Shopping and St Pat's

Am I the only one that freaks out at this time of year and panics?  I panic because my kids don't have shorts or sandals or summery pajama's and suddenly I hate everything in my closet and nothing will do because warm weather is right around the corner??

Well I fixed all of that and now I seriously need to stop shopping.  And hope that grandmas and grandpas bring pj's for Easter and then we will be all set.  Before our hot date on Saturday we ran up to the outlet mall in Niagara Falls and got the kiddos some new attire.  Literally in less than an hour, we got 6 pairs of shorts and 6 cute horsey shirts (as my boys call them) for the kids, mama got a very cute pair of Kate Spade jeans 50% off

and some new gold sparkly loafers and Dad got a new pair of black shoes too.  We were outta there in about 45 minutes!!  And on our way to Texas de Brazil for date night.

I needed to reward the hubs for fixing our plumbing and saving us 1000's.  Why not with a lot, and I mean a lot of meat?  It is kind of a weird place if you have never been and I honestly don't think we will be going back.  But you don't leave hungry that's for sure!

And I whipped up pistachio cake for St. Patty's day today.  Brought some to my dad who had a test done today and treating my co-workers tomorrow with it.  Who doesn't love a green bundt??

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!

Don't take your plumbing for granted

Ugh yes.  I am posting about our plumbing situation because it suuuuuuuuucks and I want to scream.
But yeah:

So either a pipe became disconnected or a pipe broke underground.  Either way, the front yard needs to be dug up :( and it's going to have us dropping some cash.  And to think it all started with a little boy flushing his pants.  Which actually may have helped us notice the problem sooner.  As if the raw sewage in the stationary tub wouldn't have tipped us off.

In an effort to save us from spending $1000's my husband, aka. superman will be digging the hole himself.  I have never seen a hole this big dug but he does this for a living.  So God bless him and his shovel.  I am gonna owe him big time!!  We will be watching from the window.  Once the hole is dug we will have the plumber come because obviously I am scared of this:

SO until it is all fixed we will be following this little saying "if it's mellow, let it yellow" and in case you didn't know the laundromat isn't fun with 3 kids.  I can think of a whole bunch of things I want to spend our tax return on:  some gold tory's, new jeans, a new coffee table.  I did have to pull the trigger on this little beauty:

Meatball has gotta understand right?  I am stressed.  Which means I shop and clean!!  Which reminds me to tell you how awesome are these little things:

No more spray and sponge for me.  Anyway, Happy Flushing!