Another Busy Roseland Weekend and Some BIG News!!

Yes, we had another busy weekend for sure! It was non-stop and I think that my first break will be tonight, when I hit my pillow!

Friday mom my came over (and she will probably KILL ME for posting this picture) and started cracking her cleaning whip (I say this in the most loving way, without her, my house would not look as beautiful as it does now! THANK YOU MAMA)! By the afternoon, everyone's closet had been reorganized and swept clean of anything that hadn't been worn in far too long! A trip to Goodwill and laundry piles starting to look smaller, life was great! She even took the kids back to her place with her so that Chad and I could have an evening to ourselves! We had a wonderful dinner at Ah-So, just the two of us!

On Saturday evening, we met up at Olive Garden (birthday girl's choice) for dinner before heading to Jesterz to watch their improv comedy troupe! My sister-in-law, Kristen (birthday girl) RAVES about this place and has been several times, but it was Chad and I's first time there! We laughed the entire hour and a half that we were there! It was a blast and somewhere that we would like to go back to, to watch another show soon!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTEN!

This was not an easy picture to take! My father-in-Law was NOT cooperating and was silly in every single shot I took! So - serves him right that his silliest one would show up here!

On Sunday, we headed back to the waterpark for anther day in the sun! Our friends, the Garretts, the Casillas', Cameron, Holly, and Sydney joined us! I didn't get to socialize as much as I would have liked to with them this time because I was having so much fun playing with Kyan (usually it is daddy, but on Sunday it was me)! He even talked me into going down "the dark slide" and I screamed the entire way down! It was scary! But, I can say that I did it and will NEVER do it again! I had so much fun playing with him! Lola loved the water as usual, but crashed on daddy's lap after hour number 2 of being in the sun!

My favorite picture of the day (because it is few and far between that one like this ever happens)!

After swimming, we headed over to my parents house for pizza and playing in the fountain! That fountain has to be the ugliest thing that I have ever seen and my dad talks constantly about getting rid of it, but the kids stick to it like glue! They played on/in it for about 2 hours! They created a sculpture on the angel with all of their toys even! They were so focused and busy at work!
And this brave little hummingbird (we have a special place in our hearts for hummingbirds, they are our favorite and have much to do with when Kyan was born) came around the fountain while the kids were busy at work on their sculpture! He was either really fearless or really thirsty because he kept coming back for more and more!

Our weekend really didn't end Sunday, it carried right on over into today! My mom came over bright and early and woke us all up and cracked her whip again! This time we cleaned out the garages (we have two, one for our vehicles and one for toys). You can now actually walk into our single car garage and find what you need! When we moved in we kind of just shoved any and everything into that baby without really organizing it, sad, but true. Today, we fixed that problem and off to Goodwill (again) I went!

Now, for the BIG news!!!
{insert drum roll please}
We, well me actually, met with the landscaper today and got a quote back that we could NOT refuse! And yes, oh yes, we will have a pool in our backyard before summer is over! Not sure how much use we will be able to get out of it this summer, but a pool is a pool! I do not have every last detail squared away yet, but things are looking up! We have had major issues when it has come to our backyard, so today was a great day! We have been in this house for close to a year, we have stared at nothing but dirt and weeds in the backyard for far too long, so we cannot wait for the work to get started on in the next couple of weeks!

Ok, hope everyone's weekend (I know, it is really not even the weekend anymore) was great! Off to take my break now!