Last weekend we went over to my dad’s house for a little early Easter egg decorating. Rylee was totally into it! I have such fantastic memories of holidays growing up and I hope we are making those same kind of memories for Ry.
Patiently waiting with Daddy to start the fun stuff!
Cousin Maria and Uncle Jonny’s “Before”.
First egg of the night! Rylee’s special color request was yellow.
Also figuring out how to use the egg dipper.
Rylee’s “Rylee” egg.
{I love her little fingers.}
Rylee helping with the “Daddy/Mommy” egg.
Checking the progress…
Moving along to help Grandad with his egg.
Waiting patiently.
SO MUCH FUN!
Ok…maybe not everyone is having as much fun as Ry…teenagers.
Family photo showing off the goods.
{Someone needs to tell Grandad how to center and/or zoom the camera, eh?}
So when I get home from work last night and Andy mentions nonchalantly during dinner that he switched around the washer and dryer I sort of freaked my freak.
As soon as dinner was over I went into the laundry room and just stood and stared.
As I assessed the damage, this is what went through my head…
Later that night, when Andy saw what I was doing he got all sorts of fake offended and picked apart my picking…punk.
Observe…
He also wanted me to be sure I pointed out the following:
He does about 85% of the laundry in our house.
It took me longer to put together that photo than it did for him to actually move the washer & dryer.
He does most of the laundry.
I suppose maybe I should just shut the hell up and be thankful I have a husband that does the laundry?
Yesterday? Well, yesterday was one of the very best days ever. Period.
First of all…it was Tuesday. And Tuesdays have been long known as my very favorite day of the week. Mostly because it’s Taco Tuesday in our house and NCIS night!
Last night though? Woah. I ended the evening feeling incredibly blessed.
I left work right at 5:00 PM because the sun was shining and Andy was home working outside.
Rylee and I got home and this is what we did for the next hour…
We smelled the one and only daffodil that has bloomed in our yard…
We waked down by the pond to see all the hard work Daddy did that day…
Rylee picked flowers for me…
We spent lots of time at the swing set. Also? When did my BABY learn how to pump her legs!?
Even Dante hung out with us.
Rylee wanted to make sure I had a turn too. So she pushed me…
Then it was Daddy’s turn…
It started to get a little chilly, so we headed inside and Rylee helped me make tacos. After dinner, we had ice cream cones! Here’s how this went down:
Ry & Andy eating their ice cream cones. I had a dish of ice cream.
Ry: Mommy, you going to wash this cone when I all done? Me: No Ry, we don’t re-use the cones. Andy: Rylee, you eat the cone…like this ::takes a big bite:: Ry: ::eyes wide:: GASP! OOOOOHHHH!!! Hahahaha!! O-tay!
I pretty much died of the cute right then and there.
We wrapped up the evening with a brand new episode of NCIS and amazing family snuggles.
So, yesterday we awoke to snow on the ground. And in Eugene, a whopping 2 inches that’s gone by noon will shut down the town. Normally the snow doesn’t scare me and I’ll drive to work. Normally when there is snow like this Andy’s school gets closed so he doesn’t have to work. Normally when that happens that means I am driving by myself…No little monster distractions coming from the back seat. So normally, I don’t get a call from Andy telling me that our road is pretty nasty and his 3/4 ton Suburban is sliding all over the road.
{The view from our back door.}
But Andy didn’t get the phone call that school was cancelled yesterday, so he headed out at 6:30 am like he does every morning, so I got the phone call that our road was pretty nasty, so I decided I’d work from home with the monster because I didn’t want to drive. {And yes, I did get a good amount of actual work actually done}
Turns out Andy’s school was cancelled that day, only the district’s auto-dialer system was down so none of the teachers knew that. So they all showed up. Let me tell you, personally, I LOVE it when my husband drives his Suburban that gets 13 MPG 45 miles one way to work, so I know he was stoked. Despite their annoyance they made the best of it and went out for breakfast.
Within 30 seconds of Rylee waking up so noticed the snow and instantly said “SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!” then asked if we could go play outside. Then about 5 minutes after that she told me she wanted to build a snowman. Then during breakfast she told me she wanted to catch a snowflake with her tongue.
The cute was killing me.
{“What do you mean we can’t go outside yet!?” Like the clippies? We were killin’ time waiting for Daddy to get home. All her choices.}
I told her we needed to wait for Daddy to get home before we went outside because he wanted to play too. After that, she kept trying to trick me, telling me Daddy was home, telling me she heard him drive up and that we could in fact go outside.
So, when he did get home about 11:30 am, he wasn’t in the door 30 seconds before Ry was getting ready to go out!
{OK Mom, I got my boots ready!}
To say this girl was excited to go play in the snow would be a huge understatement!
So, we went out. It lasted a grand total of 25 minutes before she was done with the snow. But that 25 minutes? Was awesome.
We had a snowball fight.
We Made a snowman.
And we went sledding.
{This video could also be titled: Where Mama gets Mauled by a Wolf}
Post Summary: Snow Days are fun…especially when it’s followed by a 3 hour nap so mama can actually get some work done! Oh and that Rylee and Andy are pretty much the cutest ever.
