Wrapping up May

The month of May flew by, and we celebrated Mother's Day, finally had some warmer days and are enjoying the last few weeks of school before summer vacation! 

Mother's Day was wonderful.. snuggled up with my babes after church is the best!

I love homemade gifts ;)

Thanks Nonna & Grandpa for the fruit bouquet!!

Springtime makes me a little bit restless, so one Friday morning I decided I needed a project so I pulled up the carpet on the stairs and was delighted to find the hardwoods continued.... however, were in pretty rough shape.  

So I decided to refinish the stair treads and paint the risers white. I am not sure I would have still done it if I knew how much work would be involved....LOL.

Pulling what felt like a thousand carpet staples out with pliers=blistered hands. Not so pretty.

After multiple trips to Lowes and two different sanders... paint, stain and polyurethane.. ta-da!! They were finished!

It only took a week to complete the many-stepped project, but it felt like forever. fay! They are done!

We heard the ice cream truck for the first time this year and of course, ran outside to get ice creams!

For teacher appreciation Lindsay saw a candy-bar craft to make for her teacher on pinterest that we re-created...

It was a hit with the 2nd graders ;)