This week is flying by! Today was full of people I love and spending time outside. Loved it!
9:38AM || Hard at work! This room has been his office since we moved in 5 years ago. On the walls he has Anime posters and a graphic Star Wars print, along with some other personal pieces. Over the summer, though, it will be transformed into our adopted son’s room! We have a couple options for Colin’s new office set-up that we’re going to test out to see what works best.
10:30AM || The squirrels are being extra feisty and destructive today, so we put out the trap. It didn’t take long to catch one and Izzy is totally interested. Penny hates it when we trap the squirrels and essentially she ignores the situation completely.
11:57AM || Colin helped me grill up some of the amazing chicken breasts he makes so we could have some killer salads today!! I prepped the chicken and then he mixed up the marinade and grilled them to perfection a little later.
12:09 PM || A couple of my very favorite ladies came over for lunch and scrapping today! The chicken salads were a huge hit. It was a warm, although hazy, day so we enjoyed our lunch outside. I had to use the leaf blower earlier in the morning to blow all of the dandelion seeds off the patio carpet!!
1:24PM || And then, we scrap!! Cathy and Cassie stayed for a couple hours. It was great to just chit-chat and be creative. Normally, we would get together at Cathy’s house, but she’s in between houses for a while as they look for just the right place to buy. Things here in the Denver area are CRAZY. So many people moving to the state each month and houses get snatched up super fast. They’ll find the right one, though, I know it!
3:09PM || Got some packages today, including an Amazon delivery. That means there were the big plastic packaging bubbles and the girls love to pull them out of the boxes and thrash them around until they’ve popped them all!
3:14PM || Resting up before it’s time to start pestering us to go outside and play!
4:35PM || Us girls convinced Colin to join us on a walk today. It’s always more fun when we’re all together! It was really quiet at Van Bibber today. We kind of had the place to ourselves which in unusual and also really lovely.
4:40PM || Even though it wasn’t very sunny, it was quite warm! Both dogs were kind of dragging after a while so didn’t walk as far as we typically do. Today even called for a mid walk break. If you ask Izzy “do you want to take a break?” she will almost always lay down for a bit. I think it’s so awesome that she gets what that means!
5:25PM || Decided to bring some of the outside in. The lilacs are filling the whole house up with the most intoxicating scent. My instinct is to wish that I could enjoy this fragrance all year, but then I think it’s better that is a once a year thing. I’m pretty sure that is one of the reasons it feels so special to me .
7:09PM || The weather folks are saying we might end up with a few rainy days in row later this week, so I pumped myself up to mow the lawn. Loving all the GREEN everywhere!!
7:13PM || Love this happy face and wagging tail. She loves a freshly mowed lawn. I caught her rolling around in a spot I had just cut as I rode along this evening.
7:15PM || Last bits of sunlight and last bits of apple blossoms. The yard smells of a heavenly mix of freshly cut grass, apple blossoms and lilac. Taking deep breathes.
9:39PM || Super chill evening. Catching up on some of our favorite comedies: Archer, American Dad, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Modern Family. Love to laugh together!
10:43PM || I wanted to stay up a little longer to get the WITL blogging done, so before he went to shower, Colin put on an episode of Father Brown for me to listen/watch while I worked. British murder mysteries might be my very favorite thing to watch – pretty sure!