We Had a Great Weekend!

I hope you all did too!

It was pretty low key, which is what was so great about it! Most of our weekends are pretty busy, which is okay, but sometimes its nice to have a weekend with no plans and nothing much going on. 

Friday night we did have plans, but they were fun! Jake and I recently became the planning coordinators for our church youth group. We have a whole summer schedule planned out with fundraisers and activities! Friday night was our first activity... a movie night at church. We ordered pizza, popped popcorn and watched the Life of Pi in our church dining hall. It was a fun night. If you've seen The Life of Pi, then I don't have to tell you how good the movie was and how much of a tear-jerker it was. It had me so stressed out!! It was really good though and had some funny parts too!

Saturday, we had no plans whatsoever! Which is really unheard of for us. We stayed in our pajamas a majority of the day. We watched the last three episodes of "House of Cards", while Jackson played so good! We took a nice afternoon nap and then that evening we finally got out of the house and went for a walk to the little snow cone stand up the street! 

That night, just like every night, we watched an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse before bed. Jackson normally stays awake through the whole show and when its over we say goodnight and lay him in his crib, where he will then go to sleep, all on his own. This night, he fell asleep watching his show, so I snapped a quick picture with my phone. There's nothing sweeter than a sleeping toddler. ☺

Sunday, we went to church. After church, Jake, my dad and my brother-in-law went and played golf while us girls and little boys went to lunch, did a little shopping and then went back to my parents' house so the boys could play with their new water table. My parents got them this Little Tikes water table the day before and the boys had so much fun with it. We also got their little kiddie pool out. They had a blast playing in the water. It was a 90 degree day, a perfect day for the water.

Landon wanted me to take a picture of him jumping into the pool! ☺

We had gotten them some ring pops at the store earlier that day. Needless to say, they loved them. Jackson had never had one before. When he first got it, he was walking around with it saying mm mm, mm mm. Ha! Too cute.

As you can see, he really enjoyed his ring pop!

Mason kept his until it was completely gone. He sucked on it like it was his binkie, all the way til there was none left.

After playing for a long time outside. We went in, gave the boys a bath and then the little boys took a nap. Once the guys came home from playing golf, we had dinner and then went home. 

Its back to work today, after a nice, fun and relaxing weekend.

A Day at the Park

This past Saturday, I wanted to go do something fun as a family. Just the three of us. We talked about going to the Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Gardens, but we thought they would just be too crowded. It was the first nice Saturday we had had in a long time and it was the day before Mother's Day, so we thought we better choose something that would be a little less crowded. 

Jake thought it would be fun to find a nice park and just let Jackson run around, since that seems to be Jackson's favorite thing to do in the world right now. I immediately thought of Faust Park. I had never been there, but had heard it was really nice and that they had a carousel.

So we pulled up directions on our phone navigation and headed out.

It was a beautiful, sunny day! Perfect for a day at the park. 

The playground at this park was very nice. It had a rubber padding as the floor, which was nice! The carousel was closed that day, which we were bummed about, but we had plenty of fun on the playground and just walking around the park. We will have to go back sometime and try out the carousel and the butterfly house that they also have.

Here are a few pictures I took that day. ☺

Jackson did NOT want to stop for a picture. Can you tell? Ha!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

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Throw-back Thursday - Cruise 2007

Thanks so much to all who linked up for Throw-back Thursday last week! I loved reading your posts!

Welcome back to the second week of the Throw-back Thursday Link-Up. 

This week I thought I'd share a cruise Jake and I took back in August of 2007.

We had just gotten married in July of 2007 and had actually just gone to Hawaii for our honeymoon. But we had planned this trip around a friends birthday, so even though the timing wasn't perfect, we were excited to go nonetheless.

We flew to Miami and boarded the Carnival ship "Imagination". It was a smaller ship as this was just a 4 day cruise.

Sailing out to sea.

The Pool that we never once got into. (It was always quite crowded.)

A portion of our cabin.

Beautiful sunset.

The lobby of the ship all lit up.

Jake and I at dinner.

My yummy dessert that night.

Our whole group at dinner.

Our bed the first night.

Our first stop was in Key West! We rented mopeds that day and toured the island. It was so fun... probably the highlight of our trip for me.

Our bed the second night.

Our second stop was in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. We spent a majority of our time in Mexico at the beach. We even ate at a little bar/restaurant right on the beach. We also did a little bit of shopping there as well.

This is where we ate. I had a yummy Pina Colada as well. ☺

Our bed the third night.

Our last day and night were spent on the ship headed back.

 Here Jake and I are after dinner, the last night on the ship.

Another beautiful sunset.

Our bed the last night. 

We had a lot of fun on this cruise. I will say, that my favorite parts though, were when we were stopped in Key West and Mexico. Being on the ship wasn't as much fun for me. It got a little boring after a while. Part of the problem may have been that we were on such a small ship, something I would pay attention to if I ever went on another cruise.

I can't wait to read your posts.