Our Christmas

We had a great Christmas and we hope everyone else did too. Here are the kids on Christmas Eve in their new pj's.

This is Christmas Day...Jake loved his tractors. I love this shot of him and his daddy.

And the kids playing with their toys...

New Cabinets

Since we bought this house, we have slowing been remodeling one part or another. Last year we started the kitchen by installing recessed lighting and texturing/painting the ceiling. (by "we" I mean "cody"), so this year we decided to take down our existing (ugly and disgusting I might add) cabinets to sand and repaint them. Cody and his brother Chad did such an awesome job. They had to take the cabinets off as one piece because they were built that way back in the 60's when this house was built. We got new hardware and knobs for them. After painting them, I sanded down all the edges to "antique" them. I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out. I'm so happy Cody can do all this!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

We got the top cabinets done...the bottom is next.

Jake and the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Week

Well, to start off these tragic events was Jake's haircut. Cody was holding Jake so I could hurry and just buzz it and he was being so good that I was kind of in a hurry. I totally forgot to put the guard on and buzzed his hair completely off right down the middle of his head! I kicked myself all night for being so dumb. So since Jake's hair was so long, we had to buzz all of it, but just not as short. So this is the wonderful haircut he's get to have until the hair grows back. His mother is a genius.

Next on the list...we were all downstairs by our fireplace because Cody had started a great fire and we're all just hanging out. Jake comes running in the room, trips, and smacks his head right on the corner of the stone fireplace. At first we thought he's just missed it, but then Cody realized he wasn't breathing because he was crying so hard. Poor kid. Huge goosebump on his head; I'm just glad it missed his eye. Luckily he let us hold ice on it until bedtime so the swelling went down really fast. He actually only woke up once that night, so pretty good for how bad I'm sure his head hurt.

Up next...Jake + his dad=wrestling. This is inevitable. Jake loves to jump on Cody no matter where or how he'll land. Well he jumped on the back of Cody's neck and started to fall forward, so Cody reached up to catch him and caught his thumbnail on Jake's eyelid. Again, I'm glad it missed his eye!

Later that same day, Jake must have caught the 24 hour flu or had eaten something bad because he had been throwing up all day and we changed about 10 diapers that day also. He is also teething so he's got a runny/stuffy nose and his gums are swollen.

So that has been our week. Hopefully next week will be better. This little boy will get tough fast at the rate he's going.

Thankful

I figured out how to take black and white pictures with my camera and so I bribed the kids with M&M's to sit still for a minute so I could test it out.

I am so thankful for my husband and my kids. I love them so much and I don't know what I would do without them. They make me so happy and I have a wonderful life with them. Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Leaves are Falling

The kids helped me rake leaves last week. It was really fun for them to run and jump in the piles I would make. I can't believe how many bags I filled up and all the leaves hadn't even fallen off the trees yet. That will be this Saturday's project. Yippee!
Jake helped...he did a good job, a little hard for him though since he didn't realize he could use both hands.

He also gave special leaves to Anna and she'd just stare at him. But when she wanted to give a leaf back to Jake, she'd chase him all over the yard and push him over so she could put it in his hand. I don't get it.

Anna is a great leaf thrower. This was Jake's turn to just stare at her.

But this picture will definitely go in the scrapbooks.