the week in between mother's day and michael's birthday

i loved watching my mother's day peonies blossom all week

 doing the breakfast dishes is much preferred to cleaning the playroom for noah

so glad he'll happily do his chore now

 henry sat happily (for the most part) for a hair cut for the first time in months

 a new shirt for hazel

i love this boxy shape on her

 cute button detail on the back

 olive got a new skirt out of the extra fabric, too

 and eleanor loves the shirt i made her the day before

 my friend kim gave us these trays and the kids think they're the coolest

they were so stoked i let them use them for lunch one day

this is olive's, henry's and eleanor's 

they told me every specific detail to add

 a few recent changes were made to the living room

including a print from my friend crystal and some wooden chairs from a garage sale

 these two are so cute after a bath all wrapped in white fluffy towels

 a little backyard bike riding before ballet

 i went on a five mile hike with the yw to get ready for girl's camp

and it came with the prettiest view

 my friend mandy told me to jump off this rock at the half way point

it's a pretty sweet picture and not bad for being 18 weeks pregnant

the next day michael and noah went on a hike for scouts

and we met at wendy's to hand noah off

so i got the kids some little tiny frosty's and henry though it was so funny to dump it all over himself..

 stinker

 he made it up to me the next day by helping me mow the backyard

 walking home from school on friday it was extra hot 

so olive and eleanor shared the backseat of the stroller

friday night we took michael out to red robin for an early birthday dinner

 the kids think red robin is the coolest but we almost never take them

i think it's becoming tradition that we take them once a year for michael's birthday

 being sung to

 we also braved winco as a family

because this is what our fridge looked like

 after

much better but not quite full until the next day's costco trip

 saturday morning we had a garage sale (with our neighborhood)

not that we had a lot to sell

but the kids were dying to have a lemonade stand

so we did it

i made muffins and cookies and lemonade (strawberries optional)

they made $40! pretty impressive. 

it was a pretty good week with some ups and downs in between

we are so excited to find out if we're having a boy or girl on tuesday!!