St. Patty's Day weekend

 We had a fun-filled, jam-packed weekend.

It flew by, they always do.

On Friday night we had some friends stay over to watch the kids so we could head to Topeka to get a jump start on the moving process.  We met my mom up at the bowling alley, headed out for a quick bite to eat, then tried our best to get a good nights rest before a busy day.

It took us about 3 hours to pack up the Uhaul.  Not bad for just a few people helping!

We then did the 1.25 hour drive to Peculiar.

It took us 30 minutes to unload the Uhaul.  It's amazing what not having to deal with stairs can do!

Brian and I got to see Mom's place for the first time.  It was really nice!

I think it will be just what mom needs.

We can't wait to go back and help unpack some more.  That is the fun part, making the house a HOME!

We got done moving mom just in time to make church (just the 2 of us, it was so nice!) and were back home to put the kids to bed on Saturday night.  Boy were we wiped out.  

We had a pretty lazy Sunday, but got quite a few things done, 

like...

We finally got rid of that OLD mattress in our spare room.

Seriously old.

Like my mom's grandparents slept on it (or something like that!)

Yuck-o!

 I made some yummy St. Patty's day mix with popcorn, pretzels, green M&M's and lucky charms marshmallows.  So good.  Very addicting!

 We did a little finger painting at the house.

This is the first time I've done finger painting with them, and I'm not sure they've been exposed to it anywhere else, so it was pretty fun watching them.

Neither of them got very messy, and they both wanted their hands wiped in between colors.

Towards the end I convinced  them to dip their entire hand in for a handprint on the paper.

I know, don't get too crazy now!

 Colin being so neat with his painting...

 So much fun!

I'm sure they'll be much more creative next time around.

 My little cheesy Maggie.

We just weighed her this morning.  Almost 2 years old and only 22 pounds.

She's a little peanut.

 Silly face Maggie!

The kids with their tired Daddy.

After dinner we watched Wreck It Ralph (for the 2nd time that day). We rented it from Redbox after watching the trailer for it every night at bedtime.

It really is a cute movie and the kids loved it.  I'm sure we'll be adding it to our home collection pretty soon.

So happy to be home all week due to Spring Break.

Had an unanticipated test thrown my way on Friday though, so that's something I have to look forward to working on all week.  

Just keep plugging along!