Week in the Life | SUNDAY

Well, this week long project comes to an end today. I wish I could've finished with more photos but I just didn't have the time today.

Here is our Sunday...

Grandma did Violet's hair this morning. Even though her head is covered in bows, I thought it was adorable.   Her hair has been so slow to grow.

I wish this picture would've come out because she looks so sweet.

Every Sunday morning we go to church. We love it and Hunter loves it, however Violet does not appreciate being separated from mommy and daddy at all. She does ok some Sundays and not so good others. She is just so use to being with us all of the time. One day she will enjoy going.

It was nice to have Grandma with us today.

Today was a totally relaxing day. We ate lunch and dinner at home. I helped my mom get things done on the computer and taught her how to load pictures onto her computer and share them on Facebook. The kids played around the house. It was a nice family day.

Violet ran around in her sandals and diaper for awhile. I thought it was so cute and funny.

Brian & Hunter watched NASCAR. Jeff Gordon came so close to winning they got really excited and then a little bummed.

Then Violet took a nap with daddy.

And the kids helped Daddy with some yard work while my mom and I got dinner ready.

The night ended with a little reality tv for me and bath time for the kids. Brian is so great with them and I'm so thankful that he is willing to help!

Well, that's it for "Week in the Life". Next week hopefully sometime I will put the scrapbook pages together!

Week in the Life | SATURDAY

No surprise here, as the week goes on, I'm getting lazy. Less pictures and I didn't write anything down today. I'm just having too much fun with my mom here. But I did get a few really cute pictures of my mom with the kids and I'm so glad I did!

My mom is doing our laundry! Thanks mom!

We signed Hunter up for tball today. We are so excited and a little worried. They take their tball seriously here and it's a couple of practices a week. Games on Saturday or can be during the week too. Since Hunter is starting school soon for the first time I was a little worried this would be too much for him. But he loves to play outside especially with other kids and I really think he will enjoy this. He does really well too. He is playing first base and seems to know a little bit more about the game and be a little more coordinated then most of the other players. Many kids on his team are first time players. He has played two seasons now.

I just love that Brian is so involved in the kids lives. He is such a great dad. He doesn't just sit on the sidelines on his phone, he gets out there and helps the coach and teaches Hunter. He loves to be a big part of their lives and they love him so much.

My mom stayed home with Violet while we were at Hunter's practice. It was nice not having to chase after Violet and just being able to watch Hunter play and snap some pictures of him.

Violet LOVES my make-up bag and make-up. So my mom got her her own bag and they did their make-up together. I love this picture and I think it is adorable! Girls are so much fun.

After lunch at Taco Cabana we all took a trip to Hobby Lobby. Grandma got the kids some goodies.

Then we sent the kids and Brian home and mom and I headed off to get a pedicure and do some shopping. We really had a lot of fun but I forgot to take any pictures. We were gone for probably 4-5 hours. When we got home mom offered to babysit again so Brian and I could go out to dinner again. Two date nights in a row, now that is a record for us! (Since we've had kids over 4 years ago anyway.)

They are all looking at pictures of Aunt Michelle (my sister). Just making sure Violet knows who she is. :)

And just a cute video from today. Violet has been learning her animal noises. This gives you an idea of what a great dad Brian is. I love him! I love my whole family :) I am blessed.

Week in the Life | FRIDAY

My mom is here! So glad she is here. I've had so much fun with her and the kids today, I haven't taken many pictures or written down much. Here is what I did get...

As soon as Hunter woke up (which was only a few minutes after my mom), he ran into the guest room looking for her. When he didn't find her there, he ran downstairs where she was waiting for him. She had heard him coming and jumped out and scared him. Then I heard them laughing and talking. (I was still in bed.)

First thing Hunter wanted to do with Grandma is play the Wii. She has no clue about playing but did it anyway to play with Hunter. He even got me to play with them too.

A little while after Violet woke up we sat down to eat breakfast. My mom always wants to take care of everyone and she was making everyone breakfast and starting laundry! She is such a big help when she is here.

She brought souvenirs for everyone from her recent cruise to Alaska. This bib was Violet's gift.

This is Violet after digging into all the food Grandma gave  her.  By the way, Violet says "cheese" now when I take her picture. It's the cutest thing ever!

After hanging out around the house all morning and making a sort of a game plan for the week, we headed off to Target to go shopping. My mom is also great at being Grandma who loves to spoil! Hunter was excited to go shopping with Grandma and told her they would have to check out the Cars 2 isle of toys.

While we were shopping, Violet found this little cart and followed us around the store with it. Also one of the cutest things ever!

After Target we met Brian for lunch at Pei Wei. Yes, we did this earlier this week too. But what can I say, it's one of our favorite places. After lunch we went to Albertsons for a few groceries before going home.

Albertsons is doing a Yahtzee scratch card promotion. So after  my mom got her scratch cards, she sat down with Hunter and let him pick which boxes to scratch. You have to pick 1 box out of 4 in 5 different columns and they all have to match to win. Well, Hunter won on two cards! We couldn't believe it! He won two extra scratch cards and $1 in cash. He was so excited to get that dollar!

After Albertsons we went home and Brian was home shortly after. My mom said she would baby sit so we could go out. I love getting to go out on a 'date' with Brian. It doesn't happen very often now that we are living in a town where none of our family lives. So when we do get to go out it is a special treat. We went to a movie and dinner. We didn't get home until almost 11pm and even though I know my mom was dying to go to bed, she said they had a great time. I wish I would've taken a picture of them when we walked in. They were having a "pajama" party under Hunter's loft bed and watching a movie. Hunter was sound asleep but Violet was happy to see momma when we walked in. Overall, a great day!

Brian & I on our date. 

Week in the Life | THURSDAY

Ok, sorry but for the sake of time and lack of energy, I will be doing less words and more pictures today...

This is Hunter coming down for breakfast.

This is Violet eating cheese for breakfast, no surprise there.

Here is Hunter finding out he got a box from Grandma 'Airplane'. She usually sends one a week and it's a huge highlight!

He can't wait to get into that box! Even Violet gets excited now.

I forgot to take a picture of the special toy Hunter got because he couldn't wait to get it open and start playing with it, but this book just cracked me up!

While the kids were occupied with their new toys, I spent a little time on the computer. I have a Mac and I downloaded the new Lion software. It's pretty nice and there all all kinds of new things you can do with the trackpad now, but I've been using this little mouse that was given to me by a friend and I LOVE it! With the new software it's amazing what it does now!

This is just Violet wanting my attention, like usual.

Today I wanted to clean, since my mom is coming into town tonight, and I laughed this morning when I saw this post on Facebook...

So here is what happened when I started cleaning...

Hunter wanted to help!

Turned on some music.

Violet wasn't too happy about being stuck on the couch while I cleaned the floor. (Hunter took this picture.)

Hunter took this picture too. (I hate dog hair! And I hate cleaning it! My dog use to be my baby before I had kids, but now she is just an animal I have to clean up after on top of the kids and my husband. She is a great dog though, so sweet with the kids.)

Hunter took this one too.

Hunter took this one too, and I love it! I think it is a great picture!

Then we started mopping.

Violet had to go in the pack n play and she was really mad then!

I'm thinking I should probably clean all this up too.

I'm so lazy and often leave the vacuum out after I clean, but I didn't today, I put it away when I was finished!

Then it was time for lunch. Bertolli again. The kids didn't like this one as much as yesterdays. Just a side note. I love purple. I love my purple dishes and this Starbucks mug. I love the pattern on this and the colors.

Then the kids just confirmed the truth in that saying about cleaning with kids around because not 2 hours after I mopped the floor, Hunter had a bucket of cars and his race track out on the clean floor. Cleaning is pointless.

By this time Violet was so cranky and just wanted to take a nap.

She brought me her shoes, hint hint mom!

Ready to go. She is so heavy in this thing, but she always falls asleep and then I don't want to wake her up, so this makes it easy to move her around and still let her sleep.

We started driving, and she was asleep probably before I was even out of the driveway. I wasn't even really sure where we were going.

I gave into the temptation and got some Taco Cabana. I love their Ranch Salsa.

Hunter took this of Violet sleeping in the car.

Later we had a healthy snack.

His favorite part was the grapes.

While Violet slept, Hunter and I went upstairs to play.

The race! He loves to make his cars race and usually mimic the movie.

We made a cute little town.

When Violet woke up she has some of our fruit snack. She mostly just chewed the fruit and then spit them out. Not sure why she does this.

And again, my clean floor covered in the fruit she spit out.

While she had her snack, I dreamed about going on a vacation.

I make a photo book every year and each page is a week. I like to open it up every now and then and see what we were doing at the same time a year ago.

Brian got home and we had dinner.

This is the chicken I made. It's a family favorite.

After dinner, Hunter helped me empty the trash and clean the bathrooms. We are so excited about Grandma coming! She will be here soon!

Hunter is talking to Grandma and he is going to help me make cookies.

Mmmm... peanut butter cookies.

Grandma got on iChat to see the kids while she was at the airport.

They are so excited to see her.

Grandma gets into town at midnight and Hunter wanted to go to the airport with me to get her. He tried so hard to stay awake and even tried to talk me into leaving early just so he could make it into the car before falling asleep.

He couldn't stay awake. :)

When we got home, my mom and I talked for awhile before heading to bed. Soon after Violet woke up and my mom wanted to play with her. So for about an hour at 1am Grandma and Violet played. She was actually in a good mood for the middle of the night and a little confused why they were playing in the middle of the night. Then we all headed to bed. So glad mom is here.