Tulips... and Moon Boots!

Spring is my absolute favorite time of the year! I love everything about this season and I often joke that it was no coincidence that I was born in the spring time. So as you can imagine, I am feeling pretty ripped off with our current weather situation. I mean....COME ON SPRING! I'm still wearing a hoodie and its May 1st! I'm craving shorts and flip-flops! On Tuesday though, we actually got a glimpse of really nice weather, so I took my kids outside and we played in our yard pretty much all day. I LOVE sitting in my yard. I love weeding, planting, digging, gardening...all of it! I could stare at my trees for hours. If you lived in an apartment as long as we did,(thank you graduate school!) you completely understand my love for yard work. (Jess-I know you get it!) Anyway, last fall I had my kids help me plant tulip bulbs. We talked all winter about those bulbs being underground! I kept telling Allie & Easton, that when the tulips come out...that means spring is here. Well, the tulips are here...and they are BEAUTIFUL, but they are currently being snowed on!! Here's hoping that spring returns quickly, but in the meantime, I got some great pictures of my kids.. and my tulips. Here are a few...


This one is my favorite! Allie loves to try and catch butterflies with her butterfly net. Before Allie, I always wondered-do kids really play with butterfly nets?? I thought they were kind of a stupid toy. She loves her bug net(even though I don't believe she has caught one single butterfly!) and I was able to get this picture without her knowing I was taking it. Check out her face!

Easton was able to catch himself in his bug net!!

If Allie sees a camera she completely poses(think jazz hands!)...hysterical! I didn't tell her to do one thing. Can you tell she lives with a camera in her face? hahaha!

See what I mean??

Now my Bubba is not such a fan of the camera. For this picture, I had pulled him away from some serious excavating with his Tonka truck! (geez mom!) He wanted to play, not pose! You can't see it...but he had on his Thomas the Train moon boots in this picture. uuggh! I've got my very own Napoleon Dynamite living with me. He currently wants to wear them everywhere. Not a good thing when you have me for a mom! I have agreed to let him wear his boots around the house..but no where else! Pick your battles right??