Our Painting Weekend

WARNING: I know this may look like professional work, but I am NOT a professional!!!
Alright, well I am obviously totally joking, but I was excited about how the rooms turned out since it is only my second time painting. We have completely out grown our apartment and buying a home here in MI is not an option, for many reasons, so we will be renting a home starting in September. I am leaving for Idaho and UT on the 30th so we wanted to get everything done before I left so it would ready to move our things in when we got back.

The top left is the living room, I was excited how the color turned out and I am way excited to start decorating this room!
This is our room! The green didn't turn out as I was hoping, I kinda feel like a Celtics fan, but I did like how the stripes turned out.

I was really excited how the boys room turned out, it was a lot of taping!! The colors match their Dinosoar bedding. (Don't worry the stripes are supposed to be different sizes!)
And finally the kitchen. Just yellow, but I really like it with the curtains that I made. Ok, I had to throw that in there, I was excited about them, but we all know curtains can be pretty dang easy to make, I just really loved the fabric.

Jordan's mom and his little brother drove here from NJ to help paint and watch the kids, it was so helpful. It was nice to spend time with them and on top of that Jordan's mom was so kind to watch the kids while we all went to the Drive-In, we set Ben up on a date and had a lot of fun!

With their help and help from Kassie and Travis we would not have had it done with all of the interruptions with the boys and their schedule and the interruptions with work and school for Jordan.
We Learned how to take wall paper off, it's miserable!

The boys did so well, they had to adjust and take naps out of their cribs and on the floor. Let's just say, they were happy to finally be back on their normal schedule, but they did the best the could, I was proud of them!

We are so excited to have a basement for the boys to play in and have a place to put their toys rather than on the family room floor for everyone to walk all over. We are still working on organizing it, but it's a start! It will also be especially nice to have a fenced off back yard for the boys to play in as they grow and get older. We'll be here a few more years until Jordan Graduates so this will definitely make living here in MI a lot more comfortable!

We also FINALLY got to go to a Mom-to-Mom sale, my new found love! They haven't had any for the past few months and the boys have been in need of some more toys, so I have been patiently waiting. Jordan's mom sent me and Kassie with some money to get some toys for her to bring home so they would have more at her house, which is a big mistake. Never send two girls in shopping money if you don't want it spent because that is exactly what we did. I have to say well spent though, we got some good stuff for Grandma's house and the kids had a good time with them before she brought them home.





To finally end our week before we all left for vacation, Kassie and I got a chance to do hair! Ever since she moved here we have had hair days. It seriously does take all day with the interruptions of our kids. I'll cut and color her hair and she'll color mine. I now have two stylist, I taught Jordan how to do my hair first and Kassie next, they do a great job, with some help of course! Jordan use to do it, but he likes this trade off between me and Kassie better, I don't know why! Kassie always gets nervous doing my hair, but she has always done a great job. I have to say it's a lot better than going in a getting my hair done. It's so expensive and half the time it's not even THAT great that I felt it should be as much as it was. I hate having to pay for something I know how to do. The kids were so funny this time and did so well. The girls got into my clothes and shoes and played dress up while the boys followed Haven everywhere!! It was very cute. And finally Ellie let me do her hair!! It has taken a long time for her to let me touch it, I was so excited!

Random moments from the month of July!

Ok, so I sit down and get ready to blog and something interrupts me. I find myself thinking, "Oh, I should finish that blog I started." Only to sit down and find a blank page!! So here is a long blog of random things that have been going on in our life.

It dawned on me the other day, I should probably be brushing the boys teeth now that they have them!! So, maybe I am starting a little late, but hey better late then never!! My own brush, flossing, and fluoride routine is done religiously, but honestly I wasn't thinking when it came to the boys. Here are a few pictures of their first time with their new toothbrushes.



I walked into the kitchen for a minute to mix their bottles and when I come back this is what I found. Ayden has been climbing over the bouncer lately and decided it would be just as easy with Gavin in it, I had to laugh.


Ooooh they are so funny, I crack up just looking at the pictures. In this picture I was sitting at my computer I look over and between our two chairs I see Ayden laying on the floor with his head down, he never does that!! I thought "Is he that tired, he hadn't been acting that tired!!" So I stand up and see the whole picture. Gavin was standing on Ayden looking into the toy box and by the time I got the camera he was sitting on him. This is one of the few times Ayden wasn't crying when Gavin was all over him (he was able to still see his Baby Einstein video from the floor!) and that is exactly what he was doing with his head on the floor!. This next picture is Gavin once again pumbling his brother. He was on top of him smacking him on the head with the plastic spiky cat toy ball.

So I have decided after seeing the huge price difference in buying new toys and buying used toys that work just as well and clean up nice, that the mom- to- mom sales, Craigslist and Ebay have become my best friends. My little niece has these same toy cars and the boys seemed a lot less wabbly on it so I found these on craigslist for $5 and $3. They are now walking with these cars so much better than in the video, I need to get a more updated video of them. They are so cute on these little cars!

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Lately, the boys love to hold hands while they are sitting in their high chairs. It's so funny to watch, sometimes they aren't close enough and they are reaching so hard for each other, I have to scoot them closer, it is very cute.


I try to block off the family room so the boys don't get into more things then they already do. When you know they are done playing with each other they either

A) Both stand in front of the wagon and make in known they are waiting for you.or B) If you are at the computer and they want you to come play they will stand behind the table in between our two chairs by the computer smiling with little cute giggles because they are so proud they found you. when they are trying to see through the little opening between the chairs it is so funny they push each other out of the way so they each can get a better look and then they finally agree to share the space.
We finally decided to use the pool in our apartment complex, sometimes it just seems like so much work by myself. By the time I get their tubes blown up and them all ready and down to the pool I feel like it's time for them to either eat or lay down for a nap, so usually it's just easier to use the little blow up pool. It was really nice to finally go down there and to enjoy the heat in pool with some friends. Travis came and joined us and it was great, he took all the kids and pulled them around the pool. The kids had fun and we got a break! The boys were little ladies men, all the girls were hanging on their tubes while being pulled. Gavin seems to get so mello in the pool and just likes to watch whats going on. Ayden seems to really enjoy being in the tubes, this time he kept leaning forward in the tube and splashing the water and would find himself getting to far forward and dunking his head, it was quite cute.

And these are just some cute pictures of the boys...