The real reason I can't get any work done some days...

Today...

I attended a wedding this afternoon. I really don't go to too many and I've only ever been a member of a wedding party once (my sister's). Today I wore a dress. And heels. I figured writing it down here was as good as marking it on the calendar. I honestly don't recall the last time I wore a dress. Or heels. And I must have set some sort of record for the time it took me to get Kyleigh out of her car seat, into the house, up the stairs and back into sports bra, jeans and t-shirt.

Yep...my husband is a lucky, lucky man.

I cried...I LOL'ed...I dang near wet my pants...

Mommy Rhapsody from Church on the Move on Vimeo.

The air guitar with the broom? Totally how I clean house.

Projects...

Jacob and I were in in the kitchen yesterday--rustling up some DE-licious peanut butter cookies--and I couldn't help but notice that his poor little apron (Home Depot smock) was really ratty and done. And what did I find this morning as I'm trip-trapping along on the interwebz?

(the picture belongs to Chef Tess Bakeresse...
but I wanted to show what she did just in case you don't want to follow the link)

Chef Tess has done it again--a tutorial on recycling a pair of cargo pants and creating a little boy's apron! Oh, and scroll down a couple of days and she'll show you an adorable little girl's apron too. So, excuse me while I go pull out the pair of too-short cargo pants I just put in the donate bag. And dust off the sewing machine. My creative side has been stagnant for way too long...

Yoda zen...

My delightful first born painted a flower pot, filled it with soil, planted it with flower seeds and gave it to me for Mother's Day.

I was thrilled to see two tiny little leaves from a shoot popping up the other morning. Only to be crushed the next day when I saw the tiny sprout laying on its side and wilted...then...I looked a little closer...
And, yes...I may have a little too much time on my hands right now...either that, or five years of sleep deprivation are finally catching up to me...

Birthday season...

A friend's daughter kicks it off with a Purple Butterfly cake request...

take a 12 inch round pound cake...


fill with chocolate...cut in half...trim off all of the bits that aren't butterfly wings...


cover in a delightful shade of violet icing...


then fill in the rest with butterfly colors fit for a 3-year-old...

I think she liked it!

Of course, looking at this picture I can't help but remember these two girlies laying side by side on a blanket...gurgling and blowing bubbles...and here they are turning 3 and blowing out candles. And the two boys both turn 5...they already have their requests in!

Hide and seek...

There's a Daddy under there somewhere...

maybe we finally need to admit to ourselves we could do with a bigger couch...