All in Randomness
Brad turned 38 back in August, but we were just able to celebrate with him earlier this week. Melody had a Mickey themed picked out for him way back in May, and she has kept it a secret the entire time! She may have went a little overboard, but since he wasn’t home for his actual birthday, I felt like it was worth it!
August has been a HUGE month for our household. Melody started school, Brad traveled for work, and he celebrated a birthday.
My mother in law gave me a candlestick holder for our dining room a few months ago. We have been looking for a piece for our dining room table, so this was perfect. However, I could not get the candlesticks to stand up straight to save my life. After a lot of googling, I came up with a solution that worked!
So about a month or so ago, we happened to be near Wahlburgers and decided to give it a try. We have had it for a while locally, but we honestly are never near it to think about it. And to add some humor to this post, Brad was throughly confused by all of the Mark Wahlberg memorabilia until I explained his connection.
This summer we made a bucket list. I recently shared how much we accomplished on that bucket list. One of those things was visiting the Cook Museum in Decatur. So the week before school started, we made our way over there to see what it was about.
Now that we are nearing the end of summer, I figured I should share my Stitch Fix I received way back in early May. I made some requests that I wanted some cute summer clothes to wear at the beach, Disney World, and at all of our end of school year events. My stylist, Kayla, did awesome at picking out my clothes this time around.
July was a very busy month to end our summer. We tried to slow down and stay in town, but we also tried to make the most of our last month before Melody starts elementary school in August (this week, actually!).
June was much more busy than I expected it to be. Like exhausting level busy. So much so, we declared July no travel month, and I have cut back a lot of activities that involve leaving the house, ha!
This year we celebrated July 4th by spending the day at my parents’ pool and seeing family we haven’t seen since Christmas 2019!
We have been to see Disney on Ice many of times, but we went again in late May with Brad’s family. We have yet to see the same performance twice though. That is one thing I have loved about attending all of them. It has also been so fun to see Melody grow and enjoy each performance so differently over the last 5 years. She is truly at the perfect age for it now. Her and Caroline (her cousin) got so into it and really loved it. Check out our experience this time below.
This year we did get to do a bit more for Father’s Day for Brad than we did last year. One of our favorite restaurants closed, but the location was reopened by a new owner. So we finally got to try that as well.
May is literally our busiest month of the year! We have anniversaries, birthdays, recitals, graduations, vacations, and holidays! Whew, I am exhausted just thinking about all that we did!
This year we decided to go low key for our anniversary. We have multiple family vacations coming up, so we didn’t to spent a whole lot of unnecessary money. It was still special and sweet though!
I wanted to do something special for all of the kids in Melody’s preschool class since it is her very last year. After some research, I decided to give each of the kids some chalk. Check it out below.
Last year we were unable to attend the Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo due to COVID. They still held it, but we were not comfortable going. Thankfully they let us use our weekend passes from last year this year. I didn't get a huge amount of pictures. But I did want to share what I did take below.
As Brad likes to sometimes say, “I was influenced”, ha. I have seen much talk about the Billie razors all over social media. I have contemplated them for a while. I love the idea of having blades arrive every so often as a reminder to change my blade. I also hate shaving, and finding a place for my razor away from my 4 year old, and shaving. Like really hate shaving, ha. Anyways, I finally decided to give it a try. It is only $9 with free shipping. So my thought was I could cancel my future blades if I hated it.
March was busy! It marked one year since the COVID Pandemic started, so there were a lot of mixed emotions during this month. But we kept busy, traveled, and had fun!
So we decided to keep Easter low key this year. I also scheduled my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine the day before, so we couldn’t travel. My dad worked as well. So we ended up visiting my parents after my vaccine appointment, and we spent Easter at home. Emily, Justin, and the kids came over that evening for dinner and an egg hunt. Low key and relaxing. I even got a nap in on Easter Day!
