One of my favorite lyrics from one of my favorite songs of all time is the line from the Indigo Girl's Watershed - Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good laugh.

Last week, I completed my FIFTH year of a Week in the Life and the anniversary gave me just a chance to look back and have a good laugh. As I flipped through my first Week in the Life in 2010, I was overwhelmed by how much our lives have changed. The years have passed so quickly that I haven't been able to take a step back and see that in almost every area our lives are different. 

Big celebrations are fun. Christmas. Anniversaries. They all deserve their day. However, the everyday is where we live our lives and deserves to be celebrated as well. 

Every year to celebrate and document my family's everyday lives I participate in Ali Edwards' A Week in the Life. For one week, I take photos every where we go and of every thing we do. I keep receipts, make notes of our schedule, and generally document every little detail. 

This is my FIFTH week in the life. I can't believe how much our lives have changed since July 2010 when Griffin was just a baby, but I am so so glad I have A Week in the Life to help me reflect on all those changes every year. We're technically doing another one before an entire year has passed but I wanted to capture the spring and our lives with two little ones in preschool so 9 months was close enough!

Here are photos from a week in our lives. 

Today was a big day. The last day of Week in the Life and Amos's first haircut. Most of you may know that I have strong feelings on haircuts. However, his hair was legitimately obstructing his vision so we went in for the tiniest of trims. We also made a visit to the comic store and had a little barbecue for dinner. 

My camera came back just in time for a visit to the "country" to visit my Grandmother and eat the best barbecue in Kentucky (world?). An evening spent chatting it up with my Charity League girls was the perfect end to the day. 

My "good" camera's battery died today so I had to do a little iPhone/old camera magic. It turned out ok. We had some fun in the mall today since it's been very, very rainy here and if it's not rainy it's super humid. Otherwise, it was a good day filled with yoga, bubbles, and our first blackberry from our blackberry bush! 

Yesterday, we had friends over to play and had our very first tea party. It was a huge success with Batman and Captain American and Spiderman being invited along. Amos took an almost four hour nap so there was lots of reading and relaxing the second half of the day. Mimi came over for dinner and I spent the rest of my evening watching the rest of Orange is the New Black.  

Yesterday was a lazy day. Part of the reason I picked this week was I knew we had no commitments - no places to be. With Griffin starting 5 day a week preschool next week, I'm feeling a little sad about the loss of lazy days spent in our pajamas. I stayed in my pjs until about 4 and there was lots of game playing, iPad playing, and general lazing about. It was awesome.

Yesterday is also the day Griffin learned to photo bomb.  So there's that. 

We finished up our time at All Saints with a church service, some time in the pool, and a lovely picnic with our friends. Then, we headed home for family dinner with my mom and stepfather.