Five on Friday: Seven Straight Mondays

Do you ever have weeks that feel like 7 straight Mondays? It's been one of those weeks for me. It has been jam packed with events for both me and hubs - which has had us all crazy - topped with I had a touch of the stomach bug for the better part of Sunday-Tuesday. So, to be honest I'm not really sad to say goodbye to this week and move on to the next. A week of Mondays for me, a day when GoGo doesn't answer Lainey's FaceTime call for her :)

However - before the week of said Mondays - we did have some really great things to add to our Five on Friday. 

 One: The Louisville Zoo

Last year for Christmas Shane's Aunt and Uncle gifted us with an annual membership to the zoo and it's such a great thing to have. We have a pretty decent little zoo here in Louisville, and it's great to pop in for a few hours (especially in the cooler temps) and spend the afternoon. We picked up B from school last Friday and headed straight to play with the animals for the afternoon. And ride the carousel of course.

Talk to the Gorillas.

 And eat all the dippin' dots.

 Watch the bears swim.

 And hit up the carousel one more time before we left.

 Two: Soccer

Bennett had his first soccer game last weekend and it was so fun to see him play. He's officially played basketball and baseball, but this was his first soccer team and HE LOVED IT. It's truly the first sport he was super excited about, talked about a lot, and keeps asking when his next game is (t's tomorrow). We've got him in a flag football league that starts this fall too - and Shane is the QB - can't wait to report how that one goes!

 His biggest fan made sure to have a front row seat on the sidelines.

 He scored a GOAL too!

Three: Anniversary 

This past Sunday Shane and I celebrated 11 years together and 6 years married :) after Bennett's soccer game we loaded up the car and headed to Cincinnati for a celebratory weekend. We have a home there in Dayton, KY, so we dropped the littles at the house with supervision - and headed straight to West Chester for a full adult day to celebrate 6 fabulous years together!

First stop - Starbucks. Second stop: Ballard Design / Grand Iron Road / Frontgate Outlet Shopping! Yay adulthood! (thanks wind for giving me that supermodel hair flip - HA!)

 Third stop: IKEA - complete with Swedish meatballs, because IKEA duh.

Fourth stop: Top Golf!! Ya'll SO FUNNNN. They're only in select places, but if you have a chance to go to one - GO! It was a blast (and I'm not even a golfer really) and I totally recommend it! (sorry for so many annoying selfies and italic side comments today) It's kind of like bowling, but with golf and really yummy food and drinks and just all around good fun.

Four: The Bengals

We woke up Sunday ready to cheer on our favorite team, and popped some bubbly to celebrate the Anniversary and have some WHODEY in our life at the first game of the season. 

 Then we headed to tailgate with all of our peoples.

 Playing catch and eating snacks - we're good at all of the above!

 I love these pictures - my dad and his brother cheering for the hall of famers at half time. They grew up in this city with these guys as their players -- and it's neat to watch them remain loyal to a team that sometimes makes it hard to be a fan :)

Five: This week's Shenanigans 

My parent's are in Seattle and I'm jealous. Hubs and I were supposed to go there for our anniversary last year, but due to all of my health business we had to put it on hold. Hopefully one day we'll get a chance to finally make our way out there. 

And for a traditional Friday confession ~ My dear husband of 6 years still does terribly horrible things that make me cringe. Like leaving dirty crinkled up socks on an end table in our home. WHYYYYY?!?!!?

 Lainey is still silly cute and keeps us laughing - ALWAYS.

 And Irma has brought us a good amount of rainy and cloudy days and we are slaying the lazy movie game. But, I'm ready for some sunshine ... and a Friday after a long week of Mondays.

 Have a great weekend gang!

Sweet Summertime

For all of my country music fans out there, I've had Kenny Chesney's "Sweet Summertime" lyrics stuck in my head all week and I am not the least bit upset about it! Summertime is finally here ya'll and we've certainly kicked it off!

Bennett's teachers had an end of the year birthday celebration for all of the kiddos that have a summer birthday - I took him to the store and let him pick out his classes birthday treat. He chose a hodge podge of character rings that adorned multi colored cupcakes, star wars plates, gold napkins, the ugliest cups of all, and stretchy monster finger puppets as a souvenir. I love his three year old weirdness :)

 And of course little sister accompanied me to school to pass out part treats! His teacher sent this sweet picture home with him, and it made my heart melt. I'm so thankful I'm able to spend these days with them. I know they likely won't remember a lot of it, but I sure will.

We're starting to enter the "that's mine!", "mommy, Lainey hit me", "Hey I wanted that!" etc. phase and that makes me crazy. Having to constantly remind both them AND myself this is a small deal, not a big deal. But in the midst of our days there is also a lot of love ... and the spontaneous sweetness of siblings that makes me absolutely melt.

We've been checking on the house (almost daily) now, because there is a beehive of activity. I'm nervous if I don't show up the wrong tile will end up in the wrong room or something, so we make frequent stops. And while I'm chatting with our contractors things like this happen ... and don't be fooled ... she didn't eat a bag of powdered donuts. She licked the walls and that's drywall dust. :)

We've had fun nights with our cousin friends!

We spend as much time outside as possible. And for little Lou that means, we collect every rock known to man.

We snack CONSTANTLYYYYYY.

 Hopefully, we've finally said farewell to all of that spring rain.

We've played ... HARD! Which when I'm lucky .. means we nap ... HARD!

And we headed to one of our favorite places, Lake Cumberland, to celebrate the long Memorial Day Weekend!

Where we rest, snuggle, eat, and PLAY!

 The lake takes it out of you! I mean falling asleep with candy in your mouth. HA!

Snuggles :)

This was also a HUGE weekend for our littles because they tubed for the first time (with daddy of course). They were such little dare devils and I LOVED it! I grew up on that lake, and watching them get a taste of my childhood made me have all the feels. Can't wait for all of the summer fun we'll have both this year and years to come. SO. MUCH. FUN.

 And we had night time arm wrestling matches with our parents for good measure ... I beat my mom fair and square, regardless of what she tells you.

 And that's it folks, we're off into summer full of staying up late, playing so hard all day to make sure our feet are dirty enough to earn our showers at night, and sleeping in and waking up with hair that looks like this just to do it all over again.

Sweet Summertime!