Busy week #1 complete! SUPER busy week #2 activate!

Sunday:

Easter egg hunt at church is less fun outside playground at church

“Mommy, it’s time to lie down”

Caroline says the Easter bunny goes “Pop pop pop”

Monday:

Doctor Panda’s Hospital means Mommy gets to sleep in

When I came to get her out of bed she was doing this.

Caroline hearts hoodies

Tuesday:

The Navy is finally taking down their Christmas lights. Government efficiency!

Target sells everything

BARNEY TRANCE! NOOOOOOOO!

Wednesday:

Practicing her handstands

This is not what they were supposed to be doing, but it was too cute to stop them

TERRIBLE CHILDREN ARE TERRIBLE AT THE GROCERY STORE

Thursday:

These are ugly and do not have sparkles.

Toys R Us TOTALLY blew Evan’s mind

Much better!

Friday:

Kicking ass at the ball popper game

OMG WHAT’S HAPPENING

EXHAUSTED

Saturday:

We were 2 minutes late to the town Easter Egg hunt and they were all gone – but some nice kids shared with my children.

Mexican food & a library visit is the traditional way to spend the Saturday before Easter, right?

Adorable new shoes gave me wicked blisters from 5 hours of shopping.

This week is Evan’s birthday! Good thing I’ve had the house decorated for the past month. I’ve got some cookies to make and a super amazing cake to order and some train tracks to lay down and maybe a train crossing sign to build and…wow, I really need to get some stuff done. My folks are coming up to help (yah!) but my husband’s going to be away for training (boo!) so the best word for my current feeling is “overwhelmed”.

I’ve basically given up on parenting until the weather gets better, so the fact that I took ANY pictures this week that aren’t just of us staring at the television is impressive. We’re supposed to get more snow at the beginning of next week but it might be 50 on Friday, at which point I will start wearing shorts and flip flops.

Sunday:

Private bowling alley is awesome

Why am I always tempted to steal the bowling shoes?

Bowling wears out toddlers

Monday:

Hot dogs for breakfast. Not worth an argument.

Bathtime

Editing photos from the bowling party – turns out my camera does NOT know what to do under a blacklight. It pretty much totally freaked out. Thank goodness I shoot RAW and could fix them!

Tuesday:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS PONY I WILL PROBABLY HIT YOU WITH IT

This is called “Not being a good listener”.

Wednesday:

Gymnastics buddies

Quiet day at the library

I will never, ever cut those curls

 Thursday:

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE going to the gym while the kids are in school? ALONE!!

Hide & seek at the yarn store

A man in uniform giving a baby a bath. SWOON.

Friday:

Looking for more snow (there wasn’t any, thank god)

Do these sound perfect for morning sickness or what? I can think of about a dozen people I should send them to.

Loooong week = crash on the couch

Saturday:

Crafting like a champ

That looks safe.

Super excited by an emergency bathroom/Powerball ticket stop at a gas station

This weekend starts a few really busy weeks in our future. It will be mid-April before any of us get a day to relax again, but it’s all FUN stuff so I’m looking forward to most of it. The highlights are a fancy brunch at a fancy restaurant for Easter, Evan’s birthday party and a fancy dress ball I’m being forced (FORCED I TELL YOU!) to attend with E.  I’m hoping to get back to regular family/life/everyday blogging too, but it’s hard when I’m trying to stay on top of  family life every day. See what I did there?

We had a really, really busy weekend followed by a not-so-great night’s sleep so I’m dragging today. But I don’t want to miss another week of iPhone photos so forgive me for being unfunny and the terrible typos I am sure I won’t catch.

Sunday:

Climbing on the extremely patient Brutus

This is how they chose to watch TV.

Practicing her lock-picking skills

Monday:

A FLOWER A FLOWER LOOK IT’S SPRING

Indian Leap Falls, my favorite photo spot

Warm enough for some sidewalk chalk

Tuesday:

iPad sharing

Preschool drop off

Sneaky Snacky Squirrel is Caroline’s favorite game

Wednesday:

Checking out the basketball court next to gymnastics

Yarn store visit

Cashier: Whoa guys, that looks dangerous! Maybe you should sit in the car? Children: *blank stares* Me: Yeah, that doesn’t work.

Thursday:

SNOW. IT’S SNOWING. SNOW.

New pink shoes

Coloring while I begged for antibiotics from the doctor (not really, he took one look in my ears and said WHOA, You need DRUGS)

Friday:

11 am nap for the child who runs in circles all day

Picking out colors for a spring dress

Rescue bots, roll to the rescue! Maybe they can rescue Evan’s hand from his pants.

Saturday:

Working as a baby model while I practiced back-lighting photos

Mommy-only time at a bridal shower

My friend moved this house from Rhode Island to Connecticut, then furnished and decorated it with genuine 1700’s stuff. It’s like a museum. (p.s. She lives on the Christmas tree farm where we get our tree every year – and took that family photo up at the top of my blog!)

Next week I promise to do this in a more timely manner – although I can’t promise more interesting content. We’re all still recovering from a busy weekend, although Caroline seems to be “recovering” by only sleeping 7 hours a night. Pray for couch naps and early bedtimes.

You can leave a link to your week in iPhone photos in the comments on on my Facebook page if you want to share!

My phone is broken. I dropped it face down in a parking lot while I was trying to take a picture of a giant sea gull on top of a tiny car. That’s a hilarious picture! The sea gull is so big and that car is so small! I MUST CAPTURE THIS FOR POSTERITY! I don’t even know why I dropped it, except that I drop it at least 5 times a day and until now it’s been totally fine. This time the screen shattered, although the phone was still usable.

Or at least, it WAS usable until we tried to fix it. I ordered a replacement screen on the internet but didn’t read the tutorials closely enough and got the wrong thing (Important note! The iPhone 4 screen is just the glass. The iPhone 4S screen is the glass + the LCD, even if just the glass is broken.) So E disassembled my iPhone – which, TERRIFYING – only to discover he couldn’t fix it. Plus also he broke something and needed to order another one of THOSE too so now all I have is one zillion minuscule screws and metal ribbon bits and circuit boards and stuff that might someday once again be an iPhone but probably not.

Moral of this story: GO TO THE FRIGGIN APPLE STORE IF YOU BREAK YOUR PHONE.

Result of this story: I don’t really have iPhone photos from this week. The photos from the first half of the week are trapped on a broken phone, the photos from the second half of the week don’t really exist except for a few I took with E’s phone and the iPad while I was still holding out hope that my phone would be fixed really fast and I’d barely miss it. I MISS IT SO MUCH. After more than 2,500 iPhone photos over the past 2+ years, I don’t have a week’s worth of photos. I am super, super bummed.

I am going to post some of the pictures I do have although they’re barely worth it – E’s phone is a 3G and the camera is crap. TOTAL CRAP. But having no pictures to remember this week (as unremarkable and full of colds as it was) seems sad. Hopefully next week I have my phone back. All my crossables are crossed that the piece that just came in the mail helps!

Wednesday:

Our library is decorated as the set of Mary Poppins? I think?

She’s helping me put away groceries by eating all the fruit snacks

Mystery bottle of scotch that appeared in my kitchen

Thursday:

Being obsessed with your phone starts early

I got a parking spot at the gym that wasn’t half a mile away! (No, really, I usually park half a mile from the building.)

She’s got the whooooole world, in her hands…

Friday:

MORE SNOW.

I call this: Portrait of A Child Who Wants To Go To The Playground But Can’t Because Winter Will NEVER END

Saturday:

They do this while I clean. We’re very exciting.

Mini pity-party alert: No one really does these anymore and no one links up since I took it over for Amy at A Good Life, so I’m not sure I’m going to bother with the linky. I’m not sure anyone reads them either, since Saturdays aren’t big blog-reading days and I don’t get comments on them, but I love looking back at old weeks and seeing what we did and how little the kids were so I’m going to keep posting them for myself. And my mom. Hi Mom!

(If you do a week-in-photos post, I would still love to see it so leave a link in the comments. I’m better about remember to visit sites that way then going back to look at the linky tool anyway.)

I have instituted a no-falling-behind-in-the-housework rule for myself over the past week, therefore I have no energy left for the words.

Sunday:

Please notice the nice healthy cheese snack and ignore the cookies.

Dual couch nap! On a Sunday! Nirvana!

You know that commercial about doing two things at once? This is Evan’s version.

Monday:

Macaroni necklace making

Caroline is fake-napping because she is fake-sick so Evan is fake-doctoring her

Hey, you’re not allowed to sit like that. Stop. Immediately. Stop.

Tuesday:

I sleep in a drawer!

Gym warm up

We stopped at the boat store so I could talk to the boat guy & I found them “fishing”

Wednesday:

Spider walks

Practicing her beam/dunking skillz

I made a lot of dip this week

Thursday:

This is how I get to stay in bed an extra 30 minutes

Waking up to this instead of the dishes from last night is nice

Trying to climb onto the cutting table at the fabric store

Friday:

I can tell she’s my kid because she loves Home Depot

ATTACK OF THE GIANT CAROLINE

I got to eat about 30% of this – Caroline ate the rest

Saturday:

An ominous start to a road trip

Caroline’s favorite toy everrrrrrr

Tiny slumber party

That was exhausting. Only EVERY OTHER WEEK OF MY LIFE left to go!

Did you take iPhone photos of your week? Link up with one or several below! Please consider joining, even if you haven’t done it before – it’s really fun!