Double weekend review?

I had every intention to post a weekend review last weekend, but I wanted to cheat a little and include our Tuesday zoo trip in the post aswell but by Tuesday I'd completely forgot!

So, we'll start qith last Saturday! We woke up at our regular time and I could already tell it was going to be a rough day so I decided that we'd venture to the goodwill for 50% off day. Oddly enough my kids are usually well behaved in public and lunatics at home, so we spend alot of time wondering around stores! I had planned on going to toddler time at our local library after the goodwill but it was raining and I didn't want to deal with getting the kids in and out in the rain. The last thing I need is a kid with the sniffles!

Sunday was a lazy day to catch up with the house cleaning and the never ending laundry!

Here's a little cheat in the 'weekend' review;

Justin has every Monday and Tuesday night off (have I ever mentioned that he works graveyards?) So Monday is his day to catch up on sleep and game then Tuesday is always family day! This Tuesday we went to the zoo which we actually do often since we bough an annual pass in order to save money and basically be able to go when ever we wanted. Brantley is a huge fan of the zoo and it's been a great way to work on teaching him his animals. Right now just about everything that has fur and walk on four legs is a horsey, but he's learned what birds, monkeys and snakes are. It was sweltering outside and we made this a quick but fun trip that ended with lunch at Arbys!

This past Thursday Justin took us on a surprise adventure, he literally would not tell me where we were going. I had a sneaking suspicion that we were going to Binder Park Zoo (if you live near Battle Creek Mi I HIGHLY recommend this zoo!) It's about 1.5 hours from us which gave the kids a chance to get a good nap in before we got there. Since we have a membership at our local zoo we get a 50% discount at tons of zoos across the US and Binder Park is one. Being on a budget we like to keep our extracurricular actives cheap if possible. It was another sweltering day at nearly 90° so Justin made sure I packed snacks, water, sunscreen and sun hats for the kids and off we went! Brantley of course has a blast, he walked a good 2 miles before asking to be put up on my back where he finished out our trip. If I wasn't already sweating like crazy and getting a work out in adding an extra 30lbs definitely made sure I did. Gannon hung out in the stroller for the most part, he ate as soon as we got to the zoo, but it was just too hot to wear him and the stroller canopy offered shade without covering his head the way the ergo hood does. The best part of the whole trip was getting up close and personal with the Giraffes and feeding them! Gannon gawker liked crazy and Brantley smiled like never before while feeding and petting them. It's definitely worth the $5 for a basket of leaves for them. It was a fun filled day and I always love spontaneous trips!

This Saturday -yesterday- we took a trip to Target! I think for the first time ever Brantley didn't get anything while we were there! I found Gannon 2 shirts on clearance, I treated myself to new make up, and Justin got an Age of Ultron shirt since it was on clearance. We also had to go to Walmart for somw household stuff, laundry soap, toilet paper, stuff like that! I picked up and good bit of produce since we were running low on that too. Hopefully this week I can get it all cooked before it goes bad.

Today -Sunday- we went to Sunday Funday at my dads. He has a big cookout usually twice a month or so ad we always go. Brantley loves playing with his cousins, I love getting out of the house, seeing and gossiping with family and of course the awesome food. The pulled pork today was amazing! I ate way to much and ended up with a stomach ache, haha. After a long day in the sun and slip-n-slide Brantley is currently knocked out next to me in bed. I have high hopes he'll sleep well tonight. The last week has been HELL, he sleeps like 5 hours a night and refuse to nap so needless to say I'm exhausted. Gannon didn't do any playing in the water but the heat and busyness definitely wore him out, he knocked out quickly too! I plan to follow suit as soon as this blog publishes 😄

Small happening I forgot to mention, Thursday was haircut day for Brantley and I, and Gannon is now 3m! I'm going to put that post up tomorrow!

Tune in on Friday for a review of our week! I'm going to do my best to do a weekly and weekend review for y'all!