Monday Blog Catch-up

Today is the first day in about 2 weeks where the boys are napping and I have a quiet house to relax in.  No major project to do, my house is clean, no company to get ready for.....and I have to admit, it's pretty relaxing.  And it may be involving a little bit of chocolate and some HGTV.  It has been a very fun, but very full, last 2 weeks so being able to have an hour or two of some downtime is pure bliss!  And I'm finally able to catch up on some blog posts so scroll down for 3 more updates!

The weather has been amazing the past week.  Sunshine everyday.  Some days 65, and yesterday it was around 75 degrees.  We played outside every day during the Larmore visit, and we've been outside since they left on Saturday.  We brought out the water table and yesterday the boys even got to splash around in our little pool.  It is soo refreshing to sit on our back patio and watch our boys play and soak up the Vitamin D.  The boys get filthy every day playing around but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Saturday night the boys spent an hour with Auntie Amanda and Nana after we had spent the afternoon playing outside.  After church on Sunday we went to a local plant nursery and picked out a few things for our yard since Jonah had napped in nursery that day.  Peter really wanted a few more fruit trees for our backyard so we added a Pink Lady and Liberty apple tree.  This will join the 2 cherry trees and pink dogwood that we added last fall.  I love the pop of color that the dogwood brings.  It'll be fun to see the trees grow and see how our backyard changes in 5 years.

We got some cheerful flowers to plant around the light post in our front yard so hopefully we will get those planted later tonight.

The boys and I had a busy, yet relaxing morning.  I had my 6 month baby appointment this morning and little guy has a nice strong heartbeat.  Jonah had to get a few immunizations so we headed to Safeway afterwards to pick up a little treat for being brave.  Then we went for a nice long walk and ended up at a nearby park so the boys could run the bases at the 3 baseball fields and play on the slides.  Its funny how quickly you get used to the nice, warm weather and just want to spend every second outside.  And the bonus is my 2 active boys wear themselves out and sleep great for naps :-)  It was super fun to try out my new Double Bob stroller that was given to us as a gift from Anita, Nate and GongGong and Poppy.  SO easy to push the weight of both of my boys, thanks guys, we love it!

Time to finish prepping a few things for dinner, switch a load of laundry and wait for my sweetie to come home.  Just a low key, perfect Spring Monday with my precious family.