Mollie's 10th Birthday

How is Mollie already 10 years old?? Mollie had a great birthday. She started her day with breakfast and presents from us. Her birthday breakfast request was pancakes with sprinkles and bacon. Mollie's birthday was on a Friday so she ended up having to go to school. After school we picked Mollie and Harper up and went to get smoothies! After smoothies, it was time to party. With COVID it was a bit difficult to plan a party. We celebrated with family and she had a few friends over for a movie night at my parents house! My parents got a video screen and my sister brought over her projector. We made up a few baskets with goodies for the movies! Each kid got their own pizza and they watched Trolls World Tour and then the Adamms Family Movie. I made cute cupcakes. Mollie's theme was Ocean. I made the cupcakes to look like a ocean with sand by using crushed graham crackers. I added teddy bear graham cookies with lifesaver gummies around them to look like a float around them. They were really cute! The night turned out to be a perfect night weatherwise. I think everyone had fun. I know Mollie did, she was sad to see her birthday go. Luckily for her she had a long weekend to enjoy, so we made it her birthday weekend! Happy Birthday Mollie. We love you! xoxo

What We Did This Weekend

 How was everyone's weekend? We had a nice one! Brett was working all weekend so it was just me solo with the kiddos. 

On Friday, Hudson and I kicked the weekend off with going to Target and Hudson found his muffin truck. He was so excited. Hudson loves his muffins in the morning. I know they aren't the best for you.  While at Target I had to get a few things for Mollie's Birthday which is coming up on Friday. After Target we picked up the girls from school and stopped by my parents for a bit. We came home and cleaned out all the backpacks and had a quite night. I made meatballs and pasta for dinner, we got to face time with my cousin and her new baby, and then we enjoyed movie night. We watched Kicking and Screaming with Will Ferrell. It was cute! I think we were all in bed by 8:30. Everyone was exhausted. These school days are kicking our butts! 

On Saturday I was up so early. I think it was around 4:30. I fell asleep early the night before that I just couldn't sleep anymore. I watched a few episodes of Housewives OC and enjoyed a cup of coffee. One by one the kiddos starting waking up around 7 and I got up and got ready for the day. We had pancakes and the girls add some sprinkles and whipped cream.  After breakfast the kiddos got ready and we had a few errands to run but first we stopped at the beach. It was such a beautiful day. Mollie was amazed at how clear the water was and wished she could have gone swimming! After walking on the beach the kiddos played on the playground for a few. It was actually their first time on playground since March. They were happy. 

After the beach we went and ran our errands. Once we got home it was time for some lunch and quite time. Once we had enough of quite time we went outside to play and did some painting. The painting didn't last long and it was time to make dinner. I made dinner to go because we were going to my parents for dinner. Since May we have been doing bring your own dinner to my parents and having a fire with family. The kiddos love it and enjoy making smores!. We got home pretty late that night and all crashed. 

Sunday was pretty uneventful. I didn't take any pictures, but we had cinnamon buns and bacon for breakfast and then went for a walk. The kiddos probably had too much screen time but I was able to switch out my summer clothes for my fall/winter clothes! Which feels nice to do. I started doing the kiddos but will have to finish that up this week. Brett got home around 4. We both didn't feel like cooking. I'm so over cooking dinner every night. We got yummy take out and enjoyed a nice family night! 

I hope you all had a great weekend! 

xoxo, 

Erika 

 

Life Lately

How is it already October?  I thought I would do a Life Lately update since it has been a while from my last post! We are in our third full week of being back to school. Life has been a bit of a juggling act with school and work for both Brett and I, but we are doing well! The girls are doing a great job at the hybrid learning. We all have our moments but that is expected! We have enjoyed the warmer days by celebrating the first week of school with ice cream, lots of walks and bike rides, Mollie went back to dance and is enjoying it. She even got to wear her costumes from the spring and we were able to go see her perform her dances! Hudson had his first day at Project Grow and I enjoy the one on one time I get with him in car drop off line! Harper is doing so well with School too! She loves reading and being on her Zoom calls. I'm so looking forward to this month. Mollie turns 10 on the 9th and we are celebrating with a Movie night at my parents! Of course we have Halloween to look forward to it, even though it will be different this year it will still be fun.  Stay tuned for a day in the life. I really want to record what we are doing these days so we can look back on it all!