We had a very happy Easter with Grandma and Grandpa J and I have lots of pictures to prove it. I hope you had a lovely spring weekend too.

We drove over to DuPage county for a little hike on Saturday. It was so warm – almost hot and there were little bits of spring popping up in the woods. We saw about six snakes. Yikes.  It’s handy to have a Daddy to help you wash your hands in the stream. Too bad she…

FOE for sure. My attempt at a clever title for this post has nothing to do with what I’m talking about. I used FOE for the first time – that’s Fold Over Elastic. I made a Summer nightie for Claire. The fold over elastic was great and easy to use – no casing and no…

We finally put up our swing. It’s the swing that I bought before I even knew if we had a tree to hang it in. Jenna was kind enough to help us break it in.

I don’t have any great pictures to show for it, but we had a very exciting day on Friday. Here’s what Jennifer and Jenna, my girls and I did: – listened to a talking donkey – watched a train travel from Chicago to Seattle – learned to draw Donald Duck – stood in a vortex…

Jennifer and Jenna have been visiting and we made bunnies. Oh how fun! First we made our balled up newspaper forms and then we covered them with plaster gauze. Messy but pretty easy. Claire and I learned the process in the art class that we take together. We made a snowman a couple months ago.…

We were in Midland over the weekend and one of the highlights was visiting Dow Gardens with Grandma C. They had butterflies in the conservatory and the sun was out. Nice.

We went for a walk in the woods over the weekend. We were a little disappointed in the nature to people ratio. I guess we shouldn’t expected huge swaths of nature considering we were within Chicago. Oh well. We did see this neat building on the grounds of an old tuberculosis sanatorium. Look at the great…

We went for a little walk at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Isn’t it funny how a little bit of life poking through like in the picture below can bring us such hope at this time of year. The girls were chasing some frisky chipmunks. They asked Brian to catch one – as if that were…

Our floors are done – yeah. I’m so pleased with how they turned out. I’m happy with how they fit with the traditional elements of our house. I feel like they’re too nice for all our stuff and I’m afraid to get then dirty. Look how pretty! Too bad we had to move our funiture…