Momma's Day Weekend

Man, I was spoiled rotten all weekend.  It was pretty amazing.  :)  Marcus decided to kick off our Mothers' Day weekend a little early.  The only thing I mentioned was that I wanted some tulips, so he surprised me and brought some home on Friday.  He said he wanted them to be opening and beautiful for Sunday, and he timed it perfectly.  They're amazing!  He also grabbed a pizza from one of our favorite places in Long Island City.  Yum.  Oh, and he let me continue my Harry Potter marathon all weekend.  Now that's love :)

And you'll have to excuse my little picture splurge below-- I made Marcus take several tulip pictures because he picked out a beautiful bunch!

Then on Saturday, the fun just kept on going.  Marcus helped me scan my Suzuki books (with my crazy, colorful notes from my class) to PDFs!  Took hours, but it was so worth it.  I'm excited to have immortalized my notes :)  A fantastic gift!  I'd been wanting to do that for a long time but couldn't figure out how to since the pages aren't a regular size.  But we did it!  Yay!  And then we had Shake Shack burgers to celebrate.  Another fun day.  Plus we got home just in time to miss the downpour, which is a separate post.

Sunday, Marcus made a delicious French Toast breakfast and later shish kabob dinner.  Mmmmmm.  We were thrilled to not have had any meetings and enjoyed a calm day lounging around.  Oh, and the tulips have opened and are even more spectacular with their bright orange and yellow.

It's so wonderful to be a mother when this adorable little stinker is the one calling you "Mama"

And check out this cute card he made for me in nursery.  Sorry the lighting doesn't bring out all the color.  It says "Happy Mothers Day" with a flower he finger painted.  

It's already taped in my journal ♥

See, spoiled rotten!  I had a great Mothers' Day, and we wish a Happy Mothers' Day to all the mommas out there, especially ours!  ;)

First day of spring... finally!

I am so glad that it is finally springtime! Not that the Utah weather listens and actually warms up for longer than four days, but it is promising. I thought it would be fun to post some pictures of pretty flowers that Marcus has given me over the past few months. I was going to do this sooner since they were all so pretty, but this seems fun too :) at least for me. And you can see my fun vase that we bought as part of my Valentines present. (A special thanks goes out to Misha for helping Marcus decide to get me flowers some days!)

This week's fun bunch:



during a really stressful week:

Valentines Day (these ones are hanging up in our room dried):


And I've had requests to show pictures of Fish's leaf couch, and a spring post is a great time to include pictures of cute little animals. The couch is pretty sweet. The fish really sits on it. Just ignore the food on the leaf-- we fed him while he was still napping on his couch. Maybe he'll get cable next :)

Sweet, huh?!

it almost looks comfortable :)

Our fat frog charging the phone

Even though I'm crazy excited about it being spring, which means it may be nice outside sometime in the near future, we had a great winter overall. Here's some pictures of one of the most random and exciting winter evenings at our apartment:
When I was trying to get my cello and tons of other stuff in the door one night, this cat jumped on the opportunity to run inside to get warm. :) He was very clean and healthy, so don't worry! :)

First he checked out the couch.

And then the toilet, naturally.

And His Cuteness was then treated to some milk. Too bad we only had skim and 1%. But he was a fun intruder. (Now we really want a dog-- don't worry we're trying to be patient.)

Be excited for more pictures as it gets warmer-- we bought a new camera today, so you don't have to see lame phone pictures but fancy Olympus Stylus 7010 pictures. YAY! We'll have to take more pictures of our fish and frogs so you can really see how awesome they are.