Story of my life - you write out an awesome blog entry and then poof! You forget to post it. Ever done that? I've done that. A lot. I mean like I have a good 5-10 blogs STILL sitting in my drafts folder that I am too embarrassed to post now because they happened anywhere between 2 months and 2 years ago. Oops. Anyway - on to the perfect day!
Yesterday we had what I am now referring to as a 99.9% perfect day. The weather? Perfect. Our activities? Awesome. Feeling of accomplishment? Totes.
We started the day by waking up early (but not too early, thanks Ellie!) and watching the sun rise over our backyard through our master bedroom windows. We made our way downstairs with the babe and had breakfast and hung out. I took this picture of one of the blooms from the beautiful tulip plan that one of my sweet students, "K" got me for Valentine's Day. He has been having a difficult time lately so it was a HUGE deal for him to be able to bring me flowers. What a doll! Anyway, I couldn't help but be in awe of how the light was shining on the bloom at that early hour. It was a total Instagram moment. :)
We then got ready and headed to church where I got to see my friend Amy and her cute little baby bump named Grant! Amy and I met at church because we both always sat in the back with our girls when they were little and noticed they were the same age. Then, as fate would have it, we ended up out at Robert Fleming park taking bluebonnet pictures the same day and I offered to take a family photo of them together. Then as summer approached she invited me and Ellie to join her playgroup and the rest is history! (I ended up meeting a wonderful group of mommies and babies through her including the adorable Meredith over here at
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After church we went to McAlisters (nom) and had lunch with Casey's parents and sister & bro in law. I love, love, love my in laws in case you didn't know that (as if I didn't brag about their awesomeness all the time on here) and I'm so glad we get to spend as much time together as we do. After lunch we shopped around a little at Kohls and Old Navy and got some SERIOUS deals. We spent $50 at Kohls and somehow saved $137 according to our receipt. We got a small rug for our front entry way for $20 which was originally $90 and another rug for $6 that was originally $40 and a few other items. Cha-ching! Then we hit another jackpot at Old Navy when they accidentally had a TON of adorable items marked incorrectly with vague signage and the manager agreed that it was their mistake so we got about $250 worth of clothing for $100. Schwing!
We noticed that Ellie's cheeks were really flushed so we brought her home and took her temp - 100.8 BOO!! That's what constitutes the .1 deduction from the perfect day. I hate when E is sick! She was not acting at all sick though so we just went about our day. We watched a little bit of Kourtney and Kim Take Miami (I can't help it, I LOVE the Kardashians) in the playroom and as we were building a Lego house - a beautiful, melody came from outside on the street. It was the ice cream truck! Score! Ellie and I ran downstairs and out the door just in time to catch him for a fudgesicle to share. I decided it was too pretty to watch the Kardashians so I got a picnic blanket, some books, and snack for Elle and headed out to our front lawn. We hung out for about an hour just enjoying the weather and sunshine and of course our ice cream. Perfection.
We ended the day by cleaning up around the house and baking cookies. Ellie went to bed with no Mommy Milk (side note- I randomly decided to stop breastfeeding her on Friday night and she is doing AMAZINGLY. She was down to once a day and I was only nursing her for 10 minutes at night right before bed. She doesn't even miss it and goes to sleep better than she ever has). This now concludes my rambling about an awesome day in Houston, Texas. That is all.
