bubbles

Summer has looked a lot like this so far: 

mornings on the deck in our skivvies (and by "our," I mean Amos') blowing "big uns" (big ones), licking the bubble wand, and popping the ones that magically land on the deck (:

We've also enjoyed splashing in every water fountain downtown, ice cream dates with daddy-o, listening to the "tunder" that "GOOOOD" makes, riding with the windows down, picking blueberries at OD & Cathy's and eating (pop)"sicles" on the front porch...

Against All Grain Paleo Sweet Potato Quiche

On Monday I did a little breakfast meal prep for the week and prepared a recipe from the Against All Grain cookbook that I borrowed from my sweet friend, Monica. It's SUPER easy to make and has made fixing breakfast this week really quick (always a plus)! While this isn't going to be our "go-to" breakfast quiche (Mike didn't like the sweet potatoes and I didn't care for the rosemary), Mike and I both decided that we like the ease of having a casserole-like dish to grab and fix in the morning - so I'll do a little tweaking and try again!

Ingredients:
1 sweet potato, thinly sliced
10 eggs
1/2 lb ground turkey sausage 
1 sprig rosemary, chopped
3 tbsp coconut milk (or whatever milk you have on hand...I used almond milk)
salt and pepper
olive oil for greasing

Directions: 
Preheat oven to 350. 
Grease a pie dish with olive oil. 
Layer sweet potato slices around bottom of dish, making sure the bottom is completely covered. 

Place cooked sausage on top of potato slices and top with rosemary.

  In a bowl, mix eggs, milk, salt and pepper. Pour egg mixture over sausage and sweet potatoes.

Press down any sausage that floats up with your spoon. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until quiche is set.

Enjoy! (: 

birthday love

Happy 20th birthday, Carson! 

we know why Honey is his favorite ...

the birthday boy & Mikey at their finest

Carson & Haley

Happiest birthday, Carson! 

PS -- if you stop getting so old, maybe I will too!? (: 

|another| lazy lake weekend

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means a waste of time. 

|Sir John Lubbock| 

FIRST EVER lone jump off the dock(!!) 

"again"

floating with Da-dee
Carson & his jet-ski 

fishin' with Car Car

an (unhappy) air-pane

fishin' with mama & baby M2

Bahamas, Part 3 | Mosie & Mama

Amos, what a joy it is to be your mama. You make my heart smile little buddy! 

Bahamas, Part 2 | sunshine and the Atlantis Aquarium

Look at all of my "gold-veeesh" 

playing with mama in the water

shoulder rides (one of my all time favorite pics of these two)

the whole gang

T & 'Mos 

checkin' out the "veeeesh" 

Me & T 

Bahamas, Part 1 | "air-panes" and beach bums

Mikey, Amos & I traveled to Nassau to visit the Boutons while they were on vacation... nothing like friends crashing your vacation! We spent lots of time catching up on |much needed| sleep, eating too much pizza food, workin' on our tans and just really enjoyed being out of the country with these sweet friends! 

Amos running thru the ATL airport to see the "air-panes!"

he'll kill me for that one day, I'm sure 

be still my heart

Mikey & William

"rock the board" {& get Mikey off!)

my sweet, sweet blonde boy 

Belle & Amos -- BFFs

sea urchin found while snorkeling

Belle showing off her coloring skills 

More to come... 

bump progress | baby m2

22 weeks + 2 days 

[22 weeks + 4 days with Amos]

23 weeks + 3 days

[23 weeks + 6 days with Amos]

24 weeks + 4 days

[24 weeks + 6 days with Amos] 

How far along? technically 25 weeks + 1 day 

Sleep: sleeping great as long as Mo Mo sleeps great (: 

Best Moment this week: one word: VACATION!!

Movement: Lots! This baby is a wiggle.worm already 

Symptoms: The ridiculous heartburn has gotten much better this week (I looked back & noticed it was about this time that it got a little better with Amos too!) 

Food cravings: notta 

Gender prediction: boy

Labor signs: I've been having some Braxton-Hixx contractions every once in a while 

Belly button in or out: more out than in 

Looking forward to: Tanning this bump with the Boutons this week! 

Random facts about Baby M2: Little one is about the size of a head of cauliflower and knows which way is up and which way is down! 

Sprinkling Baby Martin 2

My sweet friend, Megan threw a Sprinkle for Baby M2 this week. It was such a treat to be surrounded by ladies who already love this little one so much! (: 

chocolate peanut buttery deliciousness

strawberry pie

yummo!!

Ashton & Amber 

Gina, Anna & Emily

cousins 

me & my oldest best -- due 6 weeks apart! 

me & Megan 

the whole gang

Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate Baby M2!!!