Weekend getaway to seattle

My amazing baby sister  and her hubby so kindly volunteered to watch the kids for a few days so I could take drew to a Red Sox game up in Seattle.

 Brady took us on a tour of those huge bubbles I saw back when I was here earlier for a conference. So many cool plants and they're all REAL(!)

 We had some lobster crab and corn chowder which was pretty much one of the most delicious meals of my life to date. Yet I still managed to share it with drew which probably goes to show how much I love him right?

 Our hostesess with the mostesess (in this case a wall of abc gum)

 She's my favorite little fur baby niece and I just can't even stand the cuteness!! Charlotte is just the cutest little pup ever

 We got samples of white peaches which Cassie and drew insisted were not enough so they got more. They we're $3 each so I'm assuming they have some sort of acai super growth hormone food injected in them...

 Love love love all the fresh flowers!!!

 I feel like I could reasonably make this baseball bat chandelier. Only problem is buying a house big enough for it....

 Everything I hoped and expected (minus the win)

 5 years of marriage!

 12 years of marriage!(I still can't believe it's been that many!)

 #treatyoself (one guess who picked out my manicure with sparkles?)

 Ice cream helmets!!

 We had such a good day. And the best part is we sstill have a few more left!

2018 so far...

From January: lots of yummy whole30 food like swoodles with peppers and a taco salad type thing

 I still manage to squeeze occasion naps out of this one

 MY KIDS MADE SO MUCH ART

 more yummy food and cleaned bathrooms with the little lady

 enjoyed some cold but snowless walks around our neighborhood with blankie

 did the planetarium for Family Home Evening

 realized the twinners are getting to be not so similar after all! And little A can finally technically be in a booster ;)

 100th day of school for little d (and what I could scrounge together so last minute)

 post whole30 lunch with my #hobbitwhole30 ladies (sorry I didn't get you in there Michelle!)

 Got some good vday decor (Target!) and a new book

 Robin Williams Jumanji with the kids (not as awesome as I remembered, sorry!)

 Suffered through SuperBowl Sunday...

 Made cookies (that he had been begging me to make with him for weeks!) with this little sweet nugget.

February led off with Guppy school at the SMA

 Acai bowl in exchange for taking my neighbor's little boy with us on a walk? Don't mind if I do!

 Still no playground. Or Splash pad.

 Practicing painting with real paints...

 napping with the Kevs

 making friends

 (and not making any friends)

 GORGEOUS view of our house (far in the distance!)

 goofy boys

 trying to out-Google Guide each other on date night is our new favorite hobby....

 Potty training 101

 Panda's "catboy ball" and Little A's drawings of our family (well just her and me) and our neighbor Miss Becca and her daughter.

 Valentines Shenanigans

 birthday boy!

 We saw Black Panther and took no pictures, but we told her it had strong awesome girls like wonder woman and she was inspired to play dressups with her halloween costume!

 learning to play nice and gentle with littlest friends

 gorgeous weather before the winter storm this month...

 one of these boys is relatively easy and doesn't throw tantrums often. The other is Lan.

 family night at a thanksgiving point museum

 Woke up to snow on Monday morning! Did a lot of this

 But wished I was doing more of this..........................................^^^^^ with kevs

 500 loads of laundry ...

 made it to the gym after a week of potty training with only one of four in diapers!!! Is this real life??

 February mood.

 I asked them to sit next to each other for a picture and this is what they gave me. Oh I love them!

 then of course they love to do a lot of these

 and these

 and tonight I made steak on my pancake skillet and felt like a boss. so 2018 is looking up...