The One with Lots of Family Time

Friday- I spent most of Friday morning super busy but then the afternoon Kyra and I had to get out of the house. So first stop was the library to pick up some holds and also to take care of some fines. My library was running the Food for Fines program again so we took our canned goods and got our fines forgiven. 


After the library we had to make a grocery store since it was Friday and since we had gotten a ton of work done the past week we treated ourselves to Starbucks. I got the Green Tea Frappe and let me tell you it is now my go to drink! Actually I have been researching how to make it at home because yeah I'm going to need that one a lot over the summer! 

Kyra got a tasty treat from the "kitchen" as she calls it. Not pictured because she immediately ate it. 


We powered though the shopping and then headed home to make some tacos for Cinco De Mayo. Let me tell you there were amazingly tasty. I'm not normally one for salsa and sour cream and all that jazz but everything was so fresh and wonderful and of course I didn't take a picture because I'm a greedy guts who eats her food before being a good blogger and snapping a photo. 

After the awesomeness that was dinner I headed out for my evening walk and passed by these lovely flowers that told me they wanted their picture taken. 

Saturday: I spent part of the morning finishing up some work and then wandered to our downtown area because they opened a few new stores. 

I think I need this. 

These too. 

 Then that afternoon we took off to take Kyra to visit some parks! The day was too gorgeous to spend indoors!

After playing around we had to stop by Target for some necessary things and of course left with things that we didn't really need because that is curse of Target.

Then we headed to my parents for the evening and fed the animals. I should have snapped pictures but again I was playing with Kyra and hanging with my family so yeah my phone wasn't even with me. 

Sunday: More work in the morning and then the afternoon was spent watching some old movies. Not like super old more like...90s old. We watched- Major Payne, So I Married an Ax Murderer, Clue, and Nothing But Trouble. All hilarious and a great throwback. 

Sunday night another evening walk that was accompanied by a few little hop toads. 

So that's what we were up to. How was your weekend? 

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The Christmas Recap 2016

Saturday- My birthday! I leveled up to 32 this year and I felt just fine about that. 

My parents took me to breakfast for my birthday and then they took Kyra for a bit so that Robert and I could get some things done before we had Christmas as their place that evening. 

Christmas Eve was spent happily enjoying my family, eating loads of tasty food, and of course opening gifts. 

After my parents we headed over to my FIL's house to do more food, fun, and presents!


Sunday- Christmas Day! The morning was spent sleeping in because Kyra was exhausted from the night before. She actually slept until 8:30 am! When she did get up we spent the morning just us three enjoying our Christmas together. 

She might be a little spoiled but hey she is the only one and we do Christmas big around here!

The afternoon and evening was spent with my MIL and again there was huge amounts of food, fun, and yes even more presents! It's a full event when your family is as large as ours! 

My Brother In Law and his SO gave me the Harry Potter Brush set and I nearly cried.

Quick Backstory: Kyra LOVES gumball machines. She doesn't really want the candy as much as she loves putting money in and getting something. Anyhow this lovely cast iron and crystal beauty was my given to my husband by his grandparents years ago. It has been in storage for a long time. This year it passed to Kyra and it is just beautiful and she was so excited to have a gumball machine of her own! (Also those are M&Ms as I personally don't think Kyra is old enough for gum!)

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend as well and apologies that this post took so long to post!

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In Which There Were Many Festivals

Saturday: Our town was having the annual Applefest and of course that meant it was a madhouse around here. However Robert decided that this year we would try and benefit from it a little and opened up some space to let people pay to park in them. I have to say that it was a HUGE success! It was super easy and people were so happy to get to park so close to the festivities. We actually made a good amount of money and will be for sure doing the same thing next week during the annual Irish Festival! 

We also did a little bit of Halloween crafting but nothing is finished yet so I don’t have pictures to show you all. Hopefully we will have them completed within the week!

Sunday: We made plans to go to the Renaissance Festival with Robert’s brother and his family. It was a really beautiful day out and it was the perfect day for walking around. Kyra dressed up as an archer and she LOVED the costume. It was super comfortable and she loved getting compliments. 

The festival always has awesome things to do and see but Kyra really loves the petting zoo. Goats, a donkey, pigs, and sheep…she loves them all.

She also convinced Daddy to carry her around for a bit. We had the stroller but she still managed to get him to carry her on his shoulders for a while. 

The Children’s realm was a big hit this time too. I only got the one picture because I was busy chasing her up and down the slides. Sometimes you just have to put the camera down and just join in the fun! 

I did snap a selfie before we went in because I was feeling my makeup. I needed photo evidence!

It was a great weekend and very busy too! How was yours?

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Friday Favorites 9/18

Good Morning Everyone,

Happy Friday! I'm ready for the Friday Favorites aren't you? It's been a fairly short week but that doesn't make Friday any less sweet!

 Here we go!


Beauty:

I need all of this. Obviously.

This is just too cute. I wish I had the patience and talent to do it myself....

Fashion:

Yes.

I make no apologies for my boot obsession.

Nerdy Girl:

I cannot express how badly I need this.

Bobby insisted this one go on the favorites this week. I would get it for him in a heartbeat if I could.

Funnies:

HAHAHA.

 My Mum and Kyra. This just cracks me up!

That's it for me this week! Hope you all have a safe and happy weekend!

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Easter 2015

Good Morning Everyone, 

As pretty much everyone knows yesterday was Easter. This year was not Kyra's first Easter but it was her first time getting to really experience Easter. She actually understood what was going on and actually got to have her first real Easter Egg Hunt. I snapped a few pictures of things that I never want to forget because this was hilarious and so much fun! 

The Easter Basket: Easter Bunny spent a lot of time arranging this to look pretty...it turned out great!

The Excitement Begins!

Straight to the Coloring Book

Coloring book and a tiny bunny!

A Golden Egg!

Golden Eggs have the best surprises...like My Little Ponies!

How cute are these carrot eggs? She loved them.

Hugs from Daddy....while she hoards the Play Doh.

The Egg Hunt Begins!

She has her own technique.

Note: Reece's are her favorite candy. She was so happy when an egg busted open and one popped out!

So many eggs!

MORE.

She now pops them all open trying to get more Reece's Candies...

Pop-pop saves the candy.

I have no idea what this face is...but I am in love with it. Her Easter basket from Grandma and Pop-pop.

This year was so much fun with her...and while the Easter Bunny went a little overboard on eggs (seriously....like 30 for only one little egg hunter...) it was totally worth it because she was thrilled and giggling the whole time!

I hope Everyone had a Happy Easter and a Great Weekend! 


Also a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my Daddy today! He's the most amazing Dad and Pop-pop ever!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!

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