it's been awhile

Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted. I can't believe it's been over a month! Honestly I just haven't been in the mood to post lately. I'm trying to think about what we've been up to and I'm not really sure! The few things that do come to mind are spending time outdoors enjoying the beautiful weather, shopping for spring clothes, getting old clothing ironed and priced to sell at the JBF sale (my first time to consign and it's been a GREAT success...it's paid for the boys new spring clothing already and it's only day 2!), baseball practices and now games have started, keeping Ellie out of trouble (that is a FULL time job in itself trust me...she is a MESS), and just trying to keep up with things around the house (which I've discovered is impossible to do).

Last week the boys were out for spring break and I had an activity planned for every day, but guess what? When it came down to it, we blew off our plans and ended up spending most days at home just enjoying the down time. The only activity we stuck to was our visit to the zoo, and even that was switched to another day. One of these days I'll learn not to try and plan anything! It was a great week though, we had such a relaxing time. Darren took three nights off which made me and the boys extremely happy! We went to the park, the boys played outside daily, we had friends over to play, sleepovers, and I took the week off from cooking! It was nice, but as I dropped the boys off to school yesterday morning I couldn't help but be glad to get back into a routine. The boys have quickly acclimated to going back to school, but I seem to be staying in spring break mode. I came home and crawled back into bed after dropping the boys off at school this morning. Yes, it's pathetic, but I am determined to be productive tomorrow...or not, we'll see.

Here are a couple of pics from the past few weeks....

Ellie is getting SO big. I think she's about 23 lbs now. She is going to be a BIG girl!

Ellie is always trying to get into whatever Cale is playing with. As I said before, she is a MESS!

All my fellas at the zoo.

We met up with two of Darren's police buddies and their families at the zoo on Wednesday (I didn't take pics until they left and it was just our family). One of Darren's co-workers/friends was beat up while off-duty last month and is now a paraplegic. It was his first time to spend outdoors with his family since his life was abruptly changed. We were so happy to be able to be a part of his first outing. His family is beautiful and we pray for them daily.

Cale checking out the lizards

Coby happily hanging out at home

Coby and Flat Stanley playing basketball (Flat Stanley was supposed to spend spring break with us for school, but oops, we forgot to take him on most outings. Uh oh!

Connor and Cameron being goobers!

That's it. That's all I've got. It's been too long...I've got to do better with my online scrapbook. I'm going to try...really, I am!