Its.... FRIDAY!

After a couple very long weeks of work (120+ hours in twelve straight days) Aaron and Rebecca were glad to see Friday roll around! While mama started dinner they took advantage of the semi-nice weather to try out daddy's remote control truck and Rebecca's Tricycle. By the time the warm weather gets here, she'll be quicker than quick on that little red trike! Its after dinner now and we're ready for some R&R, which means slumber party in the living room and a funny (hopefully) movie.

Rebecca's First Bowling Excursion!

Happy Valentine's Weekend!

   We decided to go ahead and have our little celebration for Valentine's Day last night. We figured it was easier for me to get the house ready and dinner together on a weekday than when daddy is home all day. We love daddy being home of course, but you never know what the day will bring! Here are some pictures from last night's festivities. *Our table all set with pink *Our fun candy centerpiece *Rebecca's bucket of treasts *Mom and daddy's treats (fizzy juice!)*Our Greek feast - Aaron picked up the lamb and gyro meat at Acropolis and I had the rest here at home and this homemade tzatziki was easy and yummy! We even found some greeek music on playlist to help round out the theme of the evening.... why greek? I don't know.... its just good food we don't have very often. * Rebecca's happy face... she loves a party of any kind! *She could hardly wait to get started on pitas *Our dessert- again a really simple fun idea to make chocolate bowls! * Rebecca apparently loved her presents * Daddy reading his letter of congratualtions- he is now a member of the Date of the Month Club * His club includes lots of fun ( and cheap) dates and even a couple vacations. A simple idea I found online and then tweaked to make it special for daddy.... quite possibly the best present I've come up with for him yet!

I can't wait for Spring!

       I've decided I'm not really that fond of winter anymore. I know, I know, we've hardly had any of the bad weather most of you have had to endure but still, I'm tired of being cold! I think Rebecca is as well. She has been begging to go to the park lately. Looking forward to that first sunny day and warm breeze! I also can't wait for summer dresses. Rebecca's got this adorable little dress from papa and pama this week. She loves it and even cried last night when we wouldn't let her sleep in her dress. lol She calls this dress 'ring round' too. I think I have a really girly girl on my hands. She loves watching cinderella and spinning around the house in her dresses. Anyway, her apparent love of all things twirly led me on a search over the internet this morning for quick and easy dress ideas. Wouldn't it be great if I could fill her closet with oodles of tiny little summer dresses made by me and costing next to nothing?! Here are two of the coolest ones I found. I also saw things for turning t-shirts and pillowcases into dresses. That would work, but I like something that looks a little more tailored...... I'd hate for people to actually notice that Rebecca was running around in a pillowcase. ;-) Here is the link for an adorable button-back dress made from a men's shirt. http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=170402.0%3C/a

The other creative dress is a free pattern found on this blog.

http://www.madebyrae.blogspot.com/

I can't wait to get to Joann's and also to the mall to check out guys clearanced shirts!

P.S. MadebyRae also had a really cool pattern for a purse that looks super simple!

The other big event of yesterday was probably only the first of many boo-boos for my active little munchkin. I was getting Rebecca's clothes together so we could dress and go out to dinner with daddy last night when Rebecca decided to crouch on top of her Tinkerbell table and then take a flying leap across th room. I did say 'be carefuland don't fall' right as she sprung. Unfortunately, she didn't land so gracefully, and when she raised her head from the carpet she was already spewing blood from her mouth. I was really concerned she'd need stitches so we ran her up to the urgent care clinic (just 2 miles from here). By the time we got there she wasn't looking so bad and the bleeding had stopped. Sure enough, I was just being an overly worried mama. The nurse took a look and said she'd be fine, just don't feed her dorritos or oranges for a couple days. ;-) They were really nice and didn't make me feel too foolish and it did ease my mind. Sometimes its just better to be safe than sorry. Did Rebecca learn her lesson? I doubt it, since she came home and climbed back up on the table first thing..... why me?!

Tired Tot

       Rebecca has been a bit under the weather this week. We haven't made it out of the house much the past few couple days, but there has been lots of movies, books and snuggles. She has found she prefers to nap in mommy's bed - mommy being next to her is a plus! This afternoon she didn't want a nap at all, but after a few minutes of 'The Bee Movie' she was out. I snapped these pics so daddy could see what his girl had been up to today....

    Yesterday she was busier and a big helper, as usual. Thursday is house cleaning day around here and she loves to join me in everything! I finally solved the problem of wasted paper towels by buying her a pink sponge. Now she has a special cleaning tool of her own and I don't have to hunt down the roll of towels. ;-) We even got outside and cleaned the windows. I wish the sun would come out now so we could admire our hard work! It looks like we have another week of clouds ahead. We have to be grateful its not ice though. Wishing you all a great weekend!