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Music Monday

  I have heard this song a lot on dance factory radio lately and I love it. Depending on what kind of music you listen to, I’m sure some of you have heard it as well. If you have not heard it before, I hope you enjoy it.   P.S. Our hiatus is slowly coming to an end. Lots of life changes going on still. We still love you guys!  …

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Holy guacamole ! Where has the time gone? Where have we been? Summer is over and fall is among us the temperature here says otherwise 90’s all week! We’ve been quite busy working on a number of things. Most of the summer was spent watching our nieces and nephews (or in Erica’s case her children as well) tutoring them taking them on mini adventures. Working on putting together a catering site for a new business endeavor and job searching galore. We’ve been working on spending more time with our families and friends and it’s been great only thing is we seem to not update here as much.

With the upcoming season change comes Halloween a holiday that we were not allowed to celebrate as children our parents believed it was a devil holiday. We weren’t even allowed to attend school because they knew there would be celebrations. As we grew older our parents cared less and less and we finally went trick or treating around 2005 I was a senior in high school and Erica a sophomore. It was strange because our friends were realizing hey these are going to be the last years of trick or treating meanwhile Erica and I had just started.

Since our parents were so strict with us I think we all have decided to love Halloween. We all usually have decorations everywhere our sisters kids have been trick or treating since they could pretty much walk. My mother still likes to inform us she does not celebrate but shes dressed up at least once now.

Anyhow since Halloween is approaching we have in the past few years started having a party for all the kids a week or so before Halloween, one that’s just for them. There are no grown up things there are crafts and games and prizes and dinner. We are now working on putting together this years Halloween and I have no idea what to do!

Pinterest is a mad house and all of the things are really cool but sometimes i think do we have time will all the kids enjoy it (we have a large age range to fill 6-13, and that doesn’t include baby Summer who is 6 months!). One year the power went out and the kids thought it was part of the night (it wasn’t) then they freaked out for a bit, but it was a good time.

Last year we did a few of the same activities like decorating caramel apples and some new ones like a trivia game with prizes and puzzle races. Hopefully this year will be another success. The kids are getting older but I’m sure they will love Halloween for years to come. Hope your summers were great and your fall will be too.Now off to continue planning!

-Jessica

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Oh Hey There! Holy guacamole ! Where has the time gone? Where have we been? Summer is over and fall is among us the temperature here says otherwise 90's all week!

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My on again off again relationship with vegetarianism/how to survive food

My on again off again relationship with vegetarianism

Recently I have gone back to being a vegetarian SHOCKING ( …not really actually) I have had an on again off again relationship with vegetarianism (is that a thing?) since late middle school. I first learned about vegetarians in middle school when two girls in my class informed me that they did not eat meat. I was super interested! How do you do that ? So what do you eat? What about the rest of…

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Music Monday

Today’s Music Monday is “Pushing Away” by Kevin Garrett While I was searching for a song I accidentally stumbled upon this. At first I was frustrated because I clicked on something else, but once it started to play I was intrigued. I was glad that I stumbled upon this song! I instantly liked this song along with several of his other…

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Music Monday

Better late than never we have MUSIC MONDAY! I heard this song a while ago but never found out the title of it until recently. I absolutely LOVE this song! Any one else love this song? -Erica

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Music Monday

Andy Grammer – Honey, I’m good I first heard this song on the CMA’s. I know what some of you are thinking, “Why on earth were you watching that?” I was never one to listen or tolerate Country music. Ever since moving with my Grandma-in-law, I have listened to Country music almost everyday which has made me grow quite fond of it. I swear to you I have almost every song they play on US 99.5…

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Wayward Pines

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Thirsty Thursday!

That’s right, you read that correctly! But it isn’t the normal thirsty Thursday. We aren’t going to discuss your normal alcohol. Sorry for those of you who got your hopes up.

This Thirsty Thursday is about WATER!

As we all know, water is beyond important for our bodies! We can’t live without water!

So a popular statement I hear about water is, “You should drink 8 glasses of water a day”. …

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Music Monday

So for those of you who saw the posting earlier for Music Monday, please excuse the repeat. According to Jessica I have pregnancy brain since I forgot we posted this song previously.

Here is a different song I currently enjoy listening too.

Outside By Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding

-Erica

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Music Monday

Here it is! Another Music Monday! I have been thinking about this song a lot lately. Honestly everytime I hear it I just wasn’t to get up and dance! Happy dancings!

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I was recently going through all these boxes in my house, you know the kind of boxes that no one wants to go through. You sort and put into piles and then say oh yeah I’ll clear that, later. Yeah. Well I finally did. And I found this.

This was a letter my cousin gave me before her family moved to Florida in the 8th grade. We were pretty much inseparable as kids every time we were together our parents had the hardest time getting us to go home at the end of the day. We would hide in closets just so we could spend more time together. I don’t really remember what we would do all the time but since I was about one when she was born it was like oh yeah instant best friend/playmate.She was pretty much the fourth sister in our family we even lived together or in the same building on several occasions as children.

Over the years we have been less and less in touch but I still check out her blog and social media to see what she’s been up to. I miss her and love her dearly and if anyone were to ever ask who my favorite cousin was I would always say her.  I’ve seen her life from afar thanks to technology which is really nice since I can’t really afford to travel much. Not going to lie reading that letter made me start to tear. I miss that closeness we had (and her penmanship ugh why was it always so much better than mine). I also miss how even though I was not as fashion forward or crazy about the way I looked as she was she didn’t care (although looking back at these photos I almost wish she would’ve been like JESS! what are you wearing? or what’s up with your hair?).

I remember her excitement when I went to go see her in Florida with my mom and she figured out she had finally grown taller than me! (I was a very tall child it was very deceiving. I’m now a whole 5’4″ or if it’s a good day 5’5″ )

I also remember her flying out here in the middle of winter after moving, to stay with us because she missed being over here. She seems to have adjusted pretty well now. She has a great little family and is doing a great job being a mom and I couldn’t be more proud of her. They are expecting baby number 2 now. I remember her always talking about wanting to be a mom she even had baby names picked out when we were kids. (fun fact: one of the names she would talk about is what they named their son, the list also had several names)

I can’t believe this letter is over 10 years old and I can’t believe I still have it! I love you Tiffany and still miss you a million. Hopefully I can see you and your family soon!

-Jess

Letters from the Past I was recently going through all these boxes in my house, you know the kind of boxes that no one wants to go through.

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Happy Friday!

Happy Friday everyone! It is a beautiful day here in Lake County.

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Music Monday Erica and Summer are doing well and have been bopping along to this tune day after day.

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Here Comes Summer

Saturday, February 28th 2015

I (Jessica) am at work and receive a message from Erica saying shes leaking and she doesn’t know why she also informs me that she tried calling the doctor but hasn’t been able to reach her. So… she said she was going to the store instead with her friends. I was just thinking WHAT! okay if it isn’t bad then I guess wait for the doctor to call back.

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Chili

Chili http://wp.me/s4E1NL-chili

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Transformation Tuesday

So this is the first time doing transformation Tuesday! Unfortunately you will not see my transformation today! But 3 weeks from today you will see my transformation post pregnancy!

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Sweet Tea

I would like to start off my saying I forgot to take a picture of this delicious beverage in a cup (I’m terrible, what can I say lol). This sweet tea recipe is not ours and in no way are we claiming it. I did one thing different than the instructions, which was dissolve the sugar while the water was boiling. I give all credit to the website I found it on, you can find the link at the bottom of…

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