Life Lately

Life lately has been good!!! As anxious as I am for us to finally get our orders & go house-hunting, we're really in such a sweet spot of life right now. Because there's just so many unknowns, we really can't do much planning/preparing...so we're just enjoying ourselves for now! I know the stress & chaos will all come in due time. Hard to believe we're almost half-way through April! I know I must sound like a broken record, but seriously WHERE IS THE TIME GOING?!

At the library reading new books :)

Both the girls & I love going to the library. We go every Tuesday for storytime, then we check out a few new books and walk over to the park to play with friends. Lately Shelby has been talking a LOT about how she doesn't want to go to Kindergarten next year b/c she'll miss storytime with us. It seriously makes me want to cry every single time she says this. I know she's going to love Kindergarten, and I tell her how much fun it is and all the wonderful things my students got to do at school. But truthfully, in the back of my head, all I can think about is how sad it's going to be to go to the library without her in a few short months!!! I started taking Shelby to storytime in Biloxi around her first birthday, so for past 4.5 years the library has been our "thing" to do together. I'm not ready for her to go to Kindergarten...waaaahhh!

The girls love to each hold on to one of Derek's legs and then make him walk as he drags them along. I have no idea why they think this is so fun!

This past weekend, we took our first trip to the San Antonio Botanical Garden. This is one of those things we've been meaning to check out ever since we moved here..now we can finally cross that off our list! ;)

On Saturday evening, we met the Goins for dinner & playtime at Bigz. One thing I will definitely miss about San Antonio is all of the restaurants with outdoor play areas for the kids...it's GENIUS!!

Shelby & Adam checking out her Weird But True book while they waited in line to order :)

On Sunday, Derek grilled steaks for dinner so since the grill was already warm we used that as an excuse to make Smores! The Easter Bunny brought the girls all the fixings for Smores in their Easter baskets, and they've been itching to make them ever since!

One of my favorite things about our trips to the library on Tuesdays is that the girls spend the rest of the day at home ENGROSSED in their new books! Usually the 5:00-6:00 hour can be pretty rough around here--the girls are hungry {and let's be real, so am I--hangry is a real thing in our house} and everyone is just ready for Daddy to be home already. All of that to say, making dinner is usually no easy feat if it wasn't already prepped during naptime or in the crockpot {which I try to do AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE for sanity purposes!}. But this Tuesday was a breeze b/c both girls separated themselves on their own {if I tried to separate them into different rooms, it would never work!} with their own pile of books. PEACE & QUIET...hallelujah!

See all that cardboard in the background by the window? I volunteered us to help with the Art Show at Shelby's school, and I totally bit off a bit more than we could chew! We had huge sheets of cardboard that had to be cut with a box cutter into circles...85 circles and who knows how many blisters later, we got it done! ;)

We finally made a trip to Menchie's this week to redeem the gift card Hadley won by finding the giant egg at the church Easter egg hunt! This was our first ever trip to a frozen yogurt bar..they are EVERYWHERE in San Antonio! The girls of course loved it, but I must say that I totally don't get the hype. Don't these people know there is a Cold Stone?!

Sleeping Beauty

Shelby emailing Grammy :)

That's life lately around here! Happy almost Friday, everyone!!