Invent me a Housework Robot, please.

Why are the weekends so busy?! I feel like I didn't sit down until sunday afternoon. Saturday morning I took the boys to see a movie (Elliott's first in a theatre) because we won passes from a friend of mine's blog. The show we saw was DisneyNature Bears. It was so good! I want to see it again (without the distraction of children haha). I'd never though about what a mother bear does to keep her babies safe, this was certainly eye opening. And seriously, their paws are just SO cute! Thomas did a great job sitting beside "Auntie" Sharon, and Elliott was more or less bribable with licorice and his soother. Then we were off to pick up Nana's birthday present from Voyageur Soaps. If you have children I strongly recommend you go there without them! What was I thinking?! They behaved okay considering they'd been up early, sat through a movie and hadn't napped. NEVER AGAIN! Haha. It's good I can laugh at it now.

Saturday night I went out with my bestie and we hung out at the bar her boyfriend works at. Good times had by all. :) It's always wonderful to hang out with Ange. We think the same, but differently. It's a good mix. Always laughter, and some pretty decent dancing, if I do say so myself. ;) Sunday held some sleeping in, some errand running, and then it was Nana's birthday party! What a fun weekend we all had! And the weather was awesome.

The problem with having such a busy and fun weekend is that while we're all doing our thing, our house seems continue to get dirty. And then I spend my entire monday and some of my tuesday cleaning and cleaning and cleaning. Could someone please invent a housework robot? I'd only use it for weekends, I promise... okay, fine, I'd use it all the time... but who wouldn't?!

Hope you all had a great weekend, too! Here's to more sunny, fun filled weekends!

Spring Fever

I couldn't help myself any longer and started my spring decorating. I saw the most adorable spring "wreath" on Pinterest, and decided that's what I wanted for my front door.

So off I went to the dollar store to get my supplies. I couldn't have been more excited when I found this super adorable umbrella, isn't it just the perfect color?!?! Love it! Then all I needed was an assortment of fake flowers, and I was off the the races. It was really easy. The hardest part was probably taking the tags off of the flowers. Haha! Then it was a matter of arranging the flowers how I wanted in the umbrella and securing it closed. Easy peasy! I'm so happy with it, I might leave it up til Fall. :)

I think I will probably add some more flowers, to fill it out a bit more, but other than that, I'm super happy with it!

Do you decorate for the seasons? My house felt so bare between Christmas and now, winter is so hard to decorate for without it looking Christmas-y. Yay for Spring, and bright colors!

Sunny with a chance of Happiness!

Oh goodness. The sun is shining. It's over 10 degrees. It's absolutely lovely!

Thomas has been eagerly awaiting for the sun to come, asking everyday to go to the park. We didn't quite make it to the park today, but we did make it to our back yard, which is huge, so it's like a park. They rolled on the grass, we kicked the ball around, we played a little tag, they slid down the slide, we had a picnic, and explored all the places water had puddled since the rain. It was just fantastic. None of us wanted to go inside.

I'm not a fan of winter; I can distract myself with how fun the decorations for Christmas are, but once Christmas is over, I want winter to be done, NOW. We all take vitamin D to stave off the winter blues, but there's just nothing as good as bright, golden, sunshine. We didn't even have to turn the heat on in the house. That's my kind monday!

I feel that Spring time is a symbol of starting fresh. So much more than January 1. I like to make my "New Years Resolutions" as soon as spring starts to set it. It seems like an easier transition to me. I am going to start running again this week, and I'm elated. Nothing feels better than running in the sunshine. Running in the rain does not have the right effect on me. Anything in the rain just hits the mark, but maybe that's just for me.

The change of weather also means our church will be starting softball soon, and that definitely makes me so happy. I'm certainly not the best player on the team, (hopefully not the worst, also), but I sure do enjoy playing softball with our church league. I can't wait for our season to start up and really test my hand eye coordination. Goal for this year: not to throw the bat after I've hit the ball. I may have almost taken a catcher or two out by the ankles throwing the bat... whoops.

I'm working on teaching the boys graciousness right now. Nothing grates me more than when they demand something, without any sort of manners, and then don't say thank you. I want them to be gracious, and thankful for what they have. Obviously, they're very young, so I won't hold the bar too high, but it still would be nice to hear them independently say "please" and "thank you" to me. They have their manners down pretty good with other people, but I guess because I am the one with them 24/7 manners get lost in the shuffle.

Does anyone have an suggestions for a great children's bible? I have a few bible apps that the boys think are fun, but they have limited stories.

We hope you enjoy the sunshine this week, if it's sunny where you are!