Who needs a cookie jar when you can have a cereal box?

Yesterday I officially came to terms with the fact that I have to move the cherrios out of where I keep the rest of the cereals and into the top cupboard... Why? Because my 1 year old is obsessed with them.. more than anything else... and will let herself in the cupboards to eat the cherrios.. She doesn't care about any of the other food or cereal she can reach. Just the cherrios!

Over the weekend I was not feeling good so I took a nap on the couch while my baby watched cartoons and my husband played video games. I woke up and looked over to see my daughter kicked back relaxing on the floor... with an ENTIRE box of cherrios sitting next to her munching on them like a teenager would on a bag of chips. I slowly got up and walked into the family room to ask my husband, "Did you give her the box of cherrios?" He looked at me confused and said "Huh? No.." I turned and walked into the kitchen to find the pantry open and all of the cereal boxes on the floor unopened. You guessed it, Kaylee went right to kitchen and got her cherrios out and drug the whole box into the living room to feed herself a snack! I laughed a little closed the box and put them away.

Well, yesterday, the cherrio thief was at it again! I went to the bathroom and left my mini to "read" her books. When I came out I found her like this....

 As you can see she was so stinkin proud of herself!! hahaha. My little muchkin! She's a girl after her mama's own heart though because she especially loves the whole wheat cherrios... good girl!

Here are some more sweet pics of my little mama after I found her!

Oh man do I love her <3 She keeps me on my toes... and reorganizing my kitchen... regularly <3

The Allen Family Takes on the East Coast!

Now that we have moved to Maryland where the site's are gorgeous, the weather is hot and humid, and there is ALWAYS somewhere new to explore... We have been taking advantage of it! We have been to one of the Smithsonian's, ridden on the Metro a few times, checked out the National Monument and the WWII Monument, headed out to Tracy's Landing, MD where there is a pretty harbor, small town feel, and lots of blue crab, and also explored right around our new little town. I thought it would be fun to share some pictures from our journey on here.

 All of the buildings in DC are just so gorgeous! I am obsessed with them all!

Can't wait to see what other fun stuff we find to do!

Road Trip... Ohio Bound!

A few weeks ago we went on a nice like 8ish or so hour road trip from our new home in Maryland out to Ohio to see my husband's great grandma. Yes, this means my daughter has a GREAT GREAT GRANDMA! It was such a sweet time together just enjoying family time and relaxing! We didn't really go anywhere or do anything special; just played games and enjoyed each others company. We will remember this forever! The only hard part was I didn't have my blender for shakeology ;] haha She lives in an adorable one bedroom apartment so there was no room to really workout and we ate all kinds of good grandma's cookin! We enjoyed it and once we got home we got right back on track!

 Seeing Great Great Grandma for the first time ever!

 Her fav place to nap while we were there!

 Sad to leave!

 Look at the smile!

 Nothing like a nice relaxing evening in the pool after an almost 9 hour drive home! yay

All in all.. it was a great week!!