Friday Favorites

Happy Friday, y’all! I’ve been MIA this week on the blog because I haven’t had anything exciting to blog about haha! My days have looked the same, and while I really love being home with my kids all day, it’s not always blogworthy 🙂

As usual, today I’m sharing a few FAVORITES with y’all!!

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Today is Dustin’s 40TH BIRTHDAY!!!!!! I’m excited to celebrate him today! And tomorrow is our 11th anniversary!!! Why did we get married the day after Dustin’s birthday??? I say every year that I wish I would have picked a different date, but in reality, I really couldn’t. Back in 2014, I was in 4 wedding within a 4 month period, and one of those weddings was my own LOL. In order to keep some of my wedding events from clashing with one of my friend’s wedding and events, I had to choose late July. And because I’m a teacher, I had to keep it in the summer. Dustin is at least glad that he will never forget our anniversary ha!

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I don’t even want to type this out, but summer is coming to an end and school is about to start (YUCK!). Harrison checked this book out at our local library and when I read it to him, he laughed so hard that as soon as Dustin got home from work, he wanted me to read it again so Dustin could hear. And then Harrison laughed again at all the funny parts ha! It’s pretty funny and really cute and would be great for back to school prep to read to your kids or grandkids!!

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My sister took heirloom pictures of my kids and I AM OBSESSED! I can’t wait to get these framed and hung. If you’re local (and even if you’re not!), I would definitely contact her to book. These are just so beautiful!!

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I started reading this book on our way to Auburn last week to visit and stay with my best friend and her family. Truthfully, it’s been not ideal for my best friend to live over 3 hours away and I always wish she were so much closer! I’m going to do an entire post on this book once I finish, but I have found within the past year that friendship has been really hard for me. I lost a friendship that I cherished, and I’ve just felt lost. I feel like I have lots of friends, but I really crave a deepness like I have with my best friend–if that makes sense. Maybe I need to be more intentional? I’m loving this book, though, and really learning a lot. And it also makes me really thankful for my friendship with Janie–we’ve been best friends since we were 14 and 15!

Happy Friday! It’s been a good but HOT week around here. We’ve spent a majority of the day inside and we’ve either gone outside in the morning or in the evening to avoid the hottest part of the day.

We’ve also got a really fun weekend ahead, so let’s get to my FAVORITES!

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I ordered this regenerative gardening book in hopes that I can have a garden in my raised beds and this time, I can make it better than ever. If you haven’t watched either of the documentaries Kiss the Ground or Common Ground, you need to! They both opened my eyes to regenerative farming. After I first watched those, I talked about them so much and my mom even incorporates some of those practices with her chickens!

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I decided to lay out during nap time one day this week using the splash pad to keep myself cool, and this is what Banks looked like when he found me out back. He was not happy that I was using his splash pad and he wasn’t ha!

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I know I’ve talked a lot about our public library, but that’s because I love it so much!! Behind our library are the train tracks. The boys are OBSESSED with the trains that come through town. This day in particular, a train went through while we were in the library and they both ran to the door to watch it pass by. Harrison wants me to park facing the train tracks each time we’re there, too. It’s a whole thing haha, but it’s their favorite!

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I shared this tank top last night on IG stories, but I own three of them and I have lived in them all summer! They are so comfortable and flowy but also fitted in a way. They wash and dry really well and are perfect for either working out or just wearing during the day. They also hit longer on my torso (I’m 5’7″) so don’t judge the picture on the model because she must be over 6′ haha!

Okay I’m off to hop on the treadmill before the kids wake up! I hope y’all have a great weekend!

Happy Happy Friday!!! It’s been a great week and I’m really enjoying this summer home with my kids 🙂

As always, today I’m sharing a few FAVORITES with you!!

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The kids modeled for a local children’s boutique, The Robin’s Nest, and I got a copy of the pictures of them. I love them all! I especially love the pictures of the boys looking at each other–that one will be hung on the wall 🙂

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It’s been so hot outside that we’ve enjoyed playing out back with the water table and our splash pad. I bought this splash pad last year and I’m so glad I did because everyone loves playing in it. I even stood in it to cool off ha!

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I’ve been rereading this book from Sally Clarkson for two reasons: 1. because I really loved it and 2. because I realized I read it before I started keeping up with Goodreads and I get to count it as a book read this year ha! I love the concepts of this book for mothers especially. I always hear how our children are our mission field (and they are!), but this book really goes into the importance of how the home shapes our children’s understanding of God. Some of the chapters cover how to disciple your kids every day, the shepherd’s meal they have every Christmas Eve, and the Christmas tea they host–plus lots of other really great chapters!! I loved this book more than the Lifegiving Home book she wrote with her oldest daughter, Sarah, but that one is good, too!

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Harrison loves watching Superbook on Amazon Prime. It’s a great series where each story covers a story in the Bible and the kids and robot travel back in time to that particular story. Well, the other day Harrison put his shirt on his head like that and went and got the grabber and told me he was Moses. I then heard him and Banks playing in the living room when I heard Harrison say, “Banks, you pretend to be pharoah” and I laughed so hard haha! I love that he’s using his imagination, and Banks was thrilled to get to put on his “costume” too.

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This girl is a wild one, y’all. I love her so much, but she’s definitely wilder than her two brothers ever were at her age. I walked out of the kitchen and saw her in this state one day.

Then someone left the pantry door open and I found her like this…

We all just love our MeMe so much