Mud

With beautiful weather and active kids there seems to be less and less time to upload pictures and get them onto this blog.  I'm not sure if it's this way for everyone with small children but Spring and Summer time make it almost impossible to keep my house in order.  Between the kids running in and out with grass, mud and leaves stuck to their bare feet or boots and extra hours spent out working in my flower beds instead of inside on the house I just keep falling farther and farther behind.  For now though I am just trying to enjoy the sunshine and thundershowers, that we have had a ton of this week, and am trying not to stress out too much about the inside stuff. 

 

 

The kids' first sprinkler day in our backyard.  Lillian is forever giving Bridgett loves.

 

 

Perhaps this is why our house always seems to be covered in mud and dirt!!

 

 

 

Full Swing Spring

Spring is finally in full swing and we have leaves on the trees and perennials and strawberries coming up all over the yard.  Allan and I started our month with a wonderfully relaxing week in Vegas and St. George Utah while my incredibly generous and long suffering parents watched our three little monkeys.  We were thrilled to come home to beautiful weather and the snow finally melted in our yard.  The kids have spent as much time as possible in the yard.  There's nothing that I love more than dirty, smelly, sweaty kids at the end of the day after hours of playing outside.  Here's a few pictures of said children.

 

Our girls' favorite past time in the backyard is reading books on a blanket.

More clean and handsome than dirty and sweaty.  We got them matching ties in the States.