a busy day!

Today we had a very busy day!!  We had our friends Leah, Tyler and Ryan over for a playdate in the morning.  And although Jack had his moments, (he's been having a rough week!) I know he had a fun time playing!  The kids played in the playroom for a while, then headed outside to play on the bouncer and on the playscape!  Then they sat down for a picnic lunch out on the deck!

After the playdate, Auntie Scoot came over and we took a ride to the Butterfly Pavillion.  It's a 4 day exhibit where you can walk around a greenhouse filled with 1,000 butterflies and many flowering plants.  The butterflies even land on you! 

Jack loved having the butterflies land on him!   They had bowls of sugar water that you could dip your fingers into, the butterflies loved that!  Jack said they really tickled his fingers!

Riley loved the butterflies, although she would rather hold on to them tightly, which didn't work so well!  LOL!

After the butterflies, we made one more stop at the old historical cemetery so Auntie Scoot could take some pictures...

I, of course, took some pictures too....

.....and even got a great Mothers Day Picture of Jack and I!!

Playdate with friends!

Yesterday, my friend Terri and my friend Sue and her kids, Jack and Brooke, came by for a much needed visit!  I don't get together with the girls anywhere near often enough due to our busy work schedules, but it was nice finally getting to see everyone today!

Jack was still asleep when Terri got to the house, but luckily, woke up pretty happy and very talkative!  He couldn't wait to show Terri his playroom and train table!  When Sue and the kids got here, all the kids played in the playroom for a while then we decided it was too nice outside to be in the house!

We set up the bouncer & ball pit, pulled out the t-ball set and tricycles and watched the kids have a blast!  Here are some of the pictures from our playdate!!

This handsome guys name is Jack too!  My Jack likes to call him "the other Jack".  They are only 6 weeks apart in age!  Jack had so much fun in the ball pit!!

This is Brooke, and she had a great time too with the ball pit and bouncer!  Isn't she the cutest thing with her little curls??

The kids seemed like they had so much fun playing together!!

My Jack and Brooke were tossing the balls back and forth through the ball pit doors!

Jack and Brooke really liked petting Sasha, and Sasha was LOVING all of the attention!  She's really good with kids!!

Jack was showing Brooke the bluebird decoration he put in our bird garden and also showed her the rose bushes he planted all by himself!

Jack loved doing some 'slam dunks' in the basketball hoop!!  He's quite a basketball player!

All three of the kids were looking to see if there were any bees on the dandelions in the yard!

Saying goodbye is never fun!!  But we'll see the kids again soon hopefully!!

After everyone left, Jack and I went out and played a little more outside and snapped a few more pictures.  I loved how the grass was so green, and how the balls from the ball pit and Jacks red shirt really looked bright and cheery in the pictures!!

A beautiful March day!

Today Jack and I headed to our Meetup.com group for a playdate!  Jack loves getting together with all of his friends and I like the opportunity to chat with the other moms! 
When we left, it felt like summer outside!  Well, it was really only about 48 degrees, but compared to the long cold winter we've had, it seemed so warm!  (besides, the sun was really shining for the first time in well over a week!)

We decided to head down to Clinton, to meet my sister and my niece at Clinton Beach!  Jack had a blast...there is a new playground with HUGE slides, a nice walking trail to a gazebo, and of course, the nice beach to walk along!  Did I mention there was a geocache there?  Woo hoo!

Here are a bunch of pictures from our time there:

This is my niece Riley and my sister Kathy!

This last picture is of Jack at the geocache...nice, easy find!!

Busy Day!!

Today was busy, busy, busy!

Our day started with a playdate with my mom's group! The kids played for a while, then made a 'groundhog puppet'!! Great job to Rebecca who came up with this cute idea!

Our next stop...Chips Pub for lunch with Auntie Scoot and baby Riley! Then our next adventure started before we even left the parking lot! It was GEOCACHING TIME!! :)

We found our first cache right at the restaurant, then headed to another cache that was hidden at a pretty cool rock painted to look like a big turtle!

Another pretty neat cache that we found was hidden at an old one room school house in Clinton! It was built in 1801!

We found 5 caches today, bringing our total to 105!!

(for info on geocaching, go to http://www.geocaching.com/!)

We weren't too far from Auntie Scoots house, so we made a quick stop there too! Tell me my niece isn't the cutest little girl in the world!! She just loves to smile and loves talking!!

Last stop was looking for postcards for our newest hobby, postcrossing! (http://www.postcrossing.com/) I'm brand new to this, but hopefully I will be getting postcards from all over the world! I'll fill you in more when they start coming in!