our weekend adventures

we’reeeeee baaa-aackkkkk!
our weekend adventures are back as promised!
this was a good one to start on too!

friday

we met up with our neighbor/friend and her two kiddos for crepes and shopping afterward. she had never been to jewel box so jaz & i thought it was a must!

cruz & jaz
seriously the cutest and sweetest boy ever!
we headed over to u-village for a little shopping!

camíla & austin
our other two! mila is just one month behind a and is the sweetest baby girl ever!

austin had to try out his new jim jams! maddie introduced me to kickee pants and i am obsessed now! have you felt that material!! you can get austin’s pj’s {here} 

saturday

this sweetness in the morning. swooonnn!

i was in desperate need of a pedi and an eyebrow wax so the hubby stayed home with the kiddos and and i got to sneak out for an early appointment.

this dude turned 4 months!!!
read his update post { here }

sunday

eggs & bakey for breakfast!

we went on a cleaning kick on saturday and cale deep cleaned our bathroom, including my makeup organizer. but this is how he put everything back in it! geeeezzzzz!

we went and celebrated this handsome boy’s 5th birthday!
happy birthday cruz!

grocery shopping sunday and the whole clan came with!

bedtime bottles with papa! it’s becoming quite the task to get this guy to eat without squirming everywhere and pushing the bottle out so he can sneak his hands in.

after brother went to bed, sister got to make slime! i am SOOOOOOOO READY for this slime phase to be overrrrr!!

and of course to end the night once both kids are sleeping, GAME OF THRONES!!!

told ya it was a good weekend to start our adventures back up! the weather has turned cooler over the last few days and i’m okay with it. the last month has been HOT! plus i always get excited when we get closer to taking out that god awful ac window unit.

what did you do??

-jess♥

our weekend adventures

BUT FIRST
can i just recap on my awesome trip to colorado last weekend?

we walked around the denver botanic gardens and it was beautiful!
here are few more!

look how beautiful!!!

this lovely lady played chauffeur to us all weekend! love you rhi!

i had the best girls weekend!

k now back to our normal shenanigans!

friday

jaz & cale got me a little betta fishy for my birthday!! blog family, meet franklin da fishy aka-frankie!
oh man do i love him! he just stares at me like this all day. my poor co-worker that sits next to me, she has to endure baby talk alllllll day.

it was a dear friend’s last day and the probation officers had this made specially for her. it was so beautiful!!

saturday

i gladly volunteered to go get coffee in cale’s new whip. after totaling his car a couple weeks back he finally chose a keeper!

while i was in colorado, my hubby worked on building a little pantry in our closet under out stairs. it’s amazing what a difference a few shelves can make!

spring cleaning day for mama bear while baby & papa bear got to building the new deck! i seriously cannot wait for that thing to done! it’s going to be so nice!

sorry for the worst quality picture ever but we let lulu out on the leash and she loved it!
adventure kitty!

sunday

someone woke up with a wicked sun burn. eek!

SOS! i just noticed that i am missing my matching kendra scott necklace! uhhhhh you guys i am so bummed! i must have left it somewhere in colorado. seriously….so upset!

happy early mommy’s day to me! i am so excited for these new babies!

we shaved lulu’s belly by ourselves and found a lump. cale thinks it’s nothing but of course i’m freaking out. a little lump could be a huge sickness. insert crying face here. 😦 i love my lusers.

mother’s day cards are signed, stamped and will be put in the mail!
gifts are already on their way!
what did you get your mommas/gmas?

another beautiful weekend for seattle. i kept an eye on the weather all week just to prepare for our deep spring cleaning! i was so pumped to get down in dirty and clean every nook and crevice and then i ripped/tore/stretched something in my lower back that is excruciating. so my wind was very quickly swept away so only the kitchen got a deep cleaning. the rest of the house just got a normal, sunday cleaning. whomp whomp…there’s always next weekend!

cale poured the concrete for our new deck and finished the pantry! our little house projects are coming along nicely! our house will be ready to sell in no time!

hope you guys had a great weekend! what kind of shenanigans did you get into??
what are y’alls plans for mother’s day?

always,
-jess♥

our weekend adventures

friday

rise & shine! this is what my poor husband has to look at in the morning…yikes!
thanks for loving me, honey!

look at these cute pups at my favorite coffee stand!

have you done your taxes? ugggghhhhh! cale and i definitely waited till the last minute to do ours because we knew we would be writing the check to the irs instead of the other way around.
lammmmeee

finally caved and went to the doctor… one huge sinus infection for me! cool.

try working on this payroll spreadsheet when your head feels like a balloon.

we let jaz pick the restaurant and of course she chose olive garden. they have these fancy little kiosk thing and we kicked ass on harry potter trivia.

saturday

this little goon is headed down to texas to visit with her father. she gets so excited!

“Missing you is my hobby, caring for you is my job, making you happy is my duty and loving you is my life.”

she got to fly in the cutest plane ever!
see you in a week baby girl!

well, what do we do now that we are kidless?
play around in parking lots, duh!
look how small these cars are!

since we can’t take jaz to see adult movies we basically raced to the next showing of deadpool! we have been waiting so long to see this! and oh my gosh…
it was hilarious! we haven’t laughed that hard in a movie in a long time.

call the authorities, my husband and i are out of control! lol
we went home, played rumikub and drank a few beers. we got insanely crazy, ya’ll.

sunday

we went a celebrated a sweet girl’s first birthday and this huge feline was there and stole all of my attention! he has a big ol body and teeny tiny paws!

if you follow me on instagram {@jess_g_anderson} then you saw my tidbit of advice to all mommas:
invest in a nice camera, take lots of pictures and PRINT them!
you will thank yourself in the future when your babies are all grown up.

happy first birthday to little miss ellie girl!
what a doll!

project ‘new deck’ is underway! i can’t wait till it’s finished! in case you missed the new layout, you can find that {here}
i know i say this a lot, but i am so so very grateful for my handy husband who is taking this on all by himself.

after working up a mean sweat in the backyard {cale not me} we decided to go for a walk to get slurpees at the neighborhood 7-11.
we swung by our neighbors house and stole their dogs. teehee!

another beautiful weekend here in seattle!
it is always bittersweet to send jazmyne off to texas but it’s easier when it’s only for a week instead of a couple months.
i am off to colorado this thursday for a helluva girls weekend/my birthday weekend! i can’t wait to share some pictures with ya’ll!
i hope you had a good weekend and cheers to a hopefully not so brutal work week!

always,
jess♥

our weekend adventures

friday

casual fridays makes my heart happy. i love being comfy! it makes fridays that much better.

i got this bad boy a couple weeks ago and i’m still loving it! i haven’t always been a fan of drip coffee but spending 6$ on a cup every day, 5 days a week, yeahhhh that little 6$ turns into close to $150 a month and welp… that’s like 3 tops or a pair of shoes sooooo. yeah.

i feel like a broken record saying that work has been crazy but it’s true! i have been so incredibly busy that friday nights have just turned into relaxing at home and hanging out with cale and jaz.

saturday

i got to play with this little princess at a friend’s baby shower. obviously sesame street was way more entertaining than auntie jess.

it was so much fun celebrating this momma-to-be! she is absolutely glowing and so stunning, little baby strohmeyer will be here so soon!

later on in the evening we went to university village down in seattle to meet up with some of cale’s family. i love how lit every tree is throughout this plaza.

we came home to the BEST DELIVERY EVER….
our wedding photos!!!
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
oh my gosh we love them!!
unfortunately, we were asked not to post them on here just yet, our photographer wants to wait until she hears back from publications to see if they run us in a feature!! eeeekkk!!
but if you follow me on instagram then you already saw that i shared a few there!!!
if you don’t then you should!! // @jess_g_anderson
once i get the green light from stephanie, i will post some on here!

sunday

we woke up early and picked up cale’s momma and went and grabbed coffee and crepes. yum yum! it’s crazy how much of a coffee freak i have turned into. but i love it…luhvvveee it!

‘hi my name is lusers and i look sad all of the time’

so if you haven’t noticed, when momma jo comes into town, we eat at all the best restaurants/fattening food places. this evenings menu was dick’s drive in and buster brownie cake! helllllo diabeetus!

and then to round up the very busy weekend we landed in the er when a family friend was stuck in here after breaking a few bones. eek!

it was such a busy weekend with lots of fun shenanigans! my mother-in-law has been in town since last weekend so we made sure to try and spend as much time with her as possible. why does momma cooking never get old? that’s a serious question…why is mom cooking so darn good? i literally could sit on my couch all day and eat whatever my mom cooks when i see her, well same goes for cale’s mom. she is the best cook and we are always well fed when she visits. HALLELU!

any who, i think next weekend will be a lot less busy and that is exactly what i need. i feel like i have been going full speed every day of the week for the past two weeks and this momma needs a break!

what did you get into this weekend?

always,
jess♥

our weekend adventures

friday

cale is still in the midst of home projects which does this to my floors…. i can’t wait till it’s all done!

saturday

cale was scheduled to work this weekend and couldn’t give it up so you know what that means…
mommy & baby’s day out!

first stop was to get the nails did. in love with this tiffany blue!

we went to every home decor store to try and find something for our new shelf in the living room, but no dice. so we ended up at nordstrom’s cafe to get my favorite salad!

it has arrived!!!
during our wedding ceremony, instead of mixing sand for the unity ceremony, we mixed little glass pieces. we each chose a color significant to us. cale chose green, for the emerald city and to symbolize growth, i chose white to symbolize new beginnings and jaz chose pink…well because…her favorite color is pink haha. once the wedding was over we sent our mixed glass to a phenomenal glass blower to create this beautiful sculpture for us to have as a forever keepsake of our amazing wedding day! we are so happy with how it turned out and will forever cherish it!
all of the amazing credit to UNITY IN GLASS, if you are a bride-to-be or know of someone getting married soon, i could not recommend this company more. they have so many different sculptures to choose from! ahhh you will not be disappointed!

sunday

seahawks had a 10am kickoff…who does that?? so coffee and no makeup was a must!
but uhhhh…DID YOU SEE THAT GAME??!?!?!!?
holy shit balls. it damn near gave me a fuggin heart attack! i feel so bad for minnesota’s kicker though…that has to be rough. eek.
but wahooooooo!!! next up, the cardinals.

someone stole my mug…

made my favorite white bean chicken chili! nom nom nom

this might be one of the worst things that’s happened to me! my clothes broke our rack in the closet! of course this only fueled cale’s endless rant about me having too much clothes. yada yada yada. whoopsie

how was your weekend? did you watch that game?!

always,
jess♥

our weekend adventures

friday

i had carpool duty which means i had some extra time in the morning and jaz requested chorizo & egg tacos. so i made her one….and 10 more to bring to work and surprise my fellow co-workers that had to suffer with me on this friday.
just call me santa. 😉

meanwhile…

look at how handsome my hubby is. ❤
cale and his brother hit the slopes! ugh, i was am so jealous! i have never been skiing or snowboarding so i am super excited to finally get to go!

after work i had dinner with a friend and then headed to shane co to pick up this beaut. because i added 2 extra bands for the wedding, it got incredibly tight so i needed to let it out 1/4 out and then i got the bands spaced out. i’m obsessed with this thing.

WHAAAAA!!! when i got home jaz and cale were watching hey arnold, then we watched doug, AND THEN we watched rugrats!!!
cale & i felt like we were back in the 90’s, it was awesome!

saturday

i had to make a run to the grocery store for some ingredients for cookies and i was oh so lucky to sit in this ridiculous line at our favorite coffee place.

i was in the kitchen all day because of these things. don’t worry the recipe for the apple pie cookies will be up soon! and the brownie christmas trees are just that…brownies lol. with some cookie frosting drizzled on top.

i was invited by my sweet co-worker, now a good friend, to her annual christmas cookie exchange! look at all these cookies! everyone had to bake their own and wear their favorite x-mas pjs. then once we ooo’d and ahh’d over them we made our own take home plates. such a great get-together and one i am so grateful that i was a part of this year.

things got a little weird. cats were involved…that’s all that needs to be said. haha

sunday

woke up and watched the hawks CRUSH the ravens… i’ve said that two weeks in a row…i think they finally have that fire lit beneath their asses! playoffs are soooooo close!!!

we rearranged our living room and are now waiting for the new tv mount so i get to watch tv like this until then…yippee!

how was your weekend? did you get all your christmas shopping done?

always,
jess ♥

our weekend adventures

friday

my girl dropped her album and i am so pumped. she literally…literally, has the voice of an angel. gosh this album is fantastic, it’s on repeat and will be for the rest of my life.

so fall is over and winter is in full effect. just an fyi.

we haven’t had a family dinner night with just the three of us since before the wedding so of course we chose our favorite mexican restaurant! yum!

cale hates when i mess with the thermostat in the car. yes it really needed to be at 90°, it was that cold!

saturday

oh yes, it’s the best time of the year and ain’t nobody stopping my christmas spirit.

these two ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

i give myself a little credit that i didn’t go out and search for this glorious magazine. ugh, of course not…ha nope i have a subscription so it was delivered to my front door. ha!

we attended our second friendsgiving with our lovely neighbors! we always love getting together with everyone, especially when we can send all the kids upstairs and just have good old fashioned adult time. thank you jessica & david for hosting such a wonderful dinner!

{ the andersons // friendsgiving //2015 }

sunday

i rolled out of bed, made some breakfast and went on my usual sunday errands. i didn’t realize that i looked like a bum bum until i walked by a full length mirror. yikes! sorry if you saw me it was just one of those days.

now that the cold weather is here to stay {they are calling for chance of snow this week {!!!!!} } i decided to make all of my favorite soups! this is my {chicken & green chile soup} i posted this recipe a couple months back.
it is seriously my favorite soup!

so we may or may not have put up our christmas tree already… okay we did! but we have a valid excuse, we usually put up our tree thanksgiving night but this year jazmyne is going to texas to stay with her grandparents on thanksgiving morning. so we won’t have time to put it up and we definitely do not have any free time to do it this week, so we had no choice! don’t be a scrooge!! get in the christmas spirit!!

what did you guys do this weekend??
who else put up their tree??

always,
jess♥

our weekend adventures

friday

the vgals {volunteer guardian ad litems} put out their giving trees and we finally got our kids to get gifts for this christmas!
**fun fact about me** i was in foster care from age 11 through 18, i aged out and it might have been the greatest thing to happen to me. now i’m at a point in my life that i am able to give more than just gifts for my own child, now i can make a foster youth feel as i did when i opened my gifts from my casa {court appointed special advocate, same as vgal}. i was always so excited!! **
please consider calling a shelter or finding programs similar to this one, nearest to you and if you are able, donate a gift or two. you are making a difference, i promise.

i had to come home and start on the brine for the turkey that i was bringing to our 2nd annual friendsgiving!!

saturday

jaz and i had so many errands to run saturday morning and the sogginess did not bode well. but jaz did notice that all of our trees down our street changed colors…like, overnight! it was a nice pop of color to see against that very grey sky.

friendsgiving 2015

so when i moved to seattle a couple years ago, i wanted to start something, something similar to what i would go to in texas with all of my closest friends. and that little tradition is called friendsgiving.
so i got close to 30 people to marry a date and time and i was ecstatic! my first dinner party in seattle, woohooo!! well somehow i managed to volunteer myself for both friendsgiving AND neighborgiving…so i knew lots of planning was to be had in order to pull off another great get-together.
[i actually did a post on our first friendsgiving →{here}← go check it out, and also keep in mind that was one of my very first posts so…sorry if it’s a little boring, haha! ]
so, i knew i couldn’t host this year with the wedding and all so i asked my dear friend {misha} if her and husband minded hosting….they have a beautiful {newly renovated} craftsman in the cutest part of seattle and misha always throws a killer dinner party! any who, she said yes and i knew she would knock it out of the park, and she did!!!

the beautiful place settings.

loved it!

misha’s late grandmother had all of this beautiful crystal that she was able to keep. so pretty!

table decor

she’s a blogger too! and a super creative blogger at that. most of this decor and all of her seasonal decor is diy, go check out her blog and get some super cute ideas! {emerald city diaries}

i was in charge of the real turkey, but i thought it would be fun to make a cheese and meat board turkey too!
seriously, how fun is this guy??

the andersons – 2015

yep, i hear ya ovaries…momma hears ya! miss eloise always makes my baby fever run wild!

↓ friendsgiving 2014 ↓

eloise, jazmyne, neva, cameron, lily & audrey

↓ friendsgiving 2015 ↓

eloise, jazmyne, lily & cameron
we were missing a few of our babies but next year, we will have two more little additions, maybe more…. OP!

everything was delicious and beautiful! i can’t wait for next year!!

sunday

we quite literally, did absolutely nothing except get ready to watch the seahawks vs. cardinals game.
this moment gave me chills, the nfl held a moment of silence for the tragedy that happened in paris on friday,
the u.s. supports you, france. we care. ♥

the seahawks, however, can’t support the ball.
this was the most annoying game i have ever watched. almost every play got reviewed, reversed, re-reversed, red flagged…you name it! ugh…ultimately landing us with a loss. no good, seahawks…no freakin good!

the game got us too riled up so this is me at 11:44 pm, honey masking and blogging it up!

how was your weekend?
do you host a friendsgiving or a thanksgiving dinner? i would love to see your set up!

until next time!

always,
jess ♥

our weekend adventures

friday

i posted my bridals friday morning, did you see???
if you missed it, you can read all about dori →{here}←

work this week was a doozy…we are getting audited in all of our departments {payroll, accounts payable and grants} and i’m about to pull my hair out! bleghhhhh! so coming home to this view in our neighborhood was the calmness that i needed. yay for fridays!

lulu had a rough week too.

saturday

hopefully jaz’s last game!!! its starting to get cold and rainy so we are crossing our fingers that this will be here last game for the season!

look at us big babies! but seriously…it was friggen cold!

after mina’s game, cale wanted to stop by a little swedish store to get his favorite goat cheese and cracker thing {tastes awful….} and we decided to play dress up instead!

winter is almost here which means…lulu’s fur is getting long! time to start the brushing!!

sunday

we met up with our good friends and their babies for dimsum! yum yum yum!!

and yes i got my baby fix! little miss eleanor, y’all! so chunky and so sweet!!!!

jaz got her baby fix too! these two are something else!

i just can’t get enough! and yes…jaz had a wardrobe change…sighhh…what have i created!

friendsgiving is next weekend and i volunteered to do the turkey again…just as long as i didn’t have to host! haha hosting last year was quite the chore and planning that AND a wedding would have killed me. not to toot my own horn…but uh…BOTH of my turkeys last year turned out fantastically….ahem {toot toot}. i’m excited! yay food!

i had a couple of my neighbor friends over for some snacks and wine to catch them up on how the wedding went and to catch up on all the things i missed while i was in wedding lala land! it’s always a good time with my ladies!

hoped you stayed dry this weekend! it was quite the soggy one.
for the most part, our weekend was pretty quiet, which was so nice. laying around the house in our pjs while it’s raining is seriously the best!
quiet weekends are my jam!!

what did you do??

our weekend adventures

friday

i got to work and had the best surprise! that’s MRS. jessica anderson! 🙂

casual friday in my favorite tennis! they make me look like i have baby feets!

carving pumpkins and watching hocus pocus, it’s tradition!

friday night cuddle puddle! cale and all his girls…chandler bing was being a poop.

saturday {halloween}

jaz had a football game halloween morning. jaz practically got pulled off that girl’s shoulders because they didn’t cut any holes…fail! lol

love love love these fall colors!!!

ahhhhh!!!!
so i’ve been growing my hair out just for the wedding and boy was it long! i knew that i was going to chop it all off immediately after and i am so happy i actually did it!! i love love love love love it!

a quick run to uvillage and took the infamous OOTD bathroom selfie

we headed to our friends, aaron & misha‘s, for the annual halloween parade in their neighborhood. they were dressed up as the flintstones…. isn’t little miss eloise the cutest pebbles ever?!

the anderson family – halloween 2015
!!!!

it’s so yucky and wet here that jaz unfortunately, had to wear her coat the whole time so no one actually knew what she was, which was a mermaid. but she was the cutest little mermaid ever!!!!

after trick-or-treating we went back to their house and played a few games, drawlful is so fun…ugh but so so hard!

sunday

morning kitty cuddles with papa bear.

momma’s not the only one who chopped off all of their hair this weekend!! similar to me, we were only growing her hair out for the wedding. once she saw mine and how i chopped it all off, she wanted hers gone too. thank goodness!!!

i had to drop off my wedding bands and engagement ring so they can solder them together. keeping 3 bands in the same place on your finger is really tough and quite annoying. it feels so weird to be ringless!! check out that tan line though! yikes!

seahawks vs. the cowboys. all i have to say is that our offense needs to step their damn game up! if russell freaking wilson gets sacked one more time….ugh!!!!! get it together hawks! it wasn’t a pretty win but a win nonetheless.

cale has discovered ‘tasty’ on facebook and has been making every diabeetus recipe he watches. macaroni and cheese cupcakes were on his agenda tonight.

it’s been a yucky weekend so some hot & hearty soup was necessary.
you can find my recipe for this creamy chicken tortilla soup →{here}←

oreos and milk in my pure barre mug…kind of ironic, eh? haha

how was your halloween weekend???
i hope you stayed dry and had so much fun! cale and i have made it our mission to have the best costumes next year! i can’t wait!

oh, i’ve changed a few of my social media names, so if you don’t already follow me then you should! my usernames are all listed below! lets be friends!

 – @jess_g_anderson

 – @jess_g_anderson

       – @JgAnderson1

   – @jaevas

instagram, twitter and pinterest are all linked if you click on the icon and luckily they had some usernames that i liked…snapchat, however, won’t let you change your username and keep all of your friends. uhhhhh i have so many of y’all that i just don’t want to start all over again. so that’ll stay with my maiden name. whomp whomp!

thanks for stopping by and thank you for sticking with me while i took a little wedding hiatus! i have the best followers ever!