Confession: I started this post exactly two weeks ago.  This is how crazy our lives have been this month…no time for anything “extra” like blogging.  Sorry friends.  Really I am.  This month has been totally exhausting!  Andrew had a birthday, Reynolds had a birthday and then whatever happened in between…I don’t even know.  But here’s the post that I started two weeks ago and a bunch of stuff that has been added in tonight to update y’all on this wild month we’ve had!

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Y’all I don’t even know how we’re almost in the middle of April, 2016, but we are.  I don’t know about you, but this has been a really busy month so far for the Lucas clan.  So far this month…

Reading – I’ve started a new study via SRT: The Life of Moses and though it took me a day or two to get it downloaded, I’m up and running!

Playing – We’ve been playing a lot outside recently with this fantastic weather we’re having in SC!  Weekends and evenings mean running around outside playing with R’s grill, his bicycle, swinging on that swing Andrew put up for us last year and even playing in the yard.  Andrew even planted two grape vines this past weekend!

Watching – a lot of Disney.  Sophia the First is on this exact moment…

Showing -Eliza Jane has been showing off her mad skills of taking off her clothes.  Like, in the middle of the night?!  She’s been waking up with on leg out of her pants and her shirt inside out, and upside down, AND around her waist.  As in, no arms in anything.  What happens when we leave her at night?!

Cooking – Oh, so the other night I made these oh-so-delicious Parmesan Sage Pork Chops:  I had pork chops and googled a recipe, found this, got the ingredients and voila!  Best pork chops ever.  Ever, I tell you.

Eating – So I just ate a small bowl of cinnamon toast crunch. :)

Drinking – Water.  Lots of water.  It is hot down here in SC.

Calling – Ann and I are playing phone tag…sorry, Ann.

Texting – Today I got a text from my mom: “Can I email from my Kindle to the computer?” →”I have no idea.  I don’t have a Kindle….” was my reply.  Though I assume one could…I just don’t know about these things.  I think she called someone in “support” for help.

Tweeting – Nothing special.

Pinning – Flowers.  There’s an event this weekend for new and expectant moms called Bloom that the City Mom Blog Group {of which I am a part} is putting on, and I was asked to do the flower arrangements?!  So the last few weeks I’ve pinned a lot of flower arrangements for ideas.  Tomorrow night is go-time for making FIFTEEEEEEEN flower arrangements.  Thanks to Breanna and Dana who are coming to drink wine and arrange pretty flowers. :)  Should be a good time.  No doubt, pics will show up on my instafeed.

Going – To bed?  Does that count?  After this post, I’m closing my eyes.

Loving – The people I work with…past and present.  What an amazing group of tremendously wonderful people.

Hating – The thought of mosquitoes coming…

Thinking – About all the things that need to be done…that endless list!

Feeling – Thankful.  For so much.  My family.  The blessings that come in strange and interesting disguises.

Hoping – That R goes to sleep before 9p.m. tonight.  This is for reals.  It’s been 9:30 or after every night this week that the talking/singing has finally stopped.  I’ve been asleep before him almost every night.  #truth.

Listening – To R sing…  Where does he get it and how does he have SO.MUCH.ENERGY?

Smelling – I picked up some lilies from Trader Joe’s over the weekend…they are my favorite flowers and they make our home smell so wonderfully sweet.

Celebrating – 25 years of the company I work for.  Today we shut down the office at 3:30, went to an off-site location, invited current and past employees and their families for some food, music and bounce house fun to celebrate this great milestone.  It was SO great.  Seeing people that I haven’t seen in years {other than via FB} was such a blessing.  The greatest thing was seeing all the KIDS.  I’ve been at the same company for 13 years this summer and there are a LOT of kids that have been born in that time period.  I am still in awe of all the blessings I’ve seen over the last 13 years.  Not just for our company {we’ve almost tripled the number of employees}, but also for our families.  Congratulations to our owner, Louie {Sweet Lou, Louis}…Prov. 16:9

I’m also celebrating Andrew’s accomplishments this semester – only one more exam to go on Monday and already I have a statistical genius! :-P

Ordering – We ordered shocks for Andrew’s truck the other day.  Does that count? ;)

Thanking – The Lord for His blessings.  All of them.  And I’m still mentally thanking David and Katie for keeping our kids two weekends ago so we could go to the vineyard.

Considering – We have an upcoming trip that I’m considering a few things for, but I don’t really know where to start.  This may be a blog post in the near future…but I’ll keep you on your toes until then.  Hint: the kids ARE going.

Starting – I would like to be starting on some renovations in our home…but that’s on hold right now, until the architect gets his plans put together.  Hint:  it involves busting through some bricks.

Finishing – This one is pretty great.  Six-ish weeks ago we started some major demo in our office building.  It’s almost done and it is beautiful.

I hope you’ve had an exciting April – ours has been pretty wonderful.