What's Up Wednesday

Almost didn't make this link up, but I love looking back at these posts and what we were up to!  It's still crazy around here, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!!




What We're Eating This Week:

Monday:  We actually had leftovers, I had make a lasagna Saturday night and then we had take out pizza on Sunday night.  With needing to be out the door by 5:30, we typically do leftovers!

Tuesday:  Taco Tuesday!

Wednesday: Soup and sandwiches

Thursday:  Chicken Pasta in a creamy white wine Parmesan sauce, found on Pinterest!

Friday-  We have a Halloween party, and the girls will most likely be at the farm.

What I'm Reminiscing About:

The holidays.  All of them.





I love this time of year.  How in tarnation do they grow up so fast?  This year I will only have one trick or treater, so sad.  I'm glad Alayna still loves to get dressed up, haha!

What I'm Loving:

All the fall things.  The weather has pretty nice this fall, the weekends have been cooler and rainy, which I love.  Nothing better than being home and having the time to bake some fall goodies!  They are even calling for some snow on Friday!

Here are some of my fave fall goodies:

Butternut Squash Bread



Pumpkin Cookies


Best Ever Pumpkin Scones


Glazed Apple Pie Squares


What We've Been Up To:

Ummmmm, sports.  The end.

What I'm Dreading:

Nothing, I have nothing but good things to look forward to!  Sports is winding down which means we will have suppers together again!  Fall is here, Halloween is coming up, and don't even get me started about Thanksgiving and Christmas!!

What I'm Working On:

Uh, staying sane?  This might have been me, once or twice.



What I'm Excited About:

I know that my dad will probably disown me for this, but.....



We've been listening to Christmas music for a couple weeks too...



I just love this time of year!

What I'm Watching/Reading:

Right now I'm into:
This Is Us, Survivor, Will and Grace and while I'm on the treadmill I watch Grace and Frankie.  OH.MY.WORD.  If you haven't watched Grace and Frankie, you have to!  So, so funny!!

Reading:
Ruth Reichl's "Delicious".  I'm really trying to read more and phone less, lol.

What I'm  Listening To:

See above..."What I'm Excited About"

What I'm Wearing:

Ugh, can I please get a stylist??  I seriously wish I could hire someone to pick my clothes.  LOVE the idea of Stitch Fix, but I am too damn cheap to spend $60 on a cute shirt...

What I'm Doing This Weekend:

Friday night we have a Halloween party at some friend's house.  Typically we rent a bus and go to different local bars.  We always have SO much fun.  This year they aren't doing the bus, we're just staying at their house.  I'm totally ok with that.  Not sure what we are dressing up as, we have so many costumes from years past!










What I'm Looking Forward to Next Month:

Yep, we literally CANNOT wait for Friday, as the Hallmark Christmas movies begin!!

This is one of my faves.  Yes they are completely unrealistic and cheesy.  But you know what?  In this world where everything is negative and scary, I love watching these happy ending shows.  And so do my girls.  :)
This is one of my faves!



So that's a bit of what we've been up to.  Hope you ll have a fantastic week!!

Fall 2017

We have had the MOST beautiful weather here in Minnesota!  I sometimes will complain about how cold it gets here in the winter, but truly, I could never live anywhere else.  I absolutely love every season!

Every fall we try to get one last boat ride on the lake.  This year it was impossible to find a day where everyone was home.  Insert sad face.  However last Saturday Brad and I found ourselves without any kids for the day and decided to take advantage of it!

We cruised the lake for a couple hours and the weather was perfect.

It was so nice to just hang out together, we don't get that too often!  Saturday night we had a bonfire and just chilled, it was glorious.

Sunday Brad and Alayna went duck hunting bright and early.  They didn't have much luck with the ducks, but they had a blast!  I know it was tough for Brad, as this was the first time in 9 years hunting without Jazzy.  Duck hunting is Brad's favorite, and seeing him not excited to hunt this year was hard.

Despite missing our sweet girl, Alayna had a ton of fun, her fave part is eating swiss cake rolls, haha!

This might be the coolest picture ever, Brad took it that morning.  Stunning!

Sunday afternoon we hit up the local apple orchards.  The weather was incredible, and the orchards were PACKED.  Holy cats.

Alayna's obligatory pic.

On our way to the next orchard, we stopped down the road at a little church in the woods and decided to get some photos.  These are by far some of my faves!!

We have been loving fall, the cooler weather, all the pumpkin breads/scones/muffins, the yummy fall  candles and the cozy nights.  Rachel had her volleyball team over for supper last week and several of the girls made comments on how cozy our house is, I LOVED that!  I just want people to feel at home when they walk in the door.

Well Hey There!

It appears it's been a wee bit since I've been on here.  Holy carp.  Life got a little busy peeps.  School started and shit hit the fan, let's be real.

Here's my beauties on the first day of school.  This was the first time in a loooong time that I was a nervous wreck.  Emma and Alayna both switched schools this year, Rachel made the switch last year and it was the BEST decision ever!  We just weren't happy with our school district, so we made the switch this year for the other two.  It couldn't have gone better, all three love it!

So basically our lives have consisted of this:

And this:

Rachel and Alayna play volleyball and Emma swims.  We pretty much have one night a week that everyone is home.  I'm not gonna lie, it's been really hard this fall.  I am really, truly a homebody and I miss my house.  And I miss my people...aka, my kids.  Everyone says it's just a phase, but in my neurotic mind, I feel like it's the beginning of them leaving me.  Am I crazy?

Anyway, like I said, it's been crazy around here., we typically rush home after work, eat and head out the door.  Thankfully, my meal planning has been rocking!  They are definitely easy, quick meals, but I feel good knowing that we are all still eating homemade food even if it's not all at the same time.

We are now on the home stretch with sports.  Emma is done next week and Rach and Alayna still have a few weeks left.

So between the craziness of sports and work, my incredible hubs decided to plan a surprise trip up north.  I got up Saturday morning and he had our bags packed and ready to go.  It was an absolutely gorgeous fall weekend up there and we just completely relaxed all weekend.  It was glorious! 

We found this beach called Iona's beach that when the waves crash against the rocks, it sounds like bells, it was so neat!

We stayed at the resort we honeymooned in, this is our 4th time staying there, it's right on Lake Superior, and the views are amazing!

I had already taken Monday off, and Brad had gotten tickets for the Vikings Monday night game.  We went with Brad's brother and his wife.  The new stadium was so cool!

It was such a perfect weekend, lots of relaxing going on and lots of fun!  

Tuesday morning I felt like this...

Hoping to be back to a more "regular" blogging schedule!