Monday, Monday..

I'm fairly certain that I will never learn to go to bed early enough on a Sunday night to be prepared to deal with a Monday.  Struggling pretty hard to keep my eyes open today.

As usual I made the most of my three days off.  Friday Addison and I hung out, did a few small projects around the house and attempted to clean but I just wasn't feeling like being stuck in the house so only a few things got accomplished before we headed outside to play & paint a few fun things for Addison.  Nothing much was going on Friday evening and I honestly can't remember doing anything other than a quick grocery trip and a stop at the thrift store.

Saturday I visited with my neighbor and her little girl so that we could do her free photo session that she won from me last fall.  Her daughter and Addison are only a few months apart and eventually they will be in the same class together so it was fun for them to get a chance to play.  Even if Addison was way more excited about someone to play with than Tori was :)

After pictures I got to work on hanging up the boxes that I stained last weekend in my bathroom for some added storage & got Tony to help me hang some picture frames because I stuck and level and even spacing!  While it looks incredibly weird right now to walk into my bathroom and see the things hanging on the wall (it feels like they are out of place cause they haven't always been there) I really like it and LOVE the added storage.

Saturday afternoon/evening we headed to a wedding reception for our good friends/pretty much family.  It was a good time, topped off with fireworks at dark.  My mom took Addison home with her so that we could go on an all day canoe trip on Sunday.

Addison trying out her new apron & bowl that Terri sent over for her. She was slightly obsessed with her new  "costume"

Sunday my kayak made it's maiden voyage with 28 other kayaks/tubes/canoes.  Our friend/pretty much family (we have a lot of pretty much family around here) and his wife were home for a visit from Colorado.  Bobby is in the Air Force and recently got home from a deployment so he and Kaylee came home for a vacation.  (for documentation sake, while "Uncle Bobby" was here Addison was obsessed with him.  She wanted to sit in a lawn chair and watch uncle Bobby mow my brothers yard, they live across the road from us, rather than play since he was busy working and couldn't come play with her.  Every time she saw him it was instant "Uncle Bobby!  Uncle Bobby!!")  While they were here he wanted to go on a canoe trip so his sister invited everyone and we ended up with a 41 person turn out.  Which is by far the largest canoe trip I've ever been a part of.  It was a great time, we were on the river for about 6 hours which is far less time than we thought it would take, and that included a pretty long stop for lunch at half way.  Definitely loving the kayak and can't wait to find the time to go again!

 

man I need a tan!

This week is a holiday week so I get Thursday and Friday off, and I took Monday/Tuesday also so lucky me, six day weekend!!!  yay!

Wordish Wednesday Family Time

This past weekend was a pretty busy one for me, not that I accomplished a ton, but I was on the go for most of it.  Saturday I joined my mom & step dad at their house where they were having his family over for their monthly birthday celebration.  (They get everyone together once a month to celebrate anyone's birthday who was born that month, from grandparents to grandkid's and soon to be great-grandkids, though technically I guess Addison would be a great grandkid.)

We had a nice dinner, some cake and ice cream and a lot of time playing with the kids, chickens and spending time with Grandma.  A nice day of family time!

Somebody Went and Turned ONE!

Ok, so I am super behind on this update of the birthday party.  In my own defense, there was the whole I didn't take the pictures, we left on vacation and a hectic past week that left me not thinking about it.  But our friend Seth  was here for the Party from New Jersey and he was nice enough to use his photography skills to capture all that I didn't have time to do at the party.  So now that I have had time, and he's posted these on facebook I stole them so I can share them with all of you.  So I bring you the first birthday party:

Addison's Hair Bow is from : Elle's Garden Etsy Shop
Addison's Personalized Birthday Shirt: MadeCuteJust 4You Etsy shop
Personalized Bubble Labels: Paper Cut Love Etsy Shop
Printables including invites, birthday sign, banner (not pictured) water bottle labels: Invitations by Rachel Etsy
Cupcake wrappers/sprinkles: Sweet Treat Supplies Etsy
Monkey balloons/place settings: Amazon

I am an official Etsy addict.  The party turned out great, kids played, parents, friends & family had time to sit eat and conversate.  It was an incredibly hot day and we somehow forgot about ice cream when we served the cupcakes...how that happened?  I'll never know.  Addison was spoiled rotten of course.