Presidents Day projects

There are some holidays that I really like to observe, although the actual holiday isn't all that notable to me. Presidents Day would fall into that category; I am happy to honor our past presidents, but am really happy to have a seemingly random three day weekend near the end of February.  For some reason, though February is the shortest month, it often feels so loooooong.  Christmas is over, and spring is so far away. The skies are usually gray, and the weather cold and dreary.  Yuck.  So that "bonus" day off is something to look forward to, and is greatly anticipated and enjoyed.

Last year I vividly remember how I spent the holiday . . . not because I participated in anything especially patriotic, but because I was about 2 weeks away from my due date with Elise.  I spent much of the day shopping with a friend, and can recall a few specific items I bought for our sweet baby girt that I was so excited to meet in just a few short days. . . onesies at Carter's,  3 (yes 3!) pair of cutie little newborn girl shoes - denim espadrilles, white crocheted espadrilles, and pink sneakers, and a cute outfit of teeny tine khakis and the sweetest little floral peasant top.  Sigh.  Also that weekend Billy and I went shopping for furniture for our new home that we'd just moved into . . . dining room table and chairs and master bedroom furniture (and oh how we've loved our king bed upgrade from the full we had previously).  

So here we are a YEAR later.  Miss Elise is almost one!  So this year, I was much more practical.  I spent the holiday enjoying breakfast with friends, but then took advantage of the fact that the kiddos went to daycare to tackle a bunch of to-do's:  vacuumed out the car (and was going to wash it, but it started raining and is now SNOWING?!), cleaned out the garage, dusted and vacuumed, and did about 9,000 loads of laundry, took down the remaining winter and valentines decor in our house (I am SO over winter!),  and made a trial run of E's smash cake for pictures next weekend:

I thought the cake turned out pretty well, for an amateur. I will try to lighten up the middle shade of pink (and maybe darken the lightest shade - it looks cream in the picture, but it's really pale pink) - but I think it will work.  We did smash cake pics for Braden's first b-day photos, and it was really fun, so I am excited to see how it goes for Elise.

So the only thing I really didn't get to do today that I had on my list is to work on E's baby book and photo books . . . but I have a hunch I might get my chance if we have a snow day later this week. ;)