Birthday boo

Today we celebrated Jackson's birthday. He was really bothered to be turning the big 3-5, but he's never been more beautiful in my eyes. :) We took a quick 5k walk this morning and had breakfast at Starbucks. Then we headed to the beach. We've been going to a more private beach and it has been so nice and quiet there. I love it.

 Jackson loved it today because the waves were much bigger than yesterday.

He's in there...somewhere.

We went to dinner tonight at one of our favorite restaurants down here, Sonny's. The birthday boy even had a diet coke (tisk.) to celebrate his big day.

We went back to the beach tonight and played with a little puppy who was out with his family. He was adorable. Then we decided to go grab some cake for the birthday boy so we got Cheesecake Factory slices to go. It was a good day. I love my birthday boy so much.

MacKenzie, of course, wanted to wish her daddy a happy birthday, too. She's staying at Grammy's so that her daddy can spend time at the beach for his big day.

Getaway

Life after the wedding shower has still been busy. How does that happen?! I've moved to summer hours at work so my schedule is now 7:30-4:00. It is amazing, but getting used to getting up 30-40 minutes early was tough. It is worth it, though. I'm loving my longer evenings. I've gotten back into seeing my personal trainers regularly and even branched out and tried a new workout. Thursday evening I went to a Pure Barre class in Carmel with a friend from high school, Amber. Pure Barre is a mix of yoga, pilates, core work, ballet and some hell I think. It was SO hard; I loved it. Birthday alert: I'd love a giftcard to take more Pure Barre classes. End of hint. ;)

Between going to exercise class, dinner with Amber, finishing a tax return (my LAST return of this tax season- WOOOOOT) and packing, we had a late night. We only got about 4 hours of sleep before we had to get on the road for our 6 a.m. flight to Palm Beach this morning. That's ok. It was worth it to get here and have all day to do whatever we wanted in one of our favorite places on earth. The first stop? The beach, of coure. 

My happy boy. We applied sunscreen (OK, I applied sunscreen), but still managed to get quite a bit of sun on our first day out. Oops. :)

One of Jackson's co-workers lives down here and suggested we go to a restaurant in Jupiter (about 30 minutes North of Palm Beach) that had an awesome atmosphere called Guanabanas.

We had to wait an hour to be seated but the place was so awesome that we didn't care. It was right on the water and was just so cool. We loved it. Our dinners were really great, too. Jackson says it will be on our "tight rotation" (Our term for our favorite haunts) from now on when we're in Southern Florida. We finally came home and crashed after a long day of traveling. I'm looking forward to celebrating Jackson's birthday tomorrow.

THE Bridal Shower

The bridal shower that has all but consumed our lives as of late has been successfully completed. Shaya looked beautiful, got a lot of great gifts, received a lot of warm wishes and enjoyed some great food.

 We played a quick game of bridal B-I-N-G-O and the groom's mother won. Hooray!

All of the bridesmaids came together and made our house look super festive and fun.

 We had an absolute ton of food and it was all amazing.

 We had right about 30 guests attend- whew!

Shaya made out like a bandit!

 The food room worked out just great.

 The groom's mother winning at bridal shower bingo!

 Shaya sitting pretty waiting to open her presents.

 We did the wedding dress out of toilet paper game and the gown on the right was our winner. How they made that flower in 5 minutes out of t.p. is beyond me.

Shaya opened all of her lovely gifts and I dutifully noted them down for her thank you notes.

 The mothers enjoying the show.

 She got some gorgeous night gowns.

 I made a collage of photos of Shaya that took us all down memory lane.

Britt, Kim, Shaya, Hannah and Me...the making of one super fun wedding for sure! :)

G&A and a bike

Grace and Kathi got to watch little Alex for a few hours on Saturday night so that Kylie and Nick could have (I assume) a date night. I'm pretty sure by the last photo I saw of them (not posted because I cannot find it again- grumble) that Alex wore himself and Gracie out!

 They both look so big. TEAR!

Jackson wanted me to make a shout out to his mom's bike. We got it for her for some occasion (we cannot recall) and she rarely, if ever, rides it. Susan, please remedy this so Jackson will hush about it. :) HA!

On the Mend!

MacKenzie is feeling better as evidenced by this evening's fun. Susie caught another chipmunk in her garden in the live trap. MacKenzie was pretty certain this was a new friend for her to play with for hours. She loved it. In the end Jackson moved the chipmunk to a box to relocate him and he got away. Hilarious! Let's hope he is smart enough not to be at Susie's anymore.


Thanks for your puppy prayers!

Puppy prayers

Our little princess puppy MacKenzie isn't feeling well. She had to go to the vet this morning because she was so sickly. She wouldn't pee or eat. Ugh. I hate feeling so helpless. They think maybe she has a bladder infection so she's on antibiotics for now. She had x-rays, too. I'm sure she's just as worn out as her poor father who had to run her to the vet this morning. I'm hoping she is getting some good rest now while we're at work. (I wish we got sick days for puppies, too. I'd love to be curled up with her.)

Please say your puppy prayers that the medicine works and she's on the mend soon.

Night terrors

Last night I had a nightmare night terror bad dream that we had a baby boy. A baby is bad enough, but a boy? Gross. Anyway, we accidentally had this baby and I kept forgetting him places. I left him at Menard's, the Coach store and the grocery. Each time someone tracked me down and gave him back. Then I decided I could drop him off at Susie's so I did. Only Susie wasn't home so when I called to tell her he was there she flipped out. I responded, "what kind of trouble can a baby strapped into a carrier cause?!"

Case and point as to why we're not having children. (and before you all ask, no we're not pregnant and this was not a premonition dream. I checked.)