Lots of pampering...

We've had a pretty nasty cold bug going through our house the past couple weeks, but despite that, we've had a lot of fun stuff happening. Last week we had girls weekend! Woohoo! Most of us will be moving soon, so we took it as the perfect excuse to leave the kids with our hubbies and stay at a resort in town. Awesome! We seriously should have done this before, because it was such a good time. I felt like I was in college again hanging out and being silly with my girlfriends. Since I have a nursing infant in tow, I didn't spend the night, but joined in on most the rest of the activities. One of my favorite parts of the weekend was getting a group picture taken at the nearby Albertsons. So fitting to have all us moms getting our picture taken in a grocery store... considering how much time I spend grocery shopping. Anyway- don't we look so cute and sassy? ;)



We also had a great dinner at California Pizza Kitchen and spent a lot of time at the pool, spa, lazy river, and waterslide. LOVE resorts and LOVE awesome friends! To see more pics of our weekend, go to Heather's blog.





This past Friday I attended Emma's preschool for Mother's Day Tea. It was so cute! Emma "shaved" my legs, painted my toes, and pampered me with treats and a crown and necklace to wear. What a sweetie she is!





I felt extremely spoiled for Mother's Day this year. My sweet hubby spent all day Saturday cleaning our house from top to bottom (and he did it all while having a cold!) - he did everything from vacuuming, dusting, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping floors, spraying off our back porch, etc, etc... he even took our van to get it washed, waxed, and vacuumed. What a guy!! Then on Sunday, with the girls help, he made me my favorite breakfast of eggs benedict. Mmmmm. On Saturday he had taken the girls shopping with him and they picked out some pretty pink flowers and some new fun clothes to give to me on Mother's Day. I heart Mother's Day. :)







So, in the last post I mentioned that we put an offer on a house. Well, we ended up getting outbid on that house - but just the next week we found an even better house for less money than the first. So, yay! This time our offer was accepted - hooray!! So far, we've had the home inspection - next up is the appraisal and then we wait for financing to get sorted out for closing. Our current closing date is May 27th - our lender thinks it may take a week longer, though, to actually be ready to close... so anyway, hopefully we'll be moved into our new house by the end of this month or first week of June. I'm soooo anxious, because I LOVE this new house! In any other housing market, we'd never be able to come close to affording a place like this, but it seems things have worked in our favor. But I'm a bit of a pessimist, it seems, and until we've actually signed our closing papers and have keys in hand, I have a hard time believing we're actually about to buy a house. So, I'll hold off on posting pics of the house till we're actually moving in. :)

To tie up this post, let me end with some random stuff. First, Becca's quite the personality lately, so I thought I'd put up some pics of her silliness.





Also, Emma's been getting rather creative at bedtime. She has these wood boards under her mattress to hold it on the bedframe and we've never actually secured them together. Well, she apparently took one of them out and created a unique sleeping situation for herself. She was asleep like this when we checked on her later... very weird, yes..



And lastly, you must check out this video - Ben's brother and his wife are currently living in Japan and will be for the next year while they teach English classes out there. Apparently, they are having quite the cultural experience... click here for their latest discovery at the grocery store.