Our New Addition!

Yay! Our piano is finally here!!!

Just a tip for anyone planning on moving a piano:

Paying professionals for the hard part (like bringing it up a flight of stairs) is worth EVERY PENNY!

And, we really do have the best neighbors anyone could ever ask for. Alde let us use his trailer, and he just plain rocked it driving home.

After we were sure the piano was home safe, Alex had a little jam session outside with Dad and Alde.

Mom had a moment.

Logistics...

Trying it out...

So cute!

I am so excited that we have a piano! They are so much fun, even if everyone is just tinkering around. And who knows, there may be a savant in the house!

What to do on a Rainy Day...

Today was a rainy day...

so what do you do on a rainy day, you ask?

We did some teeny tiny braids...


I started a 'Wall Art Vinyl' project...

We played with our food...

Okay, HE played with the food!!!

We fixed a knob!

The teeny tiny braids went so well, we tried some french braids...her first EVER!!!

This one got a haircut!

Naps were taken by some...

We baked the first Angel Food cake of the season...

And we had friends over for dinner!

It was a great rainy day!

Reflections of Mother's Day

What an honor it is to be a mother.

Yesterday was wonderful.

But it wasn't the TWO DOZEN roses, or the awesome breakfast, tons of fun gifts and cards, or even sipping coffee poolside that did it for me.

It was the way Grace ran her fingers through the back of my hair and over my neck while I was holding her standing in line at the gas station.

It was how Alex caught me staring at him putting his seat belt on thinking about how much I loved him and he said simply to my silence, "I love you too, Mom."

That was enough for me.

It was wonderful.

The Pool is OPEN!

Yay! The pool is open! We just dipped our feet in yesterday morning, and the kids were so excited they could hardly stand it! We are looking forward to another summer filled with wonderful memories at the pool!

(Poor Grace's skinned knees are nicely displaying the reason why I make my kids wear long pants during the summer! Ouch!)

We've been invaded...

...by Spring!

Okay, hee hee, we did it ourselves.

But we HAD to.

If Spring won't come on its own, well, maybe it just needs a little push. ;)

I will disclose that Alex was not at all into this project at first...until...he realized that I was going to let him hang the butterflies on the wall by himself.

This is how the 'butterfly compromise' began.

You decorate a butterfly, you get to hang it on the wall.

Genius, right?

This is also why the butterflies started getting higher and higher.

By the last few, I was having to stand on a chair and lift Alex up from there. Yikes.

But, in the end, that's the part about this 'wall art' that I love the most. It looks like a bunch of butterflies gathered in one place and slowly starting to spread to another...LOVE.IT.

Random March Montage

Cutie Pa-Tootie with a purse and heels to match!

Tinkerbell is our current favorite movie,

and Grandma made this beautiful fairy costume for Grace for her birthday.

Perfect timing!

In the process of creating a masterpiece!

Voila! Rainbow jello!

'Playdough Pick Up'

I am pretty lax about where play dough goes...as long as it stays in the kitchen!

This day, I ran into the other room for just a minute and while I was gone, the kids decided they were finished, and it was time to clean up! I walked in to find them both cleaning up the playdough. Now that is my kind of awesome!

St. Patrick's Day Parade

Pre-Haircut

I love pictures of the bottom of the kid's feet. They're so cute. But also, it's fun that Grace is wearing Alex's winter PJ's from last year. And, we found this Santa hat stashed in with a bunch of toys, so it was fun to listen to the kids 'Ho Ho Ho-ing' around the house for a day!

My Buzz Lightyear