Latest House Project

Another one of those projects that you wouldn't have thought would take very long, but here we are on month three...☺

This is where we were at in November, the lofts were still up.

 The end of December, Cary took out the loft part and started framing in some walls. We debated taking out the wall altogether, but at that point you already looked straight into the girls room right when you walk in our front door and we wanted to maintain some privacy back there with the bathroom too, so we thought we better keep it and we extended it out a little.

 The original plan was to make the wall kind of an accent wall and do the paneled look again (we did that in our back entryway), and then we would have Adam come and do the tape and mudding, but Cary decided he wanted to give it a try. He did a really great job!

 The corners of this house are all straight edge corners, and they looked really bad since paint was constantly getting banged and chipped off, so we put trim up but you can't really see it since everything is white...

I think adding trim helps make sense of all the crazy angles. We need to paint, but the ceiling has to be done now and we're not too excited about painting up that high. ☺

Just Enjoying Winter...;)

 Those words don't usually come out of my mouth (enjoying winter...) but as far as that goes, this winter has been nice, hopefully we get some spring rains and snow storms though, I can handle those because I know that the snow won't be around for forever. ☺

Britton got a new bike for his birthday and he has been loving it! It's nice for him when we go on walks/ bike rides now he can keep up more with the older kids.

 The boys had a haircut day, but Britton didn't want to be in the picture.

 Clara got some new dresses for her birthday and this one from Janille has been one of her favorites and in these pictures she's excitedly showing me her dress. She's getting quite opinionated on her wardrobe lately!

Britton turns 4!

Britton's birthday is only five days after Clara's birthday.

It keeps things interesting. ☺

Britton had school on his birthday so Clara and I took some cupcakes over for the class, and it was a nicer day so they could be outside.

Later that night we had a party for him with the rest of the family. Britton's request was a round chocolate cake with green frosting.

 This is the extent of my cake decorating these days.

 I was instructed to take a picture of his toy that he got from Grandpa and Grandma Faber.