40 Things I Love about Spring

I love Spring!!. It makes me happy, puts me in a good mood... next to Fall, it is my favorite season of the year. I live in Arizona, and besides the abundance of "snow birds" that flock here for the winter, Spring in the desert is the most gorgeous 2-3 months of the year here. To celebrate my love for this season, I put together a little list of the 40 things I love about Spring...

1. Needing a sweater in the morning and short sleeves in the afternoon
2. The smell of orange blossoms outside and my Gold Canyon Orange Blossom candle burning inside
3. The sun
4. The smell of new grass
5. St. Patrick's Day
6. Easter
7. Spring Break- my first week of vacation each year with the kiddies
8. Transition wardrobe from winter to summer
9. Flip flops
10. Pedicures- in preparation for flip flops and summer
11. New blooms on my rose bushes
12. The anticipation of summer (wait for my "40 things I don't love about summer" blog sometime in July)
13. Because the rest of the country is in "thaw" mode, the turbulence isn't so bad when I travel
14. Dying Easter Eggs
15. Making Easter Baskets
16. Easter Egg Hunt
17. 40 days of reflection between Ash Wednesday and Easter
18. T-shirts
19. Shorts
20. Baseball Spring Training Games with friends
21. My car wash lasting more than a week
22. Reading- Spring kicks off my non-stop reading marathon between now and the end of summer
23. My wedding anniversary 
24. Planning summer vacation
25. Camping
26. Flowers blooming
27. Green everywhere! Everything is new, plants and trees are "waking up"...the earth is alive after winter...I LOVE IT!
28. Memories of my grandmother visiting
29. Memories of "Park & Swap" when I was a kid - many call it a flea market or swap meet, either way, it was a treat to get to go with my parents!
30. Outside seating at restaurants
31. Everyone seems to be in a good mood this time of year
32. Ireland on St. Patrick's Day...the MOST incredible trip of my life thus far
33. Scrapbooking
34. Spring Cleaning...this year it has been about turning our den into a "game room" for the kids
35. Blonde highlights
36. Self Tanning lotion on my ghost white legs in order to wear #19
37. Cool crisp nights
38. Family meals outside
39. My body requires less food...I'm kind of like an Eskimo and shed my fat coat this time of year
40. Memories of my mother....she loved this time of year too.

Happy Spring everyone! I hope you share my enthusiasm for the beauty of this season....