love it!

we had more gorgeous weather this weekend! curtis worked & i had a few cakes, but i ended up staying up all night saturday night, so i could decorate while the kids were in bed & not have to miss any outside time ;0)

the kids pretty much lived outside the entire weekend :0) as soon as we got home friday evening, gabrielle asked if she could change out of her jeans and into a dress & sandals to play outside.....i'm serious, it was in the 80s that day!

saturday morning started out with some early bird watching from our kitchen window....the girls are really into identifying birds lately.....it made me think of SouleMama & her bird watching crew.....i guess i'm going to need to get some books to help us identify them too.....following our bird watching, we vegged on the sofa for some saturday morning cartoons, then headed outside after snack.....we played out back & had a picnic lunch.....then played some more at the kids' school playground.....i don't think the tv came back on until after the kids were in bed that night!

sunday was more of the same.....we skipped church this week.....we did have to deliver 2 cakes to west virginia (about 1 1/2 hr drive) and the kids were angels for that! then picked up lunch and headed home.....went by nana's - she had just gotten back from visiting her sister in texas and the kids were anxious to see her.....then when it was time for daddy to get home, we headed that way too.....all of us then went on an adventure - throwing rocks in the river, under the bridge by our house (the kids always think it's cool to hear the cars driving overhead)....then we walked the railroad tracks by our house.....this was a first for them and jaden actually freaked out to begin with....he kept insisting that we couldn't walk on the tracks or we'd get hit by a train.....after reassuring him that #1, the trains don't run on the weekends & #2, there was room to get off the tracks if by some chance, one did come.....he finally was ok with it and almost seemed to have forgotten about his worries after only a few minutes.....we saw even more types of birds on this walk - the tracks run by the river and there seems to be a lot more birds living down there.....we saw the normal black birds, robins, sparrows, cardinals & blue jays.....but we also kept hearing a really loud woodpecker and even saw a smaller black & white one.....another simple weekend - my fav!!! :0)

i also wanted to share a slide of some of Jaden's recent drawings - this boy amazes me! he usually only uses blue/black markers or pens - a guy i work with says he'll be a tattoo artist when he grows up....hey, i'm cool with that! :0)

and a funny note - i've talked many times about my little chef corinn (including the 'soup' i mentioned above).....well, last evening i had to make space on my counter to set out my crock pot (yes, believe it or not - i have very limited counter space).....so i had moved my pampered chef turn-a-bout to the kitchen table....this is what it looks like, only in white & a lot fuller

well, i'm not sure if corinn had never noticed it before, or what?....but when she walked through the kitchen this morning and spotted it on the table, she said in a very excited voice "HOW COOL!".....ok now, how many 4 year olds think this thing is cool?! curtis immediately said, "Oh yeah, she's going to be a chef!"