Home again, home again...

Jiggity, jig.

We've been on vacation.
It's been awesome.
There was/is internet but not good enough internet for me to upload photos.

I'll try to get on that as soon as possible.

Desperate times

...call for desperate measures.

Trying to clean, pack, and make cookies with a 2 year old and a learning-to-walk-almost-one-year-old is quite the challenge!

I finally had to resort to strapping them in their chairs, giving them food, and plopping them in front of the tv to get ANYTHING done. ☺

P.S. - Don't worry, they weren't there for very long.

Pool Party

We met up today for a pool party, although the high was only around 70 degrees

Since it wasn't really that warm I wasn't planning on Ella getting wet.

She had different plans.

Ethan, Sam and Henry

Ella LOVED being in the water, she'd lay down, kick her legs like she was a little fish.

Good thing I bought her a little pool, we just haven't had the opportunity to use it yet!

:::WARNING:::

Semi naked baby

She crawled around on the grass, which I was also surprised at since she's usually not a fan of how it feels on her skin.

Sam trying to dunk Ethan.

(That's what it looks like anyway)

Cary stopped by after he got off work

Evan is on the move!

Since it was our anniversary, Melanie offered to keep our kids and let us go out to eat by ourselves.

(what a novel concept)

So we did.

Thanks Melanie!

(for watching our kids and for letting us use your yard for "swimming") ☺

I shouldn't be doing this...

Unfortunately, I've been really bad about my time management for the last month, so now there aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I need to get done.

In other news, Cary and I have been married for four years.

♥

 Happy Anniversary to us!

I can't believe we've only been married for four, feels like it's been longer than that. Heh. ☺

In a good way, of course...

When we first moved to our current residence, I planted two roses in the back patio area, one died and one is still sort of alive and last year it managed to grow two flowers the whole year.

I need to move it as it's getting choked out by Ivy.

Have I mentioned how much I HATE Ivy?

In my horticulture and landscape classes I never understood the complete disdain for the plant.

I totally get it now.

Anyway, all that to say that my rose bush actually flowered again and it was so pretty, I took pictures.

Who, me?

Planting Flowers

Aidan helped Grandma Lois plant flowers last weekend.

I think this was his favorite part

If it had been warm (at all) I would have let him get as wet as he wanted to, but it was freezing.

so he had to be content to just get the flowers and dirt wet.

More Demo

What this area looked like to start with.

After the cabinets were removed.

and then the wall came down

and then the other wall came down...

Looking through what used to be the bathroom and small closet/ room.

The old shower.

Progress.

Slowly, but surely. ☺

Updated links!

I added the links to Sharon's videos in the broadway post. Click on the song titles. ☺