Craft-Time....

so, today it just poured buckets and buckets of rain. It's amazing how it the weather can single-handedly affect your energy. All i wanted to do was curl up in a blanket, lay on the couch and catch up on my DVR'd shows. So while the girls went down for naps and jaden had his quiet time that's exactly what i did. It was absolutely exhilerating. My neighbor popped over with a yummy drink from starbucks- the Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate.....so sweet, love her!

After the naps, i was feeling a little guilty that i hadn't done anything productive so we had craft time and made a few shamrocks to decorate the windows in the kitchen. i think the kids had fun....

the sparkle of my eye...

so today i had one of those moments of "i cannot forget to write this down". Jaden and Josie were in the dinning room playing with the mound of legos sprung all over the table and i heard them start to argue, which is nothing new, but then i hear Jaden, so excited....

"hey mom, i see Josie in the picture of you, me and daddy"

"oh really?, where"

"i see that sparkle in your eye, Josie's the sparkle"

"NUH-UH JJ, I NOT SPERKLE,... humpf"

it made me laugh...

Tulips...

my sister in law stopped by friday and brought these beautiful tulips for my birthday. i've been enjoying them all weekend....so excited for spring! :)

the perfect day...

so today was friend friday and it was the PERFECT day!... the weather was amazing, so we just sat outside knitting and chatting over doughnuts, caramel pecan rolls and coffee while the kids played in the sandbox, they did awesome.... once the boys got home from school, it got a bit crazier... they decided to build a sandcastle and needed water, which ended up turning a portion of the yard into mud and everyone was dirty. Josie went through probably 4 different outfits before she decided to scrap clothes altogether, oh my....meanwhile, the telephone guy stopped by and had to be thinking "what kind of group is this, ....it's 2 pm and they've cracked open a blue moon." ....summer has officially been christened. 

...BIG NEWS

so yesterday i received this text from my brother Chris....

E. Hartter vs. 4.0 coming ~9/17

well, when i first read it, i was rather confused- cause my mom is E. Hartter and her birthday is in September, but she's already past 40, i thought...is this another big year? did he just get the age wrong? and why is he so on top of this already- it's MARCH!... so i texted back

40? you mean (blank) I'm confused.

well, obviously i was COMPLETELY off-based, cause i found out that I'm going to be an AUNT again!!!! yayyy! .....so fun.

Body Pump....

so i've had a membership to Gold's Gym for probably 2 years now and hadn't done many of the classes, until a friend told me about Body Pump. the first day we went i hurt for the next week, muscles hurt that i didn't even know i had, but oddly it gets very addicting--- hard but fun.....definitely worth checking out! Josie even asks now "can we go to gym, mommy and i see riley?" she also gets to see "miss Jenn" there which she thinks is pretty cool too.

the big 2-9

that's right, today was my birthday, and what a great way to start the day but with breakfast in bed. Apparently, jaden had come up with the idea the night before and was so excited about it that he woke up at 5:30 this morning to start. Jeff had to coax him off until 7 am- and in they came with french toast, eggs, a muffin, tangerine and coffee.... i wasn't feeling well the night before and had went to bed with a piercing headache around 7 pm and didn't wake up until they serenaded me with a great rendition of "happy birthday"....my heart melted. 

And for a perfect ending we ordered in Basta's for dinner, yummy, yummy, yummy.....and opened up a gift jeff got from him and the kids....LOVE IT!