Normal Week!

We are going to try and have a normal week after being sick for a week and a half! Everyone was up and out the door on time this morning! We have been sleeping like crazy just trying to get ourselves back to normal. It will probably be another week. Joseph starts baseball this week. The kids have been swimming twice a week for the past two months, but we are cutting that back to once a week. Isabelle still has dance once a week too. It's going to be crazy on Tuesdays because of course Joseph's baseball is on the same day as Isabelle's dance class. What can you do? He's going to have fun!

New Haircut

Toothfairy visited again!

This tooth!

We are all sick. Joseph and I are on the upswing, but Isabelle is still really sick and Brendon is in between of either getting worse or getting better. Anyway, just to make things fun here's a picture of Isabelle's current loose tooth. It's just barely hanging on!

Flowers!

Brendon sent me flowers for Valentines day!

Happy Valentines Day!

The crud has hit the kids school and it's crazy how many

are absent with it right now!

Anyway they were so excited to get up this morning!

We had a piece of candy before breakfast even!

Joseph isn't feeling well at all and was up and down last

night, but that didn't stop him this morning!

Joseph and friend at Valentines party (both are sick)

Isabelle and friend at a valentines service project

Deorating stage two.

Those chairs have been around for many sticky hand years and it was showing big time.

They have stood up well to little ones sitting on the arms and all that. But, it was time for them

to get a facelift. Simple was the only way to go with the mantle and it

works for now. I hope to get another lamp for that little round table

at some point. We painted

about 2 months ago and have slowly put together

a few things. Anyway, I said I'd update on the progress

and this is it.

Of course it's always this tidy!

Decorating

Why buy expensive rugs? Tinkertoys add that touch of spice in seconds!

Why...

did I think I could cut a beet without an apron? While wearing my favorite green shirt?

Was it a full moon week? or what?

This week has been a bit slow. There was a full moon and maybe that attributed to the general craziness of the week. We had a long weekend and then Tuesday when it was time to go back to school, the children got sick. Thursday I headed over to see a friend for a bit and then off to the dreaded dentist appointment. I've never worried too much about the dentist because I've never had many problems....until I had two children! These teeth of mine decided to get some cavaties after that, and now I need a root canal. Yikes!

Last night I went out with some girlfriends and watched Spirit of the Marathon. It was a great movie! Plus it was great just getting out with the ladies for an evening!

Snowman

We don't get the frosty stuff all that often, so our kids are enjoying it as much as possible. Of course since it hardly ever snows down here we do not have snow clothes and we get pretty wet, but who cares, it sure is fun!

Snow!

It is SNOWING! It is! It Is!

The kids are outside running around having a blast. (It's not sticking, so unless ice comes along later, they'll have to go to school tomorrow!

This and That

These are some swatches of fabric that I chose to bring together our sitting area and kitchen.

The square on the right, on top of the green swatch was my second choice. My first choice was more muted, but they were out of it and if I wanted it I would have to pay for 20 yards!

I needed about 7 yards. We are recovering our favorite chairs. After 6 years of childrens hands and yogurt etc..they are in need of new coverings! These swatches don't show the caramel and browns that are also in the fabrics. I've never been into using a fringe or tassles before, but it seemed to really add to the valances so I decided to go with it this time!

I will post pictures when it's all completed. I did find some drapes for the sitting room that were already done and the chairs will be done in 10 days, however the valances needed to be sewn and it'll be 4-6 weeks before they are completed.

OK...so now I've totally bored you all!

Other news..it might snow here! It hasn't snowed since Isabelle was 9 months old (7 years ago) and Jospeh has never seen snow, so the kids are totally excited!!!

Swimming Lessons

Isabelle and Joseph started swim lessons on Monday. They go on Monday and Wednesdays for 30 min. On the second lesson they were swimming! I really couldn't believe it!

Boars Head Feast

I coordinated this Boars Head Feast. It is an annual tradition at the church. It was alot of work, but alot of fun. The boyscouts served the food and one lady organized the

decorations. The men cooked barbeque from a very very early hour all day.

Other people prepared side dished.

We had a local High School acting group come and do a comedy

about Shakespeare.

Most of the people who attended dressed up in medieval costumes.

It was really fun.

Brendon was so sick that he ended up not being able to attend.

These are pictures of some of the families that came dressed up.

The Smiths
I forget their names! (They don't have kids yet..you know how that is!)

Me and the kids.

Judy, Jennifer and Vince (she makes all those costumes!!!)


Our good friends Peter, Julia, Susanna, Sonja

What's missing?

The Toothfairy is coming tonight!

Our time at th beach!

We left for the beach the day after Christmas for a relaxing time! All the grown ups read their books and the kids swam in the indoor pool and played on the beach! One day the elevators didn't work and were on the 19th floor, so we certainly got our exercise in that day!

blog header

Right now blogger is having a problem with the header and that is why I can't get the Christmas lights off. Hoping it'll change soon!

Dog Days!

Our dogs live outside, but if it's really cold they can come lay on the kitchen floor!

However, Brendon was busy cooking up a delicious stew and didn't notice who snuck

herself into a comfy chair and curled up for a nap!

Who can blame her..right?

Sarah will be 9 years old in February.

She's a good dog!

Christmas lunch and afternoon

I think this is the last of the Christmas pictures. We had a nice lunch with everyone. All my grandparents and Kelley and Lora. Then we relaxed the rest of the day. Joseph got a bugsucker from Mimi and Papa as a gift and he went outside with Uncle Kelley to look for bugs. Isabelle received and electronic diary from Mimi and Papa and Brendon helped her figure out how to use it. The rest of us exchanged books and you can see we were all reading! I finished mine down at the beach.