House Update

December 29th we spent the night upstairs for the first time! (And we've been up there since) I snapped these pictures of the kids in their new rooms. I had a hard time getting around the mirror in the girls room, so it isn't the greatest pictures, but I didn't want to walk all around their room.



Of course we still aren't 100% finished but I thought I would snap a few pictures and try to show you what the house looks like (well the upstairs anyways).
This picture is taken almost at the top of the stairs to the right is the bathroom (not in the picture), the far left is the girls room, the room in the middle is Brody's, and the white casing on the end is from our room (well our room for now).

This is taken from the girls doorway. The closest door you see is Brody's room and the farthest one is ours and the one straight in front is the bathroom. You can see the posts where the railing for the stairs will be on the right.

Kylie's bed

Reygann's bed (they are on the same wall on opposite ends with a book shelve in the middle). When if gets warmer out I am going to make them white picket fence headboards and foot boards and a friend is going to paint flowers on the green wall.

The girls LOVE their closets so I thought I would include pictures of them too. (They are on the opposite wall from the beds). It is great to finally have room for their clothes... I even have extra room! Extra room, what is that?! The top pole has their church clothes and clothes they don't need to get into, and the bottom pole has their everyday clothes. They have really enjoyed browsing through their clothes and picking what they are going to wear that day!

I put their dresser in the closet to save space in their room they have a huge double closet so why not. You can see that the pole above is pretty much empty! It's great to have room to expand! You can see just a bit of yellow to the left of their dresser that is where I hung up all their dress ups. It worked our really well there is just enough room behind the wall (between the two sets of doors) to hang their dresses. (Actually we have so many dress ups we might have to move their real clothes if we get any more!!)

To the right of the dresser I made a little area for all their accessories. I just did it on the spur of the moment so there really isn't anything pretty about it, just functional. I didn't have anything to hang their jewelry on so I just put drywall screws into the wall, it could be prettier but it works and they don't care. I took a leftover piece of the shelve and attached it to the side of the dresser and put their crowns and wands up there and hung their purses off the front. They have so many purses that I actually had to add a bar across the side of the dresser under the shelve to hold the rest of them! And their shoes go on the floor underneath. They are just crazy over their dress up area, I think they would be up there all day if they could! And Kylie is great about hanging the dresses up and putting everything away and helping Reygann do the same.

This mirror has been floating around between all of us girls and when I saw it in the corner of Jody's garage I claimed it as mine, I knew it was going to be perfect in the girls room!! I want a floppy dress up hat to hang over the corner of it so if any of you see one somewhere let me know. In the reflection you can see their desk with their vanity set on it (I have a chair so they can sit and pretend to put their makeup on but it is 1/2 inch too big for the hole so I have to cut it down and repaint it still). They just love getting all dolled up and seeing what they look like.

Brody's room is less decked out...

This is what you see when you open his door, his window and closet are to the right of the shelve. There is nothing fancy about his closet, he will have a double pole too but it isn't in yet since he only has a handful of thing hanging up right now. I might need to rent some of his space out to the girls!

I though his quilt look cute hanging up here since it didn't fit in his crib (the quilt is twin size not crib size). It helps get a feel for the room with it displayed vs packaged up somewhere.

I have cute twig drawer pulls for his dresser and leaf knobs for the closet doors but neither are put up yet. You can just barely see to the left of the dresser his paw print hooks, it took him all of 2 seconds to figure out how to get them off the wall and use them like a hammer!! The poor boy has nothing fun in his room so I brought up the little shelve and gave him some books. Not that it matters too much right now anyways, we don't have the bottom steps done yet so there is no way he can get up to them unless you put him up there.

And our room is even less decked out!

That's it, that is all we have a bed and two dressers. I do have some stuff I am going to put in there but I let Jody borrow it for her wedding and I haven't gotten it back yet. I think that is pretty much it, I don't have any pictures of the bathroom... It looks like a bathroom, I used the same stuff that was in the bathroom downstairs, so nothing new there...

Pretty Boy

The girls got new headbands and have been having fun putting them on and taking them off putting a new one on and so on. Brody wanted to get in on the fun and found one and put it on. I thought he was darn cute being a cheese ball all purddy with his headband on.


These pictures make me giggle every time I look at them! I almost can't stand them they are so cute!!!

CANDY!!!

Brody finally experienced his first sucker! He was a HUGE fan (of course!).

Boy am I glad he is going right into the bath after this!! He was quite sticky, and after putting his hands in his hair... (he was playing peek a boo, he hasn't exactly figured out that he's supposed to put his hands over his eyes yet.)

A busy day for a busy boy

I've been really busy over here with the house, holidays, and all so of course I am still behind on my updating... so my posts are going to be all over the place, the old house, the new house... I'm sure you can figure it out.

Brody was playing in the girls room and I could hear him making noises, they weren't unhappy noises but it didn't sound like he was playing either so I checked in on him and I found him with his leg stuck in the bunk bed!

He was very happy that I set him free and he went on his way. He REALLY wanted to get up on Reygann's bed. It took a few tries but he finally made it!

I bit later Deric went into our room and informed me that Brody was in Reyganns drawer, I was like 'oh great' (he is always getting in there throwing all the clothes out) and Deric was like 'No no, Brody is IN the drawers...'

What a stinker! He couldn't get out and was at our mercy (he has his leg in front of him trying to get out but he couldn't maneuver with it out there).

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope each and every one of you have a great new year!!!

House Update

We finally have flooring!! It was only supposed to take 3 days to get after we ordered it, but I guess because of the holidays there was an overflow of orders and we were told that it was going to take longer... That wouldn't be that bad except we were trying to get into the house by Christmas and we are cutting it close. The flooring finally showed up on the 21st but it was supposed to acclimate to the climate in the house for 48 hours before laying it! We didn't have 24 hours so we cheated a little. I helped Deric cut and lay the floor, and I really enjoyed it. MY fingers and palms were sore for a few days (my knees too!) but it was still fun to do.


Waiting for it to warm up

Deric worked on laying the carpet pad upstairs while we waited on the wood floors. He really wanted to finish the pad upstairs, but he also wanted to watch the finale of his show so I pulled out the little tv so he wouldn't have to go back up there after his show was over. It got quiet up there so I snuck up the stairs and caught him on the floor watching his show. It must have been a good spot in the show because he had stopped working and was laying on the floor watching it.


The show's over back to work

My backsplash tiles


It's time to take the window out and open up the wall...

...here goes...

tada! We have a hole!

Laying the floor

The wood floor is done and the pad downstairs is done too!

We now have a gas line for the stove and Deric is hooking it up, I am glad it will finally be put in its place and finally be out of the middle of my kitchen!! We have a lot of work to do still, it's about 7:30 on the 23rd and we aren't even close! Did I mention that family is coming over Christmas morning?? Aurgghhhh!!!

Another New Tradition

Here's another post I am behind on... a few weeks ago we drove around looking at the Christmas lights in the area. This house was really neat, it was lit up and the lights would change in time with music they had set to a radio station. It was really fun to sit there watching the lights change in time to the music. The kids were in awe, until Kylie saw a house across the street that had next to nothing outside and then she thought that THAT house was cool! We will definitely be doing this again next year!