Blessing Photos (Guess that'll be my title when I can't think of anything else)

 Ella displaying her lovely fashion sense again.

 We took Britton to the doctor a little while ago, and it turns out he has situational asthma like Aidan. (or Reactive Airway Disease as it is sometimes called) ☺ He had to go on antibiotics to treat a sinus infection and this is how we kept track of his dosages. (Thank you again, Pinterest!)

 Can't have too many sunset photos....or can you?

 Britty boy is 11 months old now and he's walking. (sniffle, sniffle)

 And he still has his mom wrapped around his little finger. ☺

 Sunflares got in the way of that picture.

 See what I mean about the sunsets?!

Anita's Birthday

It was my aunt Anita's birthday earlier this week. (Well, it was a lot of people's birthday this week) ☺ But for the purposes of this post we'll focus on Anita. Mom had invited Anita and her family over for dessert and Cary was gone, so the kids and I crashed the party...just kidding, that's only partly true.

 While we were waiting for John and Anita to get there, the kids entertained grandma and grandpa.

 Once everyone had arrived, we ate rhubarb crisp and ice cream.

 Then Anita opened her gift from mom that was a photo book with pictures from all their "sister trips" that they've been going on.

The End. ☺

Just Because

Some photos of the kids because I happen to think they are cute. ☺

 Britton likes the play kitchen too!

 A few months ago, I was actually thinking I wanted to get a play kitchen for the kids  and I had been looking around and choking at the prices. Then I get an email from Kiera asking if I wanted Jordynne's play kitchen that she had grown out of, and I replied "heck yes!"  So that is where this kitchen set came from. Thanks Kiera and Jordy!
The kids have loved it. (Mine and some extras that come over to play) ☺

 Tough cop.

He looks rather intimidating, no?

 Oh, Aidan. He made up this contraption and then was blowing bubbles in the cup.

 I don't know.

 One of the projects I've been wanting to do for forever (Pinterest inspired). I've been needing a place to put all of Ella's hair clips and bows. Looks like I have room for some more! ☺

How many winter sunsets can you really take a picture of? I keep asking myself that question, but I keep taking pictures. Today was just gorgeous, feeling a little too much like Spring and confusing Grandpa Bob. ☺
One of my goals is to actually get some sunrise photos since I now have a bunch of the West side of our valley, but not very many of the East side.
You realize what's required of Sunrise pictures though, right?
Exactly.

Living Room - Before and After

I've been wanting to do before's and after's for all the rooms in our house, but I've been waiting to take pictures of the house now until after I'm done decorating. Well, apparently that will be never so I've just got to move on. This house is small, barely 1000 sq ft, so the goal was to make it feel bigger, bright and airy.

First up is the living room.

This is how it looked when we started.

During

 After - The obvious changes being that we moved the window over and made it larger. We moved the door off the far wall.

 Can't remember the name of the paint in here. It's a light gray/ blue and I love it, but it is very subtle. (as are most of the paint colors in this house.) ☺ Update: The paint color is Reflecting Pool by Behr.

 Still haven't figured out what to do on this wall. I kind of like the idea of a picture wall, but I'm worried that would make this whole room feel cluttery. Suggestions?

 A different angle of the wall.

I like mirrors and what they do for a room, but I already have a big mirror over the couch. (although, I'm open to moving it, just don't tell Cary I said that!) ☺ So what to do, what to do?

Pathetic!

The other night the kids were on the ipods, Ken and I were on our laptops, and Cary was on the PC. He said we were pathetic and took a picture. :D

Getting Out

So, our weather has been cold and breezy, if it's not going to give us moisture it should have the decency to make it enjoyable outside. The other day  Cary was working out of town, the kids didn't have school that day, and it was the witching hours of the afternoon, the kids were driving me insane. (INSANE!!) Mom is gone to California, so we couldn't go bug her which is what we usually do since she feeds us popcorn AND we get out of the house. ;)

I decided we were going to bundle up and go for a walk since that sounded infinitely better than the crazy town they were driving me to. ☺ The pictures are deceiving and I think the high that day was like 30 degrees with a breeze. I'm still logistically trying to figure out how to take 3 kids on a walk...sometimes I pile them all in the wagon, but with as cold as it was, I thought Britton would be warmer in the Bjorn and I was wearing one of Cary's jackets to try and cover us both.

Needless to say, I think we made it about 10 minutes before we all thought we were going to freeze to death. Britton wasn't a fan of being attached to me and he started crying and cried all the way home after we turned around to go back.

Walking and getting out of the house FAIL.

I'm not sure how we're going to survive the rest of winter...

Don't we look like we're having fun? ☺

 This is how I found these two.

 Their lastest thing is to get on our bed, throw all the pillows off and then play under the blankets. Considering that making my bed is the ONE job that I actually get done around here, it doesn't make me that happy. LOL.

It's hard to stay mad though when the troublemakers are this cute!