beautiful day

today was very full, as all these days are. the day was full of beauty and i tried to soak it all in. 

this morning, our little love walked into the living room with my [clean] underwear on her head. she had stolen them out of a basket of freshly-laundered clothes. she is so funny. 

our carpet was cleaned this afternoon, and while we were waiting for the cleaners to come, we all went outside and picked some lilacs off a nearby bush. lilacs are my favorite flower. i love the purple ones the best, and they all smell so lovely. i think what i love most about them is that their beauty only lasts for a short time and they are not sold in stores year round, so we must soak them up when they are blooming. i try my best to do just that. i wanted to have lilacs as the flowers at our wedding, but it was too late in the season. i was disappointed, but then we went to mackinac island for our honeymoon and they were still blooming there! it was a nice surprise. 

here are some photos of the lilacs from today.

and the little one needed her own bunch.

 

and a dandelion. it's amazing how beautiful they are even though they are weeds.

 

and a true sign of spring.

tonight we cheated and went out for ice cream. my love took his greek final today and was antsy to get out and celebrate the end of a year of taking greek class! it wasn't too hard to convince me that ice cream would be a good way to celebrate.

i shared my ice cream with the little one. she took her role as ice cream eater very seriously.

and she wasn't very happy when the ice cream was gone.

tonight i spent three hours doing yard work. i found a cute little friend along the way (i was thankful i didn't run him over with the lawn mower. that definitely would have made my cry). i called jeremy out to see and he picked the little guy right up. the toad (frog?) was perfectly content in his hands, even closing his eyes when jeremy was rubbing his head. it was very cute.

while i was doing yard work, my love was inside replacing our old, leaky toilet with a new water efficient one. i didn't know that seeing my husband working on our toilet would make me fall more in love with him, but that is definitely what happened. i would never want to or be able to do that task, and i am so thankful that he was willing to do that for us. unfortunately, the task is more complicated than we initially thought (isn't that so often the way with house projects?), so we will be calling a plumber on monday. thank goodness we have two bathrooms, so this one is fine to be out of commission for a few days. 

my mom is coming tomorrow to help us out with stuff, and it will be fun to see her. 

if you will excuse me, i have a stay-at-home date with my love, a beer, and hulu. a good way to end a very busy day.