Issues I am Loving Friday #478

It’s Friday and our Florida enjoyable is coming to an finish. The previous two weeks we’ve had with household in Florida has been such a present and we’ve beloved our time collectively so, a lot. This journey additionally marks the tip of our summer time journey as college begins for Chase in simply over per week. Gah!

We’ll be making the drive again to North Carolina on Sunday however till then I’m off to spend the final little bit of our time right here with household! Thanks for checking in immediately and I hope you get pleasure from this week’s roundup of Friday favorites!

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Issues I’m Loving Friday

Extra Jacksonville Household Enjoyable

We’ve made probably the most of our time in Florida and stuffed the previous few days with seashore and pool time and some outings with household. Chase and Ryder requested a visit to the Alligator Farm which has change into considerably of a Florida summertime custom for our household.

Our boys are reptile-obsessed so this place is at all times proper up their alley. The alligators had been far more lively than we’ve seen in previous years and feeding them once they had been all concerning the little pellets we tossed into their habitats was a particular spotlight.

Extra enjoyable adventures took us to The Caffeinated Cat the place the massive youngsters love cuddling with lovely adoptable cats and kittens, Jeremiah’s for gelati (sure, once more), mini {golfing} and to Sunshine Park, our favourite park within the Jacksonville Seashore space.

We additionally had a blast adorning shirts with puffy paint and a tie-dye equipment (one other summer time custom) and the boys had been all about further time with my sister and her household and Mae and Pop. They made do-it-yourself lemonade and cookies and browse books with Mae and swam within the pool and the massive youngsters even tried out a regulator for scuba diving within the pool with Pop!

Is any marvel our youngsters at all times ask to come back to Florida!?

This swimsuit obtained a whole lot of love from you guys while you noticed it on Monday’s submit so I figured I ought to embrace it in immediately’s roundup of favorites as a result of it has definitely been a favourite of mine this summer time. I like the Seashore Riot swimsuits that look identical to this one however once I ordered one I simply couldn’t get behind the booty protection. I would like my cheeks extra lined than a whole lot of swimsuits appear to supply as of late and this bathing go well with fortunately has far more average booty protection. (It truly covers my butt even higher than the pics on-line present.) It’s been a swimsuit I’ve reached for again and again this summer time as a result of it’s very mom-friendly and permits me to swim and play and transfer within the water with the boys with out worrying about something coming out.

I ordered it in a medium however the prime is admittedly somewhat large for my small chest. The worth level is so good I’m truthfully serious about ordering it in a small, too, only for the highest and giving the small bottoms and medium prime to a pal who’s extra blessed within the chest space than myself! It additionally is available in a handful of colours (together with a cute crimson, white and blue possibility I want I might’ve seen for the Fourth of July) and the fabric is ribbed and good and thick. When you give this one a attempt, I hope it really works out as nicely for you because it has for me!

My oatmeal apple crisp is a favourite in our home year-round and I believe I’m *this shut* to deeming the recipe the crisp recipe that works with any fruit. It’s labored nicely with the fruit I’ve examined this summer time like peaches and, most just lately, berries! I used an enormous pack of frozen combined berries in this recipe to serve to my household with ice cream and it was an enormous hit. I adopted the recipe as written however added the cinnamon on to the crisp combination and baked it for the complete 45 minutes. All of us beloved this one a lot and I particularly beloved the truth that this one got here collectively further quick because of frozen berries. I’m preserving this one in thoughts for summer time cookouts sooner or later!

Super Seed Oatmeal (No lie, I’ve had this for breakfast each single day throughout our time in Florida. My mother’s recipe and my favourite seedy, fiber-packed oatmeal!)

10 Preschool Lunches (A peek into preschool lunches I’ve packed for the boys for anybody gearing up for the college yr and searching for straightforward lunch concepts.)