My Favorite things in April

April was a great month with lots of fun stuff-here are some of my favorites.

1.  I don't think I included this in my March post but it was almost the last day of March so it counts for April-my sewing class.  I'm not talking fabric here people I'm talking pig feet!  One of my coworkers and I took a class so that we can sew during surgery.  Cool huh?

2.  This Coach bag practically brand new-that I found on Ebay for over $700 off the original price-score! 

3. A rare family picture on Easter Sunday. (This was at the end of March but I had to include it!)

4.  My husband's 30th birthday-WOOT!

5.  Our trip to St. Louis-a great time had by all!

I hope your April was as fun as ours!

St. Louis Trip

At the end of April for Jared's 30th birthday we all took a trip down to St. Louis to visit Renee.  We stayed in a really nice hotel (thanks to Renee and her connections) and had a great time being tourists.

We drove by the arch-we didn't go in because it was raining and we thought it was good enough just to see it.  At the time the Mississippi River was flooding (near the arch) and we got some really good pictures of that.  We went to the St. Louis Science Center and the St. Louis Zoo-we had a blast.  And the best part is that Logan was great-better than I was-during the drive down there.  

Me and Logan on the train at the zoo.

Baby camel!!!

One of Logan's favorite things at the zoo! :)

Baby something?

Love those horns!

Okapi-they look like half Zebras.

A kangaroo that had a joey in her pouch.

 Turtle park across the street from the zoo.

 Flooding and a really cool bridge.

Me, Logan and the T-Rex at the Science Center

Logan riding on Scoop with Bob the Builder at the mall.

 Eating brunch at the Three Monkeys. Yum!

Even though it was rainy and cool we had a great time!

My Favorite Things in March

March was such a busy month here in the Scott house.  With Logan's birthday party, spring cleaning, a trip to the Children's Museum and lots of knitting there were lots of favorites form this month.

1. Logan's Birthday Week

We had so much fun celebrating Logan's birthday.  I love watching his reactions to opening presents and talking to everyone that came to his party.  It's all kind of bittersweet.  I love watching him grow and learn but it's all happening so fast!

2. Our trip to the Lincoln Children's Museum.  I'm not sure why I'm putting this on the favorites list because I hated every minute of it except for watching Logan take it all in.  He at least seemed to enjoy it.

3.  Warm weather!  There were a couple of days of really nice weather and then it disappeared.  But it was nice while it was here.

4. Finishing my first ever sweater-woot!  Now I'm working on sweater #2!

I hope everyone had a great March!

Off My Needles

I have finally knitted the last sleeve in my first ever sweater!  It's been a long time coming!  I started this project way back in January of 2012-so it's about time I finish it up.  I have to admit that seaming is my least favorite part of knitting things-it takes a lot of patience and when I'm at the end of big project I don't have very much patience left.  I'm going to be taking my time though because I really like how the pieces turned out and I want to like the seamed sweater just as much-plus I want to wear it!  I'm excited to be able to say that I'm wearing something I made. I know I can say that about a lot of other things like socks and scarves but a sweater just seems so much more impressive.

Love it!

 

Happy Spring

Happy Spring everyone!  It might not feel like it yet but I've decorated for it!

Every year Logan and I have "Birthday Week."  I try to plan lots of special things for us to do on the days that I'm off from work.  Usually I have some cleaning left to do but this year I had it done early-except for a little last minute outdoor cleaning I decided to do two hours before the party.  This year I had March 7-12 off so I had a couple of things planned.  I always let him pick a toy out-so off we went to Target in search of the perfect toy.  I think we went up and down the aisles for at least half an hour.  Every time he came to something he thought was really neat (everything) he'd say "Look!" in this really high pitched voice-so funny!  He finally decided on Mack the semi-truck from Cars. It's now one of his favorite toys.

Jared and I also took Logan to the Lincoln Children's Museum.  I think he had a good time-there were quite a few older kids there so it kind of made it more difficult for the smaller kids to do stuff.  I honestly don't know if we'll go back-once you've seen it it's not that big of a deal.

The peg wall

The other side of the peg wall with Logan's hand prints

Picking up moon rocks

Driving "Mack"

Driving a tractor

I also planned on taking him to the zoo but it doesn't open until April so we'll go then.  I'm so glad that I take this time off from work to enjoy "Birthday Week" and plan on doing it every year.

Logan's 3rd Birthday!

Logan turned 3 on March 11-I can't believe it!  It's so amazing to see this little person that couldn't do anything but sleep, eat and poop turn into such an intelligent, caring and funny person.  I've loved every minute of it so far and am excited to see what the next year will bring.

We celebrated on Saturday with family and close friends-it was a blast.  Logan received some awesome gifts-we're very blessed to have such wonderful people in our lives.

The theme of the party this year was Cars (the movie).  I asked Logan way back in January what kind of party he wanted to have and all he said he wanted was a Mater cake.  Thus the theme was decided.

I really enjoy decorating the house for holidays and his birthday parties and sometimes go a little overboard.  Last year I found these awesome decals that you can put right on the wall so I decided to do that again this year-it turned out really cute.  I also found a book of cardboard cutouts of some of the characters from the movie that we placed on the tables-those were pretty fun too.

Logan seemed to really enjoy the party-especially the presents!  Among them were a train table (from both sets of Grandparents), a motorized Mater truck, a motorized digger, and lots of cars from the movie Cars.  Jared and I bought him a couple of new trains for his train table and Cars 2.  I think the movie was more of a gift to ourselves so we can watch something other than Cars-we pretty much have that memorized.
This years menu consisted of a pickle and olive tray, a veggie and cracker tray with garlic herb dip, hot and spicy mix, cake (yum!), cherry chews and lemon cookies.  Lots of good food!

The train table