january... how did that happen?

how is it possible that it is already january... a new year... holidays are over. where has the time gone??

i'm extremely excited for this year. hopeful for all sorts of good to come from the major changes we will be going through.
here's the run down...
luke is getting out - is a woohoo inappropriate here?:)
i'm going back to work -yikes & yippy all in one!
l is going into kindergarten - just yikes on this one!! how did that happen?? i was just changing his diapers;)
e is starting preschool - holy smokes! i'm pretty sure he'll be in a full day/full week preschool/daycare & i'm really hoping that it will be good for him! fingers crossed.
oh and we're moving... no big deal!
oh and we'll be buying another house... another no big deal;)
did i miss anything? i'm sure i did:)

here are the important things...
we will be very close to family!
we will be back with ri friends! on the flip side we will be moving further away from some super friends - but we know we'll see them often:)
we will be together!
luke will be home a lot more!! - this one could go either way... just kidding!!

so here's to it all... the good - because i think it's all going to be really good!!

xoxo

catching up

it seems like a lot of my most recent posts have a very similar title... always playing catch-up around here!

here are a few favorite instagram pics from the holidays. hope you all had a merry merry!
xoxo

we decorated our tree with cinnamon applesauce dough stars.
love, love, love the smell of clove studded oranges.
l celebrated his 41/2 bday with birthday cake pancakes:)
we had snow for our holiday parade! (mama wore her furry boots:)) and we finished the day with hot cocoa in our jammies.
love quiet days spent making legos & doing art projects.
Hanukkah dinner made complete with latkes! yum

harmonicas for christmas.

cookies & milk for santa.

snuggles with daddy & a new puzzle.

mama & daddy in their christmas jammies.

l & his harmonica

daddy & l going out to sprinkle the reindeer food.

more harmonica... BIG hit!!

mama's christmas pressie!

our gingerbread house.

instagram love

here are some recent instagrams that i'm lovin' on at the moment

                                    rockin' out toby keith style:) cowboy hat & elmo microphone.

                      l loves his ribs!! this is the only thing he will literarly eat down to the bone!

                        love these three snuggled in their fort...daddy is the king of fort-making!

               silly boy... he still loves his owl hat from auntie jenny & i'm hoping it fits all winter:)

                        e looking up at the kite we flew... he insisted on wearing brothers socks;)

daddy turns 31

Luke turned 31 this past september... i will always tell him that he's not allowed to complain about his age since i hit that number two whole years before him;) i'll still be saying it when he turns 90 and i'm 92;)

the boys & i made him some funfetti cupcakes - from scratch i might add:) super yummy & the frosting was delish as well!! here's the recipe . soooo good!! make some for someone you love:)

xoxo melys

july so far

holy moly! what a whirl wind of a summer!! i can't believe it's about halfway through summer already! we have been busy!! unfortunately i have not been busy taking pictures. i was doing so well for a little while & then fell back into my old picture taking slump. so here's the overview;)

                              strawberry picking with the little dudes & making freezer jam! yum!!

made {cheater} homemade doughnuts! yum yum!!

                                       more baseball & park time with e while l was on the field.

eating our fresh picked yummy strawberries:)

                                            random... {super healthy} smoothies for breakfast

 
                                              a little gum accident:) peanut butter to the rescue!

                             scavenger hunt:) with the makings for some s'mores as the final destination!

making peanut butter cup s'smores:) i may never eat a regular old s'more again!!

                                      sponge balls {very fun for getting wet} and painted rocks;)

so i've been keeping these little guys busy & as entertained as possible;) we really are enjoying our summer and making the most of the beautiful weather we have been having! loving it:) and like i said i've been bad at pictures so there's tons more that i just didn't document! hope everyone is having a rockin' summer as well!! 

xoxo

playing catchup

so the last few posts were all from May... I think:) Now we are all caught up... so next up june.

Obviously May was supah busy!  AND I left you all hanging, sorry about that! I'm still doing better than I was a year ago... right?!?

We had dr. appointments - Landon may or may not need glasses... the jury is still out on that one. He has the makings of a lazy eye, it's just not full on lazy yet. There's some fancy shmancy name but I won't bore you with those details. We bought some super cute frames, filled the script from dr. #1 and we were NOT happy. They didn't seem to be what they needed to be. Granted neither of us have a degree in ophthalmology, but we made an appointment for a second opinion just to be sure this is the road we should be taking.

We had a wedding, well not us but some really special, fantastic, wonderful peeps:) It was seriously one of the best weddings we've been to, there have been many great ones but this one is definitely somewhere around the top;) So low key, so down to earth, so crafty, so much attention to detail, so them:) good time had by all, that's for sure!

We started t-ball!!! This is just crazy... can't believe my little man is old enough to play an organized sport. I'm SO not ready to be a soccer, baseball (or any kind of sport) mom. Although I do say, BRING ON THE MINIVAN!! I could rock it... totally!!

We had family time, Luke is back on his day working schedule!! WOOOHOOO!! This means we have him most nights and weekends, unless he gets called back to work for some catastrophe. Sometimes I wish he didn't have such an important job... I mean those boaters can just save themselves can't they!?!?! Jeesh!

So now we are on to summer!! Landon's last day, of his first year, of school is today! I really can't even comprehend the fact that I have a full on preschooler on my hands! Where oh where does the time go?
Now it's time to break out the summer list & get going! I am hoping for a nice sunny, warm, gorgeous summer!
I will take lots of pictures & try to keep on this little ol' blog of ours:) xoxo

potty talk

yes yes we do in fact have lots o' potty talk going on right now with a certain three year old. he says butt & smirks at me to see if he'll get in trouble for using it in that particular context... oh the joys of boys:)

but this is a whole other level of potty talk. we're talkin' about broken potties! this would be our second broken potty that my lovely, talented, super duper handy hubby has had to fix! the first was last year or the year before. we were living in newburyport and l decided to flush a toothbrush down the toilet... our ONE toilet;) luke fixed that one mighty fast!

this time around it was the toilet paper holder - you know the round little thing that the roll sits on... yup, THAT! since we have two other toilet options this was not of top priority. i think all in all it took about 2 weeks. only problem is three year olds don't understand that a toilet isn't working. even when they're told A LOT! that's where the painters tape comes in! that was the reminder he needed to get his little behind upstairs just as fast as he could & do his business up there;)

so onto the fixing. to fix this particular potty faux pas, luke had to take the toilet off not once but twice. the second time included the caring of said toilet down to the backyard to use the jet stream of our garden hose to dislodge the stuck item! finally we have a working toilet and did not have to shell out $250 to have it fixed! good job my love:)