Friday, April 29, 2011

1 more day!

One more day till we arrive in Florida!

Oh and congrats to the new royal couple! I was up at 5am watching it! It looked like our wedding, maybe a little. LOL.

I'll be back soon to post tons of pics!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Easter!

Our weekend was busy, but oh, so very festive. I love Easter, it's one of my favorite holidays. It's the start of spring and represents so much for our faith. I love that we continue to celebrate our traditions on Saturday, with blessing the Easter baskets. It's not about the presents in them, but about blessing the food that we should be so thankful for everyday.
Saturday, we first went to visit the Bugs. He did great while we waited in line.
When it was time to sit on his lap, D was not thrilled about it. So, we sat down to take a family picture but that looked horrible since he was still crying. With some encouragement from mommy and daddy and a car to keep him company he sat down. I believe I told the girl 5 times "try one last time". Ry was rolling his eyes but it was worth it. A frame worthy picture to add to our collection of 3 years worth of photos.
One meltdown later (about not clipping his seat belt by himself ) with chicken nuggets and fries in his basket we went to bless our food. We met my mom there and ran into Daniel's friend, Kevin.
Not sure where Daniel's basket went in these pics but he had lots of goodies to bless.
We came home and D went down for a nap. Then, it was time to get ourselves ready for a BIG celebration for our Aunt Bonnie's First Communion/Confirmation ceremony.
Mr. D had to be woken up from his nap early.
We had great food and wonderful company at a nice restaurant before we headed over to church for a 2.5 hour service.
We never thought our peanut would make it through because service started at 7pm but he did sooooo good. We visited Jesus's "grave" and explained to him he was sleeping but when the lights came on and celebratory music was playing we told him that Jesus woke up and went to heaven because he loved him so much. He wanted to go back to the "grave" and kept saying "where is Jesus?" and "Jesus wake up". So sweet, I wasn't prepared to come up with anything better. I need to research before next year on what the best response is for a kid that age.
Sunday, we headed over to my sister's for brunch.
We walked down to her house (a whole 2 houses away) and this is what Daniel decided to style while he pedaled over on his tricycle.
First time he let us put shades on him and he loved them.
As food was being prepared, the cousins got down to playing.
My mom made turkey, I made ham and my sister made what looked like another 20lbs of food. It was ridiculous. Within an hour we were all in a food coma. We watched the Little Faulkers as D snoozed. We didn't even have dinner when we got home, we were so stuffed. I just felt sick from eating so much. No self control!
We hope you had a blessed day today as we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Good Friday

We are getting ready!







Thursday, April 21, 2011

"I wike my tub"

After almost a month of renovating D's bathroom, it is done. Of course, the final decor has not been added but I'll save that for a separate post because some creative juices are flowing and I change my mind 100 times so it's safer that way.
Let's not forget what it looked like before.

Mr. D got to enjoy his first bath in his tub and he loved it. He keeps saying "my bafoom pretty mommy" and "I hab a sink now" and "I hab new potty". Just like his mommy the boy appreciates the finer things in life.
He missed playing with his cars in the tub, although taking a shower like a big boy was fun too.
There is beige but somehow updated tile makes it look so much better
My favorite part...the mosaic around the mirror.
BEFORE: Goodbye 1970s

AFTER: Hello 2011
close up of the mosaic
The shower curtain that has me talking to a lady at work that embroiders and she gave me a little neat idea that I'm thinking over before I commit.
It's boyish, modern and simple. Just what I wanted. The curtain didn't come with any accessories so mama needs to get creative.
Even though there was sophistication added to the room, let's not forget who rules the roost around here.
Have a wonderful Easter everyone. We have a busy weekend ahead, full update coming up!