Weekly Wins // #21

Weekly Wins is a series where I touch on my “wins” from the week in the categories of love, buy, do, eat, give, read, tech, watch and wear. It’s 100% my favorite post to write. Enjoy! 

It was a great week, friends!! First time EVER that I had a blog post go live each day of the week. I feel so accomplished today! If you missed any of my previous posts, click here to read my Monthly Musts for July, click here to read part one of I Adore What I Did from June, click here for part two of that series, and click here for part three!! And I have to thank you for being the best readers ever!! Seriously, I’ve had so many people tell me how much they’re loving my recent posts and it truly means the world!! Love you all more than you know. The fact that you even take time out of your busy days to visit my little space on the ‘net astounds me. You’re the best! Yes, you!! Now, onto this week’s wins… enjoy! 

LOVE: 
Fourth of July weekend was seriously the best!! We had so much fun as a family and our actual day of celebrating the holiday was JAM PACKED! Let’s just say Brody had 3 outfit changes!! Ha. First we walked to the beach to meet friends who were playing some volleyball {B’s first time in sand, by the way, and he LOVED it!!}, then we had lunch, Brody took a nap, and later, we went to my best friend Alyse’s party! Once we came home we walked into our bedroom and literally there were beautiful fireworks outside our window set off from the far Southside of the Chicago skyline to the far Northside! We face west so it was boom boom boom fireworks from left to right and it was SO COOL to see. 

BUY:
After blogging about 14 white sneakers to obsess over a few weeks ago, I was sad to learn that nobody commented about one of my favorite pairs of the bunch, #12. And there were 58 comments in all! For a few weeks I was contemplating on whether I should get them because they didn’t seem to stick out to my readers, {and in my opinion, you guys know ALL} but ya know what, I couldn’t stop thinking about them, needed a new pair of white sneakers and went ahead and ordered them regardless! Oh I’m so happy I did! Love them just as much on my feet as I did on the website! Can’t wait to wear them nonstop!! You can order a pair for yourself here! 

DO:
Got a mani!! OMG it was much needed!! I went from red to lilac and I couldn’t be happier. Also, I got gel nails but used a newer polish brand called Bio Seaweed Gel, which is dubbed as “the healthier gel”. I happened to just pick out the color and then was told later about all the positives of this polish! Two things that I love about it is that first, it’s a “Big 5 Free” brand which means that it’s free of Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP), Formaldehyde, Toluene, Formaldehyde Resin, and Camphor AND second, supposedly it’s only a 5-minute soak-off time! For more information about this polish, check their website here. PS the color I used is #12, called Tea Party =) 

EAT:
The Southwest Chicken Salad from Chick-Fil-A! It was amazing!!!! We went there as a family for lunch this past weekend and since I can’t eat gluten anymore, I wasn’t sure what to get. The woman ringing us up said this salad was her fave so I trusted her and gave it a go! Good thing I did because I loved it!! So much so that I want to go back again and get it for a second time!! Yum yum yum – I highly recommend! 

GIVE: 
I think this might have been the first week that I didn’t gift anyone with anything in a long time!! But we were pleasantly surprised when we got a package in the mail yesterday from my friend Meg and her son, Bricker, who came to visit a few weeks ago from Colorado! I mentioned this in a previous post but for Brody’s first birthday they gave him the most adorable child-sized Camelbak water bottle personalized with his name on it! Now he won’t drink out of anything else!! Well, unbeknownst to me, they sent us another one and it’s just as cute as the original one and Brody loves it already!! That was the nicest, right?! There was no reason for even sending it. We have the best friends!! Shop for your own camelbak mini water-bottle here and the adult version here.

READ: 
Since we are such big fans of the board book “I Love You Stinky Face”, I ordered Brody one of the other ones in the series, titled “Goodnight Stinky Face” – if I’m being honest, however, I personally still love the original the most, but this new book is a fun read too! And if you missed my post from a few weeks ago on all our favorite bedtime board books, click here to read it now! 

TECH: 
If you couldn’t tell from a bunch of my recent Instagrams, I am obsessed with the Boomerang app, you guys!!!!!! If you don’t know what it is, it creates short videos from a moving target that loops back and fourth. I love it. Check out my favorite boomerang videos that I’ve shared with my instagram followers  here, here, and here. 

WATCH:
Unreal!!!!!!!!!! Are you familiar? If not, it’s a scripted TV series on Lifetime that shows the behind the scenes chaos of the production of a TV show called Everlasting, much like that of the Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise. The creator of Unreal actually worked on the ABC series previously. It’s juicy!! I watched every episode of season one and hadn’t watched season two yet until this week. I caught up on episodes 1-5 and oh.em.gee. It is freaking insane. But I love it. Not sure how real it is but I do feel like I get such a glimpse into the whole world behind Bachelor nation. And to watch both these shows at the same time… I mean, amazing. I really feel like watching Unreal while watching the Bachelorette makes the season of the bach so much more interesting. For more info on the show, click here. 

WEAR:
Okay, instead of showcasing something I wore this week, I need to talk about something Brody wore this week: his Stars and Stripes 4th of July Honest Diapers! They were a real conversation starter!! I posted this pic of B wearing them on my Instagram and people were going crazy!! I need to tell you guys that he did NOT originally go to the party with no pants on! It’s just that he was wearing these really adorable {ombre & distressed} jean shorts but he seemed uncomfortable in them… it was pretty noticeable and I felt bad about it. So I took his pants off. Problem solved! Good thing he was wearing a cute diaper to complete his outfit! Order your child a pack of honest diapers here. All their prints are to-die-for cute!! You can get them in the stores but they are way cheaper if you purchase from their website!! 

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Happy weekend friends!!! What’s on your agenda??
Let me know in the comments section now!