Blakely's Birthday Week

Poor Blakely got the short end of the stick when she was born right around Easter. Since it is one of my favorite holidays, there are so many traditions and things I like to do,  that her birthday has taken a backseat. Throw on all the fun with the houses and poor girl isn't even getting a present from Mom. 

This past week we have done lots of furniture shopping (not buying, just getting ideas). Delainey wants a bunk bed, but was obsessed with the carriage bed, and Blakley just wants to climb around on all the furniture. 

We had a chick-fil-a picnic in the back of the car, before doing some shopping at the mall. 

 We made resurrection rolls to discuss Jesus' death and him rising from the dead and him no longer being in the tomb. Blake helped too! Well really she just helped eating them after since they tasted just like cinnamon rolls.

 We went to Good Friday service and the girls did really well!

 And we spent a rainy Saturday at Chuck E Cheese for some birthday week fun! This one is fairly new so it hasn't gotten all rundown and gross yet. Both kiddies loved it, but it will be nice when Blakley can walk and just follow you around.

Saturday night we had a date night to Kickbacks in Riverside while Gammoe watched the girls. Not my top choice of restaurants to go to, but the 2 I tried before settling, were fully booked for the night. It was just nice to have some alone adult time with dad. The food was fine, but more of a bar atmosphere than I would have liked. Oh well. At least we went out to dinner and are keeping up with our resolutions!

Happy Easter from the McLaughlin's!

Happy Easter from the McLaughlin's! We had a wonderful day of celebrating that Jesus is alive, today and always. How precious are my twinning girlies!?!?

We woke up and opened Easter baskets and had a nice relaxing morning since we went to the 11 am service. The girls found all their Easter eggs, ate some candy, and watched 1 of their movies before church. 

After church we headed to Gammoe's for a late lunch and family time with Will's side of the family. His sister Cassie came and brought her 2 kids, Katie Jo (3) and Nattie(11 months). It was so nice having the kids there to entertain D & B. We ate around 4 and then just hung out at the house for the rest of the day. Blakely and Nattie kept stealing the paci from one another it was hilarious!

I hope everyone had a great Easter and remembers the true reason for this wonderful holiday everyday of their lives! Jesus!!

Our House is for Sale

Well, it WAS for sale! We currently are under contract and are awaiting a home inspection on Saturday and an appraisal to be done. If all that goes well, we are scheduled to close on June 10th!! 

It was quite the whirl wind the past 7 days. Last Thursday morning, we officially put a sign in the yard and put our house for sale on Zillow and the MLS listings. I had my first call by noon that day for someone to come see it that afternoon. So I called Grammy, asked her to come grab the kids after school, did some last minute cleaning and away we left for the afternoon. I had a feeling there were going to be a few showings on Friday so I was nutso not letting the kids or David touch anything that could dirty the house. I even made him shower in the girls' bathroom. Friday morning, we had a showing scheduled for 10 so when the girls woke, we got dressed and left the house for the day! We had breakfast at Burger King, took naps at Grammys, had Tropical Smoothie for lunch, and then I passed the girls off to Gammoe while I headed to St. Augustine to set up for Shannon's wedding. We ended up having 4 showings that day and 2 on Saturday. Saturday morning I got a text from my realtor saying we had 2 offers, so he got back to them and anyone else interested and said give us your best and final offer by 5 pm on Sunday. And thats what happened we had 2 offers, both over asking price, by Sunday evening and had to choose which one. We had to do a little negotiating with the offer we wanted to accept, but they accepted the deal and here we are! Under contract in less than 4 days!! Woohoo! I am praying it all goes through, because it was not easy keeping the house clean with the girls running around. 

We did put a lot into getting it ready over the past month or so. Dave did a great job tidying up the landscaping, he pressure washed the whole house, repainted the patio, repainted the door and shutters, organized the garage. I decluttered all the rooms, took out some furniture and toys, cleaned the house from top to bottom, changed all the lights so the rooms were nice and bright (it made a huge difference). We also changed all of our fogged windows out for new clear windows, had our carpets professionally cleaned, and upgraded our appliances from white to stainless steel. I would say we did a good job!

The professional pictures of our house were dynamite too. You can see the listing here of our house on Zillow. Please pray everything goes smoothly this weekend with the inspection and appraisal! Thanks guys!!

Living Waters Easter Egg Hunt & St. Patrick's Day

Thursday, Delainey had her school Easter Egg hunt at a nearby park and it just so happened to also be St. Patrick's Day. So of course we had to dress in our green. It was a pretty low key day. All the kids played on the playground for quite some time, did the egg hunt, and then had a picnic in the park. 

Shannon's Wedding Recap

Friday night, I got to celebrate one of my friend Shannon's wedding. I have known Shannon since the age of 10 and she is such a sweet girl. I have been helping her over the last few months with some planning and details. Friday I wore my wedding planner hat and helped run the show! Everything turned out great! The wedding was at the River House in St. Augustine and it had a great view of the intracoastal. The only problem was I was too busy running around to remember to take pictures of most of the evening! Here are the ones I snapped.

I think it is finally time to start a LLC for our wedding/party planning business! After the wedding, we hit up a bar in downtown St. Augustine called Dos Gatos to cap off the night. We had brunch the next morning and then headed home to collect the girls from a sleepover with Gammoe. 

Friday was also Georgia's 2nd birthday! We weren't able to see her on her actual birthday, but we did do Mexican the night before and she got some birthday ice cream that she was loving!! What a gem she is! I love her so much!! :) 

Today we slept in and enjoyed Church on the couch since the girls are not 100% well. 

I am so sick of everyone being sick. Please Lord let us all get healthy. We did go to lunch and to the movie theater to see zootopia which was a cute movie. Poor Delainey though jumped out of the car and hit her mouth on my head and was gushing blood everywhere. It was a long hard day today :( Here is to a week of nothing to do but Spring Break!! Let the fun begin! :)