Weekend/Week Pics

We had another great weekend. Awesome dinner out with friends at a new restaurant in New Canaan, and major productivity around the house. I've been full fledged nesting lately (love this!!) and have tackled just about every closet, counter top, and junk drawer in the house over the past couple weeks. On Saturday we tackled the basement. We had a lot of extra stuff left over from living in Tokyo, not to mention kid stuff we're done with, holiday decorations we don't use, old toys, clothes, etc. We packed up our car to the brim with stuff that Andrew then took to Good Will. Felt so great! 

Couple pics from the weekend:

Andrew was able to frame two walls and the basement stairs. He's doing such an awesome job, especially being that he lets Connor help the whole time- which obviously slows him down. Such an awesome Dad :) And Connor really thinks he's building the basement too. Check out the excitement!

 Ready for action shot.

Beginning this past January I've been teaching Connor's Sunday school class on Sunday mornings. It's a great group of kids and I've really been enjoying it. This Sunday we read about St. Patrick and decorated Shamrock cookies (a huge hit!) Did you know the shamrock symbolizes the Holy Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? I didn't- I'm learning right along with the kids!

 Connor and his buddy Cole.

Connor and Leyla decorating one more round back at home.

Since the boys were banging around so much in the basement, I took Leyla on a 4 mile afternoon stroller walk so she could snooze. She really loves these walks. I told her that we were going on a walk for her nap and to go get herself ready (she's been fully dressing herself including jacket and shoes for a while now). She came downstairs in jammies (for more snuggly sleeping she said), jacket, shoes, her lovie and blanket. Here she is all snuggled in and ready to go!

Horsing around on the giant pillow pile they make almost daily.

Couple pics from this week:
We've had some crazy weather lately- snow, rain, low 50's and sunshine- it's hard to keep up. Here are my rainy day (colorful!) kids:

Crazy grape lady at the grocery store. She likes to push her own cart, and sneak mouth fulls of grapes when she thinks I'm not looking ;)

After a January/February break we started back up at Leyla's favorite class at the Nature Center. She was so happy to see her pal Friday the guinea pig again. She absolutely loves that class!

Decorating Easter eggs.

One warm day we did an Easter scavenger hunt outside. There was still snow on the ground from last week, although it melted quickly. Have I mentioned yet how ready I am for spring?? Seriously.

Connor's teachers gave this to me this week. It's a picture and frame they made at Daddy/Special Friends day last weekend. Such a great picture of them!