whoo hoo.

ahhh finally saturday!!

i'm so super glad it is. shaun has off. the girlies are sleeping in and he's still in bed! i have a cooing cutie pie on my lap....it's all SO good.

oh and my house you ask?! it's almost finished. so much so that i won't be rushing and stressing like crazy to get it done before tomorrow. ahhh yes. it's all SO good. :0)

thursday and yesterday, and today, are super beautiful 'warmer than normal' temps here in good ole wisconsin. so i skipped out on cleaning thursday to play outside. besides how can you resist that precious four year old voice saying, mommy i want you to play outside with me?!. ummm. okay. let's go. so that's what we did..

a friend of mine took me to chipotle for supper on thursday for my birthday. ohh i love me some chipotle. we went to the mall afterwards and ended it with ice cream. and some people staring. i love to stare. :0) and we do it well together. lol.

while i was at chipotle shaun picked up with the girls all the toys that had made it into the living room and dining room. isn't he great!?! i think so. so that really helped. yesterday morning i bribed the girls to clean the playroom by telling them we'll play outside after. they helped like champs and we played outside. my sister came over after work and helped me out too. i always tend to clean faster/better when i have someone with me. not even helping but just to talk to is nice. but she helped me. and then after nap time the kiddos wanted to go outside again so she played with them outside while i got some more done.

so it's been a productive few days, hence my lack of blogging! i've also tried a tip i got out. like clean for 15 min and then let yourself do something fun too. so i didn't set a timer but i did take little five minute breaks and that worked like a charm. i am going to use that tip and enforce it more and i think it'll work like a gem!! (thanks mimi)

so today involves finishing up the house and shopping for the drinks and such for tomorrow after the baby dedications. and i'll be going to copp's to do it. wanna know why? i forgot to share this blessing....

...last week after leaving caitlyn's gi appt *which went well* an older man stopped me and asked me if they were all mine, with a smile on his face. i smiled back and said yep. usually encounters like this end there. not this one. he goes on to say how times can be tough with a big family. i just sorta shrugged my shoulders, like it was probably a rhetorical question...does he really want to know how tough it is?...so then he's like could you use a copp's card? at first i had no idea what he was talking about. i thought cops not copp's. so he proceeds to pull out his wallet and ask again. i just sorta stared and was like sure? well this man handed me a FIFTY DOLLAR GIFT CARD! for groceries!?! can you believe it. i don't even know if i said thank you. i know i just stared at him and started tearing up and crying. he patted me on the shoulder and said god bless you. and then just walked away!

isn't that the coolest thing ever!?! i was so blessed and in shock. shaun and i handed out that fleet farm gift card this past winter, but i have never been on the receiving end of something like that!! oh it was so cool. and i had to share that all with you. to show you god does provide for our every need. ahhh. i'm so excited all over again!! :0)

so with that fun story i'll leave you. i'll be sure to try and remember to take pictures tomorrow, you know because i totally didn't on easter! and i'll try and post them asap. i mean who doesn't want to see super cute pictures of my super cute kiddos?!? :0) have a happy saturday and happy happy sunday too!! peace out.