THREE MONTHS!

I may get a few days behind at times...but I have made it THREE MONTHS into my new years resolution to do this blog daily.  I appreciate my 4-6 loyal followers and know that you'll call me out if I fall behind :-)

I AM STARTING MONDAY!

Have you ever said that with a diet?  I've done it a million times, and sometimes it's worked.  So I am hoping it does again!  This time for motivation, I am in a contest with a few friends...we're calling this the Mixtape Meltdown, in honor of our trip in June (feel free to judge away here, we're all comfortable...)  We technically started LAST Monday, but here's to week 2! Calories, steps, water, exercise...let's do it!

 

ST O'S DASH FOR CASH- AT GREEN MILL :-)

Sunday night was a fundraiser for Juliette's school...at Green Mill Shoreview...so how could we not go?  I will say that we do much better in a booth than at a table, but overall the kids are getting MUCH better at eating out.  Thank you technology :-)

And yes, the biggest picture has the beer...

DILLY BARS

Eating the last of the Dilly Bars from Amma!

LUNCH WITH A LOVED ONE

Friday was "Lunch with a Loved One" at Juliette's school.  It's something that my mom and dad do with her...I think she likes it :-)

#TBT PIRATE SHIP SWINGS

One of my favs from last year :-)  That pirate ship is pretty darn awesome...

MOA AND DR

Today's Mamma Juliette Day brought us to the MOA.  I had some free mystery points, so it was a cheap date!  I even got Juliette to go on a kind-of-bigger-kid ride.  It was Jimmy Neutron, so that helped sell it because she has seen that on Netflix.  It spins forwards and backwards and fast enough where you feel that drop in your stomach.  As soon as that happened, I thought we might be in trouble...but I quickly played up how cool the tickle in the tummy was.  Thank god she bought it.  And then she talked about how it was the coolest ride EVER.  Success!

merry-go-round, dippin dots, waiting for the swings, new way to hold her sweater

stock photo of the Jimmy Neutron ride...

Friends, anyone?  The picture on the right was actually her doing..she loves getting maps.  The picture on the left was me posing her to "get in the map" :-)

In the afternoon we had Dylan's 3yo well child appointment.  He's about 65% height and weight, and everything else is great.  We did find out that our Dr (and old, old neighbor) will be retiring at the end of June, so I made Juliette's appointment for his last day :-)

just a sweet outfit...

"counseling" her bro...i just love that her legs are crossed!

ANNNNNNNNNNND, WE'RE DONE WITH DIAPERS!

Rocking his new Spiderman undies!  I am going to officially call it that Dylan was totally potty trained by his 3rd birthday!  Even when sleeping!!  We didn't even start Juliette until she turned 3, so this is pretty awesome.

HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY DILLY BAR!

 I like to do balloons for birthdays...and Dylan has been REALLY into having a party hat!  And, of course, the bday glasses, which he WAS way more receptive to that Juliette was at that age!  He wanted to wear them all day!

Good Morning Birthday Boy!

he loved his balloons

Birthday shirt! (his first year- i had it the first two, but he was so terrible i never got a pic!)

Dylan summed up in one picture.

cake for breakfast on your birthday...yup!

Stopped by Amma and Papa's after work to open presents...pretty pumped about a big Spiderman!

Awesome pic!

DILLY'S 3RD BIRTHDAY PARTY

So much fun at this party...this kids LOVES a birthday celebration!

Let's just look at it through pictures:

Throwing his 3 year old gang signs...

yup, he's 3!

sibs!

bowling with his buddies

group pic...minus cousin Jack

donuts and juice boxes...you know, staples...

he wanted a Spiderman cake with a bad guy on it!

so photogenic...

he closed his eyes the whole song...it looks like he is REALLY making a wish, but really I think he is pretending to hide so everyone can say "surprise"

 

blow 'em out buddy!

Everyone singing...Dylan trying to blow out the candles...pretty cute to watch!

bedtime...last pic before he wakes up as a 3 year old!!

A SUITE TIME AT THE WILD GAME

My work has its perks...one of them being tickets to lots of different things.  Today Joey and I were able to go in a suite to the wild game.  It also helped that we won 6-2 :-)  My parents, uncle, and cousins were all there too...fun Saturday afternoon!

PARTY PREP

I would like to pat myself on the back for throwing my most low key child birthday party yet!  I even skipped the printed invite and just did an evite!!!

The party will be small and perfect and a fun time for all!  Dylan is super into Spiderman right now, so the decorations, cake, etc, will revolve around that!  For the fun, we'll be bowling!  I help out with some stuff at Town Hall Lanes, so they were nice enough to open early for our private party!! 

I did still have to make something :-)  Here is Dilly's outfit for the day!

COMING SOON TO SEW JACLYN

Toothfairy pillows :-)  Here are the prototypes:

 

It's nice to have so much spare time!

SID THE SCIENCE KID

Today Juliette really wanted to go the the Children's Museum.  They have a new Sid the Science Kid exhibit there, and we've been watching it on Netflix, so it was a fun connection.  We actually were able to DO a lot of the stuff....non-standard measurement, looking at charts, creating a new invention on the ipad, playing a jumbo sized memory game!  It was a lot of fun and learning :-)  She is getting so old!!  I love it!

in the big picture, she is "checking her brain"

 After the museum and lunch, we stopped into Candyland...all the choices and she picked gumballs :-)   We also got some popcorn for daddy and Papa. 

like a kid in a candy store...

ST PATTY'S DAY

Well, I got one kid dressed up! I actually made this last year, but it still fit.  Score!  As a plus, she was really into wearing the headband this year too!  Love my lil' Leprechaun!

Dylan was wearing blue striped shorts over kahki pants and a dinosaur t-shirt....so he pretty much screamed Irish :-/ (picture not available)

NOTHING

Today, I have no pictures on my phone!  I worked until about 9, then went downstairs for a late HH.  So it was a pretty boring day for me....however, I would say it was one of the most productive work days...kinda like this guy:

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

My parents took Juliette on a special date to go see Beauty and the Beast...and it was about as perfect as it could get!  I was able to borrow this awesome yellow dress, that looks like a Belle dress, for her to wear.  Obviously, it got a lot of attention and comments and she LOVED it!  She also got a locket and a t-shirt for souvenirs and the fun of going out with her Gramma and Papa!

ready for the ball!

i mean seriously....how awesome!

SO THIS HAPPENED TO MY WORK...

This is what happens when people drink to much to celebrate St. Patty's...not cool.  My office is right above where the car hit!

REALLY?

MORE FAMILY FUN

Tonight we got invited to an extra swimming lesson...the "student teachers" get to do a class on their own.  I never pass up something FREE :-)  It started at 6:30 so we all met for dinner at Jimmy Johns and then headed to swimming.  After that, we dropped the kids off at my parents to play for a bit while Joey and I went to Juliette's conference (all good!).

he was sooooo loving on his daddy at dinner!!

goggles!!

RANDOM DAY OF FUN

 Today the weather was gorgeous!  Juliette and I snuck over to Como Lake for a bit before meeting Joey and Dylan for dinner.  Then we all went to get Dylan's haircut...he loved it :-)

Hamm's was a staple in my college days...

loving the sun!!!

daddy and his girl

"mom, take a picture of my hand"

Dilly Bar laughing away with Miss Sara!