Three Day Weekend Got Me Like…

Came home from work Thursday evening to this:

A clean house, y’all!  

All of that toy and junk purging I did earlier in the week has made quite an impact! 

So instead of wasting half of the evening tidying up, I actually had some time to get some planning done!  Last week was just cRaZy!  Between Jacob starting Kindergarten (and now having homework) and Olivia getting a wood chip stuck in her nose (which we’ve still seen no sign of) among other things, it was just nuts.  Thursday evening it was good to finally be able to get everything out on paper, and because of it, I got so much accomplished this weekend!

Friday, my girl was out of school for a teacher’s planning day (she starts her new class this morning – cue the tears), so she and I had the whole day together, just the two of us, on Friday.  We got up and went straight to Panera, our favorite breakfast place, for a cinnamon roll and a cinnamon crunch bagel.  We took a few selfies, did some super creepy “SnapChapping” as Olivia calls it (see evidence below), and just had a great time being together.

After we left Panera, we went to Hobby Lobby to return something (the thing that I was on my way to return Thursday when I got the call from Olivia’s school that she had shoved a wood chip in her nose, mind you), and then we went to Old Navy for a shopping extravaganza.  Olivia’s school always does fall pictures at the end of August, so I figured we might as well go ahead and start scoping out all of the fall stuff.  They did not disappoint!  We got several pieces that will work well for transitioning to the cooler weather, and then she’ll be able to wear them all winter.  My favorite was this shift dress.  We got it in three different colors because they are so stinking cute!  She can wear them as dresses now and as she grows they will become tunics.  I just might have to go to oldnavy.com and get them in every pattern and color.

Olivia had a blast walking around and picking out clothes… I rarely take her shopping with me, but given that she is so interested in clothes and “princess dresses” these days, I thought that she might enjoy picking out some of her own stuff.  Turns out, I was right!  She found this green, pink, and white floral dress, and would not let it go.  She dragged it all through the store, and when we got home she wanted to wear it immediately.  I obliged even though that meant that I wasn’t able to wash it first.  YUCK.  And then Saturday morning I washed it because I knew she would insist on wearing it to church again.  I was right.

Yellow Top // Navy Striped Shift Dress // Grey Striped Shift Dress // Denim Shift Dress

Anyway, after Old Navy, we ran a couple of other errands, and then we headed back to Panera to meet two of my girlfriends and their kids who are all close in age to Olivia.  When my friend Eryn suggested Panera, I didn’t even bat an eye because we love it so much.  Panera for breakfast and lunch?  Yes please!  As a matter of fact, I was going to suggest it myself!

Having lunch with them made me want to be a stay at home momma even more… I would love to be able to go to lunch with them and get the kids together more often… since I normally work, we always have to pack our family time in on the weekends, and I feel like we just don’t get to see our friends enough anymore. 

After lunch, it was time to head home for Olivia’s nap, and I used the time to get some things done.  I got some picture frames updated with new photos around the house, I completed a couple of house projects I had been wanting to finish, and I finally got Jacob’s new big boy bedroom photographed… I’m hoping to have the post up Tuesday so stay tuned.

Friday evening we spent the evening at Texas Roadhouse with Brian’s family to celebrate my father-in-law’s birthday.  After dinner we went back over to his house to open presents and have cake… man, we have celebrated a lot of birthdays these last couple of months!  I totally failed at getting any pictures, though.  Boo.

Saturday morning I got some laundry done and updated the labels on the kids’ toy baskets.  After all of this purging, I noticed that some of our toy categories had evolved, and now that Jacob is reading, I thought that it might be nice to have the baskets labeled with words instead of pictures.

We met up with my friend Shelly in the late morning and she brought her daughter, Claire, who is two months younger than Olivia.  (She also has a son who is five months older than Jacob, but he wanted to hang out at home with his daddy, so he didn’t come.)  Jacob got to practice some more (we don’t want him to regress) and little miss independent did more whining than having fun because she wanted to, “DO IT MYSEEEELF!”  At one point we finally just let her go in the water for a second so she would start to sink so she could see what actually happens since she doesn’t know how to “do it herself” yet.  She, of course, went under (we only let her go under for a split second, so don’t send the authorities) and came up sputtering… and it didn’t even phase her.  She still kept yelling to do it herself.  That girl scares me.

Look at Jacob rolling his eyes!  Lol

Saturday afternoon was for blog planning while the babies napped and had quiet time, and then we headed to church, where the kids both acted like wild banshees.  I mean, seriously.  This was the worst week that we’ve had in a while.  I blame my cousin for leaving to go back to college… she always kept Olivia smitten the entire hour, so that kept one of them under control.  (Shelby, I kid, I kid.  But seriously, we miss you.)

It was nothing that dinner with my parents and a margarita couldn’t cure!

After dinner, we headed home, plunked the babies in the bed, and B and I watched some FNL and Michael Phelps’s last Olympic race.

Sunday morning Jacob and I baked some cookies… not telling you what they are just yet, but they will be up later this week on the blog.  Trust me, you’ll want to try these.

We spent the early afternoon at my mother-in-law’s for lunch, and then we spent the evening at my parents’ house for dinner. 

I sure do love me some Sundays… Sundays are for family time and also, I don’t have to cook!  #PraiseHands

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