Saturday
Saturday morning started darkish and early when Ryan and I couldn’t sleep in and arrange our computer systems side-by-side on the kitchen counter to get some work executed. It felt good to start the day on a productive notice, even when waking up at 5 a.m. on a Saturday isn’t essentially the most ultimate.
As soon as the boys have been awake, we kicked off the day with selfmade banana muffins, fruit and sausage for breakfast.
Some time again, I acquired a message on Instagram telling me my entire wheat pumpkin muffin recipe works completely if you happen to swap the pumpkin for bananas and I’ve been making my banana muffins utilizing the identical recipe ever since! (She additionally stated it really works nice with gluten-free flour for any gluten-free mates on the market!) I added white chocolate chips to half the batch and sprinkled the tops with these dye-free sprinkles the boys love a lot.
Then it was time for a fast exercise!
I used to be feeling hopeful my working may really feel a bit of higher after months of bodily remedy for TFL ache however after 4 minutes on the treadmill, I used to be in a short time humbled and my physique stated, “Oh heck no, not but.” I ended up doing half-hour of low affect cardio in lieu of working and adopted it up with a brief hip mobility YouTube video.
After a bathe and breakfast 2.0 (my excessive protein oat bran as a result of I can not cease with that one currently), it was time to move off to the “massive Goal” as our boys say. We drove a bit of farther to the larger Goal in our space for one primary purpose: Our annual Valentine’s Day mission!
Favourite Household Valentine’s Day Custom
When Ryan and I have been courting, we might go to the Mall at Millenia in Orlando and divide up for an hour or so to purchase one another our Valentine’s Day presents earlier than assembly up at a super-fancy restaurant (ya know, like Cheesecake Manufacturing facility) to trade them. We’ve morphed this custom right into a family-friendly one and now divide up into groups with the boys as they store for one thing particular for his or her brothers.
(Sweater: Amazon / Denims: FRAME — code PBFINGERS15 saves 15% / Sneakers: adidas)
They LOVE this custom a lot and I imply it once I say it’s considered one of their favourite days of the entire 12 months. We set a funds after which divide up at Goal to buy secretively! Retaining our finds secret is likely one of the finest components as a result of the boys get the largest kick out of attempting to evade one another within the retailer. Groups this 12 months have been me and Chase on one staff and Ryan, Rhett and Ryder on one other. (Ryder and Chase grabbed sun shades this 12 months as a “disguise.”)
There’s a whole lot of loud-whispering, sneaking round and ducking out of eyesight that provides to the enjoyable.
As soon as we made it again house and their surprises have been wrapped, the boys exchanged their presents. (Goal had a purchase one, get one 50% off toy deal occurring so their $20 funds stretched a bit of farther.)
Rhett and Ryder chosen cotton sweet and a dinosaur egg toy you inject with “primal DNA” to make it hatch for Chase and he thought it was superior. For Ryder, Chase chosen a Mini PacMan arcade recreation (massive hit!) and for Rhett, he picked a Peaceful Kingdom collaborative recreation (Rhett looooves these video games) known as Rely Your Chickens. We’ve already performed it not less than 8 instances (actually) so I’d say it was an enormous win as effectively!
Chase additionally obtained a two-pack of Tremendous Wubble balls for his little brothers to share which have been an enormous hit. They blow up into massive balls which can be imagined to be just like a thick, malleable bubble which after all morphed right into a billion totally different video games, bouncing bubble balls off one another, rolling over one another, and many others.
Their Valentine surprises entertained the boys for fairly some time which allowed me to get some family chores executed whereas Ryan headed out to assist our pal Ben transfer a sofa at his new home. The boys and I additionally spent a bit of time within the kitchen collectively making selfmade chocolate chip cookies — the extra chocolate chip cookies I make, the extra I’m satisfied the recipe on the again of the Nestle Tollhouse bag is the perfect — they usually served as the proper dessert for us to dig into throughout household film night time that night.
We watched Cool Runnings in honor of the Winter Olympics and I’m comfortable to say that’s one film that majorly stands the take a look at of time. We laughed so much and the boys cherished it!
Sunday
Sunday started with extra Tremendous Wubble ball insanity, oat bran and church!
(Denims: FRAME — PBFINGERS15 saves 15% / Sweater: Natural Fundamentals / Bag: Clare V. – gifted / Booties: Amazon)
Our Sunday afternoon handed by in a little bit of blur doing a little family stuff we’ve let fall to the wayside, together with taking down our exterior Christmas lights, placing away our Christmas mugs (little tear for that one), stain-treating and washing the hallway runner that Comet confused with a pet pee pad (regardless of us not utilizing pee pads in any respect) and doing a pair a great deal of laundry.
I additionally made a new-to-us recipe for a heat and hearty lunch!
I adopted this recipe for Marry Me Rooster Pasta however swapped grated zucchini in for the spinach as a result of that’s what we had readily available. We appreciated it however I couldn’t assist however assume I’d personally benefit from the recipe extra with floor beef versus the rooster, although I do know the rooster is form of the purpose of that exact recipe.
After lunch and family to-dos, we leashed up Pepper and Comet and went to some close by trails for some train for the canine and a few grime bike using for the youngsters.
We could have unlocked a vizsla hack with this one as a result of Comet was in heaven sprinting after the boys on their grime bikes and took a nap the second we obtained house. Every other vizsla homeowners on the market really feel an odd sense of victory if you come house together with your canine they usually instantly fall asleep? Tiring out a vizsla isn’t any small feat.
Ultimately it was time for baths/showers throughout, dinner, a bit of Winter Olympics + Tremendous Bowl watching after which bedtime. I used to be additionally fairly psyched to get into mattress final night time as a result of I’m about 1/3 of the best way via a guide I simply began studying — These Summer time Storms — and I’m totally having fun with it!
As for right now, I’m off to get in a exercise earlier than the boys are up for the day, so it’s time to get this Monday rockin’! I hope you all have an exquisite week!!
