Ellie's Roundabout Game

Ellie and I played out on the roundabout for a while yesterday while Landon was at school and Owen was napping. This was her game, nearly word for word. :) (Pictures from Jordan tonight while Ellie and Landon played together over there)

A little yard work (and cute one-sock Owen)

We spent some time working on the yard this evening while the kids played outside and enjoyed the days late arrival of blue sky. Landon and Cinderella (er...Ellie) played on the roundabout, Owen played with rocks on the sidewalk, and Jordan and I raked and trimmed and listened to the soccer games across the street. I was worn out when Jordan suggested the idea after work and I almost rebelled, but was grateful I didn't. It was a perfect little hour of time.

Saturday

Jordan wanted to enjoy our first Springtime Saturday with a day of exercising. Throughout the day, he ran (to Chick Fil A and back -- taking the kids to breakfast while I slept in :), unicycled (practiced for an hour or more at the park while Ellie played and I ran errands with Owen and Landon), rip-sticked around the neighborhood, rode the elliptical, did yard work, and rollerbladed to Aggie ice cream where the kids and I enjoyed a treat. Phewph!

Packing up for a Friday evening adventure -- a bike ride on the river trail

And an adventure break for graham crackers and hill rolling

Bless his happy, little heart

Owen's not actually at this stage yet (though fast approaching!), but after reading this poem at our Relief Society birthday activity I've just had this little picture in my mind waiting to be drawn. :)

Happy Owen enjoying a Springtime day with Landon and Ellie

Sweet Springtime Vacation

From a morning walk w/ Owen while Jordan worked -- on a San Francisco mini-vacation within a vacation :)

Kathie made a great Animoto of our fun California times -- here. We sure loved being with Kathie and Winslow and enjoying the lovely Livermore sunshine and friends!

On my mind

(On my mind today -- made at Wordle)

These jumbled words seem like a pretty decent illustration of what is going on inside my head these days. :) We have a lot of decisions and upcoming changes that are all kind of hanging in the balance right now waiting for each other and for other decisions to see how everything is going to fall into place...

I love this description from Cloverlane --

...every brain works differently. My husband is wonderful at compartmentalizing his different roles. His brain I think, has little rooms with doors, and when he walks out of one room so to speak, into another, he can slam that door and all the stress, deadlines, responsibility stay shut in there. My brain doesn't have doors, heck it doesn't have walls.

This is very much me :)

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I (fortunately) am feeling like all these things really are going to work out, and maybe even in amazing ways... but in the meantime, my brain is under construction as I try to remodel and create a few holding rooms where I can store all of the what if's and when's and how's while I wait for things to work themselves out.

It must be Spring!

Jordan outside working in his new office between the garden shed and the raspberry patch