Happy Birthday Adysen and Allie!!

Adysen and Allie left yesterday to spend some time with their grandparents. They will be gone on Allie's actual birthday, so we celebrated both their special days on Adysen's birthday - July 29th. We started out the day with some birthday pancakes...




and then we looked at baby pictures and talked about the events of the days when these sweet girls were born. As almost all of their baby pictures have been in storage for the past 2 years, looking at the baby pictures was really fun for the girls.

After that, there were some gifts to open...






Jason took the day off, so he had the chance to come with us to Adysen's diving class and watch her. After that, the girls chose Chili's for lunch and were given special birthday desserts. I didn't have my camera then, but we took pictures on Jason's cell phone - if I can figure out how to upload those, I will post them here! :) Next, we told the girls we had some "furniture shopping" to do, but we drove to Six Flags instead. They were SO surprised and SO excited as you can see here.




It was blazing hot, but the crowds were small and we had a wonderful day of fun at Six Flags. Adysen was scared of NOTHING and she was tall enough to ride everything and she and Jason had a great time riding the biggest and craziest rides there were!! Allie and I had fun on some smaller rides, but she did work up the courage to ride the Judge Roy Scream and loved it!!









We have a hard time believing that our little ones are 7 and 8 years old now, but we continue to be SOOO blessed and thankful to have them in our lives!!! Happy Birthday sweet girls!!

One more house project

We spent the weekend painting the living/dining room. The color came out a little more orange-y than I was hoping for, but I think it will work. Those rooms have solar screens on the windows, so they are a little dark, so this color lightens them up some.

OK, enough about houses...

it's on to birthdays now. As we have a child with a birthday in each month of the summer, June, July and August are busy months for us!! Kelsey's 16th birthday was in June this year. It's just SO hard to imagine that she is 16 already!! We gave her a surprise party the first week that we were back in town. We went to a really nice restaraunt in Southlake called "Brio Italian Grill" and Where we had a party room reserved and her friends waiting. She was really surprised and it was a fun night!











We suprised Kelsey with a hot pink laptop for her birthday. She was VERY excited as you can see! :)

A few more pictures

We didn't do much to the kitchen, but here are some before and after shots of it along with the breakfast nook area.









Here is the outside of the house while the new floors were being laid. I need to take a good picture of the outside now, but haven't done that yet.




This is the girl's bathroom... it's hard to get a good picture of a small bathroom, but I tried!

Finally, I am back!

Things have been VERY crazy around here for the last few weeks, but I am hoping to get back into blogging very soon. We closed on our new house and moved in June 21st. We had some new wood floors put in and did some painting and so things have been very busy! We got our first shipment the week after we moved in which was our household goods and had all the big furniture and things that we had with us in Guam. The next week, we got our stutff that had been here in storage and the week after that, our express shipment arrived. So... about the time we'd get settled in a little more stuff would come!! It's all hear now, though, and we are getting the house organized and fixed up. The garage is still a mess, but we have to tackle things one at a time.

I have lots of pictures....
Here are Adysen and Allie's rooms. Adysen's was a cream color and Allie's was NEON yellow when we moved in. Here are some before and after pics.






Here is Kelsey's room before and after. It was already painted the blue color and we liked it alot, so we bought her bedding to match the paint. Anything to keep me from having to paint more is a good thing! :-)







The biggest project we did was having ceramic tile taken up and new wood floors laid in our living/dining combo room and the entry hall and family room. It was a big job, but worth it! We love how it turned out!! We have before, during and after pictures of that!