celebrating spring

our 'march madness' is finally over.

from march 10-20, we have 4 birthdays in our family...

we wrapped up (no pun intended) birthday celebrations for my mother in law last night,

and we have about a week and a half until we start april birthday celebrations.

so, while i have a moment to breathe, i'll try to catch up...and there are a lot of posts to catch up on!

yesterday, the house was a wreck with birthday gift bags, left over decorations and craft supplies.

the house was begging to be cleaned, but i didn't oblige.

as i was looking through some blogs, one blogger wrote that they once heard that

children spell love T-I-M-E.

and then i came across this post and thought it would be a perfect way 

to spend time together and celebrate spring!

i am running low on cardstock, so this was really helpful in weeding out some colors i'll

probably never use for cards, and making room for colors i *will* use!

jax never once tried to color a butterfly. 

he went and got his spiderman coloring book instead.

i also used left over scrapbook paper for visual interest...

which is good, because their attention spans expired before mine did.

i wasn't kidding about the mess, see?

after i finished up, ali decided she wanted to help me hang them up.

we both got up on the end table, and she said, 

"you're pretty huge. i think you're going to break it."

children are chock full of daily doses of humility.

thank you, ali....and thanks for nothing, zumba. =P

luckily, we got through hanging up butterflies without me breaking anyone or anything.

that kitchen is not nearly as clean as it appears. no joke.

i wish we would have had brighter colors, but it still brightened up this corner of the room a lot,

but it was fun and they make me smile.

HAPPY SPRING!