Daily Life

Laundry, Laundry, Laundry

Daily Life

If you are a mother, than your laundry situation is probably much like mine.. NEVER ENDING! I can do several loads a day and it seems like I am never caught up.

In our home we have a not so nice basement. Well, since we have moved in to our house I have been begging Dan to move the laundry upstairs. We have a little cut out in our dining room where we just seem to store random junk, which was the perfect size and location for first floor laundry. Now basement laundry isn’t such a huge issue, but where the hookups are located you have to stand on broken up concrete that is about 8 inches or so higher than the floor.. It’s just awkward and well.. I have fallen a time or two from the weird angle you have to stand to get into the washing machine and dryer. I’ve also twisted my ankle a time or two on it. Dan and I had started on the plumbing at one point probably 2 years ago, and it didn’t get to far and we had purchased just about everything we needed to move it. It just wasn’t getting done. Dan didn’t really know what he needed to do, or how to keep it to code. So I enlisted my dad to come over to help. A few days later he came over and they worked all day. Next thing I knew, I had first floor laundry! Seriously, it’s the most amazing thing ever! The kids love doing the laundry with me now, and are super helpful.

Now if only I could manage to pack away all the laundry I wash!

 

 

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The photo I uploaded to Facebook as soon as it was completed!

 

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Mabel checking the laundry in her wonder woman undies ❤

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Princess Morgan of course!

Had to throw in a few photos from the next few days too.

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The total opposite of what normally happens at nap/quiet time with these 3! Halle wide awake, and Morgan and Mabel passed out!

Easter Egg Fun

Daily Life, Holiday Fun

Every year we head to my parents house to dye Easter eggs, and the girls just love it! This year Halle was big enough to join in on the fun. Her favorite part though was dipping her fingers in each color of dye and tasting it. Like one nasty taste of vinegar wasn’t enough haha!

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Mabel’s Birthday Celebration! {3 years old}

Daily Life, Mabel

We kept it pretty simple this year for the girls’ birthdays. We stayed in for Mabel’s birthday, and had fun at home. Her grandparents even popped over to wish her a happy birthday.

Mabel was a special little girl and got to pick out a cake from the store! She even chose her favorite color blue for the frosting.

If you know my Mabel you know this phrase very well.. “my favorite color blue” lol and you will know just how she says it with her lack of r’s.

Growing up we always had the tradition of the birthday child picking dinner, of course I had to bring that tradition into my own home.

Mabel knew exactly what she wanted.

Salad!

Her most favorite food, but of course has to be paired with ranch dressing.

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I can’t believe how much this sweet little girl has grown since we brought her home. She is so smart, and sassy. We always tell her she is lucky she is so stinking cute.

She definitely keeps life interesting, and we just love her so incredibly much!

Happy 3rd Birthday baby girl!

3 Years Ago Today… {4/10/11}

Daily Life, Looking Back

The day started out bitter-sweet. I made sure not to take a single moment for granted. Tomorrow would forever change my life.

We spent most of the day playing outside with Morgan. We colored with chalk, played hopscotch, and ran around the backyard. Well, as much as a woman who is 41 weeks pregnant can.  I had this nervousness going through me the whole day. Had I loved Morgan enough these last 2 years? Would I have enough love for another child? Was adding another child to our lives a mistake?  Would my planned c section be uneventful? Would something terrible happen, and leave both of my children motherless? That last question was the one that was really tearing me down.

Would something go wrong?

Even though we had a wonderfully fun day, I still was filled with fear.  After we tucked Morgan into bed for the night, Dan and I began cleaning the house. We cleaned it from top to bottom ensuring everything was spotless for our new babies arrival. This thought was stuck in my head that everything must be perfect. Dan nor I slept at all that night. We just cleaned.

The bags were packed, it was time to go meet our sweet baby Mabel.

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Finally Some Warm Weather

Daily Life

It feels like this winter has been dragging on, and with all of us suffering from cabin fever it was AMAZING to get outside!

Halle came over and spent the weekend with us too, which both Morgan and Mabel loved. I truly enjoyed it too. Not only do I love getting to see my niece, but Morgan and Mabel just seem to fight less when there is another kid in the house. They had someone else to play with instead of each other, and then they also got some time to themselves while the other was occupied playing with Halle.

We spent the entire weekend outdoors, and it was so fun. Come Sunday night we were all exhausted from all the fresh air. Even Halle was ready, and wanting to go to bed early. _ABP6827 _ABP6834 _ABP6836 _ABP6843 _ABP6855 _ABP6857 _ABP6867 _ABP6874 _ABP6885 _ABP6887 _ABP6933 _ABP6965 _ABP6976 _ABP6994

And now we are back to gloomy cold weather.. Until we meet again warmth..

An Uneventful Sunday

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For most people Mondays are hectic, for me its Sunday. Sundays mean I have tons of laundry, and prep to do for the week ahead. Sundays mean my weekend is over, and a busy week will be starting tomorrow. However on Sundays we spend time as a family whether it is busy work around the house or cuddling watching cartoons. We are together, just us.

Here is a peek at our day. Mabel requested most of the shots I took which is too funny considering when I want to do a shoot with her, she is not all that interested.

 

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Mabel said she wanted pictures of her sleeping, so she laid down and pretended to be asleep. Mabel’s faces are way too cute and silly. Then of course Morgan had to join in on the fun.

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We did a lot of laundry and the girls were very helpful. They even helped fold socks for the first time which they surprisingly LOVED! I couldn’t believe it.

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She told me that Dan’s sock fit her, and tried it on.

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Then we ran out of matches, and Morgan was very sad.

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Until she realized she could juggle the sock balls!

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I am pretty happy about enlisting the children in helping with the laundry, it made it much more fun for me as well.

Typically I just do the laundry once everyone’s in bed and I stay up late completing it.

I think I have a new plan for our Sundays now.