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I believe I left off early Thursday so let's start there... I completed a t-skirt (FOR SALE!) before heading to get Bella from school.  Once Vince got home from work, we headed to Pine Lake CC to meet his parents for dinner.  Works for me, free dinner and I don't have to cook, the perfect combination :)  B-bo fell asleep on the way home, so I carried her to bed and she slept in her underwear - her favorite thing to do - and I got a hall pass from reading stories.  So tonight we both won <3

Friday.  After fighting with a slight case of creativity block, I put together another t-skirt, but I ran out of my iron on stuff I use for the embellishments.  Hopefully, I will finish it up this weekend.  Anyway,  I stopped by the bank and Hobby Lobby before heading to school for the kiddo.  She not only has dance class today, but she also has recital pictures.  Tap and then ballet class are first with pictures following.  I finally got to see her tap costume, which is a blue sequin flapper style dress with long gloves and a blue feather in her hair.  I believe she is a blue rain drop, and the cutest damn thing you have ever seen <3  Her other costume is a blue/purple plaid leotard with a white tutu and a blue bow for her hair.  I.can't.wait.  We didn't get home from all the fun until almost 7, and Friday is always a long day for her, so while she took a bath, we ordered pizza and decided to watch Tangled.  I love Friday nights.

Saturday.  We were all up by 7:30, slowly waking up and making a plan for the day.  After  a couple of cups of coffee, and a little light yard work, we headed out for a Home Depot/Target run.  By the time we were done, our Volkswagon Rabbit was packed to capacity.  While I unloaded and put away the Target purchases, Vince distributed the mulch/lava rocks and got our next round of seedling trays set up.  I worked on the Gladiola/Iris bed weeding and cleaning it up.  We have had our first Irises of the season bloom, and they are a beautiful deep purple.  Plus all the azaleas, the flox, dogwoods, Star of Bethlehem, and bluebonnets are in bloom right now too.  Our yard looks really pretty this time of year.  After lunch, I decided to take a nap, and Bella fell asleep on the couch watching the Masters... I'm sure my Dad was smiling in Heaven at that one :)  While the girls slept, Vince's Dad came over to look at and discuss some dead trees in our yard, and to switch out chain saws.  They ended up cutting down a few branches of one of the 3 Bradford Pear trees that needs to come down.  It's a start... After my 3 hour nap, I was feeling much better.  I played Princess Memory, Candy Land, and Chutes and Ladders with Bella while we listened to a Disney station on Pandora.  She is amazed at how many princess songs I know, tee hee hee.  A huge storm rolled in around 6:30 and we turned off all the lights, opened a few windows and enjoyed the flashes of lightning and claps of thunder all through the house.  Bella got out her window markers and began to draw a rain scene on the front storm door.  I love how she is not bothered by storms at all, in fact she is pretty fascinated by them and liked how the lightning was lighting up her drawing while she created it.  B-bo went to bed a little after 9, and so did Vince and I.  Lack of sleep had finally caught up, and there was no need to fight it.

Now it's Sunday morning.  We were all awake at 6:30 feeling well rested :)  Vince is finishing cleaning up the kitchen this morning from his baking session gone wrong yesterday, before making some breakfast for us.  I think we are going to get some more mulch today and clean the inside of the house today as well.  Sunday is always bittersweet... Still the weekend, but a reminder that the beginning of the week is right around the corner...

Also, all the flowers in this post are from our yard! Happy Springtime!