[so happy when gaga arrived! yay!]
[m’s “white wine” aka water. 😉 and she racked up some actual treasure on the treasure coast!]
[my favorite wallpaper of all time lives in our little hallway there and i’m just never over it!]
[we came out one morning to find that someone drew a cute sand kitty!]
[he fell in love with a horsey of his very own. melt me!]
[he discovered that my maxi dresses are perfect for a game of “wheeeeere’s rocco?!”
[happiness! thank goodness my babies love the outdoors.]
[hands filled with seashells on our final beach evening!]
i know i’ve said it about 9 fafillion times now, but OH, that trip down to the beautiful treasure coast was so so good for us all! we totally needed it. a chance to hit the reset button and have some real quality time! honestly, i always seem to need it this time of year, but this year especially. i was so ready to get there i hardly even prepped for it! didn’t even do a smidge of bathing suit shopping. nope! i just did a whole lot of cleaning and laundry and got the H out of D! it was so great.
and so, off we went! and at the end of our first week, when steven had to leave, i was totally nervous and heartbroken about then being apart for 2 weeks after such a solid week of happiness together. it seemed like so long! but on the other hand, i knew my extended stay was a good thing. i knew i needed that time there. i knew it would fly by. and i got to be with my mommy! it was so nice. just so, so nice!
[plus, i hear over and over again you have to go ahead and do these things before your kids are bound by school schedules. gross! i can’t even go there!]
so, in paradise we stayed with our sweetest gaga! we shopped and we laughed and we basked and we mingled and we snuggled and we had our coffee each morning overlooking the ocean and it was perfect! truly just wonderful. it went by quickly, and even after 3 weeks down there… it was so hard to leave! that place is such a special part of us, i just don’t know what we’d do without it. 🙂
on our very last evening, there was just something about the beach that was making it extra incredible, and it was basically torture to think of leaving it behind! we walked and walked and collected shells and had to eventually tear ourselves away, because we really could’ve stayed forever. gosh! i miss it already!
but meanwhile!! husband of the year was not only surviving back at home… he was painting our kitchen cabinets to surprise me! BEST EVER!! and to think i was worried! 😉
oh wow, I have been out of the blogging world for too long! Just now catching up on all of my favorite ones. Your kiddos are so big now and beautiful!
Oh I am totally feeling the Sparks vibe with some of these photos! Such gorgeous moments captured. And could Rocco be any more squishy? He is just the rolliest cutest little thing! Love me some pudgy babies! Has to be so hard to be home but so glad you got to have that time!
Looks like a dream!
Just realizing too that Vero Beach is where Jake Owen is from and you were in a Jake Owen video….coincidence? 😉