July 4th & Our 3rd Anniversary

After all the fun of Stephen's birthday, we slept in on July 4th and then I got to work on ironing. It literally look me all day to iron and finish up a few chores - so that was fun. That evening we had plans to meet our friends at the local minor league baseball game. We were able to get tickets that included dinner and free hats! It was soo hot the first half of the game but the 2nd half was so enjoyable! Our Manatee's took home a win and we watched the fireworks before heading home.

We were total cheeseballs by not only matching but wearing matching Old Navy flag shirts!! lol I wanted something red to wear and when I heard they were $2.50, I couldn't resist

There was a big traffic jam trying to leave the stadium but it was cool seeing a ton of fireworks going off around us! When we got home, a lot of our neighbors were gathered at the end of the street lighting off fireworks. We Stopped by to see the last ones get fired off then we headed home and watched the NYC fireworks show on TV.

The next day was our 3rd Anniversary (and our first Anniversary we had to work :( ). After work, we did presents and ate leftovers (how romantic) before heading out for our big surprise date! I've had this surprise activity planned for 2 weeks and I can't believe I was able to keep it a secret! On our way, I let Stephen guess and he figured out that we were doing an Escape Room!! He was so excited! I have to admit, I got a little nervous because we couldn't reserve a whole room to ourselves so I had no clue who we'd be playing with. Thankfully, we were paired with a sweet family and we all had so much fun together!!

Came home to this! I used up all the bows, so Stephen made his own :)

Stephen's been wanting jack stands (and everything else) to rotate his tires so I finally caved lol

He got me a new monogram for my new car that I'll (hopefully) be getting later this year! So thoughtful :)

We did a Shipwrecked room and they had us working with the lights off!! It was so cool!! We started off with 3 flashlights and then you found clues that provided light throughout the game. We finished it with 5 minutes to spare!!

We had soo much fun and can't wait to do another one!!

Stephen's 27th Birthday

I definitely underestimated how crazy last week was going to be, so now I'm going to take this whole week to catch up on what's been going on! As a quick update - we celebrated Stephen's 27th birthday, July 4th, our 3rd Anniversary and my 25th birthday. We are officially exhausted and basically need an entire day to sleep. I definitely want to make sure I capture everything that's been going on so I'm going to be breaking up these posts over the next few days. First up, Stephen's birthday!
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Stephen's 27th Birthday was on Sunday, July 3rd so on Saturday, we headed over to the beach. We definitely failed because we got to the beach and realized we forgot the umbrella! We headed back home to pick it up so we could actually enjoy the day.. what should've taken 20 minutes to get to the beach ended up taking over an hour lol. Thankfully, the beach was still empty and we had a great time! Afterwards, we headed home for a big night of grilling!! I got Stephen a few grilling cook books at a used bookstore near my parents' house and there were soo many good recipes! We ended up making caramelized onion pitas, tomatoes, cucumber salad, homemade baked beans and lamb - Stephen did an amazing job!

We found beach chairs for $4 at Target!!!

Sunday morning, I surprised Stephen with breakfast in bed before heading out to church. After church, we did presents and cake then headed over to my SIL, Lauren's mom's house on a lake. All Stephen wanted to do was "go on the boat with Siena (our niece)" and that's exactly what he got! We spent the afternoon on the boat, did some tubing and then spent some time in the water. It was so much fun and was the best boat day!

One happy birthday boy!

Her snarl face makes us laugh soo hard!!

He loves her so much!!

She PASSED OUT

After the boat, we got ready, did cake and presents with everyone then we headed over to Disney Springs for dinner. They officially finished the newest section of Disney Springs and it's amazing!! We didn't have time to browse the stores but we ate dinner and walked around some before calling it a night. 

The next few pictures of Stephen and Siena are my favorite :)

We were celebrating both our birthday's lol

Right before we left, Stephen and his older brother competed in an agility contest at the Under Armor store. We kept laughing and saying how they'll be 40 and we'll all be in there with our kids watching them compete!

Linking up with Biana.

Five on Friday: Happy July!!

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Oh my goodness I cannot believe it's already July!! How in the world did that happen!? I'm all sorts a hot mess right now because it crept up on me and we have so much going on the next 2 weeks!

So here are our July events which makes this the 2nd best month of the year (besides December):

• July 3rd is Stephen's 27th birthday
• July 4th is July 4th ;) it's also my parents' 29th anniversary
• July 5th is our 3rd anniversary
• July 9th is my 25th birthday
• July 28th I'm visiting my sister and finally getting to see Chicago!!

As you can see, July is NUTS! Stephen's made a few comments before it'd be nice to have kids in the month of July... #ishutthatdown #aintnobodygottimeforthat 

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Old Navy emails ALWAYS get me! Wednesday I saw they had $8 swing dresses, which I had to grab because it'd be comfy and cute with Converses while in Chicago. I'm so glad I did get one because it seems like they're selling out quick! I really wanted a black one but they didn't have one in my size.

I don't have anything red and wanted to wear something red to the July 4th baseball game on Monday. When I saw their July 4th tee's were on sale for $2.50, I had to snag one! Stephen wanted one too so we will be the matching goobers at the baseball game in our ON flag shirts lol

I also snagged another v-neck because they were on sale for $6 - you can't go wrong with a monogrammed v-neck ;) I also grabbed a tankini swim suit top (it was 60% off!) for my company's beach day coming up here in a few weeks. Then yesterday, I got an email that all shorts were 50% off so I ran in to get a pair of jean shorts but all they had were size 0 and 12... guess I really don't need them ;)

I didn't see this dress in the store but how adorable is it!?

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We finished up our landscaping last week and I finally debuted it on the blog Wednesday.

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One of my work friends hosted a girls night Wednesday which was fun! It's really hard socially being an hour away from Orlando because by the time it really got started, I had to leave in order to make it home at a decent hour. 

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We are so looking forward to the weekend! We're hoping the weather holds out so we can go to the beach and do a cookout on Saturday, Sunday is Stephen's birthday and we're going to see my BIL, SIL & niece - we're so excited, and Monday we're going to the minor league baseball game with our friends! They're supposed to have some really good fireworks after the game! Tuesday is our anniversary and I booked a super fun activity as a surprise! I can't wait to do it and I really hope Stephen is surprised :)

I hope everyone has an amazing long weekend!!