Spring has Sprung!

Wow, it's officially Spring you guys!!  Our neighborhood isn't really looking like Spring yet, but I think it'll start happening very soon!!  

Kevin bought me daffodils because he knows they're my favorite!! :)  

I hope you all had a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!  Kevin and I had a pretty relaxing weekend at home, but I made some Irish soda bread and this amaaaazing Irish chicken stew from the cookbook that Lizzy and Claighton got us for Christmas!  It was my first time trying that Irish soda bread recipe, and it was a MILLION times better than my other Irish soda bread recipe!  So, that old recipe is getting dumped, and I'm only making this new recipe from now on!!  I also decorated the house for St. Patrick's Day at the beginning of March, so we got to enjoy it for a few weeks!!  

Some of the awesome St. Pats cards we got this year! 

My parents bought this for me years ago! 

Guinness is definitely loving the slightly warmer weather!  He's had fun playing in the yard, and he's been loving our walks around the neighborhood too!  A few weeks ago we saw a deer on our walk and it was REALLY close to us!  Guinness didn't seem too impressed by it, and the deer didn't seem too worried about Guinness either... he just stood there and watched us for a minute, and then went back to eating. I was LOVING it, but neither of them seemed too impressed by the encounter!  I was still very glad that Guinness was on a leash though.  Haha :)  

Our silly pup looooves chewing on sticks and running around with them

There's the deer!  It was in our neighbor's yard. 

And I'm going to try to do another post very soon about our trip we just back from yesterday (that apparently I didn't tell anyone about)!!  We just went to New Orleans for about 4 days, but I suck because it seems I didn't tell anyone at all about this!!  Whoops, my bad!!  The beginning of this year has just been insane at work, so I think I haven't been doing a good job of communicating!  We have had a lot of people at work quit recently, and actually juuuust last week another person put in their notice and their last day is on my birthday.  So... when you only have a department with 10 people and 3 people have quit... It is NOT good for those 7 remaining people.  Things are getting stressful and insane.  

But, enough about me!  I really hope everything is going great for you guys, and I hope Spring has started off really great!  I will do the New Orleans post very soon!!  Love you and miss you!!