Mother's Day and More

Last weekend was a great weekend. We had some friends over on Friday night for dinner. We barbecued a tri tip and ate outside because the weather was great. A little cloudy but still pretty close to perfect. Rob uses this rub on tri tip and it is fantastic. I tried making Armenian Rice Pilaf and it came out really good, which was good news since it made a TON. I don't really remember what we did on Saturday but my Mother's Day was so nice and relaxing. Rex woke up super early so Rob got him dressed and took him out to breakfast while Wyatt and I slept in. They brought me back my favorite cinnamon toast bagel- Yum. I went out shopping by myself for a few hours and it was so nice to just get in and out of my car without having to deal with two carseats! I got some new clothes and shoes for my self and got everyone else something too. We ended up eating leftovers for dinner because we'd been cooking a lot lately and didn't feel like or need to cook more food. Here I am with my two boys on Mother's Day.



In case you were wondering why there aren't many photos of me, that's why. My husband doesn't have the patience to take a bunch of photos or to make sure I am looking my best in the photos he does take. Anyhow, I had a nice relaxing day doing whatever I wanted to do and that is awesome.

Yesterday Rex and I went on a little adventure. Rex always gets so excited when he sees a bus driving around town and yells out "Bus! Bus!" Actually, he says, "Buth! Buth!" because he has a hard time with the letter S. Rob and I talk all the time about taking Rex on the bus and going to the library so he can finally ride a "buth". Rob got home from work a little early yesterday so I grabbed Rex and we headed off to the bus stop. We got on the bus and he was so quiet and wide-eyed the whole time. We sat close to the front on the way there but I was smarter on the way home and we sat in the back which is higher up and he could see a lot better from there. I could tell he was way more excited when he could actually see out the windows and see what was going on. And he had a blast at the library, like he always does, so I think it will go down as Best Day Ever. The library has a lot of toys and a fishtank and then we get to bring more books home with us to read so what's not to love? He was literally jumping up and down as he talked to the librarian because he was just so excited to be there. I tried to take photos with my phone on the bus and at the library but the piece of junk kept telling me "capture failed" so we didn't get any pictures of the trip.

The weather has been really crazy lately. It was kind of cool last weekend, in the 60s, then it got record-setting hot (it was 97 I think) at the beginning of the week and now it's cool and rainy again. Rex loves to be outside so I try to get him out there as much as I can but the weather doesn't always cooperate. Seems like a lot of this week was either too hot or too cold/wet for being outside. Rob and I are talking about putting a playset/swingset in the yard for Rex because he just goes bananas over the ones at the park. He would slide from sunup until sundown if he could. He can't get enough. Rob and Rex are off to Lowe's right now to pick up a lilac bush for our backyard. My plan for this weekend is to get some yardwork done while it is nice and cool out and the ground is easy to work since it's been raining. I have some things that need to go in my big brown trash can and I have some things that need to be relocated to those vacant spots so we can make some room for that playset! Isn't it funny how your opinions on things change once you have kids? Our house is a few blocks from the park and I swore that we would never have "one of those ugly swingsets" in our yard- the kids could just go to the park. But now that I know how much Rex loves it, I think it would be great to have one right in our backyard that he can play on whenever he wants.