Today we had such a busy day but boy was it a good day. Nothing extremely exciting happened, but it was a well versed day with lots of cooking, cleaning, shopping, family time and enjoying the beautiful weather. A clear 76 degrees in sunny Portland today. Days like today make me thankful I live in such a beautiful city. Living in the suburbs with a view of Mt Hood from our porch and simply popping onto the freeway, you can instantly see Mt Hood, St Helens, and Rainier. So beautiful, I am blessed.

My husband and I were enjoying the leafless tree we had a little yonder in the distance. The lack of leaves allowed us to see Mt Hood in full view while sitting on our porch, playing with little man and drinking a cup o’ joe. Then we remembered that we won’t have this view once the leaves come in, except from our bedroom. Speaking of leaves, today we also had an arborist stop by. They are taking out all of our trees on the side of the house because our neighbors above us have begun to lose their view as well. We will be losing a lot of privacy and exposing most the neighbors around us unfortunately; but at the same time we found out they are so rotted that it will require a different approach to take them out. Come to find out there are nine trees tucked back there. It’s been so covered by ivy that no one actually knew how many were back there.

While my husband slave labored outside over the weeds that have turned our front yard into a meadow, I went grocery shopping and began the cooking for Easter Sunday. Might I add, our house has been a complete disaster today and well…. It continued to end the day in a complete disaster. I never quite made it around to vacuuming, dusting and picking up toys and nick knacks that lay about. I also had decided today (the day before Easter) that I would like to color eggs. Now being that Easter is tomorrow and we have plans all day, I realized we wouldn’t have time for this and quickly placed it on the “good idea list” to accomplish Monday. Now why would I want to color eggs after the holiday? Well…it is our sons first Easter and being that he is 9 months old, he won’t know any different. Secondly, the day after, I realized this was a genius move considering it will all be 50-75% off for the coloring kits.

We ended the day with stopping by our neighbors house. They have a cute little three month old girl, who weighs only a half pound less than Cooper at 9 months old. We had a good laugh and she is quite the cutie. As we were walking home I realized my husband was quickly losing his upbeat attitude. Was this because it was past dinner time, was he exhausted, tired, or all three. Yes, it was all three. This man had been up since 6:30 and as you already know he has been working roughly 70 hours a week due to tax season. So needless to say, we ate a delicious homemade pizza and salad, by 8:45 tonight he quickly began the zzzzzz’s.

Happy almost Easter!