Home Makeover for the Boys Room!

A few years ago we got bunk beds for the boys.

Recently we took them apart!

Then, the boys wanted to change colors so we

started the home make-over in their

room! Alex picked red because it is one

of the Blazer colors.

Josh picked blue for the Denver Nuggets.

We split the room and they each got

a few walls for their color!

It took 3-4 days of work and everyone helped!

Dad was able to cover the chair rail mark

with orange peel after he sanded it down. Yeah!

Here are the new colors with a white divider

down the middle!

We got a new rug at IKEA that makes it warm

and cozy underfoot.

We just have to put up the shelves and

then it will be complete!

Mother's Day!

Happy Belated Mother's Day to all you mother's

out there! Hope you had a great day

with your families:)

I had a great day and was spoiled as usual!

My boys with the gifts they picked out for me!

We had our friends over for dinner later in the
evening and enjoyed playing "Cranium"
with them. The mothers team won!
(With Michael's help, also!)



I spent a bunch of time taking photos of
my lovely flowers.

One question from the game asked you to write

down the first three words that you associate

with a particular topic-for instance we got

"the beach"

Michael and I wrote down the same three

words in the same order!

(sand, sun, water)

Everyone declared that we had really become

"one flesh"!

Mowing the Lawn

It was a beautiful Saturday to get outside

and do yard work!

Mowing the lawn, used to mean this!

But now.....

The boys are learning how to mow with the

real mower! Dad won't be mowing

much longer with two sons to help him!

They did a great job:)

I did some trimming etc and took pictures!

Here's a rose next to our front door.

The leaves were falling fast!
It was not as fun to pick them up, however.

I guess we will have to retire

this mower for now. Very sad!

(We'll keep it around for visitors who might

like to mow-maybe Jay and his little brother!)

Lots of Birthday Parties!

There must be lots of spring babies that

we know because we have been

having birthday party celebration

after birthday celebration the last

few weekends!

This one was a 2 year old Elmo party!

Then we had birthday dinner to celebrate

with Nana.

We also celebrated Mother's Day a little

early since Nana was going on her

road trip with Poppop!

Josh lost tooth #2 also this past week!

We had marshmellos over the fire for

Lindsey's 20th party!

We also attended a pizza party for a friend

of the boys and did video games and pool!

Celebrating Poppop's Birthday!

The boys and Jay had great fun playing

soccer in the living room before dinner.

Everytime they "scored" Jay wanted to

hug one of the boys-It was very cute!

Alex gets a hand up from the floor!

Playing soccer and hugging!

Around the dinner table for a wonderful dinner together.
We so enjoyed eating together and

celebrating Poppop's birthday. It's the big

one next year for him:)

Poppop opening cards and gifts.

Poppop and his cute grandsons!

Poppop got a new fishing shirt!

Very exciting peek-a-boo with Jay and Alex!

Easter-He is Risen!

All the kids sang for our Resurrection Sunday

Service! They did a great job:)

We had a wonderful special speaker who

told his story of having a logging accident

that nearly killed him! The Lord was

faithful to him and he has continued

the prison ministry that he was and is

still a part of. To God be the glory

great things HE HAS DONE!

We enjoyed a wonderful dinner at my

parent's house! They work well together

as a team and are always so

hospitable!

The boys loved the Easter candy and money

inside their Easter eggs:0

Sporting their new sweaters that I got on sale!

Sour Vitamin C-Josh's New Haircut

Vitamin C: Is it really as sour as Dad

seems to think that it is?

What strange faces!

Josh finally let me buzz his hair!

He has complained about me combing his hair

for some time because it was long and

thick. Finally I talked him into letting

me cut it short so he doesn't really have

to even comb it!

We wanted to do "before" and "after" shots but

for some reason that day the camera was in Daddy's car!

Of course he bumped his head that same day

and had a bruise on his newly displayed forehead!