Labor Day in Missouri

We left Thursday night and spent the weekend in Andrew's hometown of Joplin, Missouri.  I tried to come up with a few catchy titles for today's post...Carb Fest 2013 came to mind, as well as The Weekend I Ate My Weight in Tortilla Chips or possibly That Time We Stayed in our PJs until 1:00 PM...but I settled on Labor Day in Missouri instead.

The kids had Meet the Teacher Night at School, so we didn't leave our house until 7:00 PM which got us to Missouri at 1:30 AM.  Yikes!  We were TIRED!

My sweet girl heading out for her long car trip.

Smith sang his guts out as he watched his Avenger movie.  Apparently, there is an Avenger theme song and this boy knows all the lyrics!

We woke up and headed to our favorite store/lunch spot Sandstone Gardens.  We had a yummy lunch and then bought a few things for the new house.

PawPaw and Smith were being silly smelling the fancy soaps.

This kid loves flowers!  She is my flower child!

After lunch, we headed to one of my favorite Joplin spots, this fun old-fashioned candy house!

Of course I bought toffee!  Did you read Bar #2 yesterday?  I am a toffee obsessed girl!

We had Mexican food for dinner and headed to see the Webb City Cardinals play their first football game of the season (Andrew's high school).

It was warm in the stands but we had fun!

This picture sums up the evening...lots of people, lots of pizza, and lots of Gatorade.

He had so much fun watching the game!

The next morning, we stayed in our pjs around the Shull farm until 1:00.  I read 3 magazines and pinned a ton of new fall things on Pinterest.  Then Kensington brought over my i-Pad with the Christmas music app blaring because she said she thought a little Christmas music would make my reading more enjoyable.  And you know what...she was right :).

We headed into town and looked around the mall.  Being the fun grandma that she is, Cheryll rented one of these shopping carts for Smith.

I love my girl!

Fun times at the Joplin Mall

And then I ended my night watching college football and eating a peanut butter brownie.  So wonderful!

We drove home yesterday and the kids didn't sleep one wink.  They were so great in the car just watching movies and talking.  But at 7:00 pm, Smith asked for a hot dog, and then I found him like this...sound asleep.  His fun weekend wore him out!

Sweet girl was tired too!

Thanks Steve and Cheryll!  We had a great Labor Day Weekend with you!

OK people...get excited!!!  I have two fun things to tell you this Monday!!

First...

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Have a great Labor Day!

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Fabulous Friday!

Today, I'm doing Fabulous Friday!  These are just things that I find fabulous today...

Have you tried Vaseline's new Spray and Go lotion?  I'm officially obsessed with it!  First of all, it's super inexpensive, you can find it at any grocery store or drug store, it smells delicious and it's perfect to spray on squirmy kids.  I like to put lotion on my kids after I bathe them and this makes it so much easier!  Plus, I use it now a lot too.  I'm going to use a lot of it this summer!

Andrew sent me these pictures from the boys' camping trip in Missouri.  Smith loved camping and fishing outside!

He has his rifle ready in the tent in case they run into any mountain lions.  Or bears.  Or Pink Foot (from Bubble Guppies...).

I say he's not smiling because his dad made him wear a Yankee shirt...Andrew says he's not smiling because he was forced to stop and stand still for a picture.  You be the judge...

Then Nanny made him homemade chocolate chip cookies...and he's all smiles!  This kid had a fabulous time!

I am in love with Essie's new summer nail polish collection!  My favorite shade is this Naughty Nautical!  It's a little greenish-turquoise with some sparkle.  Love!

 I received my advanced copy of Boo Mama's new book.  This is a selfie of me on the airplane...I read the entire thing on my flight home from Boston.  It is so good!  I'll be talking about it more next month!

I had a lot of comments about Kensington's military jacket from our Boston trip. I bought it here at Old Navy (and it's on sale!).  It's the perfect weight for outerwear. 

And I'm totally digging this grown-up version too :).

Kensington brought this home from school.  She thinks I'm 25 and weigh 6 pounds.  That girl is fabulous!

Sheaffer and I flipped out over these little boy shoes last year...and Gap brought them back this year!  We have both bought all three colors for our little guys (and they make pink ones for your girl too!).  They're perfect, perfect, perfect for summer!  They rinse off easily, they look great with shorts or pants...and the boys can take them on and off themselves.  I love these shoes!

During the Red Sox game, Kensington asked for some "lipstick" (which is really just pink Bonnie Bell lip gloss)...and then she took her own selfie with my phone.  I think that's pretty fabulous!

There is nothing worse than piling on heavy makeup during the hot days of summer.  I kept reading about this Stila BB Cream in magazines and finally bought some.  Oh.my.heavens!  Love at first use!  It's light but has amazing coverage...and it has SPF 30!  This is my new summer makeup staple!

My friend Ashley told me about this creamer yesterday and I immediately ran to Target to get some.  Fabulous! 

Besties :)

And I just love this wedge.  Love it.  Fabulous Friday should end on a wedge.  It just should.

Need something fabulous and easy to make this weekend?  How about my Key Lime Pie Ice Cream Cake? You won't believe how easy it is!  (And there is no baking involved!!)

Have a great weekend!

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Missouri Bound

We picked the kids up from school early on Thursday and headed off to Missouri to see the rest of the Shull family.  It's about a 6 hour drive, so we watched lots of movies in the car and made the best of it.  We arrived by 6:30 and had dinner with his parents at their house.

On Friday, we went to my favorite store and cafe for lunch and shopping.  My boys.

Sweetie pie!

I told my MIL that green is her color!  Gorgeous on her!

Now, they're both smiling:)

And the eldest Shull boy is smiling too :)

My sweet girl in her pearls ready to shop!

And I took my own picture, just to document me being there!

His "cheese" face is always so hard that his eyes are NEVER OPEN!  We took 8 and they were all like this!

He is showing me his masterpiece...he made an airplane out of his silverware and chips.

On Saturday, we stayed in our pjs all day and hung out.  The kids played out in the yard and Andrew climbed the tree.

In their pjs and coats watching Daddy in the tree.

Cheese!

And of course, he had to climb the tree too!

We always love a visit to Nanny and PawPaw's house!

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