kiddos collected their eggs we headed over to Nana and Papa's to get ready for a family brunch. We filled out belly's with quiche, hasselback potatoes au gratin, mimosas, ham and pastries and then fell asleep watching movies before heading home for an early evening.

Kevin's wrapping up Spring Break just as everyone is heading into Spring Break so we rounded out our evening with a low key evening at home.

Happy Easter everyone!

St Paddy's Day Weekend Recap 2018

This past weekend we celebrated St. Paddy's Day the best way we know how! With leprechaun's, parades, corn beef and beer!

Our Saturday started out like most Saturday's with a trip to gymnastics. It was pajama day so Lincoln had fun playing and jumping in the comfort of his pajamas and this mama was grateful for not having to get him dressed (ha!). After gymnastics we made the trek downtown for the parade.

Spokane is a fairly small city with not a ton of traffic, but I swear it took us 45 minutes to go 3 blocks on Saturday. Apparently everyone had the same idea of parking in the mall garage for the parade because from the time we got off the freeway to the time we got downtown took FOREVER. We made it though, and after grabbing a quick bite to eat at the mall food court, headed out to watch the parade.

The parade did not disappoint and Lincoln got his fair share of candy along with an eyeful of trucks, leprechauns and various other parade peeps!

That evening we headed back home for Corn Beef and Shepard's Pie with my parents. Lincoln and I also whipped up some green inspired dessert and made Mint Chocolate M&M Cookies with Mint Ice Cream. After too much food and beer, we all headed off to bed.

Sunday was a pretty laid back day, but we had a TON of leftover corn beef so my parents came back over and we made Corn Beef and Irish Cheddar sliders to have to round out the weekend.

Through it all, our newest little side kick was a trooper and tagged along (and slept) through most of the fun!

Weekend Recap || February 2018

Hello! Hope everyone's week is off to a great start. I haven't done a weekend recap in a while, but thought it would be fun to throw one in the mix. This weekend was a good mix of fun events and equal amounts downtime. So without further ado...

Friday evening started off with some heart shaped cookie making and decorating as we kickoff love month! I had a rough week related to pregnancy (turns out I was having contractions 3 minutes apart for 3 days!) so I haven't been able to do much besides hobble around and lay down in bed. I was feeling really bad about not being able to play/hang out with Lincoln, so after we found out the cause of my pain on Wednesday and the hospital was able to stop my contractions (so I don't go into labor too early) and I was almost instantly pain free, I quickly decided to spend some time with my favorite 3.5 year old and bake Valentine's Day cookies! Lincoln is a frosting eating machine so he spent a whole lot more time eating than decorating, but we still had a good time.

Saturday, I had my baby sprinkle, which I wrote more about here! It was nice to spend some time, kiddo free, catching up with girlfriends and celebrating baby boy #2's impending arrival. At the shower, one of my girlfriends surprised me by flying in from Seattle, so after the shower was over, she came over for some much needed catchup time before having to catch a flight out.

While I spent Saturday morning with friends, Kevin and Lincoln headed out to celebrate Ice Cream for Breakfast Day! We live a few blocks from our favorite neighborhood ice cream parlor and they were celebrating this unofficial holiday in style! Waffle topped Sundaes, Donut Ice Cream Sandwiches, Cafe Affogato's, Chocolate covered bacon toppings and more! Needless to say, sick and all, Lincoln was more than willing to participate in ice cream for breakfast day.

Saturday evening was pretty low key. Lincoln had a 102 degree temperature this weekend and is fighting a cough among other things, so we're pretty sure he may have a mild version of the flu. We tried to keep it low key and he headed to be early on Saturday night.

Sunday, Kevin and Lincoln let me sleep in before Kevin headed off to run a few errands and Lincoln and I got some quality play time in. We alternated between playing firetrucks and dinosaurs as well as watching Cars 3 (his new official favorite movie) since he's still not feeling 100%. Sunday afternoon, before nap time, we got a quick park date in. When I say quick, I mean 15 minutes haha. I know my little guys isn't feeling well when after only 15 minutes at the park he was asking to go back home and go "night night" in mommy and dadd's bed.

Sunday afternoon was Superbowl fun! My parents came over for the game and we had enough food to feed an entire football team, ha! It was fun to watch the Eagles beat the Patriots, even if we did end up losing a bet with my dad.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

New Year's Weekend Recap

Happy Monday and Happy New Year's Day to all! We had a pretty laid back New Year's Eve, toddler style, so I thought it would be fun to just do one big New Year's weekend recap to start off 2018!

After spending several days winding down and being lazy to our hearts content (well, as lazy as a 3 year old will let you be), we started out our weekend with a trip downtown to Mobius while Kevin went and saw a movie. We spent a good 2 hours getting all of our energy out and it was the perfect time to go, before the crowds from the day hit. Lincoln and I had a ton of fun building a life-size Lincoln Log fort and it was definitely the hit of the trip!

That evening, we came home and Kevin and Lincoln got started on a little project we have planned for baby boy number two's nursery! Ready or not this new babe is coming in 10 weeks or less and we have a lot of work to do on his nursery.

Sunday was New Year's Eve! We spent all morning getting ready to have a fresh start on New Year's day. We took down all of our Christmas decor, did tons of laundry, including all of our sheets, etc. and did a major sweep of the entire house. It felt good to know we'd be starting off 2018 with a clean and organized house (and if you haven't guessed by now, I am most definitely Type A ;0p).

While Lincoln went down for a nap Saturday afternoon, we prepped for our mini at home NYE Bash! My girlfriend Amy came into town to spend New Year's Eve with us and we had hats, necklaces, noisemakers and lots of apps to share amongst the 4 of us! We popped the sparkling cider for Lincoln and myself (#preggoproblems) and Amy and Kevin sipped on some adult friendly beverages throughout the evening.

We did the Netflix New Year's Eve Countdown for Lincoln just before 8 PM (God Bless Netflix NYE countdowns) and after he went down, watched the movie New Year's Eve from 2012 (seemed fitting for the night) and got ready to watch the ball drop and cheer's to a New Year! Almost immediately after, we all crashed and went to bed.

Monday morning, Lincoln had us up bright and early per usual and we made homemade Belgian Waffles with homemade whip cream and bacon with a bunch of fun toppings (sprinkles, berries, chocolate chips, etc.) to start the New Year's off right! We spent the rest of the day lounging around and prepping to go back to work for the week (I could use 10 more days off in case anyone was wondering).

Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's! Cheers to 2018 and all that this year brings!

Gingerbread Buildoff 2017!

Happy Tuesday everyone! Hope the weekend was a good one.

We packed the weekend full of a combination of adult fun, a decent amount of downtime and some more holiday festivities!

Friday started out with my holiday work party out in Coeur d' Alene. We sent Lincoln to stay with nana and papa while we went out on the town. It felt good to have a night out sans the kiddo since we don't get too many date nights. We spent the evening in CDA and came back Saturday morning to pick up Lincoln and have a lazy day at home.

Sunday we headed down to the Gingerbread Buildoff at the Davenport Grand to benefit Christ's Kitchen. This is our 3rd year viewing the Gingerbread houses and each year Lincoln has a blast decorating (and eating) his own little gingerbread house.

This year was the 10th annual gingerbread house build-off competition. It features local culinary teams competing to build the most elaborate gingerbread house. The public gets to vote on each house as part of the competition. In addition to viewing and voting on the houses, you also get your photo taken with a Gingerbread man and his wife and can build your own gingerbread house for $7. 

Here is a link to the Gingerbread Buildoff from year's past! 

Pumpkin Patchin' 2017

Happy Monday everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We sure enjoyed ours as it was our annual trip to Greenbluff to pick out pumpkins and then back to the house for the big carving competition.

While, the carving portion of the evening sort of fizzled out early, we definitely enjoyed picking out pumpkins, eating more than our fair share of pumpkin donuts, and enjoying each other's company during one of my most favorite holiday traditions!

Below are photos from the day up at Greenbluff as well as carving back home.

And if you're interested, past pumpkin patch trips are here here, here and here!