Isaac's 4th Birthday

Here is a our little urban cowboy! 

 We had so much fun preparing for this party.  Bryan made this fun poster for photo ops!  I put together some mustaches and ordered hats from Amazon.  I had bandanas left over from last year's pirate party so we used those too.  I made some pennant banners for decorations in the house.  I made some bean bags for the tin can toss.

 boot shaped PB&Js.  Isaac's favorite!

 We played horseshoes.  This was a big hit with the kiddos but the winner was the tin can toss.  It made lots of noise when they hit the ground so the kids loved it.

 ?, Charlie, Ella, Isaac, Ashleigh, and Abby

A Little Accident on the Ripstick

The Boys got Ripsticks for Christmas.  I am proud to say I was the first to get up on it and figure out how to do it.  I was also the first to suffer an injury.  A few weeks after Christmas I was playing on the ripstick at my Mom and Dad's house and I fell.  It started to slide when I hit some wet leaves so I jumped ship and landed in a muddy patch in the planter and then I slid and sprained my ankle.  Sadly I still cannot run and it has been 2 months.  I can walk now though and I can skip hop if I need to run after a kiddo.  Dad was awesome and scored this wheel chair from his neighbor.  It was a huge help getting in and out of the urgent care.

Extracurricular!

Owen loves to read with the boys!

 Adam figured out how to read while riding his ripstick!

Kevin is really pretty good at Piano.  He has really been improving very  quickly.

Family Portraits

Our cousin, Amy Morris, took these photos and there were tons more but they all turned out so pretty!

A Working Holiday!

We were so lucky to have Bryan home all week during Christmas week.  He got right to work after Christmas and finished up some projects we had been putting off.

First he tackled the guest bathroom.  Sadly the place in our home that everyone one saw was the only place we had never gotten around to painting.  We lovingly referred to it as our hospital bathroom.  It had white cabinets, with white walls, a white floor and a lovely white shower curtain.  I pretty much hated it.  Anyone who knows me, knows that white just isn't my thing.  So I knew we had to add some color to this super sterile bathroom.  We began by deciding to paint the cabinet.  This was a project in its own right.  Cabinets are not that easy to paint, turns out.  We took a couple months picking the color.  I finally convinced Bryan that we should go with my favorite color.

 You can see that it took uuuhhmmm several coats of paint to get our desired look.

The color was beautiful we just had to get enough super thin coats on to make it look good and not drip down the cabinet.

Eventually we did get a nice even coat and it is gorgeous!

I was super stoked to score this cabinet...free...from a good friend of mine!  I love it in my bathroom and I get to add new things for each holiday in it to spice up my bathroom...yay!  I know I am a total geek...oh yeah and that towel rack is gone now.  We got rid of that when we painted the walls...the towels live in the bottom of the cabinet now.

After we got the cabinet painted it was time to paint the walls!  We picked Toasted Almond, the same color we have for all the neutral walls in our home.

after painting the walls we needed to spray paint our wood framed mirror which we picked up off craigslist for $20.  It was a strange brown/gold color, but nothing a can of white spray paint could not fix.  We also took down the picture on the wall and painted that frame white to update it.  It has some sentimental value, Our favorite tenants in our old apartment building that we used to manage painted the picture and gave it to us.  They are very elderly and were so super sweet.  They were like grandparents to our kiddos and we still try to visit them if we are up in the area.

 So here it is completed!  The picture below is the shower curtain we picked out for the bathroom.  I love how it pulls everything together.  I now love my guest bathroom and I am proud to send people to the potty!

Next we built some shelves in the big boys' room.  We wanted them to have space to store their games and toys and since they didn't really use their toy boxes.  The shelves store a lot more stuff for them.