Foster Falls

Somewhere I read or saw or heard that spending time by moving water (potties and the kitchen sink do NOT count.  trust me, I tried) lowers stress.  Or something like that.  

Examples: beach, creeks, rivers, and WATERFALLS. 

 

Need to relax?  Find a creek, ocean, waterfall and park yourself there for a little bit and feel life and happiness and peace just sink right in.  Whoa.  It's good.

The shirtless one is my brother Joseph and he's pretty good at climbing.  Like really good.  He got John hooked.  This weekend everything worked out for a day climbing trip.  

I was in need of a heavy dose of mother nature, so I tagged along.  My friend (100% all beef) Patty came as well.  I made the brownies, read my book and enjoyed the show.  They climbed.

I grabbed these pictures of my brother doing some crazy hard stuff.
(Don't worry, Ellavene, John doesn't do that stuff.  Well, not yet at least.)

It was a lot of fun.  The weather was amazing.  Just perfect.
Being outside that long with nothing man made in sight really does this girl good!

Pair mother nature with some good company, and I was feeling pretty high.
(By this picture, can you tell which is the crazy one in our relationship?)  

We're going to have to do this again!

Playing and Working

How adorable is this picture of Burl?  Can we say "desktop background?"  Yes, I do believe so!
  

Yesterday the weather was great, the colors were perfect and Burl was being playful, so I made him lie on the grass for a photo shoot. 

 Ok, not really.  He feel over and thought it was hilarious.  I thought it was a perfect time to snap as many pictures as I could.

The purpose of this post is not about pictures or falling down in the grass.  Instead, it's about playing.  Burl is really playing now and I think it's the cutest thing ever.

Sometimes it's just silly.  Sometimes it's fast and rowdy.  Sometimes it's serious work.

Like here, for example.  He loves this little box.  He loves putting things in the box and pulling them out of the box.  Over and over.  

I am absolutely fascinated by it, because sometimes his playing looks more like working.  Serious working.  And it makes me wonder, what is going through his head?

This Week's Menu

This week's menu is being back posted.  Sorry for the delay, but I totally forgot about it.  Because I can't seem to come up with anything, I asked John for the menu while sitting in the grocery store parking lot.  

Cream of Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

Hibachi Take-Out (my idea)

BLT's and Oven Roasted Potatoes

Fettuccine Bolognese 

Train of Thoughts

Last pregnancy I'm not sure that I played the pregnancy card enough.  Maybe I did, maybe I didn't.  I'm not sure.  The point is this...I'm going double duty on this one.  

Lots of explaining things away because I'm pregnant. Lots and lots and loads and loads.

First up...I can't seem to collect a full thought.  Here is a list of random things:

1.  March is apparently national crafts month.

2.  (There's a whole month dedicated to crafts?)

3. I feel like I wasted March.

4.  How many spaces do you leave behind a period? (or a question mark.)

5.  The rule used to be 2 spaces and they changed it to 1 space.

6.  I think about this a lot.

7.  What's next...driving on the left side of the road?!?

8.  This work at week someone said that they couldn't believe I was old enough to have a kid and that I look barely 20.  

9.  This work at week someone said that they couldn't believe I was old enough to have a kid and that I look barely 20.  

10.  Even though I'm SO EXCITED about turning 30 in a few months, I'm even more excited for someone to tell me that I look BARELY 20.

11.  Some neighbor kids have airsoft guns.  Our yard was apparently the best place for that game.

12.  I think that they were attracted to my budding hydrangeas.

13.  I think that I kissed Burl over 1,000 times this morning.

14.  While putting him down for a nap, I sang/sobbed a horrible rendition of Jesus Loves You.

15.  I like to drink juice out of wine glasses.

16.  I'm on the hunt for summer maternity clothes.

17.  This year's theme: dresses.

18.  Could I be showing this early?

19.  Or have I really been eating that bad in the past couple of weeks?

20.  Gym...we will meet again soon.

21.  Because I got more feedback about the goat then I ever imagined, I thought another picture was in order.

22.  This work at week someone said that they couldn't believe I was old enough to have a kid and that I look barely 20.

23.  I have a really fun weekend ahead!  I hope you do as well!