playing catch up in pictures

From our Easter weekend:

 a mini egg hunt at home (with Carson!) before the big hunt at my Opa's house

silly children; pretty baby

  and... of course we went fishing!

We had a wonderful weekend and I hope you did too!

last week

Once again blogger won't let me upload pictures so you'll have to use your imagination.
I pretty much abandoned the blog last week so here's what's been going on. First of all, Rose is doing much better. Two trips to the doctor, a chest x-ray, two prescriptions and a nebulizer to get her better, but at least we didn't have to take her to the ER or spend any time in the hospital. (The doc we saw on our first visit gave us instructions to take her straight to the children's hospital if her breathing worsened over night. Thankfully it didn't; it was much better that evening.) So, she's finishing up her medicines and hasn't needed the nebulizer in a few days (yay!!), but over the weekend D started his cough-cough-coughing once again. I hate seeing my kids sick. Plus, it's tiring for all of us.

Thanksgiving was nice. My brother in law made a smoked turkey that was so, so good. I didn't really overindulge. I wanted to, but being super pregnant I can only eat a little bit at a time before I feel stuffed.

Friday we went to the museum like we did last year. We made it through a bit quicker this year, partly because we knew where the cool stuff was and partly because the kids walked faster. I also had Tim take my 37 week preggo picture- you can imagine it looked about the same as the 36 week one. After the museum we went to Maudie's for lunch (just like last year) where I did eat until I was stuffed. I did not regret it at all. In fact, I didn't even get heartburn.

Saturday the kids and I spent the day lounging around while Tim worked on house stuff. It was a very successful day. Yesterday I gritted my teeth and went grocery shopping (it was definitely crowded, but not as terrible as I thought it'd be). D wasn't feeling great, but around 3 in the afternoon we loaded up and headed to the back stock tank where we got real country-fied and took turns shooting our pellet gun. If only blogger would let me upload the pics, they are really awesome.

Today D is still feeling less than awesome so he's home from school (although we are going to get his school work later) and I am diving in to cleaning. This baby could come any day now and I want everything to be organized before she does. Okay so I gotta get things going or it'll never get done!

on the fourth

 "Mommy, I need those fireworks."

 I came thisclose to being a sparkler after she twirled around me. 

A spectacular show was put on by T and the kids that night. They each got a turn lighting the fuse and then running (and laughing hysterically) back to me to watch.

We had a nice, relaxing day.... hope everyone else did, too.

our Easter weekend

I'm a little late to the Easter parade of posts, but here are a few pictures from this weekend.

I only took 100+ pictures on Easter and these are the best of each child. I should've handed the camera over to T because I spent most of the time helping Rose hunt for eggs. There's a lot of pictures of the backs of their heads.

We had a really nice weekend. Yesterday was back to back appointments at the eye doctor and a t-ball game. I spent most of my very few hours actually at home trying to find a missing red sock (for t-ball) and thankfully finding it shoved way under the couch.

Before I start trying to elaborate on other super exciting things like the fact that we ate leftovers I will bid you adieu.

i really splurged this valentine's day

Okay, so it's Valentine's Day and we are sort of celebrating. T gave me a card this morning which was very sweet.... I avoided the card aisle this year so after he left for work I racked by brain to come up with something remotely cute. I scrounged around and got all 4th grade and made a magazine word collage card. It's about as crafty as I get. I had to use scissors AND glue. I even made the kids little cards I was feeling so creative. Then I googled Martha Stewart cupcake recipes. (What exactly was in my coffee this morning?) I'll be making the kids individual heart shaped pizzas for supper and shrimp linguine for T and I. (I've never made linguine before.)

Other things I'm doing today would be trying to figure out if we should upgrade our phones to smart phones. It's one of my most dreaded things to do. It's all so confusing and frustrating. I could potentially use my phone to connect my laptop to the internet and eliminate the monthly broadband card... but how do I know how much data to get? Will it be cost effective? I know I freak out way to easily about these things. Anyone have any advice?

I'm also muttering some not very nice things under my breath every ten minutes because so far no one thinks nap time is sacred right now except for me. Children, don't you want your mother to bake you cupcakes and then be able to shower?

On that note, I've got to be going. It is much later than I thought it was. Yikes. Have a splendid rest of the day!