Catch-up

I don't think I have blogged at all this year. With my daughters and husband occupying all of my time blogging landed dead last on my to do list. I guess in a way it was a 1st quarter break. I focused on getting the necessary daily things done before the girls woke each morning, working out during nap and snuggling up on the couch my sweet husband in the evenings indulging in deep conversation and primetime television.

January came storming in leaving our little town with record breaking flooding and the residents stranded until the waters of the Meramec River receded back within its banks. Otherwise, it wasn't note worthy. My guy and I started on a new journey of eating clean and eating our favorite things ahem chocolate within moderation. Its been a huge learning curve but I am so happy with our successes.

February came and went faster than I could blink my eyes. We were full on back in the routine of dance, gymnastics and started Mom's Day Out. The girls love it and it has been a great break for me during the week. We also vacationed in south Florida on the gulf with my brother-in-love (Josh's brother), his wife and daughters. It was such a nice vacation with two families bonding over cards and ice-cream.

March... wait, we had a March this year? Holy moly. I seriously get lost in the days and months with our sweet girls. All of Josh's family stayed at our house for a weekend, we had lots of date nights, we went to Georgia and ended with everyone being sick.


Oh wait... did I mention that we potty trained? Well we did that in February. Fun times! Can't wait to fill you in on it all.


I hope to keep this little space of internet updated more in the coming months. I have a feeling I will fail miserably as I have started getting busy with doing family photography locally.


This is a serious photo dump in no particular order!

Keeping it real!

This week has flown by. I have no idea where it went and blogging fell to the wayside once again. Honestly, I have been making a conscious effort to stay "unplugged" throughout the day and in the evenings have been focusing on spending uninterrupted time with my guy. Moving 1,000 miles away is really hard on a family and marriage. New job, new house, and trying to make new friends all while learning the new normal for your family. It's hard. So we have been really focusing on what is most important which is the four of us. Josh travels a good bit and doesn't leave a lot of time for quality time together. Of course, we are very calculated in all of our travels trying to get the most bang for our buck so to speak. The girls and I travel while he travels so that there isn't extra un-needed time away but the return is always a game of catch-up and trying to get back into a groove leaving little time for fun. Thus why we have started to really focus on our family. I recently had to remind myself of the pecking order of relationships. I had lost sight of it in the hustle and bustle of moving and just trying to keep up: God, husband, children and so on. I feel like being "unplugged" has really given me more of an opportunity to take time for daily devotion & prayer, my husband and my children. To be honest, I can tell a difference it each of those relationships. I'm feeling calmer, more grounded and balanced throughout the day which is like a domino effect touching each of the relationships most important to me. If you are moving or have recently moved, remember not to lose sight of the important things. The boxes can wait!

I challenge you all to take a week or if your job doesn't allow it, allot a few hours a day to go unplugged and focus on what's important. 

Happy Friday y'all! This week my sweet friend Stacy sent me our family pictures. Man, did they put a smile on my face. I can't wait to share the ones for our Christmas card!

Solo trip to Georgia

At the beginning of the month I took the Zabies & Harley, our fur baby, on a solo road trip to Georgia. An eight hour road trip turned into 10+ hours with torrential down pouring rain from a hurricane. The trip was relatively easy. The girls are amazing travelers and didn't complain unless they were hungry or needed to stretch their legs (and get their diaper changed). 

The trip started off rocky with a dead battery in my car resulting in me having to push my Yukon XL out of our garage since my guy works 45 minutes from home. Thankfully the girls just rolled with the punches of the day and made new friends at every stop!

Notice all of the stuff behind Kensington? I chose to load our stuff on the bench seat so Harley could have all of the back to stretch out and get comfy!

We celebrated my best friend's little boy's birthday while we were in town. I was so thankful that we were able to be there to celebrate him!

We had play dates with the girls' cousins, Emerson and Dylan.

We played at the park.

We got to love on the brand new baby goats in the front pasture at my parent's house. 

And climb the same fence that Mommy climbed as a little girl. 

The Zabies also helped their Pawpaw master the plumbing in the kitchen remodel.

Quinn has an obsession with Pawpaw's Harley. Dear Lord, help us!!

We had lots of family in and out all week but had a big cookout that was a huge hit with the girls.

One of my other Georgia bestie that I call LJ also came to our family cookout. 

It made my heart so happy to see these four together and to just enjoy the day with my sweet friend. 

These two! It's like a flash into our future. 

Josh joined us on Saturday and we celebrated my cousin's marriage... 

Had two year old melt downs...

Found humor in said meltdowns...

and thankfully didn't drop her on her head. 

It was a rough evening for these two. Thankfully they were super cute in the process.