Happy Birthday Dad!

My dad turned 60 years old on March 24th and we had a great time celebrating with family and friends!!  Tyler, Maggie, and Henry flew in on Thursday before dad's birthday party and boy did we suprise dad!  He had absolutely no idea and we enjoyed suprising him!  I think it's accurate to say that this was one of his best birthday presents!  We missed Carrie and Haven and hope that they can come next time! With the kids here we packed as many activities into the weekedn that we could!  Here are some pictures that I captured during our weekend!

Ringing the doorbell

Happy Birthday D.O.G.

Henry helping uncle Abe drive the Semi Truck

 

We spent time at the zoo....

 

And in the hot tub.....

And at the park....

And playing with toys.....

And swimming at the hotel pool.

Christmas

We had a good Christmas.  We spent Christmas Eve with Melodee's parents and split Christmas day between going to Dodge to be with Melodee's Godparents and in the evening we went to Abe's parents.  Melodee spent a week in Charlotte with Tyler, Carrie, and the kids!  Everytime I go see the kids I take over 500 pictures; they are so cute and it's so easy to capture all that cuteness on camera (although it is much better in person)!  Don't worry I won't post all the pictures that I took!

Tyler giving Haven's baptism

                                                 

Abe and I gave Maggie and Henry recordable story books. 

They loved them!

We went to Lowe's Motor Speedway - looked at lights; the kids fed some animals....

fed some more animals....

prepared marshmallows for smores



Henry enjoying a smore



Maggie liked her smore also!



 

Henry helping paint a bathroom

            

I love this little guy! Although he is growing up way too fast!

                         

We went bowling at Dave and Busters

Enjoying a cupcake for Haven's baptism

Reading a book on the Nook!

           


Enjoying my nieces!



While the boys went to the Nascar Hall of Fame
us girls had a tea party!

                

At the playground. 

Isn't she cute?

I could snuggle with her all day!!

Snow!

Home Sweet Home

Well maybe not perfect home sweet home, but it works for us right now.  Our house needs a lot of updating, we have started with the easy stuff and maybe the bigger, more expensive stuff will get done at some point!  Hope you enjoy seeing our house through pictures and you are always welcome to come visit us!

This is the entry way.  I picked out curtains and mom hemmed them for me.  We painted the walls a brown color and the front door an off white color. There is a coat closet to the right that you can't see and we painted the door the same color as the front door. 

This is the living room

View of the living room from the entry way

The kitchen.  The window use to have polls in it and Abe took those down. 

View of the living room from the kitchen

Another view of the kitchen

Another view of the living room

Office.  We painted this room a blue color

View of the office from the door

Bathroom. 

Laundry room.  It's a nice size room.  The water heater and furnace is in this room and they are exposed and I don't like that.  Hopefully some day we can build some sort of wall/door to enclose them.  The house goes in a circle.  This is taken from the kitchen.  There is a hallway that goes to the left (by the pictures).  In this hall way there is the office, bathroom, and spare bedroom and then it goes into the living room. 

This is our bedroom.  It use to be the garage and at some point it was turned into a bedroom.  I picked out the curtains that are in this room (it takes 4 panels to cover the windows).

Spare bedroom or the kid's room.  When the girls or Gage stays with us this is where they stay. 

Another view of our bedroom.  You can't see the curtains that great over the door and window, but I picked those out and my mom hemmed them for me. 

Here is what the kitchen wall use to look like.  I like that the polls are gone, I feel like it opens up the room a lot. 

We peeled wall paper off and put primer on before we painted it again. 

And here is the finished wall.  The red didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted, but I like it now. 

Abe and dad replaced 5 ceiling fans one weekend.  2 in our room, 2 in the living room, and 1 in the spare bedroom. This is one of them in the living room.   

Replacing one in our bedroom. 

Outside of our house.  There is a detached garage and that is ours too. 

So there is our house.  It's better if you see it in person so come see us sometime!