Graduation

It's been a fun weekend having the Morehouse clan come for a visit. Briggs graduated from pre school, and Master Ted is DONE!! So proud of my boys :)
We were eating breakfast this morning, and noticed that Max cut his first tooth.
It's going to be a busy rest of the month:
We're starting our house hunting adventure tomorrow in Houston, and hope to get something by the end of the week or sooner. Then we come back and my niece is having her 1st birthday party.
I think we're having a garage sale sometime over Memorial Day weekend.
Depending on when we can get a lease, our movers are ready for us to give them a heads up on when we want them to start packing up our stuff. But after that's done, we are headed south.
And then, if it's possible, we hope to go on a roadtrip in a few weeks to Asheville, NC and explore the city and look at real estate. We saw something on Zillow today that got us pumped!
Fare Thee Well,
jaylyn

Tea and biscuits...

I feel very lazy today. I'm sort of in the mood to wander around in the garden with my umbrella while sipping tea, nibbling biscuits, and just talk about the royal princess all day.
This morning we put a bunch of old pictures in photo albums, in the correct order. That was a task...somehow the pictures got all shuffled around and we had to get on the computer to see when we took them. These are from over 2-3 years ago, so we had no idea! Anyhow, that's done...pheew!
Here are some more recent ones:

Hobbits/Robin Hoods

Max attacks

mushroom hunting

Our yard has always been known to have a few morel mushrooms that pop up in the spring. Maybe it's because years ago a tree was taken out and there was a lot of leftover bark decomposing, or maybe we're just lucky! But the other day, I was sitting in the outdoor kitchen and glanced up to see 2 'molly moochers' (as some people call them) staring at me. I immediately posted a photo on Facebook because I needed to brag to someone. Ted came straight home and suggested we go walk around in the woods.
I really love our east Lawrence woods. There are several trails to take, and we saw a turtle and snake sunning themselves. Finn was really excited to touch both. But we had a nice walk, and we ended up finding about a pound of mushrooms by the time we circled the trail loop. Plus the 2 already in the fridge at home, and we had enough to bring over and grill at our friends' house.

I've been working a lot in the backyard over the past few days. Almost everything except the peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and basil are planted. Oh, and zinnias! I planted, wait for it...........63 sunflowers! along the fence line. That is sure going to be something to see if they all come up.

In the house, I've been painting the doorways/doors because we really put some marks on them over the past 5 years. No more marker lines though, woohoo! Now to keep the boys from doing it for the rest of the time we're here.

Things are looking like we'll be moving sometime next month. I need to make sure and hit up some of these iconic Lawrence places one last time before we leave though: TerreBonne (I need a t-shirt from here), Beautiful Music (t-shirt for sure, and a new sticker for our van!), Little Saigon (It's a shame we just discovered this gem), and I'm sure there are way more that I'm not thinking of but it's bed-time for me!
Toodle loo! And fare thee well,

jaylyn

Rain Weekend

Pretty lazy weekend around here. We've been getting a bunch of rain, so we didn't spend much time out of the house. Yesterday the boys and I were planning on going to the farmers market, but we did a drive by and saw that only about 5 tents were still set up, and they looked like they were about to pack up due to the rain. We went downtown and shopped instead. Briggs and Finn spent the rest of the afternoon opening and shutting their new umbrellas. Somehow they're not broken yet! Max has been blowing bubbles with his spit, and he gurgles/giggles when he sees me watching him doing it. To think, only 3 months ago he was a sleeping slug!

Is that not the cutest little tush ever?!

Too many hobbies, not enough time

I really don't know why I decide to start a new hobby ever month or so, but alas, I am adding another one. I have to go pick up my hoop tomorrow! I got a sparkly, glow-in-the-dark, every color of the rainbow hula hoop that I am pumped to try out. This hoop is weighted (not intended for hoop dance necessarily) and I plan to exercise with it. So, that will be something that I can do while I'm watching the boys play outside. I tried to keep up with them on my roller blades, but I just keep crashing. For some reason, blading around was way easier when I was 10. 

Fiddling is going well. I'm learning all about the "fiddle shuffle" pattern, slurring my notes together, and practicing a G arpeggio. Some days I don't get any practice in at all, but I'm okay with that. Ted ordered me some new books with play-along cds: Lord of the Rings, Lindsey Stirling, and a bluegrassy folksy book. They will probably all be over my head, but I'm excited to look through them and give them a try.

I've been wanting to start on a needle felting project for Max (a baby mobile thingy) but I just haven't had the time. 

Fare Thee Well,

jaylyn

 

Cloudy day

Nothing much to report on last week, other than Ted was in Utah doing field work (as in stopping at hot springs and breweries, and using the latest technology to scan rock landscapes) while I got the flu here at home. Thank goodness for friends and babysitters. I feel blessed to be surrounded by such caring people who brought me food and took the boys out while I was stuck in bed. Thank you!

Over the weekend we re-seeded our chicken run and filled our compost hopper to the very top. All of the neighborhood kids have been climbing the compost hill and think it's the best thing ever. Our peas are in the ground, and we are in the process of fixing up our herb garden. The lemon balm is now under control, and reduced down to 1 mound. It's nice...but seriously, there's only so much you can do with lemon balm.

I'm busy planning a very important birthday surprise for my hubby who turns 30 on Friday! It's going to be great!! I'm determined not to spill the beans until it gets here, so I won't say any more. Blog update to follow :)

And now, what you really came here for....some pictures of our adorable spawn:

Max actually looks small again

Cruising town with these guys

Max is loved

Spring Time 2015

Spring has arrived, and that means it's time to do EVERYTHING! Just a list of what we've been doing this last week in the nice weather:
1. Laying outside every single day on a blanket
2. The boys playing outside in the yard rather than me figuring out where to take them to play indoors to get their crazies out
3. Hanging clothes on the line to dry. I actually get excited to do laundry because of this reason.
4. Biking around town
5. Planting seeds in trays
6. Raking the old leaves off of the garden beds and seeing green foliage popping up underneath
7. Fiddling outdoors in the sun
8. Grilling
9. Reading outside
10. Dusting off the fairy/gnome garden accessories and making new homes for them

I went to a plant nursery yesterday, and came home with a few more succulents that are going outside in the gnome gardens. I hope the boys are a little less destructive this year, but probably not.

Max turned 2 months old this week. He's weighing in at 13 lbs. 10 oz. His cheeks and chins are looking good. Now he's working on chunking up those legs.

I turned 29 this week. No big thang! Just my last year of my roaring 20's.

Briggs busted his arm. Broke it in 2 places. He's in a purple cast, and has several signatures on it.