Play day!

Our hot water heater is broken and can't be fixed until Tuesday or Wednesday which is really frustrating and made us sad, so we needed a great day out to cheer up.  We drove up to Freeport to pick up our fab new orange chair (see post below) first. Then we found a cute little family restaurant to have lunch and decided to search for a park because the weather was turning from gloomy to great. We found a fun little park in Rockford off of Alpine Road that kept Abby (and maybe us too) busy for awhile. We also got to check out a microbrew in Rockford's downtown area for beer, rootbeer and pretzels.



I love seeing my girly girl climbing, running and playing SO MUCH after all the time she spent in casts, braces and in physical therapy with her brokey leg bad luck.



The biggest hit at the park was this slide made out of rollers. I didn't try it, but Abby and Daddy did.

Orange-alicious!

We bought this chair I've been admiring on Cragislist for the past 2 weeks today. It's going to go in our living room. I love it.

Walking to the park

The weather has been getting better & better so Abby and I went to the park yesterday.

Dandelion wishes....



Pretties....

My container garden

I started up my container garden last week in the hopes that we won't have anymore overnight frosts in our area.  It includes flowers, tomatoes, banana peppers and Josh's salad bowl. All the non-edibles have been fertilized so hopefully they will get more bountiful & beautiful as time goes on.











The pepper plant was already very well started when I bought it. It won't be long until we are enjoying some of the peppers.



Our deck totally needs a power washing. I'm hoping that our association will repaint our porches so that I don't have to do ours.
Some changes that I'd like to make are:
*a new door mat. Ours is so faded.
*adding a little more to the container garden like basil and some more flowers.
*replace chair pads & possibly repaint our chairs because there is some paint chipping.
*make a solar mason jar light for our table using this method.

Sofa City Sweetheart!

After much debate and a lot of sitting on sofas, we finally made a choice.  I'm so excited to have comfy seating instead of our couch which due to being broken both hurts your back and bites you in the butt. Last night we placed our order for the Karlstad sofa and footstool from IKEA. We picked the dark brown colored slipcover.  I love that it has a slipcover because we can wash it or change it out later on if we want to/need to. These are the pieces we bought.




We plan to push the footstool against the sofa for that chaise-y feel, like so.

Morton Arboretum

Yesterday Josh and I went to Morton Arboretum to enjoy the gorgeous weather and the spring colors. These are some of my favorite photos that we took yesterday.