Lindgren Family Adventures: May 2015

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After buying a cute little mill house in Five Points, renovating it and thinking we would never live anywhere else we decided to move. To a rancher. A pink rancher. So not us. But, it will be, with time, elbow grease and good contractors! From the first time we walked in the front door we knew we were home. The new house is right around the corner from my parent's house where I grew up. We are so excited for Matthew and Charlotte to grow up here, riding bikes, going to the pool, playing in the woods... my childhood was filled with freedom and wonder allowed by a safe neighborhood that I could explore and make my place in the world. I am thrilled we can give that to our children.

These days our blog is filled with the adventures of Mateo and Charlotte...mixed in with a few home projects and recipes. But mostly the kids take front and center. Join us on the adventure!

30.5.15

Charlotte is TWO!

I cannot believe this little sweet girl is TWO!

This year her birthday was on a Thursday so we went to Starbucks for a slice of pumpkin bread!

Yummmmy!

For snack, I sent cupcakes to school and her sweet teachers sent me these pictures and a video signing happy birthday!

Somehow I have managed to get away with not throwing a birthday parties until now. And I so wish I hadn't waited so long to get started!

For Charlotte's birthday we rented a covered picnic table at the Brahan Springs Park splash pad and playground and invited her friends from school. Quite a few families joined us for some cake and water play! We loved getting to know some of her classmates and their mommies and daddies. All in all it was a success!

Isn't this cake amazing!!! Malou did an amazing job!

So serious

Hanging out with her friends!

Matthew, the Cake Boss, was of course thrilled with the prospect of cake ALL weekend long!

19.5.15

Happy Mother's Day!

This Mother's Day Paul created the book below for me. He drew the figures on construction paper. It is a perfect depiction of our lives with two toddlers and how we got here! I so needed the light hearted view of my life as a mommy and the chance to laugh at myself knowing that these moments are fleeting and some day I will desperately miss this time with my kids (even if all I want now is to escape with a good book and a glass of wine!)

But back to the book. I really think Paul missed his calling, don't you? I think his next book should be an illustrated version of his Jaws bedtime story he's been telling Matthew lately!!!