A Perfect Mother's Day

Simple and perfect. I couldn't have asked for more.

Picture of the Week - May 8

Happy Mother's Day to one of the most caring, loving, and supportive people I have ever met. And I'm lucky enough to have her as my Mom!

Now go give your momma a hug! And if you can't do that then you'd better make sure you call her or skype her if you're so technologically inclined. Either way, just do it!

Tree Swings

We need one of these in our backyard. Matt is working on it ... But for now, this one will do just fine.


Hope you have a lovely Mother's Day weekend planned!

Lite Brite Love

As a child who grew up during the era of the Lite Brite, this video was an immediate winner in my book. Couple that with the fact that it's a video of one of my favorite artists, David Crowder Band, and it was love at first sight. Check it out ... pretty cool stuff.

Kidspeak

For the last few days Luke had been walking around saying something that I could not understand. It sounded the same every time he said it, which is how I knew he was repeating the same word/phrase over and over. I can usually figure out what he's saying pretty quickly, so it was really bothering me that I just couldn't understand this one. It really sounded like he was saying, "Ham-boo-ger, Mommy?", over and over again.

After a couple of days of this Luke and I were driving in the car to pick up Peyton, Adah and Sam from preschool. And he started it again ...

Luke: "Ham-boo-ger, Mommy ... ham-boo-ger?"

Me: "What buddy? Hamburger? You don't really even like ground beef. Do you want a hamburger?"

Luke: "Ham-boo-ger, Mommy!"

Me: "I really just don't know what you're saying buddy."

I proceed to look in my rear view mirror at this point and see Luke shoving his finger up his nose. He then pulls it out, examines his finger, and then holds it up in the air to show me.

Luke: "Mommy, ham-boo-ger!"

Ohhhhhhh, "Have booger." Lovely.

A Picturesque Weekend

I love spring in North Carolina. I can't say it makes me euphoric because of my allergies, but besides that it is amazing. Temperatures in the mid-70's and still cool and crisp at night ... it's heavenly. We try to get outside as much as possible in the spring before the heat of summer comes. We spent the weekend at two of our favorite places, Graylyn and Reynolda Gardens. The only thing better than enjoying the outdoors with your family is enjoying it on someone else's well-manicured property!

Picnics at Graylyn have become a family tradition (or an excuse for us to pick up food from our favorite lunch spot, Dioli's!).

After lunch, we were off to explore.

I'd like to say they were enamored with some fascinating discovery under the bridge, but no. It was goose poop.

Apparently, it's fascinating

I love that they leave games outside for anyone to use. We stumbled upon some badminton nets and raquets, croquet mallets, and soccer balls (it all made me feel very European) and the kids had at it. I'm pretty sure we didn't use the equipment in the exact way it was intended.

As always, we had such a fun time. I love living minutes from this place. And more people should take advantage of it (though I really don't mind having the place to ourselves!).

Later that day we headed over to Reynolda Gardens to see the rose bushes and all the other spring flowers. This place is always beautiful and the kids always enjoy running around and smelling (NO PICKING!) the flowers. I think we only killed a few flowers this time, which I consider a success.

Here is one of the culprits, caught in the act (notice the freshly picked flower in his fist).

The pictures really don't do the gardens the justice they deserve. If I ever had an outdoor wedding (which is pretty questionable with my preponderance of sweat glands that go into overdrive at the near mention of warmth), this is definitely where I would have it. Maybe I can talk one of the girls into getting married here? I could live vicariously through them! I'd just have to get a few hundred oscillating fans flown in before the wedding so that they could all be pointed on me during the ceremony. TAKE THAT sweat rings!!

Hope your weekend was as beautiful as ours!

Picture of the Week - May 1

Two-thirds of my most favorite boys in the world.

P.S.  Happy 7th Birthday Wilson!