pretty amazing weekend

Oh  my gosh so much has happened this week and there are like a million pictures so I'm just going to dive right into it.

Lynlee is not much of a cuddler these days so I will take them whenever I can get them. Even if I have to watch Baby Einstein with her

Markham throwing at the Gator Invite. Such a stud!!

Where's Lynlee?

There she is!

Lynlee's cinna-stache she got after taking a bite of my cinnamon toast

Lynlee at Best Buy riding in a car cart for the first time. She loved it

The fireworks they're selling at Sam's. I had to have Markham stand next to them so you could see how ridiculously big the package was.

Lynlee decided to smear her manicotti all over her face

Our new shelves!! They're Ikea and I LOVE them. The baskets are holding our DVD's. I thought it was a way cuter way to have dvd shelves than our old one.

Our new 55" LED flatscreen!!! We got it for almost free thanks to Viggle!

My cute elephant

My flower arrangement I made myself

Tiles I made

My cute vase

SLIP 'N SLIDE!!

It was Lauren, Sarah, Taylor, Cameron, Amy, Markham, and Me.. and Lynlee. SO fun

Taylor wanted to be the guinea pig so this is him trying it out

Taylor covered in soap because we put Dawn all down it to make it more slippery

Lauren and Sarah in our "hot tubs" haha

Lauren wetting herself down in preparation to go down the slide

Then Cameron went

Then Markham went

Cameron putting dove all over his body

Then I went

Me all soapy and super gross

Sarah Lauren Amy

Then Markham took Lynlee down 

Cameron and Taylor with paint on

Then cam and taylor went together

Lauren Cameron Sarah Amy Taylor.. all covered in paint

Me and Markham in Hulk paint

Markham and me going down together

So as you can see, it's been a pretty great weekend/beginning of the week. And my first mothers day was really amazing. Other than the fact that I woke up with a horrible cold. But Markham was so sweet all day and he took care of me and took care of Lynlee so I could take naps. It was so great. I truly have the best little family ever. 

Crafting and Girls Night - A Few of My Favorite Things

This has been a super busy/pretty dang fun few days. Tuesday my dear friend Jess came from Ohio to visit and we crafted all day long :] it was pretty awesome. Then yesterday we had the track&field banquet and then I baked all day until the girls track team came over at seven for a girls night. It was pretty killer. I think everyone had a good time. We had tons of food and Mantush brought string to make friendship bracelets and tons of nail polishes to do our nails. I did my toes orange with white polka dots. SUPER cute. So here's the crafts we did, and then some pictures from last night.

These are blocks I helped Jess make. Her last name is Betts

Her and Nick before they were married

On the other side is pics of her and Nick's wedding

Cell phone holders. Yep, that's right. We made cell phone holders haha. Markham said it was the dumbest thing he's ever heard. But they're fun.

How the cell phone holder works. Hangs on the outlet and holds your phone next to the charger.

Coasters I helped Jess make

They are just tiles we bought and home depot and then added these chair stopper things to the bottom

For the track&field banquet Wednesday I decided to hand-make some certificates. They turned out so cute!

Up close

Shirt I made for the Invite tomorrow!! Can't wait (And it's not dry yet so I haven't made the back yet so I can't show you it)

Tiles I made to put on my new shelves I'm getting this weekend

Hinckley's Six Be's. I think I'll frame this one

Wood Block I made

Another wood block I made

ok I don't know why this picture is sideways but I'm not smart enough to fix it so just turn your head.

Choose The Right on a glass tile

All the girls squished in my little living room

Me and Mantush! You WILL be missed!!!

throwers Lauren and Lexie - Lauren you WILL be missed too!!

Lauren Lexie and Kelly

Me and Taylor

Me and Lauren

Me and Lexie

Me and Chelsea (Jessica Barrazza - if you're reading this, Chelsea is totally your twin. for REAL)

All my girls! I love them all so much :] Lauren, Kristin, and Mantush are leaving us this year and we will miss you guys so much!!

Oh the month of May...

Every time this year our lives get ten bazillion times more busy. And, yes, I say "ours" because when Markham is gone, I have to do twice the work around the house and Lynlee gets more grumpy because she misses her dad and I get frustrated twice as fast because I don't have someone to hand her off to. (That last one sounded bad, but if you're a mom - you know exactly what I'm talking about. Even if you're not a mom - don't judge :] ). For some reason track season seems to get its very busiest the very last month of school. There's a meet every single weekend, which, there usually is anyway, but they're bigger meets so he's gone for longer periods of time, and this week they hosted the meet here so you would think I'd see him more but no. Hosting the meet means three times as much work for everyone so he would work 10-12 hour days trying to get everything ready. Not to mention the kids have finals this week. I say 'kids' in reference to the college students he coaches, that are all actually my own age. I just feel old, haha. On top of all of that, I have been completing my crafts and doing Markham's share of the housework. (I'm not complaining, I'm just stating the fact that I'm busier because he's busier. We've been busy. Jeez.) Also this week (last night) we hosted a dinner for the throwers (Markham is the Throws coach which includes javelin, discus, shot, and hammer). It was a TOTAL blasty blast - I LOVE the throwers :] but it was a crap ton of work. We made three different kinds of pasta dishes and chicken parm. Holy crap. And we don't have a super awesome gourmet kitchen so this entailed making our pasta bake at 2:30 in the afternoon and refrigerating it so that we would have the over for the chicken parm later. Then reheating the pasta bake right after the chicken came out of the oven. We also had to cook the Alfredo first and then wash and reuse those two pots for the Campanelle. It was QUITE a process. But totally worth it cuz they're awesome. There's ten throwers, six girls and four guys and they're pretty much hilarious and super fun. Anyway, that took up my entire thursday. Then today I was at the meet helping out from 9:30 until 11 when I took Lynlee home for a nap and then we came  back to the meet after her nap from 1:30 until 5 when I took Lynlee home for her second nap and then stayed home because the throws were over. But Markham actually JUST walked in the door and it's 10:45. Which means he was there for 14-ish hours. Track meets are seriously exhausting and last for freaking ever. It's fun to see our kids throw, but it takes for freaking ever. We also had two huge thunderstorms blow through and delay the meet for at least an hour each time. They were pretty sweet storms though and we (Me, Markham, and Lynlee - not everyone) took shelter in the trunk of my suv and we watched the storm with the trunk door open. It was pretty cool. But the entire point to all of this was to say that I got my end table finished! Took me almost four days but I got it done and now my living room matches! All we need is our flatscreen (hopefully in the next couple weeks) and our new DVD cabinet (because Lynlee makes me crazy with how many times she pulls the DVDs off the shelves in one day) and it will be complete! I've been doing a lot of searching for a DVD cabinet and they're either really expensive or really cheap looking or really ugly or have glass window panes and look stupid, or whatever. So what I'm actually hoping to do is to get one of those book shelves that's like a whole bunch of squares put together that don't have a back (I hope you can picture what I'm talking about - very Ikea-esque) and then use a combination of baskets and/or other cute things to put all of our DVD's in and keep out of reach of two-foot-tall terrors (she's not really a terror, she just likes to pull a hundred DVDs off and make me pick them up five times a day). Okay one last thing and then I'm done ranting. Lynlee has been starting to drink out of a sippy over the last couple months, which has been great, but this past week, at only 9 months old, my amazing little daughter drank out of a sippy with a STRAW!!! I don't actually know how amazing that is because I have no idea when kids start drinking with straws but it seemed a little early to me. Anyway, now all she wants is her sippy with a straw and she drinks out of it all the time! Like a big kid! I love that girl :]

Went to Babies R Us for a new gate and found these. I could tell as soon as I put these on her she felt like a rock star. She instantly lit up and started smiling. What a goof! Of COURSE I bought them :]

Proud Mommy Moment

New end table! Okay so I completely dropped the ball and forgot to take a "before" picture but imagine this table being a really ugly light brown/gold-ish color with lots of dents and scratches in the top that I had to work so freaking hard at getting out..

These are the ridiculously difficult legs that I had to sand BY HAND and then paint and oh man it was a process

The finished living room!

As Nate Berkus (and Kristin) would say, "I'm house proud!"