Spring Craftiness

I have been using my domestic skills to make some fun Easter and spring decorations.  It's been fun to find inexpensive items and turn them into cute projects.  The pics aren't good because for most of them I was on the wrong setting and didn't realize it until just now, but here's what I've been up to:

Layered Jelly Bean Vase

(which Someone-who-just-won-Mr.-Fitness-yet-will-remain-nameless likes to eat)

 Homemade PomPom Flowers in Totally Awesome Vase

Framed Easter Eggs

(I don't know where I'm going to put these yet, so here they sit on my couch)

  

My friend Mindi came over to join in the festivities for an evening.  We made chocolate-covered strawberries & colored eggs.  We had a fun time being Easter-y together.

Someone had to be the guinea pig:

The final product:

Here's Emerson just playing while we make the goods:

Mindi & Emerson:

Aren't we a happy bunch:

The other final product:

Mindi was so sweet & brought me some fresh tulips from her garden. It's like my own tulip festival on my table.

Mr. Fitness

Will's program hosted a fitness competition and challenged the students to lose weight, increase their strength and VO2 max, & just improve their overall health.  Will participated, lost over 25 pounds, doubled his strength, and was voted by his peers as Mr. Fitness!  He won a gift certificate to Magelby's and a free massage, plus this super awesome certificate:

Way to go, my handsome Mr. Fitness!

Relief

Oh, life is hard without this little friend of mine:

(breast pump cord)

Mine died recently which was a quick process that included overheating, smelling really bad, and giving off a puff of smoke as a last hurrah.  I've had to use the battery pack instead while waiting for my replacement to come, and it's not fun to rely on batteries, especially when they just go out randomly mid-pump.  Grrr.

The replacement came in the mail yesterday; what a relief.  

Pie Day

On Sunday, we celebrated National Pie Day by enjoying a Chocolate Orange Meringue Pie.  

~yum~

It turned out so well and was absolutely delicious.  My favorite dessert book has done it again.

Call us weirdos

Look!  I'm eating ice cream from the first carton of ice cream we have purchased in our marriage. 

Yes - we bought ice cream this week for the first time.

{insert dropped jaw}

I think that's a little weird, but maybe it's not.  Do you all purchase ice cream on a regular basis?  Neither Will nor I are huge ice cream fans, so this is big for us.  I will never turn down Coldstone's cheesecake ice cream with raspberries and blueberries in it, but that's all I like there, and even Will doesn't usually want any Coldstone.  Are we abnormal?

Pet Peeve

In all the get-to-know-you games that we play that are supposed to be fun but are really just awkward and embarrassing events, I always say that my pet peeve is when I get a peanut M&M that doesn't have a peanut.  That really is a big pet peeve of mine, but it's my default because I can't think of anything better when confronted with the question.

Today I came up with another pet peeve.  I can't stand it when people complain about the not-summery weather while it's still spring.  Don't people know how spring is supposed to go?  Spring is allowed to have moments of weakness which produce drizzles and occasionally even snow.  That's why it's spring - it's neither summer nor winter.  I'm annoyed when people consistently complain every time they even see a raincloud or anything not bright and sunny.  I'm not a fan of winter, in fact, I live for the sun; but I'll patiently wait for summer to arrive instead of wishing away spring. 

Go ahead, Spring.  Rain on.

Latest & Greatest

Sorry for the lack of recent postings.  Pretty much all I do is work and be a mom.  And that's a lot, which is why I haven't had time to post anything.  I have, however, done some cooking and crafting since my energy is back from being pregnant.  I'll post some pictures of my fun Easter craft once it's finished.  Oh, it's so great to have energy!  I've learned a lot in the past couple months.  Here are just a few of the things I've learned:

• how to get more than should be carried in one armload in my arms, ie: diaper bag, breastpump, coat, breakfast, & baby
• how to get 192 diapers for $5.31 (such a good deal!)
• what it's like to lose two of my greatest examples and friends
• how to pump in the car while reading and eating at the same time (not while driving, though)
• what bad meat looks like after smelling it heat up in my a crockpot
• how much fun mothering is and how much one can love although knowing someone for a only few short months

In other news, Will is going to make his way to the other side of the Rockies come September.  His first clinical internship will be in Centennial, CO, and we are super excited.  He will be there for most of September and October practicing at Holly Creek Retirement Community.  What a place! 

Also, Will is working part time at a frozen yogurt store and he gets to bring home some each night that he works.  Oh, it's like the best job ever.  I just don't know how I survived without it before. 

Emerson seems to be growing bigger every day.  He is now starting to roll over and reach for things.  He is so much fun and we can't get enough of him.  It's hard to leave him every day and go to work, but I just have to keep telling to just enjoy each day as it is instead of wishing for the future to come quicker.  I love every minute I get to spend with Emerson.  He is completely the light of our lives.