Beautiful Wedding Anniversary Wishes

Happy Friday, friends! We are so happy that the weekend is finally here, how about you? We will be celebrating Brandon's birthday, which sounds like the perfect reason to procrastinate packing. Things are about to get crazy over the next few weeks, so we are looking forward to relaxing & spending time at the pool with our babes. Pic via pinterest . Wanted to share a few Friday Favorites with you today, so many fun summery finds, hope you enjoy!! It's official, I have an obsession with pool floats .   My favorite denim shorts of the summer are on sale! I live in them, they're so comfy!  Love this list of 26 Summer movies to re-watch ASAP .   The cutest book the girls picked out at the book store this week, a fun story & beautiful illustrations. I'm so excited to plan a new library wall in the new house! ;) The most flattering peplum top , and it now comes in lots of new colors! Using your blender or food processor to make shaved ice? W

We took a little trip to a local sunflower farm last week & the girls have not stopped talking about it ever since. Harper called it "the land of yellow corn flowers" and after sneezing a bunch after we left, she got very concerned about having "aller-jesus." It has always been my dream to own a place like this, a Christmas tree farm in Vermont or a bed & breakfast in Savannah. Or a house on Melrose in Iowa City during tailgating season. ;) A place of your own, that you get to share little bits & pieces with everyone else. Kinda like blogging I guess. I gave Harper & Eloise each a dollar bill so they could go buy a sunflower to bring home. They ended up pulling off all of the petals one by one, and stuffing them inside some hydrangea stems they pulled out of the front yard, and made wedding bouquets to run through the sprinkler with. I love their imaginations. And the fact that I got to drink coffee in peace & quite for almost an hou

Strawberry shortcake is our absolute favorite summer dessert around here. My kids are addicted to strawberries, and when they are in season, we can't help but buy them in bulk. Last weekend we made homemade biscuits to throw together a super yummy shortcake, and it did not disappoint! Topped with vanilla frozen yogurt, whipped cream, sliced strawberries in homemade syrup & probably too much powdered sugar. If there is such a thing.   I am rounding up seven of my favorite recipes for strawberry shortcake today, and thinking it wouldn't be a bad idea to try them all before summer is over! ;) 1. Grilled Strawberry Shortcake Donuts // This totally counts as breakfast right? 2. Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Sandwiches // I love these all tied up with bakers twine, so pretty for entertaining or birthday parties! 3. Strawberry Shortcake Overnight Oats // Overnight oats are so easy & make for such a good way to switch up breakfasts, especially for kids. 4

Happy Friday, friends!!! So excited for the weekend, even though it mostly consists of packing & working on the new house, I am happy to just be HOME! It has been the craziest week over here, we had some major storms & lightning that destroyed some of our electronics & trees (not ideal in the middle of selling your house), plus quite a few setbacks on the kitchen at the new house. Our kids have been bouncing off the walls coming down from their vacation high, and I think a little weekending is just what we need! I can barely form thoughts these days so I thought I would share a few fun Friday favorites, starting with my little side chair I found on Craigslist ( retails here ) earlier this week!! Loving this chair in the entryway & it's seriously making me so excited to move in!! I can't wait to fill this space up with frames! Completely in LOVE with these tutu ballet dresses for Fall, I got the girls a few in each color & cannot get over how cut

This beautiful barn wedding in small town Iowa was one of the most beautiful that I have ever been to. My brother & his beautiful bride created such a gorgeous, laid back atmosphere, and you couldn't help but feel in love. In fact, their wedding hashtag was #udderlyinlove (seriously how cute?!). It was on a small farm, in a beautiful wedding barn, with the most perfect weather & sunset that anyone could ever ask for.  Their ceremony didn't start until 7:30, so the sun was beginning to set during their vows. Everyone came out early to mingle, they had their photos done early in the day, and hung out with everyone during cocktail hour before the ceremony began, which I thought was so fun of them to do! They had a beverage & popcorn station at the front of the lawn to take with you to your seat, I've never had a beer during a wedding ceremony before, pretty much the best way to treat your guests!! ;) They walked down the aisle to one of their best friends sing

We came home late last night from our ten day trip to Iowa, I can't really put into words the amount of chaos that went on & how happy we are to be in our own beds. We had planned to head back for my brothers wedding and just stay for a few days, but in recent news of both of grandparents having some health issues, we decided to make it a longer trip so we could spend more time with them. We are SO glad that we did, and know that all of us will cherish that extra time together. On the other side of things, it feels like we have been gone for six weeks & I feel like it will take me just as long to recover from it. Fourteen hours in the car is WAY too long for three kids. We left Saturday afternoon, and were going to attempt to make it to St. Louis, but our wheels were falling off the bus by Nashville so we just stopped there. Word to the wise, never do the short part of the trip first, because by the time we were strapping the girls back in their car seats in the morning