With all the cool rainy weather lately the kids have been coloring and painting a lot. Samuel has gotten so much better at drawing. I love this pic he did that has all of our family members including Pepper, the cat.
And Ellie Kate wrote her name for the first time (well, the Ellie part anyway)! She was so proud. Ellie Kate loves to sit at the table and pretend she is writing while I work on Samuel's homework with him everyday. I wrote her name out and she copied it pretty well I must say. It's nice that she has a relatively easy name to spell too:)
my writing is on top and her copy is at the bottom...
More proof that Ellie Kate is a little momma in the making...vacuuming with a baby on her hip:)
I've been wanting to freshen up our bedroom for awhile now, but just haven't had the money in the budget to do what I wanted. I got tired of the dark curtains and bedding. A few weeks ago Target had this modern quilt set on sale for $25 that included the quilt and shams! That's a deal for a king size set. At first I wasn't sure how I liked such a bright green, but I feel like it has freshened up our room and given it the makeover it needed for not much money. I mean, it's still not exactly what I want, but it will do for now. I took down the dark curtains and found some I already had in our linen closet and changed those out.
this was the before in case you were wondering
And this is where we spend a lot of time lately...
The kitchen set that Santa brought has truly been a big hit in our house! Even Samuel loves to play with it. The girls will play in this spot alone sometimes for over an hour in the afternoon. They both will sit and read and look through books and then play with the kitchen stuff. I love that because it enables me to straighten up in the other rooms or put away clean laundry uninterrupted or do Samuel's homework with him while they play.
The last few weeks, I have been on a cleaning/organizing rampage. I get so sick and tired of every closet, every shelf, every drawer being a complete mess. Life just feels so much better when things are organized and cleaned out. One thing I went ahead and did was go through all the kids spring/summer clothes from last year. This is just from the girls that I am going to consign and I kept my favorites to hand down. I hate that they have so many clothes...and sometimes they were never even worn!!!
Some other random thoughts/happenings...
Jeff and I started P90x this week. It's kicking my butt...in a good way. I need to get in shape bad and it has been "fun" to work out with my hubby! We started the week by getting up early before the kids but I literally couldn't handle it. So, now we are going to try our workouts some at night. We did one last night (I know, don't we lead an exciting life to be working out on Friday night? Ha!) and it was so much better!!! Sleeping "in" until 7 am had never felt so good:)
I guess it was a slow news day on Friday, but as I was unloading the dishwasher during the girls naps, I turned on Fox News. I like to catch up on what's going on news wise every now and then. Well, they were all into this dog rescue out in L.A. Maybe it's because I'm not what you would call a dog lover, but I was like "seriously?" It was a bit much. I think Shep realized it was a bit crazy to keep going to the live rescue effort (the dog was caught in a river or something) but still, he did it anyway.
Exciting times around here, huh?!!
Oh, and I have finished a couple of blogs this month (I already have a pretty good wait list). It's been fun getting back to doing them! I really do love it! You can click on the headers below to visit their blogs...
