Well, it’s been a lot like winter around here despite the calendar saying it is March! We woke up to a picturesque winter scene on March 4th. The snow blanketed all of the grass and trees. It was a very pretty and calm morning. I headed outside to snap a few photos before I headed off to work for the day. Lily was pretty excited to have a play mate to run around with, if even for a few minutes!
The colder temperatures have meant lots of indoor activities for Griffin, including painting Easter Eggs and making Cross necklaces. 
And of course, since Easter is nearing that means all of the stores have the Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs, the favorite of all Reese’s products as it has the “perfect peanut butter to chocolate ratio” says Kevin. The instant Finn sees the yellow package, his face lights up and he asks “what’s in that there” followed by a “can I have one?”. 
Griffin enjoyed several other fun arts projects this week, including making a Leprechaun. And also lots of practice being Super Heroes around the house. Even Lily likes to play along.
And I learned this week via the American Hosta Growers Association Newsletter, that Dad’s Hosta ‘World Cup’ will be the 2018 Hosta of the Year! That’s a big deal, and I’m super proud that one of my Dad’s many awesome plants is bringing home this distinction! 
And here is a fun one I snapped of the two boys being twinsies. It’s funny sometimes to see how Finn has certain mannerisms of Kevin and me. Not the things we’ve taught him, just things he seems to do pretty naturally or instinctively – like sleep (and relax) how Kevin does!
And here Finn is driving his car to both of his grandparents houses. It’s kind of hard to make out his words, but it’s pretty cute and all of it was his idea!
Finn has been giving Lily lots of snuggles and cuddles lately. He loves her so, and actually every night part of the routine is to give Lily a hug and a kiss. Lately he’s been asking her to wag her tail before he’ll give her a hug and a kiss. And he asks Kevin and I to raise our hands, “Who wants a hug and kiss?”. Silly boy.
One evening this week Finn wanted to snuggle and while he was sitting in my lap he said “put me in your shirt”. It was rather funny, actually, but sure enough he ended up inside my black t-shirt and we walked around a bit. It totally reminded me of when I had him in the hospital, nearly 3 years ago, and I snuggled him inside my black shirt as a tiny newborn. This sweet boy is growing up far too quickly! 
Daddy is spoiling us with all of these pancakes lately. Check out his latest creation! I did add the finishing touches of the face!
Kevin’s car was in need of some TLC in the form of many repairs, most of which we had a shop perform. His Dad was kind enough to come up on a Sunday afternoon to work with Kevin to put new front brakes and struts on his Jeep. It went well for the most part, other than a broken bolt on the right side, so they weren’t able to install the right strut just yet. But the brakes are in on the front. Shew, that was a lot work! Papa brought a lot of his tools and when I took him out to the garage to show him what they were doing he said “what’s that mess?”. Silly boy. 
I’ve been enjoying Avacados for quite awhile it seems. My quick go-to is Avacado Toast. Sometimes I fancy it up with salt and pepper. My sweet hubby packed me some bread slices in my lunch bag one day and when I got them out to toast them at work he’d left me a sweet note! <3. My other new thing is peanut butter toast with banana coins. One evening I’d made myself two slices for dinner, and before I knew it, Finn asked for a piece – and he ate the entire thing! 
Finn has been enjoying lots of art projects, adventures, and outdoor time when the weather is nice lately. We sure are blessed that he is in such loving hands with Debbie!
And this particular photo Debbie put in our app that we use to communicate. Griffin was holding the dogs blue ball and Debbie took a photo of Finn riding on his airplane in his room. She put a little caption that read “The sweetest game, Finn says ‘I’m flying to heaven to bring Cammie her ball to play with'”. He has the most loving heart. 
Check out our little exercise man! I’ve been doing P90x3 for a couple of months now and Griffin has taken to my yoga mat pretty well. He loves to exercise with me – and man is his core strong. Oh to be young again, lol! This particular day I put him down for a nap. I had been checking in on him using the video monitor as I could tell he wasn’t falling asleep. About halfway through my workout I hear “Momma, I done sleeping”, so I yelled up and asked him to come down and lay on the couch and rest while I finished. That lasted about 10 minutes and for the last 5 or so of the video he got down on the floor and exercised with me 🙂 He is also really great at push ups!
When I do my workout videos in the family room, I usually have an audience of Lily and Cameron. It has certainly been a very emotionally taxing time for our family over the last couple of months, and weeks, in particular. Cammie’s health (really her tail) wasn’t improving and we made the very painful decision to say goodbye to her this week. It is such a hard thing to do, this girl has been through all the ups and downs of life with me and our family for as long as I can remember. And as I said in our post about her, she was a sweet yet stubborn and sassy girl. We miss her (and the sound of her beating her tail) a lot and Finn regularly talks about how she is up in “heben” (heaven) chasing balls. 
Finn and Sammy ventured outside this week and built Frosty, complete with a hat and gloves! 
And quite a mess of his books:
And some snuggles (or smothers!) with Lily:
And a simple mommy and son dinner one night. I’ve told some of you this before, but I originally bought the Fruity Pebbles (although they are the ALDI brand) cereal for me. However, it quickly became Finn’s cereal of choice and he asks for it by calling it “colored” cereal. This particular night I had the “adult” cereal and Finn had the “colored” cereal. About halfway through he said “let’s trade”. So sure enough, I got the “colored” cereal. Yum, lol! 
And this weekend included a boys adventure to Enon, where Finn and Daddy enjoyed lots of time with Grandma and Grandpa, checking out the progress on their new house. Kevin used the warm day to empty out a storage unit from back in his single days :). An extra special treat was the warm, sunny, and windy weather which made for a nice afternoon at the park that is right down the road from Grandma and Grandpa’s new house! Joe went along for the ride too. Joe, you know, Finn’s scooter. He pretends he is a horse and when he’s finished riding him he puts him back in the barn for the night. Oh, and he does his business outside in the yard, like Lily. This boy – his imagination is non-stop!
While the boys had their fun, I spent the afternoon hanging out with my college girl friends Amy, Jaime, and Kim. We basically hopped from restaurant to restaurant, from Dublin to Easton, and back to Dublin. We enjoyed catching up on each others lives, kids, spouses, and such. And it was a treat to be able to enjoy the nice and unseasonably warm weather. Though we don’t see each other as often as we would like, we always have fun when we get together!