Beautiful Weather and More

Since we have been down with Influenza for the last month and

 haven't even really left the house, it's been really nice to have 

the great weather the last few days.  

The boys have been outside so much and at first it took me a bit to 

push them out there but now they beg to go out

so I'm very happy with that.

I think we need a bigger sandbox lol!

Pumpkin's favorite thing is his sandbox in the backyard. 

The other two will swing for the whole time and there's Pumpkin in the sandbox.

He's also the one that gets the most excited when we go

to the beach.

Just before we got sick Mr A had a Scout camp that we attended and here are 

some pictures from that.

Monkey watching the fire

Pumpkin getting Kool-Aid

Monkey still by the fire

I'm being beckoned over.

Some camp sites.

Pumpkin really wants to go into the tents

They are over there cooking

Mr. A making pancakes an a tin can

The pancakes are looking good.

Now for the taste test yum!

Mr A by the fire.

Some of the boys crossed over into Boy Scouts.

The moon

and then I zoomed in on it so beautiful

And now for some photos of my parents house all finished.  

My mom's curtains.

The flooring to the back wall.  I don't know why the wall looks dark yellow or tan

It's actually so pale of a yellow it almost looks white so that's a weird trick there.

The wood looking tiles.  We really love these.  The grout is actually black I think this 

is just another light trick.

The kitchen floor and the family dog.

The wood tiles again

My mom's boat she bought of Craigslist and loves.

The counter tops we made and the back splash

The downstairs bathroom.

Downstairs bathroom still

The stuff in the bathroom lol.

That's all I have for you now which is pretty much all I just need

to take some pictures of the upstairs bathrooms.

Yesterday we went to the park and stayed there for two hours

it was a lot of fun.

I have only one picture though because the park we went to isn't really picture friendly

unless your standing on top of your child so I leave you with

Monkey swinging dirty feet and all :) I guess his flip flops don't work on the swing

Mr A and Monkey kept kicking them off every time

they got on the swings.

Well the kids really want to start their school so they can head outside so have a beautiful day!

Love, 

Mommaraff.

Laundry

Monkeys birthday party is on Saturday so I have been busy working in the yard trying to get things under control.  Since my parents moving in to this house last year there have been a series of rose bushes that have remained untouched so I am trying to get them under control.  I am working on a post about what I have been thinking about while pruning them but so far the words don't seem to be coming out right.  I'll get it up here if I can get it to sound right.  So other wise I still have a ton of work to do.  The spring seemed to be coming when all of the sudden the weather has taken on a turn for the worse meaning that we have a garden growing like mad and now bad weather to not work on it.  The horses do not like the weather they usually are out grazing but now they are hiding out in their little barn like little babies lol.  I hope that the weather gets better soon. 

I have not been going on my walk the last time I went was on Saturday and before that I can't remember.  I hope I get back into it soon my schedule is just so messed up since I had the cold and I have not been able to get myself back on track. 

I finally folded the mountains of laundry that were accumulating.  Did I mention that I hate folding laundry?  I don't mind washing it at all.  In fact I rather enjoy washing it but asking me to fold it is incredibly irritating.  I wish we could just shove the laundry in the drawers or rather buckets which we are using right now, and forget about them.  There is the part of me though that almost OCD organizes our clothing.  I separate the laundry out by short sleeves, long sleeves, sweaters, pants, shorts, and outfits are also organized. There are shorts and short sleeves, pants with short sleeves, pants with long sleeves, and so on.  So it's really just a battle with myself.  I have really enjoyed the part of my accidental minimalism were I have been getting rid of the clothing that I don't really like.  I keep some things because someone gave it to me, the kids, or my hubby and I am now just getting rid of it.  Yeay less laundry!  I can't wait to get into my storage and began to throw things away and donate them.  There are so many things that I realize I do not need.  Well there really isn't much more going on I will let you all know how the birthday party went I hope your having a great week.