Our Annual Christmas Photos...

Yesterday, I decided to take everyone's photo for our Christmas card and the yearly photos of the kids. Allison isn't done designing the card yet, but here are some of the photos...

Genevieve age 7


Sophia age almost 3


Isaac age almost 5


Jonathan age 15 1/2


Allison age almost 18


Me with a couple of stinkers...


Eric and I, not telling how old...



I'm pretty excited to see the final Christmas design and I'll share once it's complete.

Blessings,

What did we do...

With the littles? Well, we worked around them until the tile started. These little cuties gave us much humor during the whole painting process.

Here's Sophia, with a cute little pony in her hair...


Here's Isaac and Sophia playing on the computer...


Here's a fun game! Watch Mommy paint the trim...


Yep. That's a good job, Mom...


Can I try?


Please?



These were some dirty kids! Luckily, it all came off. Even the occasional drop of paint.

Blessings,

The "Orange Room"...

So, I had this color in my head. I REALLY wanted it, but all I had was a tiny photo. I looked and looked for the color and thought I'd found it. Yesterday, I was on a mission to finish the dining room. I whipped out my handy-dandy painting tools, opened the paint can and began to paint.

*Note to self: ALWAYS do a test swatch before getting this far and finally noticing that the paint is horrible...


Yes, folks. I got ALL the way around the room before I realized how yucky the color was turning out.lol

It was a looooong day. I sent Allison for a lighter orange. She brought back the color I'd envision in hell's dining room. It was the color of flames and with the dark tile, it'd be just dandy. ::snort:: Sorry, no photo of that one. By then, I was really rethinking the whole "Poppy" color. I was tired and I no longer really wanted to mess with it.LOL Allison thought we should try one more time. I decided that we'd just get 3 little paint samples and try them on the walls. That worked much better and we found the color I was looking for.

Today, we painted the whole room this color...








We love it! I can't wait to see it with the tile and I'm going to stop by Pier One tomorrow to see if I can find a good painting on the wall. I'm glad that Allison kept me going when I would have given up.

Oh, and it looks great with Sophia...lol


And Evie too...


Look at that hair...lol


See? I do work too.lol...


Blessings,

A Special Visit...

This past weekend I was surprised by a phone call from my good friend Mylinda from Miami. She and her girls were going to be in my town and they wanted to see us! What a wonderful surprise! We all had such a great time. It makes me miss our old home so much!

Here we are, Sophia, Mylinda, and I at the end of our visit. Doesn't Mylinda and Sophia look related? We thought that was pretty neat!


Here are the older kids together...they were such good friends down in Miami and they sure had a good time hanging out together again. We sure miss them!

Ashton, Jon, Allison, and Savannah...


Mylinda and I have so much in common. We both had older kids close in age and then we both were blessed with little ones after having such a large break. Evie and Isaac grew up with her little boys Indy and Levi. What a blessing that we can still keep in contact with each other! I'm hoping to visit sometime this spring/summer and we'll get those little ones back together again. Thank you for such a wonderful surprise Mylinda!

Blessings,

My new do...

Here's my new do...

Nothing exciting here...lol I just left the gray and went a little darker than usual.



Now, this little critter... she's got the fun hair... I love her color!

(I don't touch up these photos either, they are fresh from the camera.)

Blessings,

Happenings...

Well, it's not quite the end of week three but I have a bunch of photos in my computer that are begging to be posted.lol

It's been a very busy, but good week. Here's a photo of me and Sophia that Allison took. I really like it. I think I'll replace my little icon with this one.


Here's another one...


The littles have been quite the busy beavers! Those creative juices are definitely flowing around here. I just wish they cleaned as well as they created.lol They recently explored Legos...


Blocks and big Legos...


Blocks and little plastic animals...


And, of course, blocks and matchbox cars...


Sophia's been a little sweetie, as always...


Here she is right after she swiped Allison's hat and phone...


Here's Genevieve after she swiped the hat from Sophia...


Cute photo of Sophia on a seven foot high slide...


And finally, Boppy Boy at the playground...


I hope to have a few minutes to write something later this week, but we'll see. As it is, I'm working on borrowed time.lol

Blessings,

Project 365: Snugglebuggies....

Me, Isaac, and Sophia





Blessings,

Park Day...

We sure do love the park.LOL We've been cooped up the past few days because of the cold weather and today was the first lovely day that we could get out and have some fun. Here are some fun photos...

Snug as a bug...

Flying Evie...

Me and Isaac

Me having some swing time...




I'll post a few more good ones in another post.

Blessings,