Hello, hello – welcome to the weekend!
I am feeling particularly bright and sunshiny today because, well, this weekend is supposed to be particularly bright and sunshiny! We’re talking highs in the 60s and 70s, even climbing into the 80s by the beginning of next week.
Can I get a collective, WHEE?! Goll, so ready for this.
I told Ben that I want to do something especially fun this weekend to celebrate our first warm weekend of the year, so he’s been sweating it trying to come up with something good. I know he will. He always does. Some people have all the best ideas. ; )
Anyway, wherever you are, and whatever you do, I hope you have a great weekend, and please enjoy my favorite finds from the web and beyond in this week’s Friday Favorites!
Click on the light blue links to be taken to the original source.
Favorite sip: Watermelon and Mango Agua Fresca. Ahhh, so refreshing, and nice to find a fun mocktail to enjoy in the hot spring and summer months!
Favorite outfit. This top is so out of character for me, but I’m just loving blue these days. Plus those shorts? Adorbs! (PS if anybody knows where I can get a decent-looking pair of maternity shorts, I will forever grateful.)
Favorite crunch: Chopped Thai Chicken Salad. I have been drooling over this salad all dang week. Crunch, freshness, and peanut sauce. What more do ya’ need?
Favorite reminder. This print is intended for a child’s room, but I kind of want to plaster it all over the world.
Favorite bite: Coconut Crunch Chicken Strips with Creamy Honey-Mango Dipping Sauce. Obsession alert! Can’t you practically feel the crunch, and taste that sauce through your computer screen?
Favorite fashion: Jade Boho Rings. I’ll take one in every color, mmkay? Thanks.
Favorite refresh: Tropical Chia Smoothie. Basically a super-fresh, virgin pina colada with healthy chia seeds in the mix. Great for deck sailing or a morning treat.
Favorite furball. Hey y’all. Awww… :)
Favorite dip: Easy Feta Dip. This would be such a hit at BBQs and get togethers. I know my Mom would love it.
Favorite find. I don’t know when/if I’ll ever need to skewer Mike & Ike’s with toothpicks to mimic mini popsicles, but OMG HOW CUTE!!!!
Favorite homemade: Homemade English Muffins. I always forget about English Muffins, then when I finally have one I want to slap myself for waiting so long in between sessions. They are so good served hot and crisp then slathered in a little salted butter and sweet jam. Mmm.
Favorite fitness: Jillian Michaels’s 45 Minute Treadmill Workout. I’m all but done with running until after the baby is born, but I could modify this to be all walking and it’d still be a great workout with those inclines.
Favorite mini: Blackened Chicken Sliders with Warm Mango Salsa. What a fantastic flavor combo, and I love the fact that these mini burgers are served on tiny little slider buns. So cute.
Favorite find: How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Tea. This video makes me happy. :)
Favorite sweet: Brown Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies. Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my number 1 favorite cookies of all time. These babies are made even more wicked by browning the butter in the dough first. I could pop about 87, me thinks.
Have a great weekend!
Those Drink from jessica are calling my name and so is the thai salad!! Love everything this week!
I found great maternity shorts at Gap. Better fit and quality than Old Navy. I wore them all summer!
I think mine were from Target…I didn’t wear them long since my youngest was born in May and it was cold here in Nebraska forever!!!
Living in Texas and being pregnant during the summer I lived in shorts and sun dresses. I found the best ones a Pea in a Pod. Spent too much money on them, but wore them ALL the time! Don’t waste the $ on ones from Motherhood Maternity, the material is awful! Congrats on the baby! Our little miracle guy just turned 7 months old it’s so hard to believe that time fly’s so quickly! Enjoy the belly!!
Not related to this post, although I always love all the good ideas in the Friday Favorites :), what happened to the Spanakopita bites post??? It’s not at the bottom of page one or the top of page two, but I can find it listed on april 17th if I google search that particular post. Is it just me or did it really disappear?!
Here you go!
https://iowagirleats.com/2013/04/17/easy-spanakopita-bites/
I absolutely love the look of that feta dip! What a perfect and very easy to make party appetizer…..pinning that now. That favorite furball pic is too cute!
YAY! We’ve been pelted with snow off and on all month here in Denver. I’m so excited for a weekend full of warm weather and sunshine. We’re going to have a dress rehearsal for summer playing at the park, riding bikes and laying out on the deck and making mini Mike and Ike popsicles for my daughter’s American Girl doll. (Be glad you’re having a boy, those suckers are expensive!)
i love everything about this week’s favorites. especially that salad. gah. i think it might hit 70 here this weekend, so i will be outside as much as possible! inches of snow to 70 in less than a week…where am i?
Loved Old Navy shorts….that was over a year now though. Maternity shorts are difficult! They always made my butt look wide and flat, which was of course the shorts fault…NOT my butt’s! :) whatever you do, don’t go for the shorts with the stretchy “tube” for around the tummy. Horrible! I ended up doing lots of capri’s. Good luck! Love your blog!
Agreed! I was preggo last summer and the stretchy tube only results in wedgies! You’re uncomfortable enough!
I agree about the maternity shorts! I cannot find any cute ones either, however I have seen a few pairs that were a lot better than ones in stores on Zulily – check it out they have different stuff daily :)
I (hopefully) have a date with the gym later, so Jillian’s workout might be used today!
I need to know where to find a cute pair of (non-maternity) shorts that don’t make me feel like I have pancake butt or showing my butt!
Over the past few years I’ve grown to love Old Navy’s shorts. None of their other clothes fit me right, but the shorts are spot on. They have several different lengths too which I love because I don’t like my booty falling out either! ;)
Aaaand I just pinned basically everything in this post. Hope you have a great weekend, my local summer farmer’s market starts tomorrow, and I am beyond excited!
Oooo lucky girl – we have one more week to go. Enjoy it! :)