Simplified Oil Collection

Young Living's convention was last week and with every convention, new products are released! I have one I am super excited about! 

The Simplified collection by Jacob & Kait. 

This collection is perfect for those of you who just want your home to smell really good without a ton of essential oil bottles laying around or trying to mix your own diffuser blends and guessing what it will smell like. 

Each season the Simplified collection will release 3 seasonal blends or "scents" for you to diffuse. It really makes diffusing simple and easy, especially if you're someone who doesn't want to break away from their traditional candles. 

 
Let's look at the summer scents: 

Seaside Summer is a blend of lime, cypress, sage, and orange. 

The Orange Creamsicle sumer scent contains orange, bergamot, vanilla, and a hint of mint. This one is sure to be uplifting and energizing. 

Tropical Tango contains an uplifting aroma of coconut, ylang ylang and orange. Oh my, this one sounds heavenly! 

Do you know why you should be diffusing oils over candles?

Essential oils help you relax, promotes feelings of calm, improve clairty and focus, boosts your mood, and purifies the air. I know letting go of candles is so difficult, but many candles are toxic and harmful to your health and the air in your home. Including those wax melts you may have. Sorry friends!

If you're not a current Young Living member, but you want to try these oils, click here and I'll send you a free diffuser for your oils!

Hurry, because when this collection is sold out, it won't be available again until Fall with new scents for your home!

Life Lately

Our summer has been fabulous, but it is going by so fast!! We have a lot to pack in to our summer fun, and I already know that we are going to run out of time. For now, I'm trying to soak up every single bit that we can. We have 4 years left of Gretchen being at home, and she's already babysitting and busy with church, and I know that next summer will be more of the same! Yikes!

Okay, here's a bit of life lately: 

Gretchen had a sleepover at the start of Summer, and I brought home Crumbl cookies. Needless to say, they were an addiction and we couldn't keep our hands off of them. Each Sunday I check the flavors to see if I should buy them.  Adalyn definitely enjoyed them too! 

Her little freckles pop in the summer time. So precious. 

Adalyn is not a "kiss on the lips" kind of girl. When she really wants something that I can convince her she can do/have it only for a kiss. 

DJ's father's day present came in early. He's been looking at generator's for a while now. Costco had them on sale, so he bought one and I said it was his father's day gift ;)

We took in some Texas baseball with friends.

I'm a bigger football fan than baseball. The game didn't get good until at least the 7th inning. 

We were able to babysit for a friend's little boy and the girls had the best time! 

The next day we were going to go to the pool, but Adalyn had a big headache and didn't feel well. We opted to turn the air track in to a big slip n slide and invited some neighbors over to play too! 

Last week was busy! Adalyn had soccer camp at UT, so she was at football in the mornings with DJ before camp started. She loved being able to watch the players; plus she has a team for cute quarterbacks. 

She even won the camper of the day award during camp! 

Wednesday night, Megan was craving some 1:1 time. I had to take Gretchen to youth group, so Megan and I stayed near by and went on a walk. Well, I walked. She did hand stands. 

I'm finding it hard to believe that she'll start middle school next year and is entering that pre-teen phase fast! 

We picked up Gretchen from paint wars. It's safe to say she had the best time! 

Thursday morning, Adalyn led the football video staff in workouts before she headed off to soccer camp! 

And on Friday, we picked Pops and Grandma Dee up from the aiprot! We headed straight to soccer camp to watch Adalyn. 

She loved her coaches! 

And we were able the last 20 minutes of Megan's gymnastics practice. 

Saturday afternoon we went bowling and played games at the arcade, while Gretchen was at a birthday party. 

And then we went out for dinner at one of our new favorite restaurants, Cork & Barrel. 

Sunday morning we celebrated Father's day, and headed off to church. Do you notice the matching shirts for the dads?

Turns out, there were several of them ;) 

Scooter rides with Pops after church....

Then we had a cookout, because all of DJ's family just happened to be in Austin! DJ's aunt moved here last Summer. He has a cousin here, and her dad/his uncle was in town visiting them, and then DJ's dad and step mom were here! It's been a long time since we've all been together! 

We had a great Father's day celebrating together!

This week DJ's parents will be leaving, Gretchen has youth group, DJ is busy with more recruiting, and Megan has a fun gymnastics surprise! 

VBS: In The Deep

Last week, we went Deep in to VBS. Not so fun fact- my kids have never been to Vacation Bible School. Every time when they were little, VBS would fall on a date that we were on vacation visiting family so they were never able to go. 

This year, Gretchen asked if she could volunteer and I said, "of course!" and then she said "let's lead a group together" and I low key freaked out and then said "sure." We came home exhausted every single night but leading a group really was a lot of fun. 

Our church went really overboard ;) with the decorations. How fun is this gigantic shark mouth! 

The sanctuary was filled with floating fish, a gigantic octopus, sting rays, and orca's. There was a pupppet show each night along with songs, and then we headed to Bible Bay to learn a Bible story, snack time (goldfish of course), Creature Feature to learn more about ocean animals, the Bible, and have a science experiment, followed by games. 

The games were wet and wild; always so fun. 

Gretchen was able to spray all the kids with a water gun. 

We had Adalyn in our group, which I'm pretty sure was a happy coincidence, but it was so fun to see these two worship together all week. 

We played Tug of War.

I'm so glad this girl talked me in to leading a group. We've been at our church for 3 years, and over the last year, I've been working on becoming more involved so I could meet new people. It's hard when you move like we have and constantly feel like you're starting over, but it's definitely time that I put myself out there more and at least get to know some faces!

There was a wet hacky sack toss. 

Adalyn really got in to that game! 

Little photo ops......

and a gorgeous sunset one evening. 

Bible Bay introduced us to one sea creature who told us Bible stories. We learned about Jonah and the Red Sea and a few more. 

We used highlighters in water to imitate a fish that lights up. 

And I survived another night thanks to this girl.

We had 14 in our group the first two nights, and then 9 the last two nights. After the first day, I went and bought everyone lei's so they would be easier to keep up with. 

Megan missed night 2 of VBS thanks to an ear infection. She was suppose to have gymnastics that night as well, but ended up missing it too. So by day 3 I was like "I have to get a picture of you or no one will think that you came!"

Adalyn was a great little helper for our group!

We had a relay race at creature feature. 

And then we spotted this girl at the games station! Next year, she'll be able to help out and she's super excited about that! 

#sisters

Our last night, we played Red Light Green Light with Water guns which was a blast. Can you spot Adalyn trying to sneak past?

I let Gretchen take over shooting the kids with water guns. 

And we ended our week with water slides and bounce houses.

Our 1st VBS was a great experience! The girls had a blast and we can't wait until next year!