General Conference Activity

So during General Conference last weekend, we stayed home and watched it on the internet. At one point during an afternoon session, we told Noah and Kara they could play on the other side of the basement, quietly. Our basement is basically our family room with computer, TV, toys etc all down here. They both came over all excited about what they had just done. "Mommie, Daddy! Come see what we did!" and dragged us over. We did not coax them into this activity, they both came up with it all on their own. We LOVE their sweet little spirits! Here's what we found...sorry the picture quality is so dark...it was a rainy afternoon and we had all the lights off down here....

HOME IMPROVEMENT??!!

We are attempting to finally finish the "striped room" as Kristen would call it :) AKA our living room. You've all seen the yellow walls with white stripes (drywall compound) in previous listings/photos. Well, last week I decided to get out the can of sage green that we bought about a half year ago for the kitchen and start painting the living room. I didn't get far before I was needed by one of the younger boys. Later after they all went to bed, Scott finished off 2 of the walls and I came out of our room to check it out (it was late when he finished). I THOUGHT the color looked great and I loved it. I even remember saying it made the room look more warm and inviting compared to the yellow.

Well, fast forward to the next morning with the sun shining brightly in the room and me staring at the 2 new, freshly painted walls. I immediately had the thought, "Scott's going to shoot me" because I did NOT like the color anymore. YIKES! I came to the conclusion that it is because that room is SO bright that the lighter colors are just washing out the room. I called his voice mail at work and left a message and finished with "please don't be mad at me". He called back and said no problem what color do you want this time? LOL! AAhhh thank goodness for a patient husband!

Friday I came home with a new color green after much deliberating (for 2 days) between me and Scott and he started painting AGAIN. Well it was DARK but we loved it...he had about 1/4 of the first wall done and it started bubbling. We started freaking out like WHAT THE HAY is going on??!! What we eventually realized is that the sage green paint had "rubberized" from sitting too long and that when it got wet from the dark green it started to bubble like wallpaper! We started to peel it up and gave up because it got really messy, really fast.

We came to terms with the fact that we had to let it dry and sand ALL THE SAGE GREEN WALLS down in order to begin on the dark green again!!! This is after already using dry wall compound to fill in all holes and 2 sessions of sanding them down! DUST CITY!! We were both really frustrated but we figured hey at least we only did the sage on 2 walls and not on all 4!

Soooo then on Saturday Scott painted the 2 non-sage, still-yellow walls with the dark green and we have yet to start sanding the 'bad' walls. We think we are really liking this color. I say 'we' but of course I mean ME. I think if he has to help me paint it again he's going to choke me lovingly...HA HA JUST KIDDING! Here's a photo of the messed up wall....after we tried peeling it!!



And here's a picture of the dark green on one of the 'good' walls...with the to-be-fixed sage wall...

Our Boy Elijah

This is my beautiful boy, Elijah....Sometimes I feel like he is the "odd man out" because he's not the cute, new little baby and he's not one of the older, smarter kids who go to school and play a lot of 'older kid' stuff that he can't understand right now. So, I wanted to pay tribute to my nutty, crazy, 100MPH, loud, excited, wonderful, smart, beautiful, sweet little 3-year-old boy. I'm so glad he came to be with us so he could teach his mother and father LOTS of stuff!! ;)

Flashdance (Well, not really!)

This is a video of Scott, Noah and Elijah bustin' a move! Boy, do they have rhythm (NOT!). That's ok, they were having fun! About that 'flashing thing'...yes, Noah's robe does move but you don't see anything! (From what I can see anyway!) Sorry about how dark the video is, you can barely see Scott dancing with MOLLY! Enjoy!

Daddy Throwing the Kids Out

Scott being silly with Noah and Kara...



Getting rid of them again...and Molly the Lab
That's Elijah that yelling "ROWAH" (Noah) and also him screaming when Scott is tossing the dog...:)

Ethan Baby

OK so I'm pretty sure all of you will not get as much enjoyment out of these photos as I did....but, when I downloaded them from the camera, I couldn't help but smile and giggle at HOW STINKIN' CUTE this baby is! Sorry, I know I'm being goofy but I'm his Momma and I can't help myself! I hope they give you a smile, too!

Easter at Auntie Mel's

Here are the pictures from Auntie Mel's I promised. The ones on the flowered couch and the one of Scott with Elijah being grumpy are from church. The one with the teenage boy is me, Melanie and my nephew, Jimmy. He's very camera shy so I had to turn his head and Mel was TRYING to give him Bunny Ears! The ones of Ethan in the swing are also at Mel's during the egg hunt...he was giving lots of love to the camera! The girl with the blue flowered dress is my niece, Meghan...she is 6 weeks older than Noah. Easter was so much fun!