Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Before and After

I decided to repaint one of our pieces of furniture. Before it was all black. I just really wanted to give our house a new pop of color.

BEFORE:


AFTER:
I love it!!!!! The color is super fun and it looks like a whole piece of furniture. I also used glaze for the first time. Glaze is my new best friend. Love it!



Our Easter Wreath

I saw a super cute wreath on pintrest. Katie and Kellen were such good helpers!


Here is the almost finished product. Oh, and I did not realize that spray painting plastic eggs would be so difficult. Who knew?!

Katie + Kellen = Best Friends!

Tonight when Kellen was injured on his cheek, Katie was nearby to help out her little brother.


Katie and Kellen have some super best friends, Reese and Reaghan. They always play together. Reese and Reaghan came over for a late night and they built a fort and watched "UP".

I told the kids that when I was little we used to make beds in the tub and sleep in it. They loved that idea! Who wouldn't?! They set up a little bed and wanted to be sure to take a lot of pictures.



Foot wars!


Katie and Kellen slept in a box and ate breakfast together. It doesn't look comfortable to me but they loved it. I love that my little Katie and Kellen are such good friends. They take such good care of each other. I love it!


Kellen Lately

Kellen is my little friend that hangs out with me during the day when I am not at work. He is going to kindergarten next year. Luckily, I will have stuff to do while he is gone. Otherwise I would miss my little friend. He and I like to watch Phineas and Ferb together mid morning with our jammies on. Sounds kinda nice doesn't it?

Lately, Kellen has been riding his bike!!! He learned in one day how to ride his bike. We are still working on how to use the brakes. As you can see in the picture below, his forehead met the tire after falling. He was so brave and got right back on. Yay, Kellen!


Today Kellen's face and the end of a palm frond met for a minute second. During that second, the frond cut Kellen's face. He was super lucky that the frond did not actually hurt his eye.


We recently had to pick some weeds in the backyard. Here is Kellen's weed picking outfit. Notice the lovely bath robe and hat. He wore that outfit almost the entire time we were working. Kinda funny!


Uncle Scotty joined us too. He is an awesome helper.

Did I mention that Kellen puts on interesting outfits to pick weeds....here is another one.


He refused to wear showes and had one sock on top of his jeans. Oh, you like how his fly is unzipped?. Also, it wasn't that cold outside.
One last picture of Kellen. We cut open a watermelon. Kellen thought it made a great hat.

Katie Lately

It has been a while since I have posted anything about the kids with pictures. I am going to start with Katie and what she has been doing lately.
Katie remains busy with school and up until just last week she was involved in Mrs. Cortez's Math Club. She and a few other students stayed after school two days a week to get a little extra math help. Turns out the principal really thought math club kids were cool so he brought pizza just for them.

Katie loves to wear different hair styles to church. Luckily for her, she a mom who loves to do fun things with hair. Here a couple of styles she has worn lately.





Katie also loves to watch Cake Boss when it's on Netflix. One night she decided to make a beautiful cake. She wanted to mold things out of rice crispy treats to put on top of the cake. If you watch the show, you see that Buddy molds a lot of things from rice cereal treats.

Kellen is molding something out of cereal treats. No cake is truly complete without assistance from Kellen.

Katie is molding something....truth be told, I have no idea (cannot remember) what she is molding.

Here is the finished product. There are all sorts of things on this cake. You will notice a star on the left hand side, a train above the star and the rest I cannot remember. Sorry kids!

Katie holding her masterpiece! This cake was red velvet with blue frosting. She picked out all the ingredients herself and made a very lovely cake that tasted super yummy!

It would not be Saturday morning if Katie was not outside trying to climb the tree, making a fort, or making an obstacle course to tackle riding only riding bikes or skooters. Here she goes..... She built this ramp herself. She was very proud of it. Mean mom and dad made her take it down when it started to get dangerous.