Fun with Oil Pastels

I am so lucky to have such artistic children! Even though this was tough to get off, they didn't get oil pastel anywhere but on their bodies.

Dancing in the Rain

We have been having some rain here in sunny Texas and Rene'e asked to play outside in it. She had a great time dancing around. She did become completely naked. I am glad our yard is fenced.

Baby Birds

Here is an update on our baby birds. We ended up having five eggs in our nest. I didn't know that birds didn't have all their eggs in one day. She laid one a day for five days. They hatched while we were in Arizona, so we came home to a MESS on the door. I took this picture and the next day the birds were gone. It didn't take them long to grow up and fly away. I scrubbed off the door and fixed the wreath so our entry is back to normal.

Trip to Tucson

We took a family trip to Tucson from April 7th to the 15th curtsy of Sam's work. He had to do some tests and I took the opportunity to stay with my college roommate, Joi. While we were there we visited Mexico where we bought a lot of vanilla and toys for the kids. We took two double strollers and didn't let the kids out at all. I didn't want to lose my little blond kids. Joi's daughter Ava turned one while were visiting so we went to the zoo to celebrate. My kids really enjoyed themselves. Jill, another roommate from college who lives in Phoenix, came down to visit while we were there. It was fun for the three of us to be together again. Too bad Jasmine wasn't there.
Carter got his first tooth. Gavin dropped a brick on his toe the first day we were there and his toenail fell off. Rene'e was her usual snarlly self. Sam's flight test went well. I got to scrapbook with Joi and we even got out to get pedicures. We also got to visit Sue Shumway who I was friends with in MD, who now lives in Tucson. Even though the drive to AZ was a long one, it was worth it. It was a wonderful little vacation.

Easter

We spent Easter in Tucson, AZ this year. Sam had to do a test flight so we all decided to go so we could visit my college roommate, Joi. Luckily the Easter Bunny still found us. Here is Gavin with his chocolate bunny, which he ate for breakfast.

Gavin and Rene'e were thrilled with their Easter buckets.Rene'e sure loves to eat chocolate.Carter didn't get his own bucket this year but he stole the plastic bunny out of Ava's, Joi's daughter."Look at all these baskets!"Our family on Easter.

Tiffany & Joi

I have taken all of my kids pictures as babies in bunny ears. I just think it is the cutes thing and Carter was no exception.

Trip to see Les Misérables

My sisters, Jenne' and Kendra were in the school production of Les Miserable. Alyica and I flew to PA, with our babies, to see them. Jenne' and Kendra were wonderful! It was so fun to get away and enjoy some time with my family. We missed Brielle though.

Sunday 3.25.07

I coordinated the kids outfits for church. Aren't they cute?

Bird update: We are up to five eggs.

I will be in PA until Monday with Carter. Fun for Sam!

Two new editions!

Some birds build a nest in the wreath on our front door. We now have two eggs. I have no idea what kid of birds they are but us opening the door from time to time hasn't seemed to bother them too much. I can't wait for them to hatch and it will be fun for my kids to see them.

Frisco Easter Egg Hunt

Sam took Gavin in Rene'e to the Frisco Easter Egg hunt. I had enrichment, so I took Carter with me. I guess the whole thing took about a minute but the kids had a great time.

Photos this week

After church I noticed that Rene'e and I's outfits coordinated, so I had to have a picture.

Gavin did came up to me like this and told me he was a bad guy.

Carter is a wild sleeper. It is fun to see where his is in his crib before I go to bed.

Carter is so mobile. He is rolling all over our house.

Ceiling Project 3/9/07

Sam and I have come to realize that any home project that we do will cost double the money and twice as much time and we thought it would. Our ceiling project took about five times the money and more hours than I care to count. It all started with toilet that over flowed and stained our ceiling. We figured that two gallons of ceiling paint would be an easy fix. Well, when Sam rolled on the paint the popcorn that was on the damaged area it fell off. Sam went to Walmart to get spray on pop corn and I continued doing edging and then was going to scrap the area wear the popcorn was coming off. The popcorn came of in sheets, so I decided the ceiling would look better if we just took off all the popcorn. When Sam in the door I said, "Don't be mad." because I had a quarter of the sealing already scraped. We stayed up until 2am on Friday and 3am on Saturday scraping the ceiling, sanding it, and then painting it. Sanding created so much dust that everything on the first floor needed to be washed. We had to wipe down the walls, steam clean the furniture and floor, scrub the tile floor with a scrub brush, wash every cabinet, wash all the dishes in our cabinets, and do a whole lot of vacuuming. I was so overwhelmed that Alycia had to come up on Tuesday and Wednesday to help me get through the mess. Luckily the house is now back together, clean, and we have smooth ceiling in the family room and kitchen. We took this weekend off from house projects but I did buy fabric to start drapery. I sometimes pity Sam being married to me.

Nerf Guns

Little boys sure love guns. GG gave them this set during her visit and Gavin and Blake love them. Luckily they don't have very good aim, so they don't shoot each other that often. These Nerf guns shoot darts that have Velcro at the end so it sticks to the vests that they wear. They mostly just try to shoot into the balcony from the entry way. Blake only cried one time when Gavin shot him in the neck.