I Know We’re Supposed to be Springing Forward, but…

Mind if I take a moment to rewind and go backwards?  Forward, backward, up, down, sideways, inside out (if that’s even possible).  I’m pretty sure I’m going all directions and in between lately.  I’m hardly ever sure what I’m doing, but I’m doing it.  Frantically.  Every March/April, I start to sound like a broken record: “I’m so busy, yada, yada, yada.”  Aren’t you sick of hearing me complain?  My husband is, but he has no choice.  That’s his job.  Show your wife moral support during her busy time of year for work.  It’ll pay off.  Anyways, yes, the Zabodyn household is in full-fledge recital preparation mode – What does this mean?  How can you tell?  There’s toys in EVERY room – including the bathrooms, the guest room cannot be entered due to the amount of costumes, props, hair bows, shoe bows, and set preparation in the room, the smell of burnt skin lingers in the air from my first hot glue gun casualties of the season, and be prepared to leave this house with some form of glitter and/or sequins somewhere on your body.  I swear, there are places I find glitter that I’m not even sure how it gets there!  Poor Dayton – I try to do somewhat of a pat-down every morning before he leaves for school.  What boy comes to school with glitter on his face?  Geesh…

So, anyways, now that I’ve gotten all that nonsense out of the way, let’s get to what you really care about, the reason you really stalk this blog – my children ;)  We’re going in reverse and I’m shoving a bunch of neat little posts all into one.  Sorry…

 

My cute little spring girl the other day before we went on one of our “Wacky Wednesday” shopping trips:

As if two birthday parties wasn’t enough, Dayton got to enjoy one more at school last Friday – they celebrate the monthly birthdays on the last Friday of every month.  So he enjoyed being sang to by his classmates and eating sprinkled sugar cookies, pretzels and milk.

 

We went to the Eggstravaganza on Saturday.  The kids had a great time but wanted nothing to do with the Easter Bunny.  That was fine with me – I still managed to get some decent pics!

Only Easter Bunny they were interested in taking a picture with!

Here they are before church last Saturday:

 

See her sweet Easter bow by Cary Hairbows?  Also, check out my little chic’s long ponytail – we’re getting there…

Sunday was Opening Ceremonies for El Campo Little League at the ballpark.  It was a fun afternoon and I’m so excited that my little man is playing this year!  I’m pleased to say he has a lot of late games meaning that Mommy will make more than half of them (better than making 20 minutes of one soccer game during soccer season).  While most parents are probably dreading “late” games – I’m thrilled because I’ll be off work by then.  I’m also thrilled to report that his first game was rained out yesterday so they’re playing tomorrow morning – a Saturday game – how great for Mommy!  I’m gonna get to watch Dayton’s first tball game and I couldn’t be more excited!!!  I’m sure I’ll have PLENTY of pics to post soon!

Mallory says take me out to the ballpark!

Dress by Mommy ;)

We are the BEARS!  Coach Zabodyn and kiddos:

Dayton got his jersey on Sunday.  He got #3.  He was cool with this – this is the same number as Anna and Anna informed him that that was also Uncle Coby’s number when he played college ball at SWT…

 

Waiting to go on the field – talking with Coach Wadsworth:

We were on the “boy” side so I managed to get a great pic of this super-cute baseball player.  Can’t believe this guy is playing pee-wee league this year.  Doesn’t he look like a good little ball player?  I missed Anna’s team – she was on the other side.

The Bears on the field:

 

It was really neat to see so many kids and volunteers out on that field:

Miss Bryn and Mally:

It was H-O-T out there, so what better way to kick off baseball season than with a snocone?

 

And, it’s almost that time – swimming time!  PaPa heated the pool and hot tub a bit on Wednesday so the kiddos could take a swim.  Dayton picked up right where he left off last summer.  I was afraid he’d be really timid, but he did great.  We’ve got to remember how to actually swim again, but he was jumping in and going under and carrying on like a champ!

 

Now, good thing Dayton is somewhat self-sufficient in the pool, because this little diva is going to need all eyes on her at all time when we are in and around the water.  I swear, she’s gonna give me grey hair…

Our new ladybug puddle jumper.  This makes Mommy breath a little easier.  Last year she hated, hated, hated floaties on her.  She did great with this device on Wednesday and it seems to actually work.  Let’s hope she keeps this up!

 

Daddy’s little girl:

 

How big is my baby getting?!?!

So that was somewhat of a catch up.  Atleast for now – something else to check off the list.  I can’t wait for summer to blog more often about the stuff we’re up to ;) and new recipes that I’ve tried.  I’ve been cooking- can you believe it?  And it’s all edible and tastes delicious.  Just you wait.  Let’s just all cross our fingers and hope I make it to May 6th in a sane manner!

His Newest Baby…

You all know my lovely husband and his need for speed ;)  You all know my lovely husband and his need to change cars as often as he changes underwear, so here you have it – his newest “toy”.  I KNEW the jeep wouldn’t last long the first time I drove it and realized it had no power.  I loved the Jeep.  I loved the M5.  I guess I will learn to love our newest addition – the Caddy.  Yes, we are old.  We now own a Cadillac.  But, not just any Cadillac as Brandon would say, it’s a CTS-V Wagon, aka “The Caddy Wagon”.  It’s the fastest four door car on earth – even has Recaro racing seats, but in my opinion, who cares – it’s still a station wagon.  Brandon is in love.  He’s had it for over a week and I wanted to share sooner, but haven’t gotten any good pics of it yet.  So I just will post what I have.  Let’s just say it’s not my favorite-looking car he’s owned but it drives and rides unbelievably great and let’s face it – it’ll prob gone before this time next year, so I’ll only have to put up with it for a short while…

My first look at the car via text messaging the day he bought it – isn’t that lovely ;)

And, it’s first road trip to the bay with all of us and luggage in tow.  It stood up to the challenge!

U. Need. This.

 

If you have an iPhone, you need this – ZIPLIST!  It’s amazing.  It actually makes my life so much easier.  What is it you may ask?  It’s a FREE app that does so much!

I stumbled across it on my FAVORITE recipe website, www.skinnytaste.com.  I decided to give it a try – since then, I’ve found that it’s also compatible with www.laaloosh.com and many other great sites!

I search for a recipe I’m hungry for on one of my sites, click a button and save it to my recipe box and it’s there on my phone whenever I may need it.  Wait – it gets better.  Should I want to actually cook this recipe that I saved, I click another button and poof!  It adds all the ingredients I need to my “shopping list”.  That’s right folks, my shopping list is now on my phone – so great.  I’m spoiled.  I use it all the time.  Easier than sending a text and takes less time – out of cereal, no biggie.  Walk over to my phone, type it in to my list and I’m sure not to forget it on my next grocery store trip.  AND, to take it a step further, if you’d rather not type, you can freakin’ scan the barcode off of your empty box – how great is that?

It gets better y’all (Oh the things that excite me) – When you get to the grocery store, and pull up your list, it categorizes it into sections – produce, meat, frozen, etc – no more walking all the way to one end of the store only to realize you forgot something on the complete opposite side of the store!  May not be a big deal to you, but when I’m pushing one of those gigantic car/shopping carts around with my rambunctious two year old in tow, anything that cuts down grocery shopping time is well worth it to me.

Another great thing you can do is search all recipes that ZipList is linked to and find just about anything right at your finger tips.  Just save it, add it to your grocery list and you are set!

You also get fabulous emails weekly that have recipe suggestions.  ZipList has been the answer to my prayers.  No more printing out new recipes and taking them to the store with me.  Now, I just browse all the recipes I like, save them, and then let Brandon peruse my phone for what fancies him on that certain day.

What are you waiting for, go download it- you won’t regret it…

Our Spring Break

Mommy’s Spring Break started off right – just like the college kids do ;)  In Galveston with my girls for Alicia’s Bachelorette Party – talk about just what the doctor ordered!  It was great!  I hadn’t laughed that hard in a long time.   Gonna keep the pics “G” rated b/c you know we were oh-so-crazy! ;)

At Fisherman’s Wharf – great Skinny Margs…

On the Strand:

 

I was mistaken when I thought he was there to dance – he was just there to bring Salsa’s fajitas.  And let me tell you friends, that was WAY more exciting to us!

The Bride:  

Cassie during a game:

Jennifer during the game:

So Sunday evening, we went to church and check out how my little cute cowgirl was all decked out:

Monday, Mommy had a stomach bug so we hung out around the house.  Here is Mallory in her best roller derby outfit:

 

I was able to watch Dayton and the Bears practice tball for the first time which was extremely exciting for me!  I loved being able to be at practice like a “normal” mom:

 

We hung out and worked around the house all week.  On Wednesday afternoon we made a quick trip to Rosenberg just to get out the house and than swam in the hot tub at DeDe and PaPa’s.  Mallory is going to be one dangerous water baby this summer – gonna have our hands full!

On Thursday we were so excited to get to see Miss Allison since she was in from Colorado.   We had lunch with them and then were able to have the Ripples over for dinner that night.  No pics – boo me!

On Friday. after Mommy worked a bit at the studio, we loaded up and headed down to the bay for the weekend.  Here are the kids on the ride there:

Chillaxin’ with Daddy:

Gonna have trouble with her this summer – when Dayton wants to take his shirt off, she, too, likes to strip down.  OMG…

Friday night we had crawfish soup and crawfish – so delicious.  I also made stout cupcakes w/ Bailey’s irish cream icing off of skinny girl’s website – so delish!

St. Patty’s Day – we were all decked out in our green!

 

Cute pics with Grandpa Vasut – side note: if you can’t get past the paci – sue me.  I’m her mom and if I can live with it, I promise it’s gonna be okay.  They are only small once.  The paci will eventually not be around.  But for now, we don’t really leave home without it…

 

At the park:

Bathing Beauty:

MeMe and Grandpa came to visit and eat hamburgers with us:

Me and Mallory flew some kites:

 

Grandpa helped Dayton try out his new bubble gun he got for his birthday:

Grandpa tried out the hammock:

 

Ready for church in Palacios on Sunday morning:

Tried a little fishing on Sunday, but no luck.  That wind was horrendous!

 

Dayton cracking up at silly PaPa – he was pretending to have a big catch on Dayton’s little rod but it was really just stuck on some brush:

Daddy’s fishing buddy:

We got home late yesterday afternoon.  The week went by way too fast and has me ready for recital and then eventually summer!

I’ll leave you with a picture of my new sign in our house.  Bought it at Hobby Lobby and then used my cricut to personalize it – so fun!