Baby Animals

These are precious! Corbyn went to the zoo this weekend with his Nana and Grandad and they said he really liked the baby animals and penguins. I can see why!

Baby Penguin

Baby Elephant
Baby White Tiger
Baby Orangatan
Baby Pig
Baby Bunny
And then the baby aardvark, which makes it into the not cute, but terrifying looking category!
All photos via Pinterest

Hope these make you smile on this Monday morning!

National Creamsicle Day

Happy National Creamsicle Day! Seriously.

It's Hot! And these look delicious!

Recipes from around the web, click on the title to go to the recipe.

Mango Orange Creamsicles

Cereal and Milk Popsicles

Blood Orange Popsicles

Orange Creamsicles
Peaches and Creamsicles
Coconut Cream Pops
Mixed Berry Pops

Be sure to celebrate!

Have a Restful Weekend

I have been fighting a cold. A cold in the middle of summer, strange! My body is trying to fight it and I am trying to help it do so by making the couch and bed my best friend and resting this weekend. Sometimes resting is not easy especially with a to year old running around but I am going to attempt to go to bed at a reasonable time and nap when the boy naps, good plan. Ready, go.

photo by: Collin Pantall

I challenge you to rest this weekend! Slow down and take a break. Even if you feel great take some time and put your feet up, everyone needs a little me time.

And while you have your feet up, here are some fun/interesting things from around the interweb.

Always looking for good ideas like this for the car.

I found this absolutely hilarious and true!

Ummm, yum. These made me want to go camping.

I really like his weddings, soft, heartfelt, and warm. Here is his most recent one.

I love this print. I think its supposed to be NY but it reminds me of San Diego <3

This is pretty funny, though I never went to a frat party, I've seen movies and I have a toddler.

I have been craving this sandwich from my favorite sandwich place in SD, Con Pane.

Lunch fun.

Amazing podcast. Super interesting and thought provoking!

Happy Friday!

Sock Bugs

Corbyn and mommy had a date. I picked my date up after work from the babysitter, we headed to Starbucks for juice and a snack, chatted about our day and asked if he would like to do a craft, of course his answer was yes! So we went to Hobby Lobby, discussed what would be fun to make (I had like 3 ideas that I shared and let him choose, it actually started as sock animals but then he said sock bugs as we walked by a bug display), we collected our supplies, and headed home.

Supplies: Socks, dry beans, food coloring, yarn, stuff to decorate (we used wiggly eyes and pom poms), and a hot glue gun.

This is a little boy who was very excited to start his craft!

Fill up the water for the dye.

Stir in the food coloring, its serious business =)
Put your socks into the food coloring. Let them soak for a little bit, then squeeze them out and throw them into the dryer. We ate dinner while the socks dried so Corbyn wasn't constantly going to check on them. Note: I wasn't sure what food coloring would do to my dryer so I put each sock into an old pillowcase and tied the pillowcase. I believe it worked I dried towels in the dryer afterwards and they weren't tinted.
Fill the socks with dry beans.
Tie off your sock into sections, I used yarn.
Decorate! Add some eyes, feet, antennas, etc. Corbyn sat on my lap and helped me with the hot glue gun and told me where the eyes and feet should go.
Our finished product, Mr. Antman and Mr. Piller.

And he's off to play with his new friends.

5 Year Anniversary recap

Five whole years! Just a start, but its been a beautiful start! Here are some photos of how we celebrated on the actual day of our anniversary (that I forgot to put up a couple weeks ago, fail)!

Where we ate our dinner and watched a movie in our backyard. We kept it simple since we had just gotten back from a cruise.

Our dinner! Filet mignon, twice baked potatoes, and grilled veggies.

Yay for 5 years! (oh ps. the wine glass has ice water haha we're awesome like that)

Playing with my camera. I love you, too!

Amy Ryland Photography: Photo Dilemma

I got a smokin Groupon from Canvas on Demand so I am having a 16x20 canvas of this picture made for our house but I can't decide which one to do! Which one do you think?

1)

or 2)
Isn't he just the cutest!!!

Current Obsession: Friday Night Lights

This is the current obsession in our house! We are on season 2, thank you netflix for the unlimited streaming. Football, Texas, Coaching, exaggerated High School drama...amazingness.

I want to be friends with the coach and his wife, knock some sense into a bunch of the teenagers, and be apart of a team again! So, if I look a little on the tired side or start chewing on the inside of my bottom lip this could possibly be why.