never underestimate…

a sorority (well, Fraternity) woman who is in possession of a hot glue gun and an account on Pinterest. 

Introducing, part one of my laundry room re-organization.  (HAH!  who am i kidding?  i have a laundry closet.)

Laundry sorting baskets.

  

These baskets will allow me to pre-sort laundry throughout the week, hopefully get rid Shane’s piles of laundry he likes to leave everywhere (because he will be able to sort. it. immediately.) and help me get into the routine of doing a load a day throughout the week, instead of marathon laundry days (like the day I had today.) 

Hopefully, if the Navy ever gives me my husband back today, I will be able to post part 2, and the finished product, by Monday. 

Happy Weekending!

Butterflies, Microwaves and Pools, OH MY

To round out my massive updates (glad I could entertain you, Sam!) here is a sampling of some other family happenings…

The caterpillars that Trevor recieved for his birthday turned into butterflies! 

We did a little kitchen renovation, installing an over-the-stove microwave and moving the cabinets to accommodate.  It turned out nice, and is a good temporary fix until we gut the kitchen after Shane’s next deployment. 

And, we opened the pool!  Hooray!  Now this crazy Virginia weather just needs to cooperate so we can enjoy it!  I am ready for sangria Saturdays again! 

Zoo!

After 3 years, I finally broke down and bought a membership to the Virginia Zoo. 

Trevor loves going, and asks to go at least once a week (and by that, I mean every single day.) 

Here are some pictures of our family trip the other weekend:

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.