Spring in Michigan

Spring is in FULL bloom here in Michigan. Our family is loving it! It is so refreshing to see a fresh, new beginning in nature after a long and harsh winter. Spring to me is all about new growth, life, vitality and new beginnings. I love that it stays light outside for longer and it's so wonderful to see new growth on the bare trees and buds on spring flowers. We see more people out and about and everyone seems happier and less stressed out. I think the new energy is contagious!

Spring is an excellent time to clean up inside the house and get rid of things you don't need anymore. I've started doing that the last few weeks. It's not always a fun job, but it needs to be done. I actually feel quite happy when I declutter and reorganize things! It's so rejuvenating!

This last weekend, our family spend the majority of our Saturday cleaning up our yard, putting up our gazebo and deck furniture, cleaning the cars (inside and out), and organizing our outdoor shed. The only thing we didn't get to was weeding our garden and fixing the shingles on our roof. We'll have to do that next weekend. We rewarded ourselves in the evening with a barbeque with all the works, and then we had a family movie party in the evening. It always feels good to get so much done on the weekend.

We drove home slowly from church on Sunday as we enjoyed looking at all the spring blossoms and flowers. We stopped and took a few pictures of the kids with the blossoms since they were already dressed up. Hope you are enjoying the beautiful spring weather as much as we are!