Good morning! How are you? How was your weekend? My weekend was a 10/10 weekend and I say that with a very full and very grateful heart. We celebrated my mom’s 70th birthday with a girls’ weekend at our house and did our best to make my mom feel as loved as possible. It was so wonderful and I hope to share more once I have the chance to go through all of the photos from the shared album we created on our phones from the weekend. Until then, I figured I would pop in with a recap of last week’s workouts as part of my monthly workout series. My workouts last week included a lot of Burn Boot Camp ..read more

Good morning! Ah! I am so, so, so excited about today and this weekend and everythinggg. My mom’s 70th birthday is tomorrow and she deserves all the celebrating and love and adoration in the world. We’re doing our best to make her feel the love and will have eight of the women who love my mom most under one roof in our home this weekend. My mom’s major wish for her birthday was to have a lake weekend with her favorite girls and we’re making it happen! Woop! My mom and sister arrived yesterday to kick off the weekend fun and have a little extra time with Ryan and the boys before they’re off to ..read more

Friday is here! Hooray, hooray! Although to be honest this whole week felt like a bit of s blurry swirl of days. With visitors arriving and leaving and then arriving again there wasn’t really a feeling or normalcy around here but that’s more or less been the theme of our summer. My parents are heading back our way tomorrow morning after a brief 72 hours in Virginia and we’re looking forward to spending more time with them this weekend. (The boys’ fish pajamas were a gift from Mae and are so cute I cannot handle it! They’re also crazy soft and so realistic which made them a big hit with our fi ..read more

Hey friends! How is your week going? Is life returning to normalcy now that the holiday weekend has come and gone or is normalcy basically nonexistent in your house during the summer months like it seems to be around here? I don’t mind the chaos when it includes lots of time with people we love and we’ve lucked out with lots of family visiting us over the past two weeks. Hosting family means we’ve been making a lot of good food to feed a crowd and we had a handful of recipe wins I thought I’d share with you guys today in a recipe roundup of sorts to show a little love to my fellow bloggers who ..read more

Hello from the house of the revolving door! We’ve had a steady stream of guests coming in and out of our home seemingly all summer and while it hasn’t left me with much time for blogging, it has been such a blessing to have quality time with people we love so much. My sister and her family spent just over a week with our crew and left yesterday afternoon. We absolutely loved our time with them and felt like we had our own mini summer camp running all week long with six kids to wrangle! We filled our days with a lot of the good stuff like time outside, time in water (the pool, the lake an ..read more

Good morning! And Happy Friday to YOU! How are you? How was your week? Our week was a good one! I arrived home from Milwaukee on Monday (more on my time in Wisconsin below!) and hit the ground running. Chase and Ryder had farm camp all week while Rhett had a camp-free week and hung back with me. This meant my productivity wasn’t the highest but it was a fun week nonetheless and Rhett was shockingly into some of the organizational projects I had on my to-do list. Okay, so maybe it was just my label maker he was into but at least his enthusiasm over that thing let me clean out some cabinets! As ..read more

Our middle man is SIX and my mama heart is having a hard time believing the mohawked little brown-eyed baby I held in my arms for the first time in 2018 will be off to kindergarten this fall. In one breath, I know Ryder very ready but in another breath, I want to keep him young, innocent, playful and cuddly forever. So many of the characteristics that emerged when Ryder was a baby and a toddler have stuck around through his big kid years and that makes me so happy because he is still the super sensitive little love machine he’s been his whole life. The night before his sixth birthday, I had R ..read more

Summertime is upon us and so is barbeque season! It’s time to break out the grill and invite family and friends over for some fun in the sun! Though traditional hamburgers and hot dogs are a delicious staple of many summertime cookouts, if you’re anything like me, you frequently overlook the staples and gravitate toward the plethora of yummy side dishes that really steal the show. My plate on Thanksgiving always seems have a little turkey and a TON of sides and my plate at a summertime barbeque is the same. If you are a side dish lover as well, than I’ve got you covered today! Below you will f ..read more

Friday is here! Woop! We’re looking forward to this evening because we have plans to hang at the pool with friends and then tomorrow I am off to Milwaukee! I’m Wisconsin-bound to celebrate the 40th birthday of one of my best friends from college. A small group of us will be celebrating my friend Ashley at the Kenny Chesney concert and I cannot wait! I still wanted to take a moment to share this week’s roundup of favorites with you guys before logging off so please keep on scrolling if you’d like to check them out. Enjoy your weekend, my friends! Things I’m Loving Friday Celebrating Ryder’s 6t ..read more

Hi friends! How are ya? Things are going well over here. We loved celebrating Ryder yesterday and cannot believe our middle man is officially SIX. Ah! As for today, I’m popping in with a glimpse into last week’s workouts as part of the Week of Workouts series I share on the blog once a month. Last week’s workouts were a little different than usual as we were still in Florida for part of the week. I did my best to move my body during our time away from home and enjoyed changing up my workouts to include BodyPump since it’s not a workout I have access to all the time. Let’s dive in! Week of Work ..read more