Life this week...

has consisted of...let's just say a whole lotta watering...Remember I told you we just got all new landscaping...and as most of you know 'home ownership' is a lot of work...but it's well worth it I've been told...that's what my dad keeps telling me anyway...

Here are some pictures of our landscaping...

 this is the west side of our house...

 we went with mulch for now but I hope to upgrade to rock eventually...

 This is the back...we have A LOT of trees to take care of...Nate has been SOOOOO good with them...he's my eco-friendly hubby...

 and here is the new patio furniture we purchased...

this would be the east side of our home...so we've got a good start to it...I'm sure I'll be moving stuff around eventually and different things but for now I'm just trying to keep it alive;-)


Other than that our life has looked something like this...

this is how Sailor looked the other morning....she wanted her back pack on and her goggles - Oh I love this girl...

and this little guy NO longer needs his training wheels...I'm so proud of him.....a few weeks back he asked Nate to take them off and seriously 10 minutes later he was riding around like a pro...way to go Grey!

a little evening football this past week - sister better run!

my watering partner...(these are all the hastas that line the North side of our house)  I planted these early last Spring...it's funny because Grey now knows a good hasta when he sees one;)  We were at the zoo over the summer and instead of noticing the animals Grey says "look mommy - here are a bunch of hastas" and he was right - oh that kid...

And today looks like this

 we are under the weather...Grey has been fighting a cough and cold so we've been running the humidifier in his room and some over the counter cold medicine, but it wasn't getting any better and I was worried about his ears.  So I took him to quick care on Wednesday after school and he tested negative for strep but Dr. said it's a "throat infection" and his ears were starting to get red so it's a good thing I went.  He's on medicine now.  Then last night we had an ice cream social at our school so we went, but I could tell Sailor was a little off but she made it through.  But, then in the middle of the night she woke up coughing so I went in her room and I knew immediately she had a fever.  She ended up falling asleep and I didn't give her any motrin.  I kind of want her to burn this off on her own.  Her temp was about 101 this morning.  We are laying low today.  Hopefully this fever won't last long.

My poor babies today...

Grey wanted to take our picture...Sailie and I are snuggle buddies today....


Hopefully we will back up and running a little better next week...tomorrow is my birthday...I hope everyone is feeling a little better than today!

Finished stamping on patio...

This is the finished look of the patio.  I'm so excited about it!  It looks beautiful.  I love the way it turned out...can you tell I like it?!

 Now I need to find patio furniture...I've been looking but I'm gonna wait for some clearanced deals I think...

(view from our kitchen)

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And in other news...this is what our days have looked like...

Enjoying...

Night time walks...(the moon the other night was calling for a picture)

Splash pad fun - the water was a little cold

Enjoying time with our cousins...

and always room for some baby love....LOVE this little sweet pea...

Happy Wednesday...I'm meeting up with some girlfriends later and a margarita will be calling my name:)

Our Patio Progress...

We are putting in a patio and are so excited!  I didn't want to fork over the money for a big stamped concrete patio;) but now that I see it...it's definitely worth it...I'm ready for some 'outdoor living'...

It's nice because we have quite a BIG backyard and a nice size 'side' yard...so there is plenty of room for a big patio, but still room for the kids to play as well...

 This was Monday...Sailor is waving hi;)

This is what it looked like Tuesday...

and here is today...Wednesday...these are the half moon steps they put in...(I was so glad to see those icky wood steps go!)

then the big concrete truck came today....Grey loved watching that go on...

I felt bad for the guys - they worked HARD...and it was so hotttttttt...

and this is where we are as of just a little bit ago....it's not going to be this exact color....they have to come back tomorrow and pressure wash it...but you can see the stamping in there...

and this is our built in fire pit...

I'll be sure to show the finished product when it's all done...

As you can see there's been a lot of action around here this week...but it's fun to see the progress...stay tuned...

happy at home

It was the Bookfair this week at our school for American Education week.  The kids get excited about this.  Grey got a new star wars book, a phonics set for short letter sounds, and some other goodies.  He loves to read.

Goin' in for a kiss - look how serious Grey is - ha!

I started Sailor on some Pinkalicious books because I think those are so cute.  She now has Silverlicious and another book titled Shoe-la-la...a nice start to her own little library.

We took full advantage of the nice weather yesterday...

After running some Saturday morning errands we came home and did some work while the kids played outside.

This was a little Saturday treat....some rootbeer...

We Nate painted our garage door yesterday....

This is not the best picture to compare...but it's a lot darker and I love how it turned out - just enough...

We also bought new lights for our house that had to be special ordered but they just came in yesterday...hopefully we will have these up today.  These are the ones I picked...it's just a picture off the web....

We are also in the process of doing some pillars on our front porch.  I have posts there - but now I want to make them into decorative pillars.  We picked some really cool natural stone for them...so I can't wait until our contractor starts on these...it was a little difficult because we couldn't find our exact brick that's on our house so we tried to match it with some stone.  I think this is what we are going with.

Little by little we will get our new house to where we want it...but first we're trying to get the outside done before we start on the inside.  Next, will be landscaping...


And here we are this morning...this is how we roll on Sunday morning...Pjs, cowboy boots and ALL;)  We dropped the kids off at Dee Dee's just for a bit while Nate and I went for a morning run!

We got rid of our pumpkins so Grey threw them over Dee Dee's hill this am - he thinks the deer will eat them...

 And now I'm patiently waiting for my outdoor lights to be installed;)  and then i'm off to the grocery store because I just checked my milk and it's 9 days old- woops!

Happy Sunday!