rain, rain...

so glad you've come to visit.
;-)
seriously. my brown, maybe even black, thumbs thank you.
they thank you for watering my newly planted garden so i don't have to. so i don't worry that i'm over watering or under watering. because there is nothing i can do amount the amount of water mother nature decides to bestow upon my garden. and kinda because i'm lazy and i don't have to lug the hose all the way around the house to use the 'right' water!

we have voles.

no, not moles.

voles.

cute little buggers. big pain in the asses.
we have little mazes running through our grass. someone thought it might be moles. however, the tunneled areas aren't raised. it's just missing grass. so strange. i must remember to take a picture! i had one scurry past me this weekend when i was getting water for the plants. didn't get a good look at it. but it was teeny, tiny. so i thought it was a field mouse or something.

we had a pest control man come by and he's coming out to get rid of the lil suckers. thinking that i might have blamed the bunnies for some of the voles destruction. sorry bunnies. ;-)

weekend update part two.

i need to be more selective on what photos i share. i just can't help but have picture heavy posts. sorry!

saturday.
my lilacs bloomed! totally have to trim the tree. it's out of control and cutting down on the amount of flowers it produces!
okay, i'm cheating. this was taken on friday. but what a great way to start a saturday. pretty flowers, great smelling house....

beaner wasn't feeling the greatest saturday. was mr. snuggle bug. had a fever. thankfully, we had some tylenol that wasn't part of the recall! mr. napped until it was time to go to his cousin gabby's first birthday party.  it was outside at lemon lake. brrrr! {trisha, i have more than what i'm posting. i will upload them to a disc and give them to you next time we see each other.}

ben and gigi.

ben and cousin megan.

ben and aunt michelle. he wanted those balloons! was quite funny.

aunt michelle and the birthday girl.

those darn balloons again. this time gibi helped him.

i think i'm going to start a campaign for this to be her new facebook picture!

i don't think she likes the hat.

or the cake...

ben and daddy. it got cold!

awww. another new favorite. so glad to be taking these weekend pictures. have caught some really great ones these past three weeks.

hiding under the blankies it's so cold!

homemade earmuffs!

then dispite the cold, we went to starbucks! 

the cap'n crunch frapp.
how to make it: stawberries and cream frappucino with one pump hazlenut syrup and one pump toffee nut syrup. must add whip cream too!

we got home and ben crashed. he went to bed around 5. didn't wake up until 8 the next morning! poor beanies wasn't feeling well and was a super trooper when we were at the party. kinda made it nice since we babysat wynn...

she thoroughly enjoyed drooling all over ben's toys!

sunday.
went to alsip. got the rest of the goodies for the garden. yay!

it's planted and done! so exciting. fingers crossed something grows! i was even a dork and made a grid on graph paper plotting out what we planted where and when it'll be ready. i know, i know. i'm an uber dork!

when ben woke up from his nap, we decided to put his sand table together.
he's a fan of the box!

still a fan!

silly boy wanted to play on his slide. had to move it off of the deck since he tried climbing under the table to get to it and was insistent on doing so until we moved it.

he likes it! well, the umbrella at least!

mom, this is pretty cool.

orbit escaped!

ooh, sand!

love it.

yes, there was a pile of sand in his hood, down his sleeve, and in his mouth!

weekend update. part one.

let's start with thursday. just because.

a certain little boy just makes me smile. you never know where you'll find his sippy.

the monthly pressner family get together. cousin gabby decided to sit on ben. it took him a bit before he made a break from it...

friday.
mom and ben had a busy day. we went to daycare to get ben's class pictures. then ran some errands. even stopped to see dad at work. blogger is not cooperating with my phone picture, so no pictures! and a quick trip to old navy. ben was a champ. he came home and napped for almost four hours. so thankful. mommy grabbed some shut eye too. had to rest up for our dinner date!

steph thought ben should wear her glasses. so cute!

went to amore. soooo good. cannot wait to go again. 

their house shot was wonderful. 3 monkeys or something like that...

cheers!

dave's face in the background cracks me up. and yes, i ate sushi. chilean sea bass to be exact. was delicious! {i couldn't even taste the fish. just the mashed potatoes!}

and the best dessert.
steph and i split some cheesecake factory cupcakes. red velvet and vanilla bean. yum!

part two tomorrow! ;-)

tgi thursdays.

can't believe that for almost a year, i've only had a four day work week. we decided when i went back to work, it wouldn't be full time. it's only one less day but that one extra day off makes one heck of a difference. so grateful that work agreed to the change in schedule.


i know random. well, it's thursday. so that's not so random.
i'm drained. was a busy week at work and had our first pressner family monthly get together this evening. was nice. but i'm sleepy! hence, brain dead post.

hopefully, i'll get a good night's sleep and have a better post tomorrow!

12 on the 12th may edition.

- today is the end of national nurse's week. and the cubs are going to celebrate nurses at the game today!
- am ready for this weather to go away. where's spring?
- my new guilty pleasure: kendra.
- has fresh blooms on my strawberry plants that i planted last week!
- still haven't had a chance to use my new lens... ;-(
- found these cool bottles at costco. working on being greener every day.
- is reminding myself here to upload my projects from the last issue of rsc!
- saw law abiding citizen. would totally recommend it.
- finally got ben's 1 year photos taken by a professional. thanks robin!
- smoothie king + pizza = dinner awesomeness. add a side of a dvr'd glee = even better!
- for all you i phone owners... check it out. free apps!
- thinks this has been a ridiculously link heavy post. sorry!

shoes!

no this isn't the amount of shoes that nick and i own...

this is the amount of shoes in our downstairs closet. gulp!
we tackled organizing this closet {or nick did} when we were on our cleaning kick last month.

so nice to have it done and rearranged and minus about 20 pairs of shoes!