Hello Friday!

We had a great week at our house (minus a screw in my tire)!  Luckily, I discovered it when my car was parked in the driveway and my hubby was able to take it to be fixed quickly.  Crisis averted :) 

We got lots of things done at home, helped Kevin prepare for his first round of interviewing potential grad students for next year, had some friends over to the house and are headed to a bounce house this morning with friends.  We enjoyed a few snow days and made some definite progress in the house hunting / final decision making department.  We are so excited at the prospects of being in our own house again and are completely in LOVE with the one we found.

The best parts of our week were:

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SNOW
This was our third snow of the season and we loved it.  My whole family loves winter, the cold and the snow especially after being in the South the past two winters and missing out on a whole lot of winter.  We played in the snow, watched it snow and just loved the winter weather.  We didn't have anywhere to be so we just enjoyed being home in the snow.  Olive learned to make snowballs, discovered her beach toys made great snow toys and loved playing out in the white stuff.  She finally decided she liked her sled and would have played outside all day if I would've let her.

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KATE SPADE HOME
My MIL discovered this new Kate Spade Home line at Dillards and thought I needed some of it.  The potholders are so pretty and rumor is there is a lot more - canisters, measuring cups, table cloths, etc.  I'm excited to go in and check out the whole display because Kate Spade can do no wrong in my book.

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READING

I spent time reading for fun every day this week.  It's not something that I'm great at doing so I put it on my daily checklist and made sure to set aside time during nap time or in the evenings to read.  I'm LOVING reading Breaking Busy by Alli Worthington.  I have almost finished the book so look for a review of it next week. I also love that after posting this picture on instagram Allie Worthington commented on my post.  Major author interaction points for her :)  Have you read this book yet?

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SMOOTHIE BOWL
I made my first smoothie bowl this week and it was really tasty.  It had a cup of spinach in it and lots of yummy fruit.  I don't have any trouble getting in my daily fruit, but veggies are a whole different story.  You really couldn't taste it and I enjoyed adding on some delicious toppings.  My toddler didn't approve of the bowl format so I put hers in a cup and she chugged it.  What's your favorite smoothie or smoothie bowl combo?

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MULLET BE GONE
We did a little mullet management at our house this week.  It took Olive a long time to sprout hair so I've been hesitant to do much more than trim a piece here and there.  I decided it was needing a healthy trim so I pulled out the Dum Dums and got busy.  I cut about an inch off the back and it looks so much better.  I'm sure she's going to quickly outgrow my hair cutting skills so it was nice to be able to do a free trim at home for now.

Be sure and check out my favorite posts from this week:

 Preparing Tiny Meals - toddler meal ideas


Some recent Confessions

I hope you have a WONDERFUL weekend!!

Do you have any fun plans?