Hi friends! Happy Friday and happy 4th of July to my US friends celebrating today! We’re enjoying a lazy afternoon and then swimming and dinner with friends this evening. I hope you have a fun and festive weekend!

Some pics from the week:

Dinner at madre’s

Simple family dinners are the best. Smoked chicken legs on the Traeger, roasted potatos with garlic and rosemary, and salad with homemade dressing

*Trying* to get dressed every day now that we’re back 😉

This dress is from Nuuly (which I still have mixed feelings about lol):

Thrive Market goodies:

My link gets you 40% off your first order. I love using this for pantry essentials, dog treats (Maisey loves the bully sticks) and snacks!

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Hi friends! Happy Friday! How are you? I hope you’ve had a wonderful week! We’re still here in Sevilla and enjoying the amazing food, sights, shopping, time with friends, and some shows/touristy events, too. I’m crossing my fingers that the Pilot can make it out here to celebrate Father’s Day! I hope that you have a fun and relaxing weekend ahead.

Some pics from the week:

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Hi friends! Happy Friday! How are you? I hope you’ve had a wonderful week! We’re here in Sevilla and have some fun plans for the weekend. I’ve also been able to join in a session with a community chorus (loved it so much), taken Spanish lessons with a lovely tutor, went to the Flamenco museum and Museum of Illusions, shopped til we dropped (mostly for chocolate and earrings), and on Monday, we saw an epic flamenco show at Las Setas.

Some pics from the week:

($20 bodysuit from Amazon)

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Hi friends! Happy Friday! What’s going on this weekend? Liv has her last dance convention of the year, P has a couple of basketball games, and we’re getting ready for our European adventures. I.can’t.even.wait.

I feel like I’ve been majorly slacking on everything and my goal is to record a bunch of podcast interviews before we head out and kind of get my life together. I feel like this year we’ve had to roll with the punches with school stuff and everything has felt even more chaotic than usual. I’m definitely ready for a reset.

I’d love to hear what you have going on this weekend! Any fun plans this summer that you’re looking forward to? I also hope that my friends who are celebrating Mother’s Day have a beautiful weekend.

(Liv’s bling and my road trip snacks from last week’s dance competition)

5.9 Friday Faves

Fashion + beauty + random:

April faves! It’s always fun to go back through analytics and see what products you loved the most that I’ve shared here on the blog and IG.

Here are the top picks from April – lots of them were from my Mother’s Day gift guide.

Lumebox. So many of you took advantage of the Lumebox sale. The good news is that you can still use FITNESSISTA here for $260 off! I use it every day and am obsessed with it. I’ve been using it this week on my scar – I had a mole removed from my chin last week – and also on my neck when I woke up Tuesday and couldn’

A lil spring chat with my friends out there and sharing some exciting news.

Hiiiii! How are you? I hope that your day is going well and that you had a lovely weekend. It’s been a while since we’ve had a smoothie or coffee date around here, so I’d love to catch up!

(in real life, it would be a fresh smoothie, not a bottled smoothie but let’s just go with it)

Let’s grab a smoothie, and catch up a little.

If we were having a smoothie date….

I’d want to know how you’re doing. Like, REALLY doing. How are the kids? How are you feeling? Are you stressed about May-cember and end of school stuff, or doing ok?

I’d want to know if you’ve taken any new workout classes, tried any new restaurants, and I’d love hearing all the details about upcoming vacations and summer plans.

I’d tell you that I’m so relieved that we started homeschooling P. I was SO stressed about it and put a ton of pressure on myself, which is why I didn’t consider this possibility earlier, but she’s a different kid. She’s thriving, we’re having so much fun together, and I honestly feel like it’s giving me a chance to enjoy her childhood a bit more. Since the girls were born, it’s been a wild ride, and as an anxious person myself, I was always focused on, “what’s next” and two steps ahead, instead of enjoying the present moment. The past couple of years, I’ve forced myself to be more present because they’re growing up so, so quickly. I can’t even believe Liv will be in 8th grade next year!

I’d tell you that I’ve been teaching barre at an amazing local studio and would invite you to take a class! While I don’t teach nearly as much as I used to – I can’t imagine teaching 15+ classes a week again – my 1-2 classes a week are perrrrrfect.

I’d also share the exciting news with you… we’re headed to Europe for 6 weeks, maybe longer. We’re going to Italy, France, and Spain, and I.can’t.even.wait. Last year when we went to Spain, we toured a couple of gorgeous apartments. With the tax (21%!) we calculated that we could spend the same amount of money to spend almost the entire summer in Europe for the next 19 years, and have the flexibility to go wherever, instead of being in one spot. So, summer #1, let’s goooooo!!! Of course, I’ll share all of the adventures on Instagram stories and here on the blog. It feels like a huge treat and we’re all ready for it.

I’d ask you if you like pickleball and if you wanted to play sometime. I’m not good at pickleball, but I love it, and am always looking for chances to practice. The kids are into it, too!

I’d ask you if you’d split a gluten-free treat with me, and plan our next catch-up date, since time flies by and at this point, you have to schedule things way in advance. 😉

So tell me, friends: how are you *really* doing? Any summer plans? Do you like pickleball or no? Let’s chat in the comments section.

xoxo

Gina