Day 118: Fun in the sun!

After a very dreary Saturday, filled with ridiculous thunderstorms, today was shaping up to be a beautiful day. It took me a while to actually get out there and enjoy it since I was still stuck in my office cleaning and organizing. But hearing the laughter of my kids coming from the backyard was just too hard to resist not being with them. So hard as it was, I walked away from my project and went to play in the warm sun with my beautiful babes.

We all had so much fun and even baby Eva got to get in on the fun. Her very first "babe-in suit" as Skylar calls it. Sweet daddy filled the pool up with warm water so that all of us would be comfortable. Bryce of course spent his time jumping in the pool, falling out of the pool, peeing in the pool, and adding anything in the backyard TO the pool.

Skylar was happy to show us all of her cool new tricks that she's learning in swim practice with one of them being her ability to hold her breath for a "really long time." She's our little fishy...

I was so happy to get to spend this time with them and after putting them to bed, got back to the office. Funny how stress-free cleaning it out seemed to be this time around. I think I really needed that vitamin D and vitamin baby-time! It's good for the soul. I told Matthew that I'd only be a minute but lo and behold, I got started, couldn't stop, and FINISHED! Whoot! Okay, not completely finished but all I really have left is to buy this 7 drawer unit thingy that will house all of my extra supplies so I don't have to go on a mad hunt, and then to kind of spruce it up a bit with some better décor. I unfortunately can not get rid of the huge, tacky whiteboard since the Mr. uses it for work...so I'll just have to work around it. I'm also thinking that I'd like to repaint with a lighter, more inviting color but again - I'll have to check with Daddy since this is really his space. Kind of. :)
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Pretty amazing, right?!! Oh yea - totally patting myself on the back right now! I think my cleaning lady is going to either be relieved to not have to work around all the mess or disappointed that she actually has to clean this room now. While I was busy working my rear off, little miss was playing and/or crying on the ground next to me. At one point I looked over and found this...

Cleaning and reorganizing is SUCH hard work. Little turkey. Once she fell asleep, there was really nothing else I could do in the office that didn't require noise so I had to move out until she woke up. I'm not complaining though as it was a nice break, hanging out with daddy. We had a wonderful Sunday and I'm a happy girl to have completed project number 3!!!