Friday Favorites

Happy Friday, Friends!  I hope it's been a good week.  We've been busy trying to find our Summer groove.

Did you catch my blog posts this week?

Free Greenery Tip

Easy Roasted Asparagus

Celebrating Olive

Now onto the highlights of the week:

1. Bring on all the red, white and blue, parties and Summer fun!  The kids and I worked on a Summer Family Fun List together.  We included everything.  Free and excursions.  In town and out of town.  I know we won't get to everything, but it's fun to have a list posts on our garage door.  

We also had cook outs, friend birthday parties and lots of fun this past week.

With a side of fireworks because Kevin can't resist them.

2. Olive got a snow cone maker for her birthday.  We have had lots of fun learning how to use it and stirring up the flavors.  After we've used it for a few weeks, I'll give it a proper review.  Our inital reaction is that we all love it!

3. Leo's favorite food is french fries.  He could eat them 24/7.  Kevin took the boys to dinner at Freddy's and Leo hopped right up to get his picture taken in a box of french fries.  I think he'd say that he loves mom the most and french fries second.

4. Book Lovers was SO GOOD!  I'm ready to read my 3rd Emily Henry book of the Summer ASAP.

5. Lots of time outside.  Leo loves to take his cars for a spin.

6. A friend came over to help us get our garden ready for the season.  The boys tilled the dirt.  And we headed to buy plants the next day.

Here's to hoping we can keep the cute bunnies away from our vegetables.

Leo also loves trimming anything he can reach.  That'll be handy as he gets older.

7. "Close your eyes.  I have a surprise for you.  I picked you a bouquet of flowers!"  I loved this moment when I was reading a book and looked up to see this.  What a guy!

8. Lots of bike rides!  Olive outgrew her bike and has stolen my minty cruiser.  I switched over to Kevin's not nearly as cute red cruiser.  And we make our way around the neighborhood.  Leo loves to say hello to everyone and comment on their cute dogs.

9. Tall towers.  Fletcher is going for record breaking towers.  With Olive's help, was able to reach our 9ft ceilings.  And Leo's greatest joy has been knocking down said towers.

10. Dusting off the art supplies.  I'm determined to make sure that the kids do a variety of things this Summer so we reorganized all of our art supplies, got everything ready to use and Fletcher worked on mixing my favorite shade of mustard yellow.  Half his fun of painting is mixing colors.

11. Overnight oats.  I noticed it being hard to fix breakfast for myself with my whole crew home so I made a batch of overnight oats.  The recipe is so easy and delicious.

3/4 c quick cook oats

sprinkle of chia seeds

enough milk to cover oats

a splash of vanilla

a scoop over peanut butter

and chocolate chips

Put all of that in a jar with a lid and refrigerate it over night.  Stir well and eat old or reheat.  I love to eat mine cold.

12. Road trip to Notre Dame!  We had the best time at Notre Dame this past week.  I'll do a recap soon, but our first road trip of the summer was so much fun!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!  See you back here on Monday!

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