Spring

"If your strife strikes at your sleep, remember spring swaps snow for leaves, you'll be happy and wholesome again when the city clears and the sun ascends."

I'm pretty sure every single year I do a blog post on Spring and how much it means to me. 

We are those kind of people who just get down in the Winter time. I'm going to go as far as saying we get a little depressed. It's extra hard because Lucas schedule is the opposite of ours so I never see him and when I do, he almost always falls asleep on us. Believe it or not, I still love Lucas and I love spending time with him. he has to try and transition back to our schedule on his days off and half the time, he can't. I know I whine about it a lot, but in the winter time, it's very hard on our family. That's why every Spring, I am just giddy with happiness because spring is when Lucas gets back to his "Summer Schedule"( as we recently discovered) Same 12 hour shifts as always from 7pm-7am but for some reason, he wakes up earlier in the Spring/Summer so we have more time to do things as a family. Winter is really really rough around these parts. James and Lily are Outside, active kids through and through and outside is a necessity in our family. I feel most happy when I am breathing the clean Idaho air. I know I can say the same for my Luke. That's why working nights is so hard for him. I am so thankful for a husband who works hard in his job even though the hours are basically killing him. He hardly complains about it (I complain more than he does) and he even got Employee of the month last night! 2 $20 Fred Meyer gift cards! I'm so proud of him! and I am so thankful Lucas has a job with benefits and we are able to pay our bills every month so I'm thankful he has a job at all and that no matter what we have a place to call home (even if we do move once a year haha).

ANYWAYS...Back to Spring..

Spring is just my time. It makes me re-think life and what I need to change and WHY life is so important. Usually that is for Jan 1st. But April is my month. Our month! We started dating in April, We got married in April and had our first baby in April. 

April is just the most Hopeful, Beautiful, Nostalgic month. I'm excited to say goodbye to winter and just being outside looking forward to summer and camping with my family! 

Well, baby Lil just woke up! But, Look forward to some fun blog posts and lots of pictures...

Lily's 18 Month pictures

James 4 YEAR PICTURES/BIRTHDAY! 

and our SLC Anniversary adventure!

HAPPY SPRING, EVERYONE!

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I had a pretty good Birthday. Lucas got me this awesome shirt and an iPhone holder armband for working out. :) We watched a few episodes of Veronica Mars and binge watched Parks and Rec. We may have skipped church. Whoops.. Ha.  My poor husband had been up since 3am so around 4:30 he passed out and so did James. We were out of milk so Lily and I went to the store to get some.
When I party, I party HARD!
Then We got to see the Duncans for a minute and I was given the cutest picture frame! If you truly know me, you know that I LOVE picture frames.
That's literally all we did on my actual birthday. I woke up the next morning and Lucas felt bad that he fell asleep early on my birthday so he wanted to take me on a date for my Birthday dinner. He's such a sweetie. I really didn't mind. I'm just super chill and enjoyed just having him home even if he was sleeping. But I can't say no to some yummy food. We ended up going to Olive Garden and stuffed our faces. Oh, it was wonderful. I had forgotten how good that restaurant was. It was snowing the whole time and it was beautiful. We laughed for like 10 minutes about this story that surfaced on Facebook about a 22 pound cat that "attacked" a baby. The parents locked themselves in their room and called the police. Haha. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time and I'm certain the people at the table next to us thought we were so annoying. 
I really needed it. It was so relaxing! The best part was both kids were asleep when we got home. DREAM COME TRUE! This never happens! Props to Lydia (My cute lil' Sis-in-law). Oh, then we ate our dessert that we got to-go and watched more Veronica Mars. Best Birthday I would say! Just splendid. I'm so lucky to have such amazing people in my life.