Kinley's Second Birthday!

June 2010: We celebrated Kinley's birthday this year by going to the Zoo. One of the elephants just had a baby this year and we were excited to see her. Her name is Zuri and she has a lot of energy! The kids watched her for thirty minutes playing with water and in the mud. Happy 2nd Birthday sweetheart- We love you!

New Sidewalk and Curb/ Gutter!

May 2010: After two years of complaining about our busted up sidewalk and curb/ gutter the city decided to fix it! Here are some pictures of the project while it was happening and the end result. We are very pleased with how it looks and the kids enjoy not falling off their scooters when they ride them now! The End Result:

If you look closely you can also see our new family vehicle. With baby number three on the way we decided we needed something bigger than our little car! So far we have really enjoyed the room.

Drezden's Preschool Program

Drezden finished his first year of preschool (In May- I know I am so slow!) and participated in the end of year program... I couldn't get the video to load so you will have to imagine his amazing air drum solos through out every song they sang! The cute girl to his left in the polka dot dress is Tori. She is the girl that he would always kiss at preschool... at least she is super cute:)
We are looking forward to another year of preschool this coming school year (2010- 2011).

Big News!

Yes- we are expecting baby number 3! We are very excited and will find out in a few weeks what gender the baby is! Here is the first picture of our little one!

Drezden is 4 and Easter!

I have not kept my new years resolution to update the blog more... sorry! My little boy turned 4 in March and is growing up so fast! He loves to play legos, video games, and ride his scooter. Here are some pictures of his big day!

It has been so nice to have the basement finished! We absolutely love the space and the "new" smell! I am so thankful that I have a husband that can create awesome spaces!

Here are some pictures from Easter this year. This is the first year that we have done Easter baskets for the kids when they have woke up Easter morning. It was really fun to see their faces.

Project Completion!

Well the basement is completely finished (minus painting all of the doors which we will do when it is warmer outside). If you were wondering if we finished in plenty of time the answer would be no! We were still working on sanding, filling in holes, and cleaning when the carpet arrived to be installed on Monday morning:) Here are some pics- tell me what you think!

Here is a picture after we put up the Sheetrock on the wall, put in the lights, insulated the ceiling, and our attempt at putting up the ceiling- just the two of us:)


Here are pictured of the ceiling and the walls after James textured them and we painted them. We also put up all new baseboards and trim around the doors/ openings.




Here is what it looks like today! This shows the cabinets all stained, the new carpet, and all of James' speakers hung up:)

Here are some recent pics of the kids this week!