Project: wall

These are some pictures of our front room before I decided to reduce the size of the front room. The picture on the top left was a picture taken in April 2008 so the furniture arangment has been changed a few times. Plus we have a lot more furniture and no more wicker in the house. This room as you can see is pretty big. It was about 26'x15' (very long) and it felt like a waste of space. The only time we used the front room is when visiting teachers came to visit, music time, and for kids to sleep in during nap time. However, I felt like the rest of the house was way too crowded...

So I decided to add a wall in the front room and create two seperate areas.

The first area is the sitting area for when visiting teachers come to visit that measures about 11'x15', and the second area is... where the new play room is that measures about 15'x15'. The nice thing about this addition is that we can take it down someday and have our big front room back when we want to and when we have more space with the basement.

We built shelving space for all of the toys and the kids have loved it! Lincoln especially loves it cause he can see most of the toys. The first day we had it like this he was getting out all of the toys to play with them. He does very well at cleaning up after himself lately though. With all of this new toy space it clears up the space in the closest that used to have the toys in it.

The pictures below shows the old toy room.

This is now what used to be the play room. It is now the "quiet" room and Lincoln's future bedroom. We will eventually put the beds together and make a bunk bed to make more floor space.

Below is Lincoln's bedroom before and below to the right is Lincoln's "new" bedroom and the baby's future bedroom.

My wonderful Husband!

My husband is so cool, just look at him. We have been enjoying the nice weather.

On March 12, and 13th Isaac played in a Preston Tournament where the highschool graduates come back and compete against eachother. The first game they played Isaac and his brother, Mac played eachother. Jessica (Mac's wife) and I were secretly routing for the other team so we didn't have to come back for another round. However, Isaac's team won and that meant that we had to come back again on Saturday so they could play another team. Lincoln was NO fun trying to watch him Friday night. He just wanted to be on the court playing with the big guys, climbing all over the bleachers, and screaming at me. (The game started at 9pm so he was pretty tired too).

On Saturday Isaac's parents, Ryan and Donene came with us to watch Isaac play. That made it much more enjoyable. He even fell asleep in Ryans arms.

Fun with the family.

We played frisbee golf with Mark and Amanda last Saturday, March 22. Can you guess who won? Mark of course. He always loves to win me at everything. Didn't feel too bad on frisbee golf though. At least I got the most points!

Lincoln had fun taking off with the frisbees too.

Isaac took Lincoln to the Fun Park in North Logan when my uncle Blake and his family came to visit from Indiana. It was Isaac's spring break from school so he got to spend some extra time with the family. It was great to have them here. Pictured above is Mattie, Amanda, and my dad.

What can I say my husband is a great dancer!

This is my brother Mark with Lincoln. Mark came down from Boise with Amanda when they heard my uncle Blake was going to be here.

Christmas Saturday

I recently have been participating in Bountiful baskets a food corp. Every Saturday we pick up baskets full of random fruits and vegetables all for $16.50. They load up a truck full of goodness at the price that grocery stores and restaraunts get and deliver it to different places around the state. It has been so fun to see what we get. It seriously feels like christmas every Saturday. The one pictured above was what we got the first week and the one below is the second week.

Fun at daycare!

Lincoln loves playing with the other kids and he especially loves to play outside. I love that the weather is starting to warm up.

Lincoln loves to swing, and I have a hard time getting him off.

I recently invested in car seats for daycare. I don't think that we will have to buy another car seat ever again. We are on our way to the Library. Every Tuesday they have something called toddler time where they read stories and sing songs to the kids. The kids like it because they get to be with other kids, and I like it because its a fun learning experience for the kids that I didn't have to prepare.

Lincoln loves to "play" the wii with the daycare kids. Every morning before breakfast the kids usually play some game on the wii while I make them breakfast before they head off to school. Next to Lincoln is Keelie, she is in Kindergarten. I take her to school later in the day.

Lincoln is walking!

For anyone that doesn't know that Lincoln is walking, He is! Its been a while since I have added a blog. He took his first step on January 18th when my parents came to visit. It was very exciting and about 3 weeks later he decided to walk all the time. He is working on taking large steps now. He has four teeth: two upper, two lower. Still pretty bald but I'm starting to see a bit more. He is good at saying Hi, it is a very sweet hi. He loves to climb up on chairs and then to our kitchen table. He hates getting his diaper changed. He likes to sit on the couch and on people's laps and watch them play the wii (It is very cute). He is still GREAT at giving good hugs. He loves to be around other kids. He is a little monster in church (but still very cute, just can't sit still) He is very excited to go into nursery. He tries to go in there every week. He is finally sleeping through the night better and has been for the last week and a half. He loves to swipe my debit card in the debit card machine. I wish I had pictures for all of this so I'll have to try and take more.

Daycare changes!

This is Kelsey. I have got the chance to watch her in daycare since practically the beginning. She was with me during the summer all day. She used to come after school. Now she comes before school and Isaac usually takes her to school.

Above is the group of kids I watched after school hours. Left to right: Skyler, Lincoln, Samantha, Angela, and Aspen. I was watching Skyler, Samantha, and Aspen every Monday and Wednesday till eight. Now a friend of their family watches them for a while so I don't watch them now either. Someday I will have them back but it will be on the weekends.

Below is the group of kids I was watching during the day. It has now changed drastically however. Top: Angela, Gary, Michael. Middle: Sophie, Zachary, Bailey, Brianna. Bottom: Lincoln. Currently I only watch Sophie and Zachary and sometimes Brianna (I always watch Lincoln). It has been a nice change. I feel like I get to spend more time with each child individually and I don't feel so stressed. As long as I can do it financially I prefer it. One picture I am missing is of Jo Jo. I am still watching him after he comes home from Kindergarten.

New Backsplash

I have been wanting to do a backsplash for a long time now. It was on my list for things to do this last summer, but it never got done. We finished this at the beginning of December, but I am just barely posting it.

I really love the results. I think it makes everything just pop a lot more.

You'll just have to pretend the fridge is not decorated.

New Desk

This is our new desk. My dad is a very handy man. I gave him a plan of what I wanted and he put it together. I'll have to take another picture with everything put on the desk. I wish I would have taken a picture of the computer desk we were using before, but I forgot. This gives us so much more storage. There is even space for my sewing machine and cricut. They are located to the left of where your legs sit (not visible from the front).

Since I started doing daycare we moved our office into our bedroom, and I wanted a place to put everything. I love this desk because it used most of the things I had already. We used an existing filing cabinet that I already had I just painted it to match the rest. The drawer for the keyboard was from our old desk. Its hard to tell just how big this is. It is 7' wide by 7' tall. Very custom to what we needed. However, someday when the office is not in our bedroom also it can still match bookshelves we already have. I love it, love it, love it!!!!!

Happy Halloween

Here is a picture of Mary's Little Lambs Daycare group on the eve of Halloween. Mary is dressed as Little Bo Peep (or Mary from the nursery rhyme "Mary had a little lamb") Lincoln is on Mary's lap and is dressed as a pumpkin (a favorite for babies). Then from left to right we have Gary, Angela, Michael, Bailey and Jo-Jo. They all had a lot of fun dressing up and parading around the house. I'm still working on this post and will give more explanation later.

Projects

The summer was full of projects! we painted the garage floor...

grew tomatoes....

more tomatoes... you can't see the planter box underneath

light post....

volley ball net...

painted table...

We put Lincoln in his stroller and put blankets over him to shade him

playground...

terraces...

and a firepit.