Laughing Baby!

Josh loves his little dog. Don't forget to stop the blog music to hear the audio in this clip.

Counter Tops

We're getting closer to having the kitchen finished. Last weekend, Don and Lori came down and we worked on counter tops. The little old lady sure liked pastel colors. The kitchen was purple, the master bath as pink, and the guest bathroom was blue. Now they are all a dark brown color. The counter top is WilsonArt HD and is supposed to look like granite. It turned out pretty good. Don did almost all of the work and gets the credit for a successful project. It was his experience and tools that helped us through this one. Matt finished up everything this weekend and they are all installed again. Here a some shots of the work. You can see who did the work! We're only short the backsplash now and the kitchen will be finished. We're debating between tile and a stamped tin type product. We're also slowly reclaiming the garage. Each completed project means a section of the garage opens back up. There's room for the Yukon again, but the Jeep still has to sit out in the snow. :(

OK, Matt did do some of the work.

And now, it's done!

9 months old!!!

Joshua is now 9 months old! Time is flying and he is changing everyday. It's been a little crazy around here with the remodel so I'll make this one short. He got his first professional picture in Feb.. Dave Ramsey would be so proud of me I didn't buy them, but did take my $10.00 one and ran before I couldn't say no! He has two top teeth and one R bottom tooth. He looks so different with teeth! All in all he is a healthy happy boy.

Quick Remodel Update

Everybody's been asking, so I'll give you a quick shot of the tile. We're nearing the end of the remodel on the main floor! We'll post some "after" shots once we get all moved back in. I'm happy with the way the tile turned out. It was a big job, but definitely worth it. Matt.

1000 miles

Josh made his first trip to Parsons! He did great on the way out to see Aunt Beth, Uncle Matt and Cousin Tatum but on the way back he was tired of that seat. 1000 miles makes anyone a little crazy.

We went to celebrate Tatum’s 2nd birthday with her and decided to spend a few extra days. Mom had the trip planned and asked us to go and we decided it would be fun!

One night I decided every little boy must become a girl for a day! So I put him in the Christmas dress mom made for us girls when we had our first Christmas. Tatum had used it for her first Christmas also!! I renamed him Josephine for 30 min and he really made a beautiful girl. I didn’t get very many good pictures because he wouldn’t look at the camera. I guess the boy new what he was doing.

All in all we had a great time thanks to Grandma Kathy whom Tatum renamed Ronny I think she might have been trying to say granny / gronny and it turned into Ronny. She sure is fun to listen too. Tatum loves to talk and really try’s to tell you what she wants. It’s a little hard to understand her but she will repeat it for you until you get the point!

Hope you enjoy all the pictures we sure had a great time and hope to do it again!!

8 MONTHS OLD

Did 8 months already go so so fast? Josh has now been born as long as I was pregnant with him. I'm not sure how time can go so fast when you see them every day, but it sure did! Many new things going on in his life. He can roll like a wild man sometimes too fast to keep a close eye on. He likes peek- a- boo and is now good at saying mama, dada, baba and nana. He started mama and dada at Don and Lori's during Thanksgiving. He was 5 months old, so it was a little harder to understand. But now he says it in front of people and they say it back to him. I didn't want to be the mom who said he could talk before anyone could understand him but me!! One new thing he just started yesterday is pushing himself backwards while on his belly. He did this so well today he fell off the bed. I feel horrible I let him fall, I was just glad he didn't hit his head on the nightstand! I went to toss a dryer sheet in the trash just like I do every time Joshy lays on the bed and helps me do laundry. When I walked 10 steps to our bathroom trash I heard a thump and new exactly what it was. When I left him he was in the middle of our KING size bed! How he fell off the edge I will never know but my best guess is he tried his new trick of pushing with his arms to go backwards and fell right over. He cry for just a little bit then looked up at me and smile and said mama. Poor little man has had a rough start to his first day of being 8 months old. All in all he is happy and healthy and we are so so blessed to have him. He and Maddix are buddies and are sure fun to see them grow up together. I did some V-Day pictures and I think they had a good time rolling around! Hope you all enjoy and we will blog again soon.

Change is good!

Demolition has begun!! Just last weekend we started tearing apart the upstairs. We have not put any paint on the walls until now. Matt and I like to laugh about how every house we live in has McKenzie Khaki and now this one does too. We have added dark brown to the kitchen trying to take some of the pink tone in the cabinets out. We thought about painting them put realized the work and just thought we could do other things to change them. We love our red wall out in the living room. This red is nothing new for us we had a red wall in a bedroom in Garden City house and liked it. We also plan to paint the inside of our front door black and our patio doors black. Yes, this sounds crazy but our doors in Greeley had black paint and looked great! Plus they don’t show the yuck that Mr. Hoss can leave behind when he leans on them all day. I can’t wait to get some new carpet and tile in the next few weeks but we will have to get the tile done first. Matt will do our tile job but definitely we will hire our carpet done. We plan to add a tile back splash to the kitchen and do new counter tops ourselves. The carpet will be replaced in the living room and our bedroom first. Later when the basement is finished we will moved Matt’s office downstairs and replace the carpet in his room and Josh's room. We also will remodel all 3 bathrooms upstairs with tile and maybe new vanities depending on the budget! Down stairs, we will have 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom and an open floor plan for Matt’s office, bar, eating area, game area and media area. We have A LOT of work to do and will show pictures along the way. Hope you enjoy and if you have any decorating ideas or any ideas, we are always up for hearing about them.