Flashback Friday!

The weather was actually decent for the majority of the week. We spent many afternoons outside! And with warm weather means new spring/summer shoes for my girl and Noah in just his shirt and undies. 😉 My boy LOVES to wear just his undies, maybe it's a guy thing. So most of my pictures in warmer weather will mean that it's Noah in his underwear.  Great pictures to show future girlfriend right?!

Sunday was also my best best friend's birthday and we celebrated with dinner on Tuesday. It was nice to go out by myself and have daddy watch the babes.

I also got proofs for sweet spring pictures from Noah's school! Love!!

{On a side note my sister is coming in town this weekend to visit! Can't wait to see her and Noah is so excited to play with her!}

Flashback {from the week} Friday

One weekly post I'm going to start is just posting the pictures from our week every Friday (we'll call it flashback friday). This will give me a "scheduled" post each week :) Enjoy!

Monday was St. Patrick's Day so the kids were sporting their green. The weather was actually starting to feel like spring this week so we spent a lot of time playing in the backyard. Noah also enjoyed taking lots of "selfies" this week while in the car. Haha. We spent our Friday at the zoo. Waylon even took the afternoon off to join us! We had a great time!

Valentine's Day {playing catch-up}

I just wanted to be sure that I wrote about Valentines Day for my memory.

I LOVE Valentine's Day! I do. For starters, I love getting flowers and sweet cards duh! But I also love showing others love. I love getting small goodies for my hubby and kiddos. And I love taking special somethings to the kids grandmothers to make them feel special too. 

This year, Waylon and I celebrated our 14th Valentine's together. That's right 14! It really is crazy to think that we have been together for almost half of our lives. We started dating as freshman in high school at the age of 14 and 15 and got married at 22 and 23. We are now 29. Crazy to most people! Now has it always been all smiles and roses?  No. But I wouldn't change the way my life worked out. I consider myself lucky. I found my soulmate, the man God put on this earth for me to share my life with, at the age of 14! Pretty neat if you ask me :)

This year we went out for our Vday date the Wednesday before actual Valentine's day. We wanted to avoid crowds and preset menus (I'm kinda a picky eater). We had a nice, relaxing evening kid-free. Thank you Grandma! :) 

We headed to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, The Melting Pot. Yumm! I absolutely LOVE this place!! It was nice to sit and talk with my husband and enjoy a leisurely dinner. Parents will know what I mean when I say leisurely. You know, the dinner where you aren't cutting up food as fast as you can for your hungry little ones, the dinner where you aren't dodging little hands that keep reaching for your shirt before you've wiped them, the dinner where you aren't attempting (with little success) to hold a conversation with your spouse while also trying to hold a conversation with a three year old, the dinner where you aren't scarfing down your food because the kids are done and you know it's only a matter of time before they become restless and are ready to get up and run around, yeah you know. I laugh as I write that because in all honesty not all dinners with my kiddos are like that but you get what I mean. It's so nice every once in awhile to just sit and enjoy a nice, calm meal and conversation.

On Thursday, the 13th, Noah had his class Valentine's party.  It is always so sweet to see all of the kids eating together and going through the special treats they receive from classmates and teachers.  I love watching him interact with the other kids and catching a glimpse of what he is like at school.  My boy is just getting so big!  This was a first for me, putting together goodies for the kids and decorating a Valentine box, and I LOVED it!  I sometimes still cannot believe that I'm actually a mom and doing these things.  Seriously the best role in life!

{I only wish they would've told me they were going to take a picture this day at school so he wasn't wearing his big tiger shirt haha oh well he's still cute!}

Successful Valentine's Day this year for sure!

I'm still here

So yeah...once again I've been so bad about making the time to blog.  Oops.  We are still here and still just living life.  Since my last post (Caroline's bday party) we have been keeping busy with Valentine's day parties, Noah starting soccer, school, doing fun things as a family, and now getting ready for Easter.  I'll be doing some catch-up posts only for my own memory and to share some pictures.

A quick synopsis of events in our lives: Valentine's day was great and Noah's class had a fun little party.  I absolutely love his school and I enjoy seeing how much he loves it as well.  Honestly, Waylon and I were pretty nervous about how he would do his first year in a school setting, and he has done exceptionally well. Noah also started soccer in Febuary (another post on that later).  Let's just say that he's getting there little by little.  Caroline is as crazy and wild as ever!  That girl is just too smart and gets into everything.  Waylon and I already look at each other most days with that 'oh this girl is going to give us a run for our money' look in our eyes.  But with that wild and crazy nature is also a very sweet girl who loves to gives kisses and cuddle the doggies.  Now I am preparing for Easter festivities.  With Noah being almost four, I am trying to put together fun crafts and traditions to teach the true meaning of Easter.  It's important, in my opinion, to teach kids the meaning behind holidays and that they aren't all about candy and presents.  I am all about the fun stuff, trust me, but it's important to lay the foundation of our religion and faith early.  More posts to come on things that I plan for him (and Caroline to watch for now).  

So I am telling myself now, for sure, that I want to journal our lives and share it with family and friends as well.  I am going to try my hardest to blog semi-regularly.  Stay tuned for the unloading of pictures very soon :)