Toy Ice Cube Fun!

We have been having a lot of fun outside! My boys don't like to stay outside for long unless there is water involved. We have a water table, but G is at the age it isn't very fun anymore. Cash just loves to dump water all over himself, stand in buckets of water and haul water around the yard. 

 I went on a hunt in the play room the other day to find little toys to put in an ice cube tray to freeze. When I brought them outside the boys were so excited. First G wanted to know where I found all these toys. They had a great time melting the ice off the toys and then playing with the toys. It doesn't take long to melt the ice in 95-100 degree temps! Gotta love Texas heat! 

When I ask Cash to smile, this is the look he gives me now. 

Monday Thrive June 5

Happy Monday! 

1) This is our last week before preschool starts and vacations begin. G is enrolled in preschool for 2 days a week this fall. They suggested to enroll him in a session of summer school, so he would get use to things. Summer school is every day for 3 hours a day. I was hesitant to enroll him at first. Every day is a lot to me, but it is only for 4 weeks. Then we will be going to my parents for a month. When we come home we will have about a month before preschool starts up 2 days a week. 

I have plans to paint the trim in our house and go to hot yoga while he is in school every day. I am going to feel lost, so I felt I needed to find some activities to keep me busy. We will have our afternoons free to go to the zoo or other activities. I think we are both going to like the little change for a month.

2) Cinemark is offering $1 movies or $5 for 10 movies in select theaters near you. Click on the link to see if any movies are playing near you. G loves The Secret Life of Pets. They are playing that a couple times at different theaters new us this summer. I am planning to take him to a couple of these movies. I figure if he sits for 30 minutes for $2 it's no big deal. It will be something fun for us to do together and with friends. I am not sure how he will like a dark theater. 

3) Later this week I have a gift guide for Father's Day posts. My sister and I usually go in on a gift for our dad together. If you ask my mom what to get my dad she will say get him black jeans. If you ask my dad he will say DO NOT BUY ME BLACK JEANS I HAVE 100 PAIRS. It's a running joke between Lacey and I now. Hey it's dad's birthday do you want to buy the jeans or should I? He does have a ton of them! I need to figure out what to get him and have it sent, so it doesn't arrive 2 weeks after Father's Day. He is an easy person to buy for since he likes almost anything other than black jeans. lol

4) I recently read an article about a mother who started parenting like a Danish for a week. I really loved the article. I try to parent partially like this. I don't hover around G. I have always felt it was important that he should play independently. I also will let him run around the house without me following him around. I keep doors shut to rooms I feel he could get hurt or I put things up. I have noticed lately that he is playing better alone and his imagination is really growing. He was playing with his pets the other day with different voices pretending they were putting out fires. He is REALLY into fire trucks, fire poles, putting out fires etc. He still loves garbage trucks, but firemen/trucks are right up there with them now. What do you think of this article? 

5) Tomer Kosher recently sent me a variety pack of their beef jerky. I love jerky! The problem now that I am Paleo is trying to find jerky with ingredients that I don't cringe over or make me sick. They sent me the original, pepper, Cajun, hot and jalapeno. When I see hot jerky that is what I go for first. I love spicy things! My palette for spicy things is high I guess because this didn't seem hot to me at all. I have tried the original and Cajun. Art and I both really liked the Cajun. It has a kick to it! 

I really appreciate Tomer Kosher sending me the jerky. We have only ate 3 of them. I am trying to enjoy them as we eat them. lol I will purchase these in the future. These are something I would much rather my family eat then others on the market loaded with questionable ingredients. G loves jerky! Tomer Kosher mini beef sticks would be awesome because G would love them. =) 


Disclaimer: All thoughts and opinions are my own. The post Monday Thrive appeared first on Because Chocolate Can't Get You Pregnant.  

Texas

A couple months ago we went to Texas. We went to see if we liked the area and possibly move there. Lacey came with us to check things out. We are all hoping to make the big move in the next year. 

George LOVED the beach! He had so much fun walking around the beach, playing in the sand, chasing the birds and even going in the water. 

We visited a rain forest one day. 

I love this picture! It is so cute how George is looking at Auntie!

Hey, Momma look there is a bird!

Guest Blogger Storm from CulinaryStorm!

Hello everyone! My name is Storm and I blog over at culinarystorm

I feel very lucky to be able to guest blog here at "Because Chocolate Can't Get You Pregnant", through a 20sb (www.20somethingbloggers.com) blog swap, and say hello to Becky’s lovely readers.

I wanted to share my summer break experience this year with you all. I live in New Delhi, India where it gets super sweltering in the months between April and August. A common summer escape is the hills, where it is cool and breezy and wonderful.

Last week I made my third trip this summer to Nainital, a small town in the state of Uttarakhand (in Northern India). A beautiful place, with a lake in the centre of the town, Nainital is a popular tourist spot for its stunning natural sights and rather romantic weather.

There are dreamy, misty mountains.

Gloriously blue skies. 

Flowers that instantly improve your mood.

Old churches, steeped in history.

The smell of fresh bread baking.

The beautiful lake, studded with colourful boats.

I spent three whole days doing the following:

Drinking hot, steaming, sweet tea every couple of hours.

Eating delicious baked goodies, fresh from the oven.

Wondering how my appetite expands when I’m in the hills.

Sleeping at odd hours of the day and not feeling guilty.

Staring at the sheer beauty of nature in the rain, clouds, mist, and mountains.

As you can see, I had a rather wonderful time :)

What do you usually do in the summer? I’d love to hear about it!

 

 

 

We've Got WORMS!

Here is Art sorting through his worms & harvesting the dirt.  This is one of the NASTIEST jobs!  I won't go in the garage because the smell is so horrific!  It is amazing to see plants grow from the worm dirt. The plants that have dirt from the worm bins are double the size of the others & are producing more veggies.

Disney here we come!!!!

July 7 can't come fast enough!!!! My friend Danielle is flying out to CA from MI July 7-13. She bought her ticket a couple weeks ago. I have been sooooo excited about her coming to visit. We have been planning all the adventures we are going on during her visit. I have taken the time off work. First we planned to go to San Francisco, Jelly Belly, Sacramento and numerous other places. One day Danielle calls to tell me about Give a Day Get a Date from Disney. She asked how far Disney was from me etc. We found out we could go to Disney for FREE! Well we all know it isn't free after we spend $10.95 on a bottle of water, but our entry would be free.

Danielle bought fleece and made 2 blankets to donate. She dropped the blankets off this weekend. I received my email from Disney letting me know my free ticket is on it's way! Woooo hoooooo!!!! Art told us we are cheating because we didn't volunteer our time. Actually Danielle did volunteer her time making those blankets.

Now our schedule has changed some. Danielle arrives Wednesday night, we will get in a car Thursday morning around 6am and drive to LA. Then we will drive home on Friday. Friday I will show her Rodeo Dr and the Hollywood sign. Danielle is hoping she bumps into that Twilight dude and he is smacked with love at first sight! Then we will be planning a HOLLYWOOD wedding! Saturday we will probably head to Jelly Belly, Sunday we will be resting after church, Monday tour San Francisco and Tuesday she heads home. Oh let's not forget we will have to fit 100 scrabble games in there too!!!! Danielle and I LOVE to play scrabble.....we taunt each other with mean comments for weeks before we see each other. Letting the other know how they will be losing etc. I wish I had some of the voicemails saved from previous years....we left each other some GREAT messages!

I think by the time Tuesday comes we will both be extremely exhausted, but worth all the 100's of wonderful memories we jammed into 5 days.