Is It Spring Yet?

I am so ready to have it be spring. I want to let the kids go play outside in our fenced backyard, go discover the parks in the neighborhood and go for walks again. But the weather just doesn't want to cooperate. I guess it will come soon enough. Instead I just changed my background to a spring theme to try and usher in the season. In the mean time I've been going through pictures and files (saving them to another computer because this one is having issues) and I found some miscellaneous cute pictures that I haven't posted but thought would be good to post now.

Here's a picture of me and Karen taken around the same age. What do you think? Does she look like me at all?

This next one is of Karen one morning after we'd take out some french braids and just left it down and kinky, she went and found a headband and tried to put in on by herself and this is how it ended up. I think she looks just like a hippie especially with the antique type coloring of the picture, funny that it turned out that way without me even trying.

One day I got some tulips and Michael wanted to smell them. It's so funny how a 2 year old tries to smell flowers. Here's the face and you can imagine the sound as he tried to sniff the flowers. Afterwards he said mmmmmmm. So cute.

One more of Michael. One day he asked to have his hair like daddy's, so we got the mousse and combed his hair back and he was so excited. He kept saying "Handsome like daddy." He can be so sweet.

Heart Cake

I made a heart cake for Valentine's day and the kids really wanted to help. They were amazed that a square cake and a round cake could be used to make a heart shaped caked. It was fun. They also wanted to help me decorate it and could hardly wait to eat it. Neils got some cute picture of the kids watching me and helping me decorate the heart cake, so of course I want to share. Can you see Michael's tongue in the side of his mouth literally hanging out anxious to taste it? So cute.

He really wanted to help me put the candy hearts on the cake, so I let him with careful supervision that it didn't end up in his mouth instead.

I love this one of Karen peeking over the counter looking longingly at the cake.Here's the finished product.And Michael enjoying the spoils. I had one of Karen too that accidentally got deleted (oops), but it was just as cute and messy.

Happy Friday the 13th

I know I'm weird, but I love Friday the 13th! I couldn't let it go by without blogging about it. Somehow, something good seems to happen on Friday the 13ths for me. And how exciting is it that there will be one next month too. Today has actually been quite good and peaceful on the homefront which is the something good happening for me today. Hope you all have a good day today and a wonderful Valentine's day tomorrow too.

Bubble Wrap Dancing

Recently we watched the movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Karen just loved it. In the show they have Mr. Magorium dance on bubble wrap in the park. So when I got a package in the mail the other day that had bubble wrap in it, I thought the kids would really enjoy experiencing this fun thing they saw on the movie. They were extatic when I put it down on the floor and told them to dance on it. They loved it so much they did this several times a day for a few days until all the bubbles were popped. It was too good not to take a couple pictures of them having fun.

Karen will probably hate me for this when she's older, but it was too great a shot not to post. It shows how much fun they were having.

They gave up dancing for a couple minutes to use their hands.

New Picts

Well, I promised pictures of our home, so I'm following through on that promise. They aren't the best and the house isn't perfect, but I hope no one minds. This is the formal front room, we haven't got it quite put together yet and seems to be a catch all while we are unpacking.

This is our great room with the kitchen you've seen previously.

The other view of our family room with our much loved fireplace.

Our master bedroom. Neils calls the red accent wall his "Ute" wall. But I think that will only be during their football season.

We also have our own private master bath which Neils loves. He's described in detail his favorite part of the home, his jetted bath tub with a view. I didn't get a picture of the view, but it is definitely there.

Next is Karen's room. The picture didn't turn out right cause the accent wall is actually purple not blue. I also couldn't get the wall stickers very well, we did princesses and word that say "Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess..." We put it around the beautiful arched window in her room and doesn't show up too well in pics but is darling.

This is Michael's room, he loves blue and cars and so we did them both. He loves it. It also shows his big boy bed.