Beach, Bikini Season and Florida Vacay

I'm happy to report that after my post yesterday on Tanner, he did have a much better attitude by the time I picked him up after school. I took the boys to the beach last night to watch Daddy play volleyball at the Windjammer...it was also my first time taking Sugar with us and she was so well-behaved!

Here she is helping them make sandcastles:

 

 

 

I try to get out there with the boys at least one weeknight per week since Jake plays volleyball there on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

We are headed to Florida in just over 3 weeks to go to Disney World and Legoland and I really need to get my butt in gear to look good in a bikini whilst I lounge at the resort pool. I've been working out a lot, but I think that changing some of my eating and drinking habits is what is going to be the most effective. I eat pretty well most days, but I definitely am not hard enough on myself as I should be. I need to be a little more strict and less complacent. I also need to cut out alcohol for a little bit. {I think those daily glasses of wine are beginning to add up. Ha.} I've been making our dinners from a site called Skinny Taste. I've mentioned that site on here before. I mostly stick to fish, turkey and chicken recipes - not much of a red meat eater. Other than that, I've been buying a lot of fresh and organic produce to snack on, and staying away from sugary, processed foods. I tell you, since starting to read The Honest Life by Jessica Alba this past week, I had a whole change in mindset while at the grocery store on my last trip - and I typically buy pretty healthy anyway! But there are a lot of chemicals that are disguised with "healthy" packaging that I never really thought about before. I highly recommend her book.

I suppose if I can't get myself bikini-ready, I could always sport something like this:

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Super-cute, right? I am bikini-ready {with the exception of a tan}, but I definitely could work a little harder. I mean, I am 30 now - no more messin' around!

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Monday Musings: Early Spring?

Happy Monday, y'all! Hope you had a great weekend with the Super Bowl and all. I didn't particularly care either way who won the game this year...but I was definitely lovin' the commercials - how about you? Oh, and I was so stoked to see Destiny's Child make a surprise appearance during Beyonce's halftime show - took me back down memory lane - singin' in the car to "Say My Name" with my best girlfriends in high school...I loved that group. Though Beyonce has still done very well for herself since going solo.

In other news, I'm sure you all know that Punxsutawney Phil has predicted an early spring this year.

CAN I GET A WOOOOOP???!!! 

I don't even remember the last time he didn't see his shadow...I always automatically expect the extra six weeks of winter, or whatever the old wives' tales says. But to be honest, with the beautifully warm winter weather we've been having here in Charleston, SC, I can't say I'm too surprised. And all of this warm weather is getting me even more eager for spring and summer weather...and to pull out the warm-weather wardrobe. I also can't help but look around online for new things to lounge around the pool and beach in. I actually stumbled upon the cutest cover up {totally my style}:

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 Gah! It's just too perfectly pretty and totally something I would wear. Something I'm GOING to wear...as I just finalized the purchase online a couple clicks of the mouse ago! Plus, doesn't it look very similar to this one that I swooned over last summer?

I'm also due for a new bikini or two...I didn't buy a new one last year. Hubby will balk at this because I have a whole dresser drawer full of them, but many are several years old, or just fit weird now {baby #2 definitely shifted some things around} so I think I'm going to finally clean out that drawer and hopefully add in something like this Roxy Free Rampage bikini:

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It would go just "swimmingly" with the maxi dress, don't you think?

Enjoy your week! xoxo

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