Easter

Almost a month later….here are our Easter pictures. 

We spent Easter here at home this year and had our friends over for dinner.  We were blessed with some great weather, so the kids were able to have a great time playing outside!

Trevor’s 3rd Birthday

Trevor celebrated his 3rd birthday a couple of weeks ago….it was almost a week of celebrations.  The Sunday before his birthday, he got his big present from us—a sandbox for the backyard.  On Tuesday, he celebrated his birthday at school.  Wednesday was his actual birthday, and we celebrated by going out to Michelle’s dessert cafe in Virginia Beach and then to dinner at Red Robin.  Saturday we had Trevor’s birthday party here at the house with all of our friends. 

 

 

Welcome Spring!

I know that spring doesn’t officially arrive until Tuesday, but we have been blessed here with 80-85 degree weather for the past week.  Couple that with the time change last weekend and spring has officially sprung! 

This week, we have enjoyed spending the majority of the afternoons and evenings outside in the yard, coming in when the last of the sunset has disappeared.  Trevor is old enough that we are enforcing the “when the street lights come on” rule…he doesn’t seem to mind, either.  His almost three year old mind for some reason will accept authority of an inanimate light-pole, if it was Mommy or Daddy making the time-to-come-in call, we’d be in for it. 

Along with spring time comes springtime sports and activities: 

we are no longer allowed to park in the driveway during the day…it is for chalk drawing and tricycle riding only. 

trevor loves kicking around his soccer ball in the backyard.  he wants to be just like his uncle christopher, who made the WVU men’s soccer team!  (congrats)

falling asleep with daddy after a long day outside

Absence

You may have noticed my absence from the blog…we have been going through quite the transition here the last couple of months with Shane’s return to sea duty and I am almost confident that I have my feet firmly back underneath me.  For the first several weeks I felt something like this: 

And while I may not feel like this yet: 

I am getting close. 

Another reason for the lack of posting is that I really think that the tone of my posts would change.  With Shane home for so long, we had gotten into a great routine and so things lent themselves to happy “what a great time we are having!” posts.  These days, I spend quite a lot of time pulling my (more noticeably gray) hair out….and so that is more of what you’d get….not sure if I want to air my potentially dingy laundry on such a usually happy blog. 

little artist

One of Trevor’s favorite gifts from Christmas was an art desk/easel.  He loves to color with crayons and colored pencils, but his FAVORITE is when he is allowed to paint. 

Christmas Sampling

I took way too many pictures of our Christmas celebration….way too many.  But, to catch up and start the year off right, I’ll go through our Christmas super fast. 

 

opening christmas pajamas

“Where’s Santa?”

After church, I asked a parishioner (who also happens to be our Realtor) to do us a favor by taking a family picture for us—that the favor would be easier than finding us a house.  Clearly, I lied.  Exhibits A, B and C.   

After Christmas, we packed up our stuff and headed up to CT for a week to spend time with family and celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary.