Rekindled

No matter what anyone says about social media sites they have connected me with some people of my past that I have lost touch with. And allows me to stay updated with friends and family that I may not be able to catch up with as much as I would like. So when my bestie from grade school and I reconnected for the second time I was thrilled. Especially since we are now living in the same city. Ashlyn and I became best friends in the 1st grade and did not leave each others side till middle school. We went everywhere together and did everything together.

We first found each other a few years ago on MySpace, we met up for brunch and was reintroduced with each other and our new families. Ashlyn was blessed with a sweet baby girl named Marissa. It was so wonderful to have her back in my life, however as life goes we unfortunately lost touch again. Then when I moved to Tampa I looked her up on facebook, I was thrilled when we reconnected again! After several months of back and forth emails we FINALLY committed to a date and met up.

You know you have a true friend when it can be years since the last time you have seen each other and it feels like only days, I love that feeling, when you just pick up were you left off. Not only was it wonderful to rekindle that friendship from my past, it was amazing to see our girls together and forming a special bond. Marissa is a few years older than Everly but she and Everly just adored each other and had a fantastic time together.

Me and Ashlyn rocken our NKOTB gear

Marissa and Everly having a little snuggle

GNO

Sometimes I miss the carefree ways of my old life, don't get me wrong I love being a mom but I do miss my once a week girls night out and the not having to plan and coordinate child care night out. My sweet yoga moms and I decided we all needed a night out, so we started the planning and after several emails and a few months later we FINALLY had a GNO and it was wonderful. We meet up at the dunedin smokehouse  had some yummy food, a few Wackos courtesy of magic hat brewing company  and some much needed girl talk. It is so comforting to know we all are going through the same things. Cheers to many more girls night out.

Cartoon Breakfast

We are on a mini girls vacation and Everly is having her breakfast in bed and watching some cartoons. Such the good life it is!

New Toy For Me

I finally got a new phone, a myTouch 3G, and I am having so much fun playing with it. I added the blogger app to it and I wanted to test it out. So excited to blog on the go, if I can figure it out!

Play Date

Mama-Baby yoga is one of our most favorite activities of the week. Every Tuesday we head to Yoga Village  for some much needed socialization, sharing and caring, and we also like to through in a little downward dog into the mix. I have said this before but we have made some wonderful friends from this class and it has been such a blessing getting to know the beautiful mama's and their babies. This past week after class we had a play date at Amy and Lilly's house. The little ones had such a great time playing, trying new food (way to go Miss Sophia) and splashing in the kiddy pool.

Everly and Sophia

Yum...watermelon

Pool time
Don't worry everyone has their sunblock on

Tickle, Tickle

Tickling has become a major part of our daily routine, I just can't get enough of that amazing belly laugh and watching her throw her head back in a fit of joy and excitement. Seeing her eyes wonder..." is that mamma going to do that again, oh I hope she does, it is so much fun!" , is so adorable to me. So yesterday when we had one of our many tickle attacks  I wondered at what age did we stop wanting to be tickled. Children are running on an emotionally free playing field  all the time, they have no filter and that is one of the most beautiful qualities about them. When they are happy they let you know, when they are mad you hear about it and they do not care what people think of them! I have to say I am in complete awe of my daughter, how fantastic for her to live so freely like that and have not a care in the world, we should be so lucky to be able to express our true feelings and emotions like that. Loving everyone around her, soaking up all the love her world has to offer and always anticipating her next tickle time.

My little green monster

One of the first solid foods we started to give Everly was Avocado and she went to town. It didn't surprise me to much as it is one of my favorite foods as well.

Everly and her avocado adventure

I know it looks like she didn't get any in her belly, but she did.