Last week we had our first travel adventure with the baby nugget – a one week adventure to California to visit where I grew up.  Today’s post is dedicated to some pictures and stories from that trip…I’ll share more details about some other life and summer updates next week!

1) Traveling With A Baby

Before we left, I shared that I was pretty nervous to fly with Caleb for the first time.  He doesn’t sleep well when we’re out and about anymore and he also tends to get a little flustered/distracted and not want to nurse in public.  Well, he did both of those things on our first fight and we still survived! On our way there, he wouldn’t fall asleep in the stroller or carrier and only slept for about 25 minutes on the plane for the entire 6 hours it took us to get from our house in KC to my parents house in Cali.  He also refused to nurse, instead drinking an entire chilled bottle (even though he hasn’t successfully bottles in almost six weeks). All of that said, he didn’t fuss and cry on the plane, so we were happy!

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Happy Friday, y’all! We had another fun week of house projects and time with family and couldn’t be loving summer any more.  The only bummer? Our neighbors think it’s great to start setting off fireworks from 7 -10 PM every night for about 10 days leading up to the 4th of July and 2-3 days after.  It is HORRIBLE for our dog and I’m a little nervous it will wake up Caleb when they get even louder this weekend! I hate to be a mean old lady about it, but seriously people! Calm the heck down with the fireworks! Don’t you know some of us have scaredy-cat pets and sleeping babies?

Anyway, angry rant over…here are a few updates from our week!

1) Emptying Our Living Room

Now that we’ve lived in our house almost a year and a half, we have such a better idea of both the decorating styles we like and the way that we actually use the spaces in our home.  For the last few months I’ve been looking at the bookshelves I styled for our living room in the very beginning and itching to change them to better match our style now.  On a whim this week, we decided to just go for it and make a change! We took everything off the shelves and piled it on our dining room table. Jordan’s going to put some trim and molding on the shelves to look like built-ins and then I’ll work on styling them in a cleaner, more simple way.  I am so excited to get started on this project and make our living room a cozier, cleaner space!

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Happy Friday, y’all! With Jordan being away for a few days (see below), it was a weird week for us but I’m still loving summertime with my sweet family!

1) My Rock Star Hubby

After training hard for the last several months, Jordan headed to Minnesota with a close friend and training partner to run a marathon.  They had both done everything they could to be prepared and were hoping to run the race sub 2:50 (that’s about 6.5 minute miles, people – INSANE).  They signed up for this race in Minnesota with the hopes the weather would be a little cooler, but it was a randomly warm day and was already 75 degrees with lots of humidity by the time the race started.  As my hubby said, that’s great weather for a picnic but NOT for a marathon.  There were tons of runners in the medical tents as the race progressed and the overall average finish time for the race this year was over 30 minutes slower than the last few years.  The heat was intense! Luckily my guy is a rock star and still managed to run a 2:53, beating his old P.R. of 2:55 and continuing his journey towards running the Boston Marathon in 2017! I am so impressed by not only how fast Jordan runs, but also how consistently he trains.  This guy’s the best, y’all.

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Summer is in full swing and we’ve loved getting to be home with our baby nugget.  Here are a few updates, photos, and silly stories from our last two weeks!

1) Slow Summer Days

With Jordan home for the summer, we’re doing a whole lot of nothing these days.  Jordan has cross-country practice in the mornings, then once he gets home we spend our days going on walks, playing with Caleb, watching TV shows (we’re currently rewatching the Office and loving it), and running random errands.  I do love these slow days but I still wrestle with the feeling that we should be doing more (like I shared about in this post about how I’m fighting the pressure to be productive).  I’m trying to be content and remember that I’ll long for these slow days when we have a crazy toddler or multiple kiddos! So for now, if you need us, there’s about a 95% chance we will be at home in the AC snuggling our sweet boy and laughing at silly TV shows.

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1) Anniversary Dates

We celebrated our anniversary last weekend with a day date of some shopping at a local outlet mall and sushi/Asian food.  It was so fun to have a few hours away from little man, even if he did make things difficult by completely refusing to take a bottle and giving his grandma a run for her money.  I got a bunch of fun new flowy tank tops that will be perfect for nursing in the summertime, as well as some new shorts and two new dresses for some weddings we have this summer (gotta love Memorial Day sales and cheap prices at TJ Maxx!).  Later that evening we went to a wedding shower for an old friend of Jordan’s.  Caleb fell asleep in the car immediately after we left so we enjoyed some yummy sweet treats from Sonic while he slept! It was a fun day with lots of silliness and sweet time with my hubby and I am so, so grateful for that.

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It was a fun week of adjusting to our new summertime normal and I love all the time I’ve gotten to spend with my family.  We also celebrated a few fun milestones this week (all having to do with the number 3, randomly).  It was a great week and I can’t wait for many more like it in the next few months!

1) Scary House Projects

Our house backs up to a creek and some woods, a view that I love to see out of our back window.  The only downside is that the three big trees we had in our backyard stopped the yard from getting any sun and it was pretty much a constant mud-pit.  This past weekend Jordan had two friends with some experience in this kind of thing come help him to cut them down.  They were rigging all sorts of ladders, ropes, harnesses and chainsaws into the trees, and I hung out in the house with Caleb as they worked (only to be startled every once in a while by a giant branch falling and shaking the earth beneath our feet).  It was scary to watch the boys up so high in the trees but they did a great job and our yard looks so much brighter now that those trees were gone.  We have all sorts of dreams to make this backyard a more livable space and are so grateful to those friends for coming to clear it all out!

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This was my last full week alone with Caleb since after one half day on Monday (thanks to a “blue snow day” we had when the Royals won the World Series), Jordan is HOME for the summer! Hip hip hurray! I can’t wait for slow mornings, family walks, house projects, and all sorts of summer adventures.  It will be so sweet! For now, here’s a few updates from our last week of the school year.

1)  Long Car Rides And Delicious Donuts

Since Caleb isn’t on a schedule as much as a general routine, it’s a bit challenging to make it to events with a specific start time like church.  We’ve found ourselves doing a lot of extra driving to extend those carseat naps as we go from place to place on Sundays.   Maybe my favorite part of this new routine of figuring out naps on the go? We’ve started spending Sunday mornings before church at Doughnut Lounge, a new donut shop right down the road from church. Caleb naps in his carseat while we eat delicious donuts and coffee, we feed him right before church starts, then get there just in time for him to sleep in our arms.  I’m sure this routine will shift soon enough as his naps spread out, but for now I love that time with my hubby (and I loooove some yummy doughnuts!).

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