here's a few randoms from the past couple of weeks.
i mean...just look at these handsome fellas. does it get much cuter than this?
the kids love standing on the top bleacher at the gym. it was roman's idea to pose like this.
roman's school had donuts with dad and muffins with mom a few weeks ago. here he is with his teacher, Mrs. Pope. she is due in April with her 2nd baby. i don't know how she deals with 26 kindergartners all day and then goes home to a toddler while pregnant. kudos to Mrs. Pope!
yes, gianna is stuffing a cheeseburger down her throat
we visited our friends {roman's girlfriend, Mady} at their new house site. it is really close to our house and i'm excited that when they get to move in, we will be able to ride there on our golf cart. here's the two lovebirds driving off into the sunset.
baseball is about to start, so it's time to practice!
while the boys were hitting the ball, gianna was all about the slide
and this picture cracks me up.
snowman window cling, but it's 60 degrees out.
and check out his teeth. his front tooth is so loose, it has moved over and the gap between the front two is closed and there is a gap next to them that looks like he already lost a tooth. he really wants it to fall out, but he won't wiggle it. it might take a while!
i mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we are getting new floors downstairs and that it has spurred a couple of other changes as well. one thing we did in addition to the floors was update the bathroom. new vanity and toilet, and a whole wall of tile. plus, we repainted the front and back doors and the playroom. it has been a big deal. a really big deal for me. if you know me, you know i don't deal well with chaos. so, i've been about to crawl out of my skin, so ready to have everything put back together. and to be honest, we aren't done quite yet. but, we are close. very close. so here goes...
somebody liked hiding behind the toilets in lowes.
we were testing paint samples for the playroom. but, of course, we didn't go with any of those! haha
a little fancy lowes shopping. we get dressed up to diy. jk, it was after church!
i call this "Property Brothers {in-law}"
mac came over to help toby move the big furniture to the garage
nasty carpet all gone!
gianna hated the loud banging toby had to do when he was removing the tack strips, so we headed outside to have a snack and escape the noise.
my best little helper
we bought this little wiggle car for the kids because we knew that they would be bored with no toys, no tv and nowhere to sit. needless to say, it was a hit with EVERYONE.
my favorite part of this video is gianna saying "mommy, you ok?" hilarious. she knows that something is wrong with me...i'm a crazy lady.
so, this was what the house looked like for a few days before the floors got installed.
the floors are halfway in!
almost there! and sick of eating out, so we had a picnic on the floor in the kitchen.
we have a whole wall of mosaic glass tile in the bathroom, a new vanity that has {glorious} storage underneath and a dual flush toilet. let's all say it together now...fancy!
i know this is a dark picture...i promise i'll take better ones later...but we had the front door painted black inside. i love love love it!
our playroom is slowly getting put back together. we decided that we needed to get rid of LOTS of toys. i think the more toys they have, the less likely they are to play with them. they can't even find anything! so, we are having a yard sale in a couple of weeks and roman is going to give all his proceeds to the poor, he says. what a sweetie. we are waiting on some matching bins that we ordered to organize the shelves. i can't wait!!!
this hallway totally feels so much wider! i know that it is probably because the play kitchen is out of it and the chair isn't blocking the way to the back door, but even still, the floors make it seem so much wider. love it!
we didn't want to cover up too much of the new floors because we love them so much, so our rug isn't huge. but it IS cushy. WAY cushy.
i'll share nicer, prettier pictures once we have all our furniture back and we get the playroom all put back together, but for now, it is feeling a lot more like home. for a few weeks there, i thought i might have to live with concrete forever! haha
for these little southern kiddos that haven't been blasted by snow like our northern families, we have to "buy" the snow. roman's school puts on a snow day each year and the kids look forward to it each year. it is so cute to see them get excited over such a small amount of "snow".
he kept pelting me over and over...no mercy for his momma!
and he made a tiny little snowbaby
i'm not really sure you could call this a snow angel, but he tried.
his teacher had a fun little craft for them to do after playing in the snow and they got to wear their pajamas and robes. what a fun day!
basketball season has been lots of fun this year. roman is playing with a lot of his friends from school and his cousin, chase. our friend sherri, got some good shots of the kids this weekend, so here's a few of roman...
my absolute favorite time with gianna is bedtime. i love giving her a bath, watching her play and talk and sing. she loves baths and wants one almost every night, but for the sake of her skin, we only do it about every other day or every three days.
in this video, she was "hiding" behind the soap bottle. hilarious.
her favorite book right now is Pajama Time. she knows all the words and here she is "reading" it to me. i love it!
last week, the south was preparing for a very rare ice/snow storm. it was all over the news and they shut down schools ahead of time. laugh at us if you will, but we just aren't prepared for this type of weather. i'm from the "north" if you could call MD the north and we spent 3 years in the snow belt of OH, so i'm used to snow and ice. but, i hate to drive in it. otherwise, i love it. i really wanted my kids to wake up to the white stuff.
we all got our robes on and got cozy on the couch, ready for our snow day.
then, i shared with roman the tradition that the northern kids have of putting on their pajamas inside out and backwards in order to bring on the snow! (facebook teaches me a lot!) we never did this as kids, from what i can remember. and that's not much. haha
roman, quickly took his off and set to getting them on backwards and inside out.
he was so excited!
the kids were practicing with the only sled we have...a laundry basket! they just don't sell sleds down here...haha!
and this is all we had in the morning. a coating of ice on the back patio.
and on the steps...slippery!
and this was it. womp womp. we didn't get as much as they called for and it mostly cleared up by noon.
i even tried to go to work around lunchtime, but they closed the bridge to the island because of some accidents and icy conditions, so i went back home and enjoyed my cuddle time with the kids.
guess what? we had a visitor! mommom came to South Carolina to see us!
we didn't do a whole lot and didn't take a lot of pictures, but we had a lot of fun. see?
she flew in on saturday and was scheduled to leave on tuesday morning. and then storm leon moved in. her flight got cancelled and we had to re-book her on an earlier one. so, she was able to head home a little earlier than planned, but got home safe and sound and i am grateful for that.
