Friday Favorites

 Happy Friday, friends! We're nearing the end of summer break and it's making me so sad. Next week is our last week before school starts and I'm not ready. I'm sharing a few favorites from our week...

Colson attended middle school orientation and my heart about couldn't take it. This was the one and only picture I took because...not cool! He had a great time and I think having two days of orientation makes middle school not so scary!

I made these two a tray lunch and they loved it!

Colson is going to be playing quarterback this year so we had a friend come over and help him. Dakota plays quarterback in college and was so kind to spend his evening helping. Practices have been cancelled due to air quality and so having a yard full of boys is a favorite!

Charlee Jo's outfit picks are my favorite. I mean...she's just beating to her own drum and I love it!

My least favorite of the week...our community is experiencing a terrible wildfire. They have evacuated so many people already from their homes. It's scary and sad to watch. If you could life our community up in prayers it would mean the world. I know there are so many wildfires in our country right now. We need to pray for everyone that's affected.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. We're praying for rains!

Cleaning Favorites

 It's something we all have to do so we may as well have tools to make the job easier! I'm sharing a few of my favorite cleaning tools today. 

This Tineco mop has been amazing! With getting a puppy and having paw prints all over my floors and three kids, this does a great job! It's quiet so I can do it whenever without bothering anyone too much.

I use the cleaning solution that they recommend and it works great.

For every other surface in my home, I use Thieves and it works so good! It smells amazing and I feel comfortable letting the kids grab a spray bottle and help. It works on glass, counters, toilets, you name it. It is a concentrate so this bottle lasts me months!

This vacuum is so good! I have been through a couple different cordless stick vacuums and none of them have compared. It's an investment but I use it daily.

This is a great tool that I use in our shower. We have iron in our water and this really helps! I love that it has so many different attachments. After I use it, I throw the attachment into the washing machine!

Do you have any cleaning tool that you love?

San Diego 2024

 Happy Wednesday, friends!!! We're just getting back into the swing of things this week. Football started and Colson had middle school orientation. School is just around the corner.

We took a family trip to San Diego last weekend and had the best time! 

I'm going to share all the fun today...

This trip was Charlee's first time on an airplane. She was so excited leading up to it but after we landed in San Diego, I asked her how it was and she told me it was boring!

Flying in style....

We landed and dropped our bags off at the hotel before heading straight to the Midway. Peyton loves watching Midway so this was highly anticipated. 

All of the kids had a great time.

Thankfully they were let out of the Brig to enjoy the rest of our trip...

I was so impressed with all the interactive things for the kids to do. They were engaged the entire time and earned their junior pilot wings.

The Midway was Peyton's favorite part of our vacation.

We headed to the first game of our trip!

A victory walk to get some ice cream!

Saturday morning we toured the ballpark. I love taking these tours. Anytime you go to a ballpark or stadium, I encourage you to tour it. You can learn so much about them.

It's also really fun to see the field from different angles. This was from the broadcast room.

The suits at home plate have a view of the batting cages. 

A good impersonation of Buddy Black, the Rockies manager.

And sitting where Charlie Blackman sits. :) 

I can't explain the happiness I feel when I'm at a baseball game. 

I'm so glad we get to experience this as a family. 

We went with our friends, the Perry's but didn't more than this picture together!

Colson got to see his dream shoes in person but we quickly walked away when they told me the price!

We had a little down time so the little kids swam in the pool...

While we drank some fancy drinks poolside! 

Back at the ballpark for another game!

Life with Travis is so fun!

The Padres won but it was still a fun game!

Colson even came home with a signed baseball!

On Sunday, we took the kids to the ocean. None of them had seen the ocean before and watching the joy it brought to them was my favorite part! They could have stayed at the beach the entire weekend.

I married a beach lover and now we have three beach loving kids!

They all took turns getting buried in the sand.

While Mom and Dad just enjoyed the beach.

We went to a beach on Coronado Island and then ate lunch on the island before heading back to the hotel. We loved Coronado Island and if we ever went back to San Diego, we'd stay on the island. It was much cleaner and there was a lot of small mom and pop shops.

Both of the boys came home with new hats!

Charlee is never going to let us leave her at home again. She is hooked on vacations! 

My seat mate home on the plane was a very handsome captain! 

We packed as much as possible into this fast vacation but we all had so much fun!