Shaving Cream Mania!

We're not feeling real motivated to get outside quite yet with the rain and dark clouds day after day, so we're continuing to try and make our own fun and messes in the house....

Laughter to Tears

Oh the joys of friendship between young boys.  It's fun to watch Josiah with his friend Chase. 

Being cute and silly on the couch

Who knew it could so quickly turn to this.....

 (They bonked heads - haha, it was pretty funny how fast the fun and games turned to tears)

lookin' like dad

She pretty much takes after Brian, except my blue eyes (at least I think)

survival

I may or may not have done this more than once :-)  I do what I can to survive some days.... :-)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! We're passing the time with some painting which is also enabling me to have a nice reading-coffee moment!

Do your kids love Veggie Tales? Here is a history of St. Patrick's day told by the makers of our favorite Veggies! Enjoy!

http://ministry-to-children.com/veggie-tales-saint-patrick-video/

Tile Project, Done!

Well, our upstairs bath is completely redone and finished!  We have a guy living with us who knows how to tile and we took advantage to do this while he's living here to help us out.  A few years ago we tiled the shower and we finally did the floors and wall and replaced the vanity that was very OLD and 70's. We had a small detour of replacing the floor when we found mold under the linoleum, but Brian is quite handy and was able to patch it up and 4 days later (longer than expected) we have a brand new bathroom!

bathroom before

before

where we needed to replace the floor

Brian is seriously such a hard worker!

drying process

and while all the construction was underway I got desperate for Josiah to have a bath - notice the dirty dishes in the sink next to him :-) He didn't seem to mind all the mess around him. :-)

finshed!

love that new vanity

we also retiled the entry way



looks so much better than the old stained linoleum

Bottles and Vaseline

Gracie takes a bottle! And big brother is such a good help when it comes to feeding her 

yep, I'm a big girl, I take a bottle so mommy can leave me with a sitter and not worry so much about me getting hungry :-)

 Nana let me put on her Vaseline and I loved it. I put it all over my face!

7 Months Old Today!

Today my little Gracie is 7 months old!  She's just the sweetest most smiley baby ever! 

Grace has two bottom teeth and she can sit up all by herself now! She's still not into rolling over, but we know she can.  She loves to be held! So all you long distance friends & relatives out there, come on up for visit and a chance to hold this sweet bundle of Joy!

Caught these two in a sweet moment this morning! Josiah usually doesn't like to let Grace touch his BB (Blanket), but from the looks of it he was allowing it for at least a bit. :-)