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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

House Projects

When we bought our house in January of 2011, we knew we were buying a fixer-upper.  The house was in foreclosure and needed a lot of work even before we moved in.  We took out all the carpeting on the upper level, painted the entire upper level, and gutted the kitchen and completely re-did it, all before moving into the house.  The rest of the updates have come slowly as we've lived here...and as we've saved up money to do another project.  Thankfully my husband is amazing and can do all the projects himself, so we save a lot of money not having to hire anybody!  I just wanted to share some of the most recent projects we've completed (okay, mostly Matt has completed, but I do help too!). 

Here is what the bathroom looked like when we bought the house (notice the dark red walls in a bathroom with no windows):




Here is the antique dresser we found for a great deal at a local shop (Matt already started getting it ready before I could get a picture):



Here is my husband hard at work:







And...

Here's the finished product!




He also made me this awesome storage unit for towels since we don't have a lot of closet space!

What a great guy, huh?





Well, we are continually doing projects around here, so I will post the newest ones as we finish. Thanks for reading!

Friday, April 20, 2012

We've got a roller!

Well, I just wanted to give a little update on the youngest member of our family, Elijah.  He is not so little anymore-he's 5 months now (and over 17 pounds!), and rolling all over!  That's right, we've gone mobile:)
This means that the baby gate again has to be closed all the time, and we can't just assume Elijah will stay put wherever we set him.  I've got to admit, I do kind of like that short period of time where you can set them down and they don't move from where you put them, but I am incredibly proud of our growing little boy!  He's such a sweet guy and learning so many new things every day!  Here are a few pictures of Elijah's newest accomplishment as well as him and Bella playing together.  I'll share those too, just because I think they are so sweet together!



Playing together


Blowing Bubbles!


Love these two!

Well that's my mini update for today!  Stay tuned for more coming soon:) Blessings to you!

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Easter Fun

Well a Happy Belated Easter to everyone, hope your celebration was wonderful!  We had a lot of fun around here.  We started at church on Sunday morning where Matt and I both helped on the worship team.  Then it was home to get ready to host our first Easter dinner!  Yay!  I must say, it went better than expected.  The house looked clean, the food was cooking, the tables were all decorated and...I was so busy doing all that stuff that I didn't get any pictures of it:-(  But believe me, it looked good! 

Bella had a cute little dress on for church that promptly got filthy as soon as we got home.  I think in total for the day she had three costume changes.  So I didn't even get a picture of her in her Easter dress before it was gone, but I do have a few in one of her more 'casual' outfits! I did manage to get a few of Elijah (he actually kept his Easter outfit presentable the entire day-go figure!) and a few pics of all the kids completing the egg hunt!  We had a great time with our extended family and it was so nice to be able to chat with everyone for a while.  Maybe next year we will get to the kickball game we talked about:-)


Elijah in his Easter attire!

Egg Hunting Time!





Little Ava will be ready next year!

My two kiddos as bunnies!  Thanks for the ears Auntie Erika!

Happy Easter!

I know for next year I will get my camera out earlier and make sure to capture the entire day (or at least a little more of it!).  Anyway, I hope you all had a great holiday and got a chance to celebrate our awesome Savior!