Happy Fun Time

A lot of fun stuff going on this weekend.

I got exciting new 8oz jars for my yogurt/oatmeal/fruit breakfast stuff. AND plastic lids! 

I know, serving size containers are super exciting.

It's also fun to be able to reach into the fridge for your ready-made breakfast.

Annika had her last basketball game this weekend. I'm so proud of her for participating in the Young Women's basketball team this year. The hubby and I both hate basketball, so we are very impressed that one of our children is choosing to play it...and not under duress.

Go Team!

Since we have a week between dance classes (for Cozy) and Tony went to Annika's game, I got to spend some time sewing a scrappy heart quilt. I finished 7 whole hearts....so I should be done in another twenty uneventful Saturdays. Those happen so often too!

Well, now that I've begun, maybe I can hurry it along by sneaking in a few hearts here and there on weekdays?

Since I'm getting antsy for Spring, I went to Lowes and traded all of my spending money for plants and dirt.

I got a flat of little violas and some hens and chicks (to replaced the ones that died this las summer).

I also found some amazing clearance plants. Two purple anemones and some evergreen candytuft.

I actually had a $6 pot of candytuft in my cart when I came upon the rack of less-bloomy $1 pots! Yay! Three times as many plants for half the price. (I only regret not buying more.)

Most of the violas went around our tree in the front.

It was looking sad, sad. There are plenty of live plants there. Yarrow, day lillies, and irises. They've just barely started to grow again, so I thought the violas could tide them over.

I also moved my only two successful lavender starts from last year into that bed.

As disappointing as it was to only get two plants from the dozen I tried to grow, they are super-healthy, pretty lavenders. They're in way better shape than the six I bought from a nursery.

...and, to top off our Saturday, Cozette made us make pound cake. Her preschool teachers gave their class poundcake and strawberries for a snack on Friday....and she'd been obsessing about it ever since.

So we finally made poundcake, along with whipped cream and strawberries....

....so that Cozy could be happy again. ;)

Lovely Saturday.

How was yours?

And, in case you were wondering, yes, it is snowing again.

Bloomin' Snow

I felt bad about cleaning out my flower beds right before another snow (....as if some leaves and last year's dead plants were offering my Spring bulbs much protection).

But they seem to have made it through ok.

Today my crocuses even had bees on them.

...and I may have daffodils blooming this week! Yay - Spring!

...and why is everything so much work?

Some things just seem to take forever.

Right around Christmas, we needed to add one more bedroom to our home...for a friend who would be staying with us for several months. Since I'm pregnant...and my office/sewing room would need to be a nursery someday anyhow...we decided to move all of my sewing things into the basement and Sofia into a temporary bedroom/someday nursery.

Bleh.

There's my sewing table in it's new home.

Totally the easy part.

Then everything got piled in the middle of the office, so that the room could get a much-needed repainting.

(My office always looks something like that anyhow. Post-tornado. It's a valid style, right?)

Choosing paint colors for the baby - without knowing the gender of said baby.

I wanted something light and bright (...but not painfully bright).

Slowly painting the room.

The room with Sofia all moved in:

Then, of course, we realized it would be better to have Cozette and the baby downstairs and that Sofia would be a better roommate for Annika - upstairs. (I'm just consoling them with the fact that it's temporary!)

And - YAY! - we had one (hopefully) last snow day, where both of the strong men in our family were home and available/willing to move furniture!

Cozette's downstairs room. I think there is plenty of space for a crib too.

I do have a few more things left to do in there. I need to clear off the bottom 2 shelves of the bookcase....

....and fill it with all of these homeless children's books.

I also have to pick out colors for the baby's quilt...and a new one for Cozette (less pink, more coral/orange).

- so that I can repaint frames and hang stuff up!

Until then, at least the room is livable and play-able. I call that a victory.