{Sunshine}

today was beautiful.
we even saw 77 on the thermometer....what?!?!?!?!:)
it was glorious from beginning to end.
a get outside and play kind of day.

and play we did.

have a happy day,

cindy

{thankful for}
1. sunshine (i think i've been using that one a lot lately)
2. a trampoline in our yard
3. a good hat and sunglasses
4. ice cold water in a stainless steel cup
5. clouds

{Weekend Glimpses}

happy sunday to you.

i feel really on the ball...getting my weekend post out on sunday.:)

i think it might be a with it kind of week...kind of has to be...my baby is going away.

mama needs to be on her game 24/7.

planning meals and cooking them...plus all the other stuff i do.

i know most of you do the meal thing every day...so i will get my inspiration from you!!:)

on with the weekend...

we had a wonderful friday, and a good friday always counts as part of the weekend around here.

aubrey and i spent friday with some good friends at the university expo.

the girls had so much fun.

the girls got to see many different kinds of insects, bees making honey,
dig for fossils and touch lots of animal bones.
my girlfriend and i joked that their favorite part was the car seat-free bus ride and playing on the big tree while waiting for the bus to pick us up.:)
it was a fun day filled with lots of smiles.

on our way home aubrey and i took all the back roads.
the day was just perfect.
our favorite bumpy bridge ride was extra wonderful today.

friday night riley went to a birthday party.
it was a sleepover but she had decided earlier in the week that she wanted to come home after dinner and the movie were over.
well...we got a call around 9:30 asking if she could stay and sleepover....!
oh goodness...a big mama moment i was totally unprepared for.
i knew this day would come soon enough....just didn't think it would be that day .
she asked so respectfully and confidentially, that we decided to say yes.
then i hung up the phone and cried!!!!

we decided not to tell janey who was waiting up for her because we knew there would be tears.
and there were.
saturday morning she crawled into our bed asking where riley was.
when we broke the news....she cried and cried.
i think it had more to do with not getting to share this first time experience with her big sis.
i think she thought their first sleepover would be together. :( honestly, so did i.

it felt so strange in the morning without riley there to do all the saturday morning stuff with us.
when we caught a glimpse of her walking across the street (at least she was close-by) the girls ran to greet her.

i can't tell you how much i love this picture!

she had a good time.

and i am hearing things about seeing a 3 something on the clock before they went to sleep!

yikes!

but that explains why she fell asleep on the floor saturday afternoon and doesn't remember being carried to her bed for a 3 hour nap...slept till 9:30 sunday morning and took a 2 hour nap on our bed sunday afternoon.

oh the price we pay to party!!!:)

janey and i dreamed of bathing suit weather and then got ready for party number 2 of the weekend.

the big girls were so excited to visit their old stomping grounds...little gym...and aubrey was as fearless as ever. we went for pizza afterwards and had such a wonderful time.

the big girls slept in till after 9 sunday morning.

dave went for bagels and we enjoyed a quiet morning with this peanut.

she loves her bagels...and sharing daddy's cream cheese.

when these two finally woke up they went straight to their favorite things.

sunday afternoon janey had party number three and got to swim her little heart out.

riley played a groggy-eyed soccer game and we spent the rest of the day chillin' with a blankie and arthur.

and we ended the weekend with...



i thought of you nicolle when i took this sangria shot

dave's exotic scallop and pancetta pizza

i stuck with pepperoni and cheese:)

 

our weather was so glorious we couldn't have asked for a better spring-teaser weekend.

does it feel like spring in your neck of the woods?

all photos were edited on the cool new site picmonkey.

have you checked it out yet??

hurry on over, it's pretty awesome!

hope your weekend was a happy one,

cindy

{thankful for}

1. good friends

2. sunshine

3. spring in the air

4. music that makes you feel good

5. deep breathes......

 

{New and Good... A Picture Wall}

i love the way our picture wall was before.

{old pic to refreash your memory}

but when we painted the walls, i knew it was time for soemthing new.

i wanted it to be a bit more random and colorful.
then i saw this photo

it was on someone's pinterest page...but i can't remember who??:)

i loved everything about it...the colors...the randomness...exactly what we were looking for.

so i copied it.:)

kind of.

i bought almost all of the frames at walmart and target.

i went for the most inexpensive ones i could find because i knew i would be painting them.

once i had bought what felt like a gazillion frames, i started working on the arrangement.

i just laid it on the floor during nap time and played with it till i had it just right.

it was actually fun...kind of like building a puzzle.

i took a quick picture then cleaned it up.

i printed the picture and used that to plan what colors and photos would go where.

choosing the paint was tricky.

i spent many an hour in front of that huge wall of acrylic paints at hobby lobby and michael's.

i love a good project mess.

once all the photos were in the right frames, we laid everything out on the floor again.

hanging everything was tricky. (especially since it was 9 o clock pm  the day before janey's party...sorry baby!)

the fact that things were a bit more random and unmeasured was good though.

dave started with the bottom line since we knew we wanted that to be level and then we just built up.

........ta-da.......

i think it looks amazing in the room and adds just the right pop of color.

i think it will be pretty easy to add to as well.

i would like to go a bit more up...and out.

i was thinking about a pretty bunting over the top...what do you think?? too much??

maybe underneath? maybe on the fireplace instead????

who knows:)

one of my new favorite views in the house!!:)

here are some of the goodies i used.

i love us print - free

what i love most print - free

let all that you do print - free

you are my sunshine print (looks like she's on vacation!:) )

you are loved print - free when i purchased the sunshine one.

bird plate from pier one

have a happy day,

cindy

{thankful for}

1. a project done...check

2. more projects swirling around my mind...i love projects:)

3. hearing aubrey sing on the monitor in the morning

4. target finds

5. time with janey today at brownies