Well the weather her in Georgia has been really crazy! One day it's freezing cold and the next day it's sunny and 70 degrees! I wish it would just get warm already! On those few warm days we made the most of them. On Martin Luther King Jr. day we decided to drive an hour to Magnolia Springs State Park to do some hiking. The hiking was less that difficult so we just walked all over the park checking it out. This summer we hope do to a lot of camping so we thought we could start checking out the camping now. This state park had some fun playgrounds so the kids enjoyed playing on them. We also saw a crocodile that we were pretty sure was fake, but we took a picture anyway. All in all it was a great day and a great way to get out and have an adventure together as a family!

On another of those nice sunny days I spent a couple hours repainting some chairs that I got at Goodwill. I got 4 for $20, I say that's a pretty good deal. A couple dollars on paint and ta-da! New chairs to go with the free table! I think I did a pretty good job on the first 3, I've still got 3 to do. We had 2 chairs left from our old table that I'm going to paint as well.

We got a treadmill in our hope of losing weight this year. So far I've used it quite a bit (45 minutes this morning!). The kids are just fascinated with it, Mario a little too much. One day while I was running on it he thought it was funny to throw a ball on it and watch it roll off (you can her me saying, "Stop it! Please get away! You're going to hurt yourself!") then he thought it was funny to put his hand on it and have it roll off ("Mario if you don't stop you're going to get a time out! Mario, please get away! Go play with your toys!"). Well, it ended badly, he got his fingers caught under the belt and it pealed the skin off of the bottom of two of his fingers. Poor kid! I feel so bad for him, it's been a week now since it happened and he still screams when we change the bandage!

A couple of you have been asking to see better pictures of our living room painting job. So as requested, Emilee, here you go! Let me know what you think. Our next paint and decorating project is the kitchen and dining room. I don't know where to start with the painting, there are so many things to move out of the way to get to the walls! I already bought the paint so there's no turning back now!!

Have a great rest of the month and enjoy the pictures!