Sunday, May 3, 2009

Busy Saturday

This past Saturday we worked around the house and accomplished so much I had to show all that we did.
After living in this house for almost 2 years, we decided to finally paint our bedrooms. This is Andrew and Jacobs room. It was fun to paint it a bright blue and tan. Then we put the green wood around the middle of the room. I love how it looks and I'm excited to make curtains and bedspreads to match.

We bought this car when we were living in Arizona where EVERYONE tints their windows and it is always a lot darker than it should be, but the cops don't really do anything about it. Here in Minnesota that is different. Doug has been pulled over twice in the last couple of months for having to dark of tint on our car. The last time he got pulled over he was given a warning, but given a piece of paper he has to get signed by a cop that he removed the tint. After calling around and finding out it was very pricey, Doug looked on the Internet to find out how we could do it ourselves. He bought a steamer and it only took about 2 hours to remove it.

Here is Jacob sitting in time-out for peeing down the driveway. I was in the garage painting the trim for the boys bedroom when Andrew came in and said, Mom Jacob just peed down the driveway. I thought yea right, but Jacob said yep I sure did. He was sitting here for awhile.

In the afternoon while we were waiting for paint to dry, we played soccer. The boys love to play with their Dad in the backyard soccer.

Danny even played with the big boys.

We also went for a walk because it was a beautiful day here in Minnesota.

The last couple of weeks we have been working on our bedroom. It has been a deep red for the last 2 years. I'm sooo glad to have that gone and have all the walls tan except the wall our bed is on. I painted it dark chocolate brown stripes. I still have some decorating to do on the walls, but I love not having red on every wall in my bedroom.

Danny is crawling everywhere and loves to be able to sit and play with toys.


Today is was fun to see all 3 boys playing batman, although Andrew and Jacob aren't too sure about Danny joining in the fun.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Hallelujah! Spring is in the air.

Today it is 73 outside and it is GREAT! We went to the park this morning and when we got there many people had the same idea I did. I love this time of year when green leaves are sprouting all around us. I also love to have the windows open and have the fresh air rush through my house. I made it through another Minnesota winter...I feel great. I think I will go buy something to plant this Saturday.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Danny at 7 months.

Danny will be 7 months on Saturday.
Today I found Danny's first tooth.
He is sleeping from 7p.m. until 7 a.m. I feel like a new woman now getting some sleep!
He is 18.5 lbs

Danny is getting up on his hands and knees, but not crawling yet. He can roll everywhere he wants. He loves to watch his brothers and see what they are doing. I love to watch Danny light up when his brothers are around. He laughs and thinks they are so great!



The other day I found at Target these cute flower pots. The boys loved planting their sunflowers. Jacob keeps looking at his and wondering when the flower will grow.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

My Baby Turned 5

This past Sunday Andrew turned 5. It is amazing to me that I have a 5 year old child. Wow, how time flies when you are having fun!
Saturday we had a Backyardigans party for Andrew at our house.
We started with a Pablo pinata.

Jacob hitting the pinata.

The kids each had a turn, but all they were able to to was hit Pablo's head off, but the candy was inside the body. After everyone had a turn we gave Andrew a metal bat and let him have at it, but he was unable to do much damage.

Doug, being the good dad that he is, stepped up to finish the job. He started to hit and hit the pinata. I kept hearing this clank sound and thought to myself, I wonder what is in the pinata that keeps making that noise. Finally Doug broke the pinata. All the candy came out in a big poof because we had put shock tarts, sweet tarts, nerds and chocolate candy inside. I then realized what was making that clanking noise. Everything but the chocolate was broken into a powder form. Good thing we put chocolate in it so some of the candy was still in tack.

We also played stick the bow tie on Pablo.

BINGO

We had cupcakes.

Everyone got a mask.

Andrew had a great day. This was his first birthday party and loved all the new toys he got.

Andrew is such a good big brother. He has even shared all his new toys with Jacob.
Andrew loves to read, play the computer, and be outside on the tramp or kicking a ball. We LOVE you Andrew!!