Happy Mother's Day

Today was a wonderful day. It was my third Mother's Day, although my first one was with Jenni still inside me, and it was the best one by far. 

It started with Sean and Jenni making me waffles for breakfast. It was so cute listening to the two of them make the batter together. It was not breakfast in bed (because Sean couldn't find the tray) so I got up and came to the table. It was a much better choice to sit at the table anyway because it did get a little messy. 

Then Jenni came to me with something behind her back and said, "happy mudders day mommy" and handed me a beautiful watch. It was the perfect gift because my old one broke a few weeks back and it made me sad. 

Then we walked to church and had a beautiful service. 

After church we went over to Sean's parents' house to celebrate with them too. It was a pretty nice day so we did a lot of playing outside. 

It is now a perfect ending to a perfect day. 

A sense of accomplishment

So over the past few weeks I have been slowly working away at the yard.... You know.... Getting it all ready for summer!! It has been a long time coming, and there is so much more to be done, but it feels so good getting at least most of the yard done. 

So these are two basic before pictures. The thing is, is there is still more yard that you can't see. Behind the shed (behind the play area) there is still another 10 feet of yard, not to mention across the yard. So there is basically a 10x60 area of yard that we don't even use or really see. 

So after about 6 collective hours of work we have gotten the yard livable. 

So there is about another 2 hours of work left cleaning out the flower beds and doing the boulevard, but it is not that big of a deal compared to what we have already done. 

I'm just so happy that the yard is ready for Jenni and Maria to play in. We even let Jenni play in the sprinkler today too.

So here's to a big sense of accomplishment and the start of a great summer. 

Baby it's WARM outside

Oh the weather had been amazing. I just can't believe how beautiful it had been outside the last few days. The girls have had a lot of fun out in the sun having friends over to play and soaking up the vitamin D. This is the first year that the playground area in our yard has been a real asset for us and Jenni. Jenni loves going to play in the sand box and going down the slide.

On a side note, Sean and I have been watching the documentary about world war 2 called WWII in color. It is on Netflix and there are 13 episodes each 51 minutes long. I am learning so much. I didn't learn about WWII in school so this has been completely enlightening to my knowledge.

Well here are some great pics of the girls outside playing. Enjoy!!