We have had such lovely weather the past couple weeks! Last week, all of us had some sort of cold or cough, and we felt the need to get out of the house. We spent all last weekend going to parks and on walks outside! It was healing, not just for our bodies, but for our winter-weary souls!
On Friday (Feb 26), we went to a new park in West Jordan. It was really fun, and the kids had a good time there. But I don’t know if they had as much fun at that park as Josh and I did! There was a little scavenger hunt associated with the playground, and Josh and I couldn’t leave until we had found everything!
On Saturday, we found another new park–actually in Sandy, though still west of I-15–that is attached to a fishery!!!!!! It has a decent playground, but the kids love it because they can walk around the water and chase ducks! I am super excited to go fishing there sometime this summer! Here are some pictures at the fishery park.
This is just about the cutest thing in the whole world!
Carter could not be taken away from his playing to pose in any way for a picture, so this is the best I got. You can still tell how adorable he is, though, and that’s what counts!
Another springy thing is St. Patrick’s Day! I decorated the mantel! (Have I mentioned how much I love my mantel?!)
I made the pillow on the chair. I also made the Valentine pillow from last month, which I think I forgot to mention.
The “Kiss Me” sign was a family effort. Fay helped me to paint the shamrock on, and she really did do it mostly on her own. Josh was the one who fixed the blemishes that were a result of a 3 year old doing the painting. He also did the letters. Basically all I can get credit for is the basic design and painting the background and cutting out the stencils we used.
Today I did my nails for St. Patrick’s Day! They’re not perfect; but they are definitely festive!
I had a hard time getting the camera to actually focus on my nails. So, if your eye is randomly drawn to my middle knuckle, blame the camera, not me. 🙂
We have continued to prepare for our new arrival (due on St. Patrick’s Day). This week, I broke down and bought the item I have been on the fence about for a while. I got the infant insert for our baby carrier. I’m excited about wearing this baby! Hopefully she’ll like it as well. 🙂  Fay got kind of excited about the idea of a baby carrier, so I made her one for her dolls. She wore it for a few minutes and then got bored, and hasn’t wanted much to do with it since. ha ha! I think that when I’m carrying new baby around all the time, she’ll be more interested in it. I hope so, anyway.
She’s such a sweetie! I love my girl!
Hopefully the next blog post I do will be about a new baby, and hopefully it will be sooner than St. Patrick’s Day!
I love how happy Carter looks in his candid shot! You’re the cutest 🙂