We Heart FL- Downtown St.Pete

Earlier this week we were able to have a much needed family outing accompanied by some beautiful Florida weather! You can't complain when it's the end of January and the temperature is 85 degrees outside without a lick of humidity. Summers here are pretty brutal with the heat plus the dreaded humidity, so the most gorgeous days are the early days of Spring. 

We went on over to the downtown St.Petersburg area and had a picnic lunch, which introduced us to Sienna's fear of seagulls. Ha! She is really turning into a little scaredy cat. 

The water was so beautiful! It's so nice to be able to spot a dolphin while having a picnic. I can never spot them, but Danny (the fisherman) has an eye for anything moving in the water :)

The kids just love being outside and who can blame them....

Love my little family <3

Minnie Mouse Inspired Birthday Party

Last month we celebrated Sienna's 2nd Birthday! I can't believe how fast they grow up...it makes me sad and now I see why people have multiple children, but that's a whole other blog post....

Anywho, we decided to do a Minnie Mouse themed party at the local park because she loves Minnie and we were going to be heading off to Disney World the next day! I didn't go COMPLETELY overboard for my two year old's party, but being a former event planner, maybe I did go a little over the top...Just with the sweets though because what two year (and their parents...meaning me) doesn't like cake, cookies, and cupcakes?

Here is her fabulous cake from the lovely Michelle, she rocks! Her cakes look awesome and she iced it out of 100% buttercream!! That's right no gummy fondant! This is our second time using her and I know I will be requesting her for Daniel's 1st birthday as well!

I LOVE to bake so I made some Minnie inspired cupcakes and cookies as well:

And of course how can you have a party at the park without the piñata...but don't worry this only had a couple of lollipops and the rest was filled with prizes, goldfish crackers, raisins, and animal crackers to fill their goody bags with! I love how the piñatas are pull string nowadays too since I really don't want a bunch of 2 year olds swinging a bat at a dangling object :)

      And here is Daniel-Son wearing his Mickey ear party hat...we had Minnie headbands for the girls too, but Sienna insisted on the Mickey one as you can see above! When you are two, you usually get whatever you want, especially on your birthday :)

*If you are interested in a fabulous cake by Michelle you can find out more info here.

Organizing My Life...Yay!

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Is it just me or does this photo make you take a deep breath and feel oh so relaxed? Well it's probably because my house needs a severe visit from the organizer bunny! This photo was taken from one of my favorite blogs, I Heart Organizing . Jen is absolutely my idol! I hope that by the time these kiddos are 4 and 5 my obsessive compulsiveness will be so bad that my house will look just like this photo in every room. And I do realize that hope is not a strategy...

On that note this year I plan to do some heavy organizing in my home. I know, I know, that's everyone's goal for the new year, but I really have no choice! Like I mentioned,  the past three years have consisted of being pregnant, having babies, fully remodeling our kitchen, turning an addition gone bad into a dining room, and creating baby rooms out of the two spare bedrooms in our home. So right now every cabinet or closet door you look behind looks like an episode of hoarders (ok maybe a little exaggeration), but I really have no place to put anything!! The good thing is we created the extra dining room with a laundry/broom closet area as well. So once I started getting all my essential pieces...everything will be falling into place!

I really love organizing and I am super excited to start this venture!! And don't worry I will definitely be keeping you posted throughout this new journey :)

Two Peas in a Pod

                                    Who needs toys when you have leaves and shells to play with...

 It amazes me everyday what these two find to keep themselves entertained.  

but i know as long as they find each other, they are just fine.

DIY Astroturf Play Area

Last month my family and I took a mini vaca to the most magical place on earth--yep! You guessed it! Disney World!!! I am SUCH a big kid so of course I usually am the most excited one for these vacations...especially since my children really have no idea what Disney World really is.... Anywho, we make it a tradition to venture around Downtown Disney the day before we visit the park to get some fun Disney swag and t-shirts for the kiddos! While there, we stumbled across this cute little grassy area made out of astroturf that we thought would be a perfect stop with kiddos to release some energy. They loved it as you can see and I was joking around with Danny that we should totally put a plot of this in our backyard for the kiddos....

HAHA it was a joke, I'm a daydreamer, but once we got back Danny had different plans. He came home with all the supplies to lay an astroturf play area for the kiddos with their own white picket fence so the dogs don't...ahem..."disrupt" the turf ;)
 

Supervising with Uncle Er 

                                   Whaddaguy!!! He really gets Dad of the year for this one :)