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Hey everyone, thanks for all the birthday wishes yesterday! You sure know how to make a girl feel warm and fuzzy. You da, you da best.

Speaking of the best…I have so many things I am gushing over lately. With the weather turning and T wanting to spend more time outdoors, it finally feels like a new season. The season of beach towels and mosquitoes, here are some of my June favorites. 1. I go through sunglasses like Miss Swift goes through boyfriends. I love the dainty, vintage, “bug-eyed” sunglasses of yore. These are just my style, until I lose them. Or sit on them. Or Asti steals them.

2. Ohhhh beach towels, my summer weakness. I am a little particular when it comes to my beach towels. I like them very long and extra wide, enough to wrap around me twice. I like them soft and plush, colorful and fun. This one meets all of those requirements and more.

3. This facewash showed up in my Birchbox a couple of months ago, I recently put it in the shower and started using it every couple of days. Wow. My face is so soft and all those stupid little bumps that aren’t quite zits are disappearing. I even talked T into trying it, and now we have to throw down for a jumbo quart of it. I hope they make it that big!

4. Tis the season right? This summer I finally got an aloe plant. I have very fond memories of my gramma slathering aloe straight from her plant on all my boo-boos and sunburns. I thought it was time I had a plant of my own. Gramma would be proud.

5. Mosquitoes love me. Seriously, if there is a blood-sucker within a twenty-foot radius….they try to eat me alive. So if you guess that my summer perfume has a hint of citronella you’d be spot on. These candles are adorable, don’t come in a bright yellow tin, and keep the bugs away. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

6. Gwynnie Bee is an online clothing rental company for girls that have some curves. I love wearing dresses and hate buying them because I think you can only wear them ever so often. Now black pants…I can wear those every single day without anyone noticing. My kelly green wrap dress, not-so-much. I love that they have so many options, and that they are flattering when you aren’t a size 2. Not hating on you teeny girls, you rock those cute dresses that my boobs won’t fit in! On top of having cute clothes delivered to your door, they even let you try the service for a month. My month is almost up and I am seriously bumming!

Take it away Timbo…. 1. Christina’s mom got her a huge bag of fruit tootsies, and I have been chowing down. I told her I was just checking to make sure they are all fresh.

2. Ever since my girlfriend made me switch out a few of our lights for CFLs I have been changing them out left and right. When we go to Lowe’s I pick up a pack and try switching out one room at a time.

3. One day we grabbed a bottle of this pre-made margarita from Costco and now it is our go-to summer drink. No more measuring out the alcohol and having a sticky mess while pouring shots. Not to mention that after a cup or two of this, you will be feeling pretty loose.

4. With all the yard work we have done, this pickaxe has become my go-to tool. The previous owners of our home had an affection for rock and concrete, and thanks to them I am getting some serious muscles.

5. My favorite hat. I have had it forever and still love it.

6. Christina sent me this article from Single Dad Laughing. This guy is hilarious, and it is nice to find other bloggers on my side of the gender fence. Would you believe that I never read blogs until I met Christina.

7. I really want a bike. I really want to cut some trails. I really want to be outside. I really need a helmet.

What have you all been digging this month?

This post was planned for the 15th, until the sickness brought me down. Thanks for all the well wishes, it made my day a little brighter. Kind of like Spring.

Spring makes Tim and I so excited, birds start singing and tulips start blooming. Sure I can’t see anything through my watery eyes and people look at me funny when I can’t stop sneezing but it is all worth it to see new life peeking out of my surroundings. Every year baby bunnies take up habitat in our back yard, so it would be impossible not to love this season even if I am an Allegra addict for a couple of months.

Allegra didn’t make our favorite things list, check back next month when we are knee-deep in pollen and mold.

I thought I would let my boyfran-man take the lead this time, just like salsa lessons. 1. Earlier this month Christina brought home a dog-approved birthday cake for our 12-year-old pit bull from Treats Unleashed. They were enamoured with the cake and then we introduced them to Cheeburger treats. They will do pretty much anything we ask to get their grubby little paws on those treats. Two paws way up from this family.

2. We used to use the pink Gain (look I am a guy, that is all I know) but a couple of weeks ago we picked up a new scent. Can we help it if we are always drawn to anything with “ocean” “sea” “nautical” or “beach” in the title. We really lucked out with Gain Ocean Escape, it smells amazing. Enough said.

3. I bought this Scott’s Sprayer a few years ago, and I bust it out every spring to spray our whole house for bugs without hand cramps. As a bonus I also use it to kill all our weeds. I just mix up my magic potions and spray away and since it is so easy, I am more likely to do it.

4. I bought Ocean Nutrition’s Formula One Flakes to feed in between our feedings so that our fish don’t starve to death. I am working on a post to show what goes into just feeding our tank….hint: it is a lot more than flake food. Our fish seem to like it and I feel good about diversifying their diet.

5. Christina enters blog giveaways like it is her job, most days she emails me links so I can enter also. We never win, until Lauren held a giveaway for Monorail Studios. You should have seen the chair dance when she found out she won, but then she did something totally unexpected. She gave me her prize. Expect to see that shirt real soon, she had ulterior motives. 1. My new go-to photo app is AfterLight. I love how easy it is to edit your photos, add cute filters and frames, and post to dang near all social mediums. I use it almost everyday so it was worth all 99 pennies.

2. At the beginning of this year I bought a five year diary. I love keeping journals, but never have “time” to write in them. This is so simple, one sentence every night. I can’t wait until five years down the road when I can look and see what I was doing on April 17th for the last few years. Sure I can’t get all “dear diary” in there but it is just enough to give the important snipits that I may otherwise forget.

3. What is Spring without an adorable umbrella. I always love Vera Bradleys patterns to brighten up a gloomy day.

4. Lately my cuticles have been putting up a fight, a dry crackly fight. After a tip from a local beauty queen, I have started putting cuticle oil on every night before bed. Since you don’t wash your hands and touch “stuff” all day it allows the oil to really soak in and do it’s job.

5. Be still my heart, have you ever seen a more perfectly charming shoe? Seriously, I can’t stop staring at the new Kate Spade line of Keds. I need every single pair, on my feet, at once.

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