Our Week

We had a good week! The weeks are flying by it seems. Halloween is almost here, then we've got visitors lined up for November, a trip to Disney Land, more visitors in early December, then Christmas! Eek! Anyhow, here are a few pictures from our week. Enjoy!

Sitting outside listing to the pool's waterfall and enjoying a good book while the girls were at school and Brady napped, felt like a luxurious vacation while it lasted!!!

On Tuesdays & Thursdays when Hadley is at preschool, I get about 45 minutes to myself while Brady naps before we leave to pick Hadley up. Up until this week, I would run around like a crazy person while he napped trying to get things done. Then I realized, this is the ONLY time I get to myself right now. So I've decided to do a few quick chores and then enjoy myself for a bit either reading or blogging.

This girl is obsessed with doing "homework" these days!

Who can resist a picture of a sleeping baby?! Certainly not me!

Preschool is this girl's jam, she's totally rocking it! Here is Hadley this past Thursday when I picked her up. She was all smiles talking a mile a minute telling me all about the firefighters who came to visit them that day.

This is what Thursday afternoons look like around here. Do these girls look tired or what?! By Thursdays, these girls are worn out from the long week!

Nursing the baby + playing hair salon with the three year old...motherhood makes you good at multi-tasking! ;) 

Hadley and I baked pumpkin chocolate chip muffins on Friday morning while Brady napped!! It felt good to finally be baking again...things are slowly starting to feel more normal for us!

Waiting to pick up Shelby from Kindergarten! This is Hadley's patch of dirt. She sits in this exact spot every single day while we wait for Shelby and plays in the dirt. It makes her so happy!!

And here's what Friday afternoons look like. ;)  They did however muster up enough energy for us to go to the park with friends for an hour or so on Friday afternoon. For the past 3 weeks or so, we've gone to the park on Friday afternoons with neighborhood/school friends. It's been a nice routine!

Saturday morning + chocolate milk = Happy girls!

We ventured downtown to ride the High Roller...the girls LOVED it!!

Family selfie on the High Roller

There was a cupcake shop near the base of the High Roller, so of course we had to bring some home!

Our trip downtown wore this baby out! ;)

While Brady napped, we created this masterpiece! We've been looking for something to go above the dresser in our master bedroom, but nothing seemed quite right. Derek suggested we do an "Action Jackson" painting like Shelby did at Marvelously Made last year. So that's what we did!!

In action!

The finished product..I love how it turned out! And it's so much more meaningful to have something hanging in our room created by the girls! 

We had all three kiddos in bed by 7:30 on Saturday night, and then Derek & I enjoyed Mexican food on the couch together!!! Such a treat that again made us feel like we're getting back to our old selves! Today brought church, a trip to the nursery, yardwork, and grilling out! Our yard was in pretty bad shape when we moved in, and we weren't able to give it as much as attention as we wanted to b/c we were so focused on unpacking/the interior of the house at first then we were caught up with a newborn. Now that life is calming down, the yard has been getting a lot of TLC!

We had such a good little weekend together!!! We're looking forward to this week--Hadley's Halloween party at preschool, Trunk or Treat at Shelby's school, & a three day weekend for Shelby thanks to Nevada Day on Friday...still not sure what Nevada Day is though, ha! ;)  Biloxi had school closures for Mardi Gras, San Anotnio had closures for the Battle of the Flowers during Fiesta, and now Nevada Day...who knew?!