Carters Bday

For Carters 5th birthday we went to Great Wolf Lodge. The kids loved it. My parents and Doug and Carries family came, which made it heaven for my kids to have their cousins/best friends there. I was surprised how much they enjoyed it. It was loud and crowded and water dumping or shooting up all over the place. But they didn't bat an eye going down the big water slides or standing under gallons of water. There was a kiddie area with little slides, than 2 larger slides that anyone could go on, than 2 really big slides you go down on tubes that my kids were too short for, a pool with basketball hoops and a leap pad course, and a wave pool. Carter has just started seeing how long he can stay under water. He would put on his goggles, plug his nose and kick around the packed pool while i would try to direct him away from hitting people. Overall it was fun but exhausting.

Christmas 2011

I know Christmas was forever ago, but I realized I never posted any pics. So for my own record here are a few pics of Christmas 2011. We loved every minute of it.

Snow finally came late January and the kids couldn't get enough.

Just say No

My children manipulate me.

Exhibit A Evan 16 months-When he wants something we either get the angry child with full out screaming or the sweet child who tries hugs and smiles to get his way. Either way its hard to say no to a baby.

Exhibit B Lilly 3- "But . . . mom .... mom ... i just .... just .... want to ... mom ... mom ... please... please.... I said please... see I'm being nice"

"Mommy please hold me I'm hurting I can't do it I'm hurting, please."

"But apples make me throw up I need candy to make me feel better. Only candy won't make me throw up."

"But I'm a big girl and can do it all by myself, you said I'm not a baby and I need to try to do it by myself". Of course this explanation comes when wanting to put on makeup or cook and not feeding herself.

Exhibit C Carter 4(almost 5)-"Mom do you want me to be happy?" "Then say yes"

"Hold on mom I need to say a prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, Please Tell mommy to say yes. Mommy you need to listen to Jesus now because he is telling you to say yes."

"Mom do you want me to cry? If you don't say yes I'm going to cry."

"This arm is full of dinner. This arm needs dessert."

And of course when its time to clean up my leg is broken, when its time to eat dinner I'm so full, and when it's time to go to bed I'm hungry, I have to go to the bathroom, or I just can't sleep.

Halloween 2011

Here is Peter Pan, Peter pans shadow, tinkerbell, a pirate, and Michael for Halloween.

Newest additions

Here is the dining room. I started to paint the chairs white and got half done. The other half can wait.

I found some barstools. The kids love them but I think I will continue to look for something with a back.

I have hung a few things. Painted that dresser and we got our rug!

TV and fireplace are running.

I have to show off the bench I made. I didn't just upholster it, I MAde it. After hours of experimenting and starting over, its strong.

And finally after many months of waiting we finally got carpet on the stairs.

Ok so forget about that last post on Thursday when I said I would post pictures tonight. I went to Girls night that night and got home at 11:30 then stayed up till 3 moving stuff over to our house. And then of course my battery for my camera was dead. And then I couldn't find the cord to uplaod pics. And now I just noticed that the settings on my camera were off, so the pictures are kind of grainy. Anyways I'm still trying to get used to the camera and learn how to use it.
But here is the house. This is the front door and to the left is a little door for the kids that goes under the stairs to a little reading spot. We are still waiting for carpet for the stairs. It got ordered twice and came the wrong color. Third time is the charm right!?

I have more varnishing to do on those end caps on the posts.

Carter reading

Here is the kitchen. We need to paint the trim around that pantry door and build shelves in there.

Dining room. We are waiting for our backsplash in here and need to get our baseboards on.

And maybe some yard work . . .

I'm planning on painting theses chairs white soon. And good spray painters out there want to come spray with me : )

Family room. In here we need to put the bracket up for the tv and hang it, baseboards, and get Tim to get us a rug. : ) I'm hoping to order the same carpet that is coming for the stairs and have it bound for an area rug.

This is a little more realistic of how our house looks right now. So don't be offended if I don't invite you over because there really are boxes everywhere.

Coming in from the back door. In the near future there will be a bench, hooks, and shelves here.

Play room. In here we need to build the shelves in the closet. Then I will be able to put away all their toys. : ) We have been doing preschool in here for 2 hrs everyday this last week, and it has been going really good. I'm hoping that in the next couple weeks when we check most things off our to do list I will be able to pepare better lessons for Carter and Lilly.

Powder bath. We are still waiting for the chair rail tile to come in and we need to hang a mirror.

Mast bath. I have been forced to become more comfortable with my body.

Mirrors are needed in here and we need to put our hardware on.

Laundry.

Kids bath. We have mirrors for here just need to hang them and put our hardware on. Currently we can't really open the drawers.

I'm not posting any bedroom picks this time, because we don't have any dressers or rods in our closets. So they consist of a bed on the floor and boxes. I will try to continue to post as we finish projects. Thanks for taking a look and if you come across any awesome cheap dressers or mirrors call me.