Happy Friday!

Summer has been good to us so far!  We're having a blast and not quite ready to say goodbye to June.

The best parts of our week were:

We saw Toy Story 5 and loved it!  I appreciated the theme of the movie - people and toys over devices.  And the kids enjoyed it, too.

It made me nostalgic for 2019 when Olive was Bo Peep and Fletcher was Buzz Lightyear for Halloween.  They both wore those costumes so much that they had holes in them.

Have you tried this key lime pie from Trader Joes?  The checkout lady said it was amazing so I'm hoping she's right.  I've never been able to make a good one from scratch so hopefully this $5 one will hit the spot.

We hosted Olive's friends for a sprinkle party and then we did a little shopping afterwards.  Their mini cakes turned out so cute.

Sweet Pumpkin turned 1 yesterday!  He's the sweetest, fluffiest, king of the house.  We joke that all of his fluff gives him boss status around the other cats.  I made pumpkin cookies to celebrate.

We got Summer Passes to Urban Air and the boys are thrilled.  We met friends there to play.  The kids had a blast and I got to catch up with a good friend.  Win-win.

I had several work days this week.  Luckily they were all fun and I even got some new items from the school spirit shop for helping.

My flower pots are filling in so nicely.  My Marigolds are going crazy.  Sweet potato vines are so happy.  Lantana and petunias.  I just love checking on them eery morning.

The boys have deemed themselves the neighborhood clean up crew.  We have several new houses going up.  They go out several times a day to clean up the street from "tire killers".  We have a whole jar full of really sharp things that they find.  It's been a fun way for them to help out the neighbors.

I had a lunch meeting at my favorite spot - Chicken Salad Chick!  I could eat this meal on repeat every single day.

We had a great Father's Day weekend!  Kevin is still talking about his water taste test challenge.  He swears they all taste different so it was fun to put him to the test.  He surprised himself by liking VOSS water the most.  Fiji held the previous title of his favorite bottled water.  We capped them all up after his taste test and he enjoyed fancy waters all week long.

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

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Sprinkle Party with Friends

We hosted Olive's friends for a little sprinkle party this week.  

I grabbed every sprinkle we had in the pantry, two boxes of Funfetti cake mix, personal sized loaf pans and made homemade buttercream icing.  We put the sprinkles in the middle of the table.  Gave each girl two loaf pans to decorate with a huge scoop of icing and a knife.  They had a great time making pretty sprinkle cakes.  Some girls divided their cake into layers and others just decorated the top.

I baked all of the little loaf pans a couple hours in advance.

The boys made their own sprinkle cakes before the girls arrived.

I sprayed the cake pans with Pam and the cakes slid right out.

I did some sanding sugar flowers on my cake.

The girls sprinkled and ate.

Look how cute they turned out!  The girls ate some of their cake and then I gave them to go lids so they could take their cake creations home.

Some girls did tons of sprinkles and others just did a few.  But everyone was happy with their sprinkle party creations!

You'll have to plan a sprinkle party of your own this Summer!  It was a hit with the teens.

Father's Day Road Trip

Hello, friends!  We're back from vacation and mostly caught up on life.  It's good to be back here :)  I have lots of fun posts coming your way in the next few weeks.  We had a fun week celebrating our dads.  We celebrated dinners with both of our dads and then did a fun day trip for Kevin's Father's Day.

We headed over to Louisville, KY just 90 minutes from home to stop at our favorite spots.  We did brunch at First Watch (SO good!), did all things fishing and browsing at Bass Pro Shop, Starbucks and then headed to restock all of our favorites at Trader Joes.

If you ever get a chance to go to First Watch, do it!  We've eaten at them in TN, MO & KY.  Surely they will come to Indiana one day.

The boys have been fishing a lot and couldn't wait to check out things at Bass Pro Shops. We don't have one so this trip has been in the works for weeks.  Fletcher has learned so much about fishing and came preprared.  He asked and answered all kinds of questions to the fishing section employees.  We were impressed.

He said we could drop him off there for the day.  haha.  Olive said she prefers the outlet mall.

It was a beautiful day!

We got home that evening and did a water taste testing challenge.  Kevin swears each bottled water tastes different so we put him to the test.  He says Fiji is the best.  But in a blind taste test, he loved VOSS the most.  He loved this surprise game and so did the kids.  And he'll spend the rest of the week enjoying a variety of different waters.

We searched high and low to find the best assortment of waters.  Then we secretly refrigerated them so it would surprise him on Father's Day.  So fun!

I hope you had a great weekend!  Check back later this week for a Trader Joe's haul.

Olive's Birthday Favorites

Olive had a specific vision for her birthday party this year - cute mice, pink and red.  There aren't many options for decor that matches her criteria so we had to DIY her party.  That's my kind of challenge. We found the cutest gingham stuff at Dollar Tree, vintage mice, HomeGoods and Amazon, too.  Everything turned out really cute!  We celebrated with her friends, my family, Kevin's family and then her actual birthday.

My mom has always loved mice so she gifted Olive her mouse collection.

These sweet cousins are all the same age for a few weeks every year.

Kevin grilled and my mom made fried ice cream for dessert.

All of her favorite things in one picture.

A yes day to all of her favorite places.

She needed a shark costume for the cats.  She loved it.  They did not.

We had so much fun celebrating our favorite girl.

Her BFFs.

I made bundt cakes for one of her parties.  They turned out so pretty and delicious.

This strawberry vase is one of my favorites!

She got lots of new Jellycats.

A really cool new bookshelf for her room.

Happy 13th birthday, Olive!  We sure do love you!

And that's a wrap on our March, April, May kid birthday season at our house!  So fun!  So busy!

I'm taking the next week or two off of blogging to enjoy some extra time with my family this Summer!  I'll check back in around the middle of June.  Thanks for being here!