Tomorrow is June 1st.

We had a pretty good day at the Zoo. The weather was absolutely perfect. I wish I could move somewhere that had today's weather every day.

Logan went with us, he was a good boy the whole day.

Ben didn't have a nap before the trip, not even in the car because he was so excited to go to the "ZOO!"! He got a little overly tired at the end of the trip, but we were there from 12-4, so it was a long day. Grandma Joan (James' mom) has bad hips and knees so we walked rreeealllly slow, but it was nice just to enjoy the day. We have a membership this year, and I think we have to go 3 times to make it worth it. This was our second time, we'll definietly be going at least a few more times this year. We're also going to hit up Binder Park Zoo and the Detroit Zoo at least once.
Ben loves to go, we all do. <--- Giant Termite Hill

We'll see how we feel about it in August. We'll probably spend a lot of time with the Penguins.

Ok. I'm rambling.

Lately

Not much to report lately,


Got a new sandbox for Ben, Ingrid came over and played one day


Leah and her family came to visit, Ben and Evan are just a couple months apart (Ben's 19 months and Evan is 15) so it was fun to have them together.



Ben is loving his new cat brother. Good thing or Charlie would be hitting the road, he's a little pain in my ass.





I picked up a couple new books to read,
The Likeness by Tana French that I've been waiting to come out in paperback


And Kristen (sister in law) let me borrow



Escape by Carolyn Jessop

I can't wait to read it.





Went out with the girllllllllllllls last night, so today was another recuperation day. I hate those. Drinking is stupid. But I had a good time. My hangover definitely wasn't as bad as it was last time. Thank God, I'm getting too old for that.

Almost forgot Book Sharing Monday!

Whew, made it just in time :) It's still Monday.

Today is Memorial Day, we stopped by a couple BBQs, it was a long day.. a good one though.




Today for Book Sharing Monday I'd like to share

Rosie's Walk
by Pat Hutchins

It's mostly a picture book.
It was one of my husband's favorites when he was little so we bought it for Ben last Father's Day.

Photos!

Check out the photographer who took Benny's pictures yesterday!

http://purplefrogphotography.com

Check out her blog, she has a "sneak peek" of Ben's stuff up!

First Ever Book Sharing Monday!

Today I'm going to share

The Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln by Mike Reiss (writer for The Simpsons)

I bought this one for Ben when he was really little, I don't know if he is old enough to appreciate it yet, but I think it's pretty awesome.

It's about a boy named Benjy that looks like Abe Lincoln. He gets made fun of a lot, and ends up going to a camp called The Camp For Kids Who Look Like Things. It's hilarious. There's even a kid who looks like "the back of a horse". Benjy learns to like the way he looks. It's a great book.

Ooooh the weekend

Saturday we got a new kitten, I wasn't that into the idea, since Tuna just passed away last fall.. but now that we have him home I'm glad we did it. It's so fun to watch Ben and him play.
His name is Charlie, he's pretty cute.




And then...
I really like driving around to all the parks around town according to the A2 Parks site (Ann Arbor Parks & Recreation) there are 157 city parks. I'm even thinking of going down to city hall to purchase an official Map to mark off the ones that we've visited.

...


So today we found




There was a yellow dinosaur that lived there, it was a great park

Then we found



But I don't have any more pictures from there for some reason, so it must not have been that exciting.



Then





This was another great park. Huge play structure, and a tire swing!

It was a good day. Then James' car died. Ah well...

This Years Mother's Day {2009}

We had some family over to our place for a picnic, all premade food, it was awesome. After we ate, we all colored with chalk.

Here's my brother showing off his snail.



Ben's chalky pants





My baby boy





Some of the guests, Michael, Cee, My Mom, Matt



Logan, Kelly and Benny picking flowers for their mommies.




All in all it was a good day. My favorite part was the 2 hour nap after everyone left.

2008 Mother's Day Presesnt

My Grandma passed away March 2008. We were very close.




My mom gave me this book for Mother's Day last year. It was a gift my Mom gave to my Grandma on Mother's Day a while ago.



Inside I found a few of her personalized bookmarks, and

these pictures of the house she grew up in, in Detroit.




It's some sort of real estate card, with all the info about the house printed on the back.










It's a pretty fun piece of my family history.

Some more stuff

On a walk the other day I noticed this...



Every year the city of A2 forces people to replace parts of the sidewalk in front of their house that needs to be fixed up. If you don't do it yourself, the city does it for you. Well on a new patch of sidewalk someone took marbles and pushed them down into the cement to make this awesome peace sign. I was very impressed.

Curtains

This isn't such an exciting post, but here are the curtains we put up in Ben's room so it can be a little darker at 8 pm

Yay.

Catching Up

Here are some pictures of the bookshelf I painted for Ben's room. I thought it was going to hold much more than his last one, and it's already full! He has a little library going. I'm a little crazy about books.

Haven't posted anything in a long time

No new projects lately. I made another tablecloth, not sure if I have any pictures.
I also made curtains for Ben's room.
I'll post pictures tomorrow.

I've been working on creating the DVD slideshow for my husband's family. I have come across some really sweet pictures while scanning. I have decided to take the time and edit them.

I love the mushroom pictures.