Thursday, March 22, 2012

Spring Break Bullet Points

We have been on spring break this past week and it has been an AMAZING week!! :):) We did SO much, I just wanted to remember each day!! So here we go!!

**Last Saturday--We spent the ENTIRE day as a little family of 4! We shopped in Branson, ate a fun, leisurely and yummy lunch together at Freddy's, took a long walk...AHHHH it was PURE bliss!! :)

**Last Sunday--We spent the morning at church together!! (Have I mentioned how much we LOVE our church!?!:)) Then, we had lunch with some NEW friends which was a BLAST!! :) Then we spent the day cleaning and getting ready for the week ahead! We even went grocery shopping together!! :) It was fabulous!! :)

**Monday--We had lunch with our "Aunt" Paige!! I LOVE that she lives here now and we can see her pretty much ANY time we want!! AND, she is expecting her first child in June...a beautiful little girl!! I LOVE chatting with her about being a mommy and hearing her questions! She and her husband were two of the first people we told when we found out we were pregnant with our little Maddie!! They are our very dear friends and I love that we are going to get to see baby Kahlen grow up!! Monday evening we had dinner with our friends the Wessley family!! They have 3 sweet kiddos and are pregnant with their 4th!! Becca has been an amazing friend to me throughout the ytears! She is a very strong and Godly woman, and I cherish the friendship we share!! Our families also get along really well, so that is a blessing also!!!!

**Tuesday--We invited some friends over for a playdate and they stayed all day! :):) My friend Greta just had her second baby boy and we enjoyed hours of endless chatting while our kiddos played together!! I got my baby fix and we had a fabulous day together!! On Tuesday night, I had a super fun jewelry show with my friend Paige!! We had the BEST time together!!

**Wednesday--It was a VERY rainy day, so we headed out to Chick-Fil-A to meet some friends for a breakfast playdate!! We were blessed by breakfast (it is SO YUMMY at Chick-fil-a:)) and while the kiddos played, us girls had some time to CHAT!! It. was! AWESOME!! :) After CFA...we all loaded up and headed to Target! After a very successful trip shopping, my friend Mandy and our kiddos headed off to lunch at Q'doba!! :) It was another fun day of good and challenging chats! I am very thankful for my group of girlfriends...they aren't afraid to ask the hard questions and we always have really good discussions!! {BLESSED!!}

**Thursday--We relaxed at home, played games, watched a movie and just CHILLED! :) It was the perfectly relaxing morning! Then, we spontaneously called Wyatt to see if he wanted to meet us for lunch!! Whoo-hoo!! :) We enjoyed some daddy time right in the middle of the day!! Then that night we had a movie night at the Palace, complete with popcorn and Sprite! :) We saw "We Bought a Zoo" and everyone LOVED it!! :)

**Friday--Wyatt took the day off and we headed to SDC!! Oh, we had the BEST time!! :)

**Saturday--I got to hang out with some dear friends and enjoy a morning of crafting, then we all took a nap and headed out to meet my parents as they returned from AZ!! :)

It was such a fun week!! I didn't realize how much we needed a week "off" until we were right, smack in the middle of it!! :) I feel so blessed to be able to enjoy making SO many special memories with my sweet kiddos!! Now, we all feel refreshed and ready for the rest of the school year!! :) BRING IT ON!! :) WHOO-HOO!!!! :)


Monday, March 12, 2012

Quality Time

A few weeks ago some of my girlfriends and I got together for our monthly girls night out!! One of the girls had a GREAT idea and asked each of us to go to the 5 Love Languages web site and take the survey to find out what our love languages are!! Well, Wyatt and I took this test before we got married so I thought I had a good idea as to what my top 3 would be! Oh boy, was I WRONG! Time has surely changed my heart!! :) So I really enjoyed taking this test and re-evaluating!! :)

My TOP love language is Quality Time!! As first I thought this was surely wrong, but then it HIT me!! I LOVE to spend time with Wyatt... and with my Maddie and Zack!! I am a talker and a listener, I like CONVERSATION, of COURSE I need quality time!! If you asked me what my perfect night would be, I would totally answer that it would be an evening with my family...just being US!! And, if I think a little harder... in the days and weeks that I am feeling like I am having an off week, it is because I haven't gotten much quality time with my sweet little family!! :) I just need to spend time with them, talking and bonding and simply being together!!!The same is true for my extended family and my friends!! It is SO hard to feel connected to people that you haven't seen or chatted with in {days} or weeks! This was a really good wake up call for me!!

I am SO looking forward to this week and spending some much needed time with my sweet family of 4!! I realize that I get to see them every day, but the past few weeks have been really busy for us, and this week we have very few plans on purpose!! And NEXT week is spring break for us, so we are very excited about Wyatt taking off a few days for us to have some family "quality time" fun!!!! :)