Five on Friday

1. Spring has sprung here, with trees budding out, beautiful weather, and my favorite the thing, Easter decorations!! It kind of look like the Easter Bunny threw up in my house, with Easter Eggs, bunnies, and Easter grass everywhere, but I love it. My big egg wreath went on the door today, then I threw open the windows and brought out the eggs. I did get a new bunny, though it isn't as fat or adorable as my previous one, it works well on the mantel and I made another Easter egg topiary so everything is balanced. Here is this years Easter mantel. I love a good mantel lay out and this one could be my favorite since it is so springy and happy. Notice how all things are symmetrical and even, just how I like it.

 2. Zane and I had a few errands to run today, but mostly the highlight was beautiful weather which means park time. I wish we had a huge back yard or acres of land for him to explore like at Grandma's. However, that isn't the case, so instead we try to frequent a number of different parks. Today's park was the Fenton park complex. Zach had a business lunch so we didn't get to meet up with him today, but Zane and I had snacks and played outside after our shopping was done. There were two little girls their with their Grandparents so Zane had some play mates. I think we will have to bring a picnic and meet up with Daddy next time.

3. While restocking on shiny eggs for my second topiary I found a fun little fold out chair for Zane. It was only $13 at Micheal's and just his size. Here is maxing and relaxing in his new chair once we were home from our errands.

4. After snack time outside Zane and I went to work cleaning out our big flower bed/soon to be garden in our back yard. I cleaned out all the leaves, cut back our big grass, bagged up all the yard waste, then started weeding/turning over the dirt in preparation for planting. Zane loves helping and wants nothing more to be part of the work. So his job today was throwing out all the weeds that I pulled. He would "count to three" (random sounds that I think were suppose to be one, two, three) then throw whatever little piece of weed or grass I gave him out of the flower bed. We even found a worm while we got nice and dirty in the flower beds. For those of you wondering what when it is time to plant different things here is a link to my mom's blog post with all you need to know about starting your own garden.  It is really meant for Oklahoma weather, but MO weather is basically the same, I just plan on pushing things back a week or so.

5. Lastly, we rounding out our spring activities with a classic St. Louis Spring/Lenten event, a good old fashion fish fry. I had never heard of or taken part in a fish fry until moving to St. Louis. This is probably because I grew up in Oklahoma where I was one of about three catholic people in my high school, so needless to say Catholics were the minority. St. Louis is the polar opposite with Catholics being the big majority. A lot of kids go to Catholic schools here and instead of Baptist churches on every corner there are Catholic churches, each with a weekly fish fry during Lent. Zane did amazingly well at his first fish fry, standing in line patiently, and even sitting in his own chair like such a big boy. I don't think he ate any fish, but he did enjoy the green beans, apple sauce, and of course his mini cupcake for dessert. For all my St. Louis friend wondering which fish fry I went to this week, I attended the Seven Holy Founders fish fry in Afton and I highly recommend it!