Buying myself a few extra minutes to sleep in on Mother’s Day.

Crazy joy riding kids

Cheesy cheeses

There’s a snake (and a ginger) in my bed!

Thinking deep, piratey thoughts.

Brutus would sleep in here all night if I let him.

And then my uterus started crying

Evan is skeptical of the safety of these extremely sketching swings

Get outta my way, tiny ginger COMING THOUGH!

I think they do better push-ups than I do.

Oh look, basically my entire childhood on a table.

Reading to dolly

I think she found her summer job

How does your garlic grow? BIG. SO BIG.

Yep, definitely putting her to work on the farm.

She just realized her shoes are adorable.

Some days it’s hard to believe this is real life.

They tricked the deli lady into giving them way too much cheese

Emergency response gingers, to the rescue!

Evan was surprisingly good at the hula hoop. Caroline tried really hard.

Best birthday party ever? I THINK SO.

Look! A totally uninteresting part of a 60 year old submarine! You STILL can’t see the interesting parts (where E works on the modern ones).

Running away from their BBQ pork. Obviously they were switched at birth. Both of them.

Reading with Aunt Erin

7:30 am in New London, CT

The first time I tore myself away from the news that day the moon was already out

I let the kids stay up for extra cuddles and totally mindless children’s shows

I spy ye, matey!

Even pirates need a cup of milk sometimes

Passed out with her (old) Easter hat

Good morning, this is my tongue.

The gingers are doing their best impression of a cheesy movie slow motion run

Reading hat

Meal plan + shopping list = What’s For Dinner? will be back soon

Stroller Strides at the beach EFF YEAH

The view made working out less sucky

Children’s Museum Hat

A B C’S ARE BETTER WHEN THEY ARE AS LOUD AS THIS SIGN

Caught red handed!

There are approximately 300 of these on my phone from this day, since the kids got the iDevices while I watched the news…

…and read ALL the Twitters.

And sometimes my view during Stroller Strides is LESS inspiring

Introducing the gingers to Moe’s

Swinging is fun

The Easter Bunny came!!!!

Walking to church

Model train building with Daddy

There’s a child eating a red velvet cupcake under all that hair somewhere.

Plaaaaaaaaydate

THE GREEN ONE! I WANT THE GREEN ONE!

Facetiming with Daddy

Tour of the charter pre-school includes this view

Dear pregnant relatives: Surprise! This is what you’re getting at your baby showers. What do you want the author to write in it?

Discussing the advantages of pressure treated vs. non-pressure treated wood.

Successful forward roll…five seconds ago.

Library book reading to MorMor

Book reading with Bumpa. So many books!

Yard work! When my parents come to visit we (er, they) get so much done.

That is called a frog fish. Now you know.

Hello fish.

Special Helper Birthday Ribbon at school!!!! So exciting!!!

Frickin mice chewed a frickin hole in the bottom of my dishwasher. GOOD TIMES.

Busy, busy, busy girl is tired.

Birthday time!!!!

Happy Birthday Evan!!!!!!

Friends 4 Life – or at least for 90% of Evan’s life so far.

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”

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

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

Target sells everything

BARNEY TRANCE! NOOOOOOOO!

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

These are ugly and do not have sparkles.

Toys R Us TOTALLY blew Evan’s mind

Much better!

Kicking ass at the ball popper game

OMG WHAT’S HAPPENING

EXHAUSTED

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.

Private bowling alley is awesome

Why am I always tempted to steal the bowling shoes?

Bowling wears out toddlers

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!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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

This is called “Not being a good listener”.

Gymnastics buddies

Quiet day at the library

I will never, ever cut those curls

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.

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

Crafting like a champ

That looks safe.

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