Days off....

go by too fast!

How are 5 days off over before I know it? I know how; 2 kids, a hubby, a messy house, St. Patrick's Day celebrations, park play dates with our buddies, swimming lessons, preschool, working out, 10k runs, birthday parties, dinners with family and great friends and trips to Grandma and Grandpas house! Okay, so even when they go by fast I have a lot to show for them.

Here are a few pictures from our weekend

Sarah, me, Casey & Tiffany
Pre Foothills Dash 10k run Saturday morning!
What an amazing way to start off the 1st day of Spring

My babies enjoying each other at Grandma & Grandpa's house

Meadow~Jenna~Nolan
The 2 cuties with Nolan are 2 of Casey's cousins little girls!

Here's Jenna again, so cute! She was a bit shy at first but by the end of our visit her and Nolan were buds!

Norah spent most of the visit to Grandma and Grandpa's running around the yard with the boys! She had a blast and was so tired she even slept in this morning!

Nolan let me pose him up in this tree, but I almost had to throw down the camera as he started counting 3, 2, 1 blast off. That's what they count at swimming before they are about to jump into the water. I caught him and didn't hurt the camera either, so it was a success.

He is like a water magnet. Yes he tried to drink it, and dump it out, and splash it at the other kids....all boy!

2 more days.......

.....until Spring!


It seems like it's already here though, we have been having gorgeous weather and we love it. Today we took a trip to the park, played in the sunshine, had a picnic, Nolan had his first meeting with Canadian geese and my 2nd favorite tree in my yard is in full bloom. The best part about this weather is that I am off work until Monday night and will be trying to enjoy every minute of it.

So.Much.Fun

So, here are the pictures I have managed to sort through since being home from the beach. I think these are only about 20 of the 300+ pictures my hubby took while we were there. I love all of them and all the memories behind them. We couldn't have asked for a better family to share this trip with, we just love the Newgards and all the fun we have together. If you want to read a great post about our trip check out Tiffany's blog because I don't think I could capture it better if I tried.

Saturday was warm enough for rolled up pants and bare feet, yay!

Queen of the hill ♥

Fabulous view from our dining room window, oh how I miss it.

He tried to kiss her,

and, she did kiss him!

This was the side of one of the cute little beach houses just down the street.

Balancing act, I think Nolan only had one tumble off the log!

Nolan is always right behind his sissy, they both would have gone all the way in to the waves if we would have let them. They have no fear.

Nolan remembered the taste of sand and mud from our last trip and went for it.

And this was the result, dirty but happy. All boy!

Speaking of happy, Jackson is one happy little guy, and boy can he eat. I was impressed!

Happy #2, I seriously can't get enough of this smile ♥

More log play, good thing we brought rain boots.

One of my favorites, ♥ it.
If you look carefully you can see her little hand on his back, so sweet.

And my girl, she asked about 101 times if we could swim. We will go back to the beach this summer baby and you can swim!

Oh, and she poses for pictures too!

Me and my boy.

Love the silhouette pictures.

And the sunset ones, this is Norah.

After all the fun at the beach we had some dirty kids that were in desperate need of a bath.

Just a couple......

Below is our "family" photo! My sweet little Norah had the great idea to get the whole "family" (as she calls it) in a picture together. All of us thought it was a great idea too. So, here are the Newgard and Suetta families just before leaving Moclips after our long, perfect weekend getaway!

♥ And here are our sweeties ♥

Stay tuned for many, many more pictures to come of our fun weekend getaway!

Sleep.....

Who needs sleep anyways.....not me apparently. Cannot wait for this work stretch to be over, and the sad thing is it just started. After being up for 24 hours one would think exhaustion would set in and I would be off to a fabulous dream land....wrong! After a mere 5.5 hours of sleep I was up and awake, tried to go back to sleep and remembered I was going to marinate a some steak for Casey to BBQ later. So I though I'll get up real quick, make the marinade and head back to bed for a couple more hours. Well, that didn't happen! After searching the black hole that is my kitchen for all the parts to the food processor(unsuccessfully), finally getting the marinade done, and the steak back in the fridge there was no turning back, sad :-(

So I cleaned up, and am now enjoying some coffee and I am just hearing the first little sweet sounds of my kids waking up from their nap (at least they can sleep good). Casey is mowing the back yard and I can smell fresh cut grass, and the sun is shining and as soon as he's done me and the kids will go play outside for a bit. So not sleeping so hot isn't so bad after all, just look at all the things I am getting done ;-)

"How do I make myself feel better?"

This is how yucky she feels :-(

My poor little girl

tired.....

Nolan's definitely feeling fine,
fingers & toes crossed that it stays that way!!!

Norah to me, "mommy, how do I make myself feel better?" This was the first thing out of her mouth this morning, and it seriously broke my heart. Poor little thing was up until 11 last night (and if you know us that is LATE for her) battling a 104 degree fever. Around 11 it finally was down to 101 and she drifted off to sleep. She has all the classic flu symptoms; vomiting, diarrhea, fever, chills and a cough, but is being quite the little trooper through it :-( None of the rest of us have come down with it, thank God! So, today I will be cleaning, disinfecting, and praying that it stays that way.

My Valentines.....

My 2 sweeties, the best Valentines ever ♥

Me and the kids spent the better part of friday afternoon making Valentines Day cards for daddy, and baking & decorating heart shaped cookies.

Norah with all her supplies, she going to be a little crafter!

Get those ladybug stickers buddy!

"more supplies please!"

Working very hard :-)

The finished masterpiece....for Norah more is definitely better!

I just love how Noley's turned out too!

Some of the yummy cookies we made. Norah especially like this, but I have a hunch that more of the frosting and candies went to her tummy than onto the cookies.

Norah had a birthday party to go to today and I got this idea for a Valentine's inspired hair style from a very crafty friend from high school. This is where I got it, she has lots of fun ideas on her blog! Thanks Autumn for the cute idea.

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Happy (early) Valentine's Day!