79/365 Census time

Mildly goofy smile on my face because this is the first census I've completed since getting married 5 years ago.

78/365 Chores

Can you guess what I have to do today?

A few hints

Another hint

Getting warmer

Good job!!!!!!!!!

And another gratuitous garden shot - my hanging strawberry plant

77/365 Random shots of my day

The book I dropped off at the library (really enjoyed it)

The pouch of gold coins I found at work :)

The kids playing games in after care

The amazing sunset on my way home

76/365 Garden update

I'm getting my garden ready for some seedlings. Here's an update on some things that are growing now.

The mint is beautiful and fragrant

The pintas as always are hardy and lovely

The sweet spring plant my mom gave me

75/365 Owen and his new friend

We have a neighborhood cat who comes to visit us nearly every day. He's very sweet and lovable, but not fixed. He really just wants ear rubs and love - so I got out to visit him. Unfortunately our indoor cats don't know what to make of his existence.

I have named him Clementine - or Clem for short.

Owen the Wonder Cat really is not sure what to do with Clem.

Owen stays on alert though - even though they will never really meet.

A quick book run

74/365 After Care

This is the tree I sit under nearly every day at work

After care friends

73/365 It's a girl!!!!!!!!!

Our niece - Libby - is pregnant with her first child. It's a girl and they plan to name her Emily. This will be my MIL's first great grandchild and Grandma's first great great grandchild. Very exciting!

We threw a baby shower for her at my parents house in Miami. It's was a lot of fun and great to see all the new family. Uncle Tony (Matt's uncle) and his daughter Sherri flew in from Chicago and Matt's sister Linda and her son Jack flew in from Jersey. So it really was a mini family reunion.

We had great food and snacks

James (daddy to be) and his family. Libby is in the cute sundresss

James' mom - soon to be grandma

Adorable Jack (who is kind of excited to no longer be the baby of the family)

Our nephew (Mark Ryan) and Jack have a solid relationship built on video games, tickling and wrestling

Mark Ryan's super cute girlfriend Jocelyn. What she sees in him, we don't know. But we're glad she's around :)

James and Libby - parents to be

Matt took these - you gotta love the looks that Jack gave him!

Present time!

I just love the look on her face in this one!

Gotta love the SpongeBob gift for Libby's tummy and the little helper to open it :)

Libby is a truly lovely pregnant woman. She simply is beautiful.

We had an actual CakeWreck happen. Libby has really been craving ice cream cake lately, so it was important to have one. She ordered one ice cream cake from Dairy Queen and one regular cake from Publix. The decoration instructions for both were simple. She named her colors and told them white icing with polka dots.

Publix got it right:

Dairy Queen misunderstood. I don't have an actual picture of the before cake, but when Libby went to pick it up - it had the large plastic dog figurines all over it. The only thing we can figure out is that they thought she said "Polka dancing dogs"?????

They took the dogs off and tried to repair it - not too bad. It was delicious anyways :)

More Jack

Uncle Tony

Uncle Tony and Joan

My weirdo husband striking a pose with his mom

Matt and Jack

The whole family