my life = good

loved this. love her. with all out there that is telling us and bombarding us with images and words of defeat and despair there are people and words like this to help us rise and see that life is one of the greatest gifts we have been given by our Father in Heaven.  i love my life and my family. 

Before and after...

                               

My creative outlet is doing home renovations to our house.  I love how liberating building something with only a few supplies and using a little bit of elbow grease feels.  I told my husband from now on that the only thing I want for Christmas and birthdays are POWER TOOLS.  (wink, wink, nod, nod) :)  This is a picture of our kitchen area.  The actual BEFORE picture should have been without the wood panels but I always, always, always forget to get an offical "before" picture before I start the project.  There are still a few things that need to be done before I can pronouce this room completed (like decorating the shelf above the table) but other than that I am pretty satisfied.  I used an old chandlier that was in the attic of the house when we bought it.  I took it apart and assembled it back together with only the parts I wanted to use + spray painted it + added small lamp shades.  And poof...an updated lighting fixture for under 30 bucks!  Not to shabby.  I also spray painted our old table and chairs you see in the "before" picture black and we almost have ourselves a new table.  I am working on the rest of kitchen right now and will post pictures when I finally finish it. 

I have to give a shout out to my husband and thank him for allowing our house be a, as he would say, "a construction zone" for the past year and a half. 

The beautiful flowers were given to me as my mother's day gift from my husband.  Thank you babe. 

We really are still alive!!! PROMISE!

Susie and Vince are doing great!  I know, I know, I know it has been FOREVER since I have done any posts, but we are BACK.  These past few months have been busy but fun.  We have been busy playing with the kids, keeping up with Vince (rolling everywhere) and Susie.  We just bought Susie her very first Scooter yesterday and she has already gone all the way around the block all by herself.  In order to keep anyone that reads this blog up to date in our life I will start back in November when Susie turned 2.  Her birthday was during the week and we had a small birthday party planned for that weekend but her party was interupted by the admission of her little 3 month old brother into the hospital for RSV.  After that happened Thanksgiving happpened, Christmas came and went, and then off to see my side of the family back in March.  Now we come to April...fewwwwww.  Dad has been busy with work (60+) hours of work during the week, Mom busy with kids and major home improvements, Sue busy with loving her younger brother and playing even harder, and our Vince growing bigger, bigger, and even bigger.

Let me explain this picture.  Our Vince is a big cuddley teddy bear with "rubberbands around his wrists."  We have been asked more than once why we put rubberbands around our son's wrists. : D Ha, ha people are sooooooo clever.   He finally has slowed down on his growth.  At his 7 month visit (should have been his 6 month visit but I was a month late getting around to the doctor for his well visit - the story of my life right now) his stats were...

Weight: 25 lbs 3 oz.   (99.999+%)

Height: 29 inches    (93%)

Head cir: 18 1/2 inches    (96%)

I think that I can finally stop buying him clothes for a couple of months now that he fits into 24 month clothes.

Here are a few current pictures that we have taken of the kids.  Enjoy!