high five for Friday!

Happy Fourth of July!!

Three in a row...I'm on fire! :) OMG It's July!! Where has the time gone? The Summer? Wow! Only two weeks left until Beckham's birthday...geez I'm not ready! This week was pretty uneventful. We had a pretty laid back week, which was nice. So here goes my recap.

1. Last Friday was my best friend's Gender Reveal Party. I 100% thought it was a boy. I was so confident- never for a second did I think it could possibly be a girl, but boy oh boy (no pun intended) was I wrong! It's a GIRL!!! I was shocked at first, in actual disbelief...but now I'm super excited!! Her name is Keely Kate (which I love for obvious reasons). Of course she'll be Beckham's little girl friend. Ahh I can't wait!

2. Saturday night was a rare occasion where I got to have a Girl's Night! I hadn't been out with my girl friends since Amber's birthday in January...yeah, way too long! Anyways we had a fun night out of the house and did a lot of little shopping for Keely. It really made me excited about her arrival in December. Girl stuff is so cute!

3. Random picture of Beckham throwing pears for the deer to eat behind Grami's house. He is definitely an outside boy!

4. Yesterday we had a play date with Kevin, Erin, and Jake. Beckham and Jake are only seven months apart and it is so fun to see them play together. Jake is just starting to talk and it's so cute how he says "Beck Um". We basically just ate, visited, and watched the kids play. I'm telling you...pretty uneventful week.

5. Our Fourth of July festivities included swimming, grilling, and eating red, white & blue popsicles. Ha! Butch grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, pork chops, and sausage and sauteed onions and squash. I made a peach cobbler with some fresh peaches. It was all delicious! Beckham actually ate two whole hot dogs and two popsicles. He didn't nap at all today and passed out around 10:00pm-which is really early considering how late he's been staying up.

Tomorrow morning we are headed to my Mom's to celebrate her birthday a little early. We also haven't seen them since there trip to Alaska, so I'm excited to hear about there travels and Beckham misses his Yaya!

That's all for this week... :)

Fourth (& Fifth) Festivities

My diet is official out the window for this week. Beckham and I have been at my Mom & Step Dad's house pretty much relaxing and eating all week long! It's been nice but the gym is going to kick my butt Monday. I'm surprisingly still motivated to workout I just have a self-control problem especially with sweets and Mom bought Reese's cups I can't seem to stay out of.

Playin with Grumpy

In other news, Beckham is having a blast at Yaya's house. The sleeping situation is not ideal but it's just a week so we are fine. Beckham sleeps good for about four hours then he wakes up and gets on the couch with me. But, other than that- he's been playing outside on the deck, in the little pool, and definitely staying busy. I think he's too young to get in the lake and Butch thinks he's too young to ride in the boat, so we've kept our feet on dry land all week, but it hasn't been bad. The weather has been gorgeous, hot, but with a nice breeze. 

I could die.

Yesterday we basically just hung out all day and relaxed. Johnnie had to work so we didn't do much. The lake that they live on had a floatilla & firework show today so we were pretty much a day late on the actual 4th of July festivities. We did get to see some pretty fireworks from a distance last night. Beckham loved them. He couldn't take his eye off of them.

Today was a blast, we woke up early, and got dressed in our red, white & blue! I made patriotic fruit pizza, mom made blue velvet cupcakes (that were really ugly but delicious- and I guess that's all that matters! Lol), two different types of dips (french onion & pizza), and Johnnie smoked pork shoulder & we had BBQ sandwiches. Since Beckham didn't ride in the boat I stayed with him on the deck most of the day. Johnnie's son Johnnie Richard & his family came over. I had never met my step brother or his family so it was nice to spend time with them. We were planning on leaving tomorrow but decided to come on home today. I think both Beckham and I were ready for our own beds! So, as I blog from the comfort of my fluffy and warm bed with too many pillows, I just have to say it's good to be home.

I've got so much more birthday stuff to do before the 20th. I did actually get the invitations completely done tonight and I'll be mailing them out Monday. I'm particularly proud if them because I actually made the envelopes from card stock, cut out every single label, sticker and invitation by hand AND hand wrote all of the addresses. One thing checked off the list, 422738 more to go! 

Photo dump of our festivities:

(Sugar cookie mix-baked, equal parts marshmallow fluff & cream cheese as icing, add fruit & viola) 

Happy fourth & fifth!