It's 2019!

Happy 2019! 2019 goal: try to keep up the blog! Here's some highlights from the first month.(nevermind. More troubles with doing this on phone. Here's some separate posts of highlights from the first month..)

On New Year's Eve I looked out the window to see a spectacular sunset  on the year.

It's Father's Day!

The kids were so excited about Father's Day this year. Lexa had been asking me for days to make cookies from a Christmas recipe book we have. I never felt like it was a calm enough time for that while Patrick was out of town for days, and did I mention our dishwasher isn't working, again? Somehow that's related to the overwhelming feeling of making cookies from scratch, especially ones Patrick wouldn't even be that into.. We did make him a pie.. From a can of key lime pile filling, a ready made crust and lots of ready whip. 

Lexa made him a card and then a book where she just colored each page with stripes of different colors. (She's really into looking at different color combinations lately.) Then she helped Will make a card. Will ran off to hide his card and then couldn't find it again an hour later when Daddy woke up. Timmy wasn't interested in cards, so he proceeded to melt a chocolate thin mint cookie in the microwave which he wrapped around a mini snickers bar. He said it ended up looking like Daddy. That is until Will ran by, grabbed it off the counter, and took a bite out of it. Then Timmy went on the front porch, saying something about a spider web. Little did I realize, he had some yarn and made a "spider web" all over the porch, "for Daddy". Best Father's Day ever so far, right? Lexa also wanted to make a Father's Day banner, which they worked on together. I suggested that Daddy might like it if we cleaned the house. Lexa said she'd rather "make the decorations" while Will and I cleaned. I managed to straighten the living room some before Hugh started fussing while Lexa painted about 20 paper plates and Will and Timmy disappeared.