Spring has sprung!

I usually love winter, but this year, I was over it.  It may have been all the sickness that came our way, but I have never been more happy to see Spring come.  How could you not love Spring with the great weather, the sun coming up later which means kids sleeping a little later (at least mine are), and everything turning green again.  Easter is coming soon, and what a great reminder that out of death comes life, than to see everything blooming again.  Cannot wait to celebrate on Sunday! We've spent the past couple of weeks setting up our vegetable gardens, and planting a few new things.  We could have our own little Farmer's Market back there because we have strawberries, tomatoes, squash, green beans, and green pepppers in our garden.  As for trees, we have our plum and clementine trees from last year that are doing great, and we've added two blueberry bushes as well.  We'll see what we get out of all of this!

Check out the cute little plums.  Let's hope they get a bit bigger than that!

Tomatoes

My cilantro is popping up

Our strawberry patch

Mady is loving this weather.  She is not a winter gal at all, and if she had to wear her jacket one more time, she would have lost it.  Not that she didn't many times over the course of winter.  Now, she can play outside after dinner, grab some yogurt at Peachwave, and take trips to the river.  How is it that she is going to be 4 in less than two months?!  That sounds so big!  Granted, she acts like she's going on 16.  She is a strong willed, determined little one.  Just yesterday she threw a huge tantrum, screaming, crying, the works, because I wouldn't let her play outside without clothes on.  Seriously?!

Look at the adorable duck family!!

Joy.

My loves.

He was done by this point.

One of Mady's favorite things to do right now is pretend she's driving.  Do you remember doing this as a kid, because Nick and I sure do!  Now I turn on the car to the air at full blast, the windshield wipers at full speed, and the blinker on.

Random, but I had to throw this in here.  I don't know what it is with this kid and the toilet?!  Must be a boy thing because Mady never had any interest in it.  Could just be an Owen thing.  Anyways, I had my eye off him for a minute, and it was enough time for him to do this:  

Yes, that's my flip flop.

Spring Break

The blog was starting to collect some dust so I thought I better get back at it.  The Hampshire's have been busy with work, kids, family, life, etc, etc, etc.  We've passed the cold weather, and heading into one of my favorite seasons, spring!  Sickness has still not left our house, as Owen is now battling some type of cold and just can't shake it.  He's on breathing treatments now, but I'm not seeing much improvement.  Besides that, we are doing great.  Here is some of the latest:

Owen got his first haircut.  I probably waited a bit too long, but I was putting it off and putting it off.  He looks older now, but still so darn cute.  What a champ too, during his haircut.  He looked like an old man who had been doing it for years.

He is a full fledged walker, and finally figured out how to stand up on his own without using something to pull up on.  No actual words besides mama, and dada.  It took him long enough to say mama, but it is the sweetest thing when he is walking around the house looking for me saying mama over and over.  Its got to be one of the best feelings as a mom.

Big sister was there supporting him the whole way!

We spent the first part of Spring Break visiting my parents, and then got a visit our way by Mimi.  Mady LOVES her grandparents, so it was a successful spring break for her. 

Nick and I got to have a 24 hour date, which was awesome.  We went to TopGolf, and had so much fun.  I'm pretty competitive, but knowing you stand no chance kind of changes things, so I just had fun with it.  I wasn't half bad towards the end of it!  While I did not come close to beating Nick at TopGolf, I am beating him with my bracket ;) We went to dinner, and actually got to talk to each other, and we weren't in a crazy rush to get out.  We even went to see a movie too!  Couple of crazy kids we were.  I love my guy, so it was so nice to get to spend that time with him.  We did miss our little ones though, which was probably shown by the fact that most of our conversation had to do with them.

I've got a future in the Women's PGA!