Snow A Few Weeks Ago

David's New Room

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After This room was like our room, gross and smelly. Also, it used to have a closet. We may add one eventually but for now David doesn't really need one. We knocked out the old closet with help from our friends Randy and Persephanie. Randy scrapped all the popcorn off this ceiling and our ceiling. Chris re textured this room's walls and ceiling and painted. He also put a new window sill and we replaced this carpet too. Oh I almost forgot. The door in this room is also new as is the handle. You may have noticed the door still needs paint and trim but that's ok I love this room.

Our New Room

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So what the pictures don't tell you is how bad the carpet smelled and how it was covered with stains. Also, the walls were gross and and the ceiling was popcorn texture. We got nice new carpet, Chris re textured the walls and the ceiling, and painted. Also, the window sill was made of cheap Styrofoam and is now a nice white marble. The door to the bathroom and hallway are new and so are the handles. I love my new room. It is great and at least twice as big as the room we were staying in in the basement.

Baby David

The Kids

The Bathroom

I don't have any pictures of the nasty bathroom. But trust me it was very bad. This is Chris' next project before the baby comes. He has it all cleared out of the old nasty stuff and fixed the plumbing. Now he just has to tile, and sheet rock, texture, put in a sink, shower walls, etc. I'll put up a picture when he is done.

The Kitchen

I wish you could tell in the picture how gross this all was. But this picture lies and the old kitchen doesn't look gross like it in reality was. Chris found cockroach bodies in one of the drawers and when we pulled out the cabinets there was a bad smell and little cockroach bodies lining the backs and sides of the cabinets. Also, the cabinets were the cheapest you can buy, nothing but particle board and laminate. So Chris tore out everything including the floor, re-tiled, re-built the wall, added a cut out, put in great cabinets, a sink, and now my kitchen is very nice. He still has some finish work to do but it's close to being done. Yay!

Aspen

Finally a new picture

For the Faithful Few

Hi to the people who still come by every once in awhile to see if I have posted anything new. We got rid of our Internet last month and so that is why I disappeared. I originally thought I could post from the library. Ha. I think I was in denial. Why else would I think I could blog with my two and a half year old and one year old? I miss you all in blogland and hope your doing well. God bless you.

A Good Trip

We loaded up the kids and headed to the Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday. It was so pretty. Plus I saw a Moose for the first time. I actually think I may have seen one when I was younger but I obviously don't remember it well if I did. I got out of the van and tried to take a picture but the dumb Moose hid behind a bush. It was raining out so I didn't wait very long to see if he would come out. So we moved on. We didn't stop to walk up any of the pathways but one. And just Anna and I walked up while Chris and Sam napped. It was really pretty and Anna liked all the people who walked by. We stopped a few times at the roadside viewing spots. The rain came and went throughout the day though and put a damper on some of the roadside stops.

Rocky Mountain National Park

No Assembly :(

Well as some of you know, we didn't get to go to the assembly after all. I'm sad. I was really looking forward to it. Lord willing, we will be there next year. Well, the kids are doing good. Anna is almost running around the house. She seems pretty happy now that she can keep up with Sam better. Sam is talking more and more and still loves to help me around the house. I have such great kids. Here are some pictures of them in the yard, swinging at the park, and Sam at the store on the horse. He rode six times straight.

Silly Sam

Sam is so cute. Yesterday I was cleaning the kids room and decided to tease Sam by laying down in his bed. He asked if I wanted him to tuck me in. I said yes so he did, then he told me to sleep and shut the door. He came back in and asked if I wanted to get up. When I said yes and went to sit up he told me no. Then he went to the kitchen and got me a drink. I was beginning to wonder if he would try to spank me if I got out of bed so I hid behind the door and jumped out at him when he came back in. He just took me by the hand led me back to the bed and tucked me in again, silly kid. Later on I was fixing their light fixture. It is too high for me so I had to use a short stool when I was done and went to grab it Sam indicated he wanted to keep it so I left it for him to play with. Next thing I know he is up on the stool with his small bible open yelling at the wall. He is so funny.

What a Week

What a Week

Anna is officially one. Wow, where did the time go. We had a small Birthday party for her on Saturday. It was nice, she really liked her cake. She is so cute. It is great to see someone so small walking around and crawling onto the couch. It’s just cute to watch. I have bad news about my new van, the a/c went out. Ironic, that’s about all I have to say about that one. It was a great few days that it worked. Hopefully it just needs to be charged.

We are having vacation bible school this week at church. It has been lots of fun. We had a marketplace Thursday night and Chris and I helped the kids squish fishing weights with hammers to make coins. I was one of the people with a part to play that night so I made Anna a little matching outfit. Then I thought Abbie might like one too. Emilee made hers. It was fun. Sam is really enjoying VBS. He loves being with big kids.

My Mom is moving to Castle Rock. She got a job near Highlands Ranch so Castle Rock is much closer to her work than Northglenn. For all of you who are not familiar with any of the cities I just mentioned, lets just say my Mom lived up north and got a job down south so she moved a little farther south from there. I went and loaded up her caravan and my caravan yesterday and moved a lot of her stuff for her. The furniture is just going to have to wait. On the bright side she has until the end of the month to move.

Tomorrow I’m going to a wedding at the Monarch Mountain Lodge. A friend who I haven’t seen in years is the bride to be and it will be really good to see her. Afterwards I’m going to spend some time with my Dad, Aunt, Grandma, and my cousin Jacob. I’m really looking forward to it.