The Goings On At Our Place

     Where to begin, I don't even know.  I guess at the beginning.  When we bought our cute old farm house we immediately remodeled the kitchen and painted and carpeted the rest of the upstairs rooms along with some significant wallpaper removal.  It was a lot of work, but it was okay.  We weren't living there.  We decided not to do the bathroom because it was expensive.  

     Last fall I decided to take off the wall paper in the bathroom which was already peeling itself off anyway.  Just to spruce it up a bit, a tide-me-over until we decided to really remodel.  Well, if you've ever owned an old home you know how it goes, one thing leads to another.  The walls underneath the paper weren't paint-able.  So we decided we'd just take the plunge and remodel the whole thing.  One problem, it's our only bathroom.  So we decided we'd wait until spring and put a bathroom downstairs first and then remodel the upstairs one.  We had to wait until spring because there isn't a sewer line to the basement and we'd need to put one in.  So I patiently waited the winter with my ultra-ugly bathroom with no wallpaper or even a light above the sink (Corey did offer to put a light up, he is an electrician, but I refused telling him we were not about to get comfortable with this ugly bathroom).  Spring came and we found out the sewer line would need to go under our driveway.  Corey and our very good friend Kevin spent an entire Saturday digging out leveling and installing the beautiful new line.  

Corey about 8 feet underground, in our driveway

      Now for any of you who have seen our home the driveway wasn't the most impressive thing about it, but I didn't mind all that much.  It served it's purpose well enough, modge-podge and all.  But after pulling a good section of it out to put in the sewer line we decided to replace the whole thing.  This has turned out to be a crazy endeavor with multiple problems including wet sinkholes large enough to park a car in...not exactly what we had in mind.  Thankfully my husband is very handy and resourceful and has done an amazing job.  With the help of many family, friends and neighbors we've got it level and just about graded for concrete.  It will be very nice when it's done, we'll see if we're too burned out or drained of funds by the time we're done to actually do the bathrooms.  Either way we've made progress, we'll get there eventually.  Can you believe it?? All this because I took down the wallpaper in my bathroom!

Bring on the concrete!

 

April Birthday Boys

     April is always a busy month for birthdays at our house.  Last week we celebrated Tate's sixth birthday.  I don't know what it is but this one took me by surprise.  He still feels like my baby....before the babies and six didn't coincide with that feeling.  For his birthday he went to Classic Skating with his Dad and brothers to scooter and play.  They all had a great time.
     Tate is at that great age where he has his favorites and he doesn't deviate.  His favorite color is blue, his favorite letter is T (ya know T for Tate).  He'll often say things like "Mom, I like that word, you know why?" and I'll ask why and he'll say "it's because it starts with a T."  So cute.  He's a sweet boy who can keep up with the big boys and also play great with the twins.  We love you so much Tater-bug!!! Happy Birthday!
(Oh!  Tate wanted a blue ninjago birthday cake and thanks to his artistic brother he got it....except for his own name which he wrote.  Thanks Mac!) 

      McKay turned eleven this year.  He's such a great  young man and we're so lucky to have him in our family.  He's super creative and artistic and always amazing me with the things he creates.  He's a hard worker and a good kid all around.  He wanted to spend some time with his cousins for his birthday which is what we'll be doing tonight.  Love you Mac!!  We're so proud of the great young man you're becoming!!

Builder Boys

 This Spring Break Keaton was sick so we've been doing a lot of at-home-playing.  I thought I'd show off my builder boys.  McKay is an amazing builder....his main building materials???  Legos.  I love that they do this and McKay can spend hours at it. Above is Tate getting into the building action, below are McKays latest and greatest!