Sidney's 9th Birthday!

Our Sidney is NINE!

She had a very fun Birthday.  We went to Casa Bonitas for her party.  The Mexican band even hang her Happy Birthday! 

We love our Sidney!  Happy Birthday, sweet girl!

Laundry room

We really needed to redo our laundry room.  It is a small space that we use and walk through multiple times a day.  I wanted some lockers for the kids and more shelving.  It was a tricky order for the space we had, but Allen did a GREAT job.

This is the before picture.  We started to plan everything out and then we started thinking…..

We have always planned on replacing the linoleum one day and we realized it would make the most sense to do that before we did everything else.  So our weekend project grew to a month long project :)

Before

(I should have taken a picture with the washer and dryer in here also.  We had them side by side and two small shelves on the side for backpacks and shoes.  It was very crowded!)

Working on the slate tile.  I really like the slate that we picked.

Thank goodness for our good friend who knows how to tile and helped us out.  And that Allen can learn how to do anything quickly and well!

The finished lockers and shelves!  Love it.  It is hard to get a good picture of all of it because it is a really small room!  We stacked to washer and dryer to utilize more space.  Much better!

Four lockers.  Upper tubs for sunglasses, sunscreen, and hats in the summer.  And gloves, hats, scarves in the winter.  Lower tubs for shoes.  Hooks for backpacks and jackets.  And a bench to sit on to put on shoes.  LOVE IT!  I use the space above the lockers for laundry baskets.

Allen, you are awesome!  It turned out better than I imagined.

What project should we do next!?!

Funny jax

How is my baby 8 months old already!?!

I am wondering if he is going to be a little trouble.  Already going for the outlet…

Love sleepy babies :)

Loves his toys…especially if you clean them all up nicely!  He can pull everything out lickity split :)

Cute boy

My date with porter

The middle school didn't have school today, but the girls did.  So we decided it was a good time for a date!  

We went to Olive garden for lunch (Porters choice), and then shared a super yummy dessert!

Then off to the rec center to swim.  It was really fun to hang out with Porter (and Jax) and do whatever he wanted to for the day!  Thanks for the fun day Bud :)

Family fun day, arggg matey!

Allen took the day off of work and we took the kids out of school and had a family fun day.

First we hit up Pirates day at Krispy Kreme.  If you come in and talk like a pirate you get a free doughnut……but if you dress up like a pirate you get a dozen free doughnuts!

Clearly we need 4 dozen doughnuts :)

We went to the museum, had lunch, and then went to play glow in the dark miniature golf.  So fun!

We talked, we played, we ate, we laughed, and we had fun together all day!

Allen's hiking adventures

All about Rylee

Rylee was star of the week in Kindergarten this week.  She filled in her poster and brought her favorite book in to share with the class.

Way to go Rylee!

Jax pics

Just a few pictures of Jaxon.

He loves his swing.

I had a coupon and took him to get his pictures taken at the mall.  A couple weeks later I walked by and saw this.....in the window of the studio!

Rolling and scooting around.