It is May!

Wow! I cannot believe it is already May!
Last week we had a cookout with our coworkers and it took me all week to recover getting the house back in shape, then Riley came down with his very first cold, then Charlotte then I got sick for 24 hours Saturday and then Sunday was spent playing outside and just getting ready for the week! The cookout was such a blast that I took no pictures! It was nice to have people we consider family over to enjoy our new home and some really good food! The hubs is a grill master! I cannot wait for the summer when we can grill out more and more!
I also started unpacking the massive amounts of books that we have, two boxes down, 18 to go, or so it feels! Just glad I made some progress on Sunday since I couldn't move Saturday, except for to take care of the kiddos which took all the energy out of me! So glad to be feeling better and to be back at it this week!


Here are some pictures from this weekend

We did a lot of swinging on the back patio! These two love to swing with Momma but Charlotte will not go on a swing at the playground! Such a goof! 

The kiddos were fascinated with being able to sit together in the buggy, and Charlotte was not being mean she was just trying to put her hand somewhere since my hands were on her side! 

We played soccer with the large bouncy ball, and the small little tykes ball but I didn't take pictures of that

And I took this as I was putting laundry away! Is that not just gorgeous!? I love the sunsets from our house, they are just beautiful 

Sunday after I was feeling better we had to make a rest of the necessities for the week run! Riley rode next to his big sis again and this time got to drive with her and it was the cutest thing hearing them talk in their own language and steer the steering wheels! 

It poured down rain when we were leaving for the grocery store about noon, but cleared up within minutes! Well about 6 oclock more clouds came rolling in! After a day of playing with sidewalk chalk, the bouncy ball, bubbles and soccer ball this girl did not want to go in so I finally made her go in right as the rain started! The joys of summer right? Staying out until way past bedtime, well at least for this girl. Riley was in bed at his usual time and slept good most of the night and was not woken by bath time for Char or bed time either!

It was a good weekend with an unexpected bug for 24 hours that left me useless and kept the kiddos playing with each other most of the day! Luckily Char and Riley didn't get it, but they have some nasty upper respiratory thing and if it doesn't go away soon I will have to be finding a doctor. 

But first, we are getting blinds today, or at least measurements for our blinds today! I know, I know, shouldn't I already have blinds? haha

Our house luckily backs up to swampy, grassland, forest 

That is a panorama of our back yard ignore the soaking wet furniture, it rained last night :) , our property goes back into the woods but the fence is for the kiddos so they don't wander off and for the dog too. Aren't the trees gorgeous!? 

I'm not quite used to living in the country yet so all the wildlife back there freaks me out, except for the owl which is really cool to listen to and I even saw it the other night :) 

Well back to my story, because we have this behind us I didn't really worry too much about the lack of blinds. We just close our closet door to change in the bathroom and no one is in the dining room to eat yet so we don't need them there but with the girls coming in three weeks we needed to start the blinds process, so alas the day has come that our bedrooms get blinds, the dining room gets blinds, our master closet gets blinds, and the office gets blinds! And I am leaving the living room open and putting curtains up! Am I weird for doing that? I love looking out and seeing the trees and at night I can close the curtains 

I hope everyone has a wonderful Monday and had an awesome weekend! I'm very thankful that I am once again healthy and able to run after the kiddos instead of watch them play on the floor with cartoons playing! Cartoons save the day for a sick mom! 

XOXO