Our Week In Review

Our week started off with a bang!  The second Tuesday of every month a group of my friends and I get together for dinner...no kids or hubbies...just girls.  We talk about our kids and hubbies and all things girly.  It is awesome!  My week is ending with a girls day too as I am about to go to a sneak preview of the movie, The Help, with my friend, Kellie.  I cherish this girl time...to be around these amazing women and laugh until we cannot laugh anymore!

Cole is totally in to art right now.  He loves to do art projects and craft projects.  This makes his daddy so proud as he is quite an artist himself.  We have really cut down on TV at our house...like to an hour and a half a day at most so this mommy has to get busy and get creative.  It has been super fun for all of us.  I wanted to find something to hang in our kids' bathroom and I could not find the "right" thing so...I had Cole paint me something.  He was honored and excited and had a blast!  I believe he said "painting is way awesome!"

We were stuck inside a lot this week which was a much needed change for all of us.  It has been raining like crazy and has made us slow down quite a bit.  While we were home we brought out one of our favorite meal time activities and made a "muffin tin lunch."  The theme to this one was "Cole's Favorites" and I let him pick his lunch favorites to put in his muffin tin.  The best part...he eats every single bit of food in there because, for whatever reason, if it is in the muffin tin, it tastes a million times better.

We read and read and read books until it felt like we could read no more...and then, guess what?  We read some more.

We laughed and smiled and made many messes (Lily managed to unfold 3 baskets of clean laundry in a matter of 1 minute).  But she looked cute doing it, of course.

Lily Kate climbed on every piece of furniture we own, as well as, the fireplace, the potty and opened and closed the kitchen trash can 1,000 times.  But again, at least she was looking cute!

Rhonald and I even got to sneak out and have a much needed date night this week.  We had a fabulous dinner and watched a funny movie and walked around the mall.  It was just what we needed...we did not dress up or do anything fancy and it was more wonderful that way!  We just hung out...talked and laughed until we cried.

Last night we were blessed with this amazing double rainbow (both were full rainbows) in our backyard.  This was awesome!  It also opened up a lot of communication with Cole about God and his promise to us and we ended the night reading about Noah and the Arc.  It was a nice, special and quiet time for him and I to reflect and talk and learn together. 

It was a great week....now, off to make Saturday day morning banana pancakes and bacon, watch The Help and have a fun dinner with a few friends....