It's that time again...

for amusement parks! With two family season passes to two parks by our house and the museum, I think we are set for the summer. So far, I think we've gone to one of these each week, and I don't get burned out... well, except for one caveat:

Crowds. We usually go during the week when most of the world is working (yes, a very nice blessing), but for some reason we went today, a Saturday. What were we thinking? I guess we wanted to be reminded that too much of humanity is a bad thing... especially when you add waiting in lines for rides 1) with kids, 2) pushy parents and 3) the hot sun. But, I did get some good shots of the kids b/c Steve was with me. And, we went for pizza and yogurt afterward, which is pretty much the best day ever.








A random shot of the kids playing in water last week- I bought this adorable table last year that you can put sand/water in... but after a month or so, we realized that the sand wasn't so adorable when found all over the floor, crib, bed, shoes, clothes, kitchen.... so out went the sand... and now it's just a water box.

emerging from the cacoon

Do you ever feel like not blogging anymore? I guess that's what has been happening to me- no desire. But, I was reminded yesterday of the beauty of updating for posterity.... so here is my try at getting better !!

Weather for the past month: rain, no sun, rain, sun, hot, no really cold... you get my drift. So, we have been trying to enjoy it with our swimsuits, our coats or whatever falls in between.

The day we went outside when it was raining and played with bubbles and then took a photo on the porch:

The couple of days that it was really hot- and I drove to Toys R Us to get a pool, and it wasn't in yet... so we took out some Sterilite containers and they loved it..







For Easter weekend, we played it really low key and spent time with Steve's mom who flew into town. Our amazingly nice neighbor dropped off some Easter dresses which of course they wanted to try on.... and they were pretty cute:


Easter Egg #2 wasn't so happy, but we got her in the photo...



Aside from normal life, we "redid" the front of our house. Since this infamous house is basically the black hole of anything that resembles money, we have had to do stuff in stages.

Finally, we reached the stage of our walkway, our porch and some plants... just in time too. We got a ticket from the city that our weeds were getting too long?! Just can't get over that one.







I haven't taken a photo of it done! Ah! But- it's 9:30 pm, and you wouldn't see much! It's great. We love it. Now, for the column, painting, the master bath.... and so the list continues.