Our Monday

Yesterday Emma Claire and I had a pretty busy day. We started the day by picking up our friend Bekah to go thrifting. We went to Goodwill, the Salvation Army, and after headed to Chick-fil-A for lunch.

I usually don't let EC out of the buggy at Goodwill but yesterday there was a toy that had just been brought in {aka hadn't been touched by a thousand kiddos already} So I let her play on it. She was too funny! It was only $3 but made really annoying sounds, so we passed!

EC just loves Bekah and was such a ham at lunch!

I now introduce to you Emma Claire's "Cheese" face. If I tell her to smile she will smile sweetly, but if I say "Cheeeese!" she does THIS. It is by far the funniest face she makes now a days. 

After running a few errands {Lowes, UPS, and grocery store} we bundled up and went out for a walk. These days EC loves walking/running around more than anything.

Love this sweet face. 

 My favorite find from yesterday. Hand stitched hearts. Since my mom is a quilter, things like this just call to me. It's perfect for Valentine's day! I plan on putting it in the guest room after Valentine's day. There's just something sweet about having a hand stitched piece of quilting hung up in my house.

The hubs has had a few long days of work this week. He went to work Sunday around noon then worked his usual shift, stayed at work, and then started work again around 3am on Monday. I knew he would be getting home around 8pm so I baked his favorite {chocolate chip muffins} for him before putting EC to bed.

Sure sign that it's bedtime...using Mommy's oven mitt for a pillow. 

After baking muffins it was off to bath time. I took this picture of EC examining her toes. Her expression just makes me laugh, so serious!

I made bread pizza for dinner. It was simple, quick, and DELICIOUS. A winner in my book. I added a special "secret" ingredient that I think made it 10x better. I will have to share soon! 

When the hubs got home we ate and watched the Bachelor together. ;-) Such a good husband. I've got to say it's way more entertaining watching with him. He does a pretty good Sean impression. ha!

After the Bachelor I got to work. Several months ago my Dad installed bead board in our kitchen. Now something you may or may not know about bead board is that you can't just put it up. It requires much more attention, namely caulking and painting. I had caulked and painted part of the bead board but I am tired of looking at a half finished kitchen back splash. So last night I stayed up way too late caulking the remainder of the kitchen so that tonight I can paint it. 

Next up? Painting the cabinets. I'm fairly certain that my kitchen will look much worse than this for the next few weeks.

Well that was our Monday, y'all! Pretty full day. Did I mention that the only nap Emma Claire took was a 45 minute car nap? I'm quite impressed with how well she did sans nap! Although I don't want to make a habit out of it!