My Little Ballerina!

Lucie had her second and last(for awhile) dance recital today. I was VERY pressured into signing her up but got some aggressivly harrassing phone calls about doing it. So I finally signed her up-at which point my little sister(who is her teacher) stopped the phone calls. I am glad that I signed her up again because she does LOVE it, and it gives her more time to spend with Lana before she goes to school out West. Last year a week before her recital she came down with chicken pox. Three days ago I took her into the doctor and she has a double ear infection and is sooo uncooperative that he tried to do a strep test and she wouldn't have anything to do with it, her throat was red and what he gave her for her ears would take care of that as well!! So anyway she has been in a HORRIBLE mood. To make a longer story short when she got up to dance she came on stage with her arms crossed and pouting, she danced a little and then at the end she layed on the ground and she was picking at the floor! It was a long day, it is over, and she was beautiful!!!

This is Lucie who is ready for dance!


This is Lucie, Paige, and her cousin AVA!


This is Lucie with Gigi and Grandpa


This is Lucie with Grandma!


This is Lucie with her Daddy!


This is Lucie with grandpa!


This is Lucie with her cousins Ava, Talitha, Havalynne, Aunt Alana, and gigi and grandpa!!


This is Lucie with her sweet Aunt Alana who was a great teacher, beautiful dancer, and wonderful Aunt-who she will dearly miss when she goes to school!!

Our Master Bedroom!!

So our house came with curtains that are a little outdated, but in great shape and rather expensive to replace, SOOOO I decided to try to change the paint color to make the room look better and still keep the curtains. The paint was a light blue and I changed it to green(I am NOT a light blue person.) HMMMMM!!! We still have to pull our carpet and get a bedspread-I can't decide if it was a good decision or not. It is one of my least favorite colors-but when all is said and done, I may like it!!

This is a picture of the blue paint that was there when we moved in!



This is the blue paint and the green paint around the window border!


This is the green paint. Again HMMMMM!

My First Garden product!!

I can't really consider it a complete garden product but it was sooo good and really fun!! Last weekend we picked Rhubarb from our garden(the people who lived here before planted it.) Then we made a strawberry rhubbarb pie(strawberries from the store.) It was so fun having the kids help us pick the rhubarb and then see a finished product! We have three gardens this year, a raspberry patch-a strawberry patch(with four tomato plants)-and a garden with cucmbers, grape/cherry/and normal tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and pumpkins. We are super excited for our things to start growing!!

Fishing down the Peshtigo River

Josh and some of his fishing buddies went fishing down the Peshtigo River on Friday. He didn't put suntan lotion on his feet so they were burned. On Saturday night he went fishing for a couple of hours closer to home, he came home and about 3 hours after he was home he put lotion on his feet and pulled off a chunk of what he thought was DIRT from his foot, it turned out to be a leech that was SUCKING his BLOOD. His foot was bleeding and it was so gross. Anyway these are some pics from the Peshtigo River trip-not the leech one!!!

Misc. Fun!

These are just some misc. pics of the kids having fun!!! For Lucie's birthday my parents gave her the little house that I had as a kid. I wish I would have gotten my dad in the pic. to because he had to redo all the pvc pipes on the inside. Grandma made Lucie's baby lulu a matching dress from her dress last year that still fits. It is really cute. Then the kids had a circus train in the driveway. It was adorable! A friend from church came over to help me with our compost pile and in it were raspberries so we rotatilled the area and made a new raspberry patch that Grant is watering!

A Play on my day off.

I was at home cleaning on my day off and the kids were being good, I could here them so I knew WHERE they were-but I didn't really know WHAT they were doing. It was really cute they came to me and said the play was ready to start, so I followed them. They had set up a play inside the house and the audience was outside the house(which is where I was), then they had me sit in my chair, pulled the curtain open and put on a play. It is a nice break from life to sit and relax and see how imaginative kids can be!!!

Extremly LONG post!

This post just didn't come out right but I have so many pics I don't want to fix it so you kid of have to piece the pics together!!



We were huge overachievers with moving, we filled two huge uhauls. The first few things we did upon moving were doing a little gardening and Lucie has loved dancing on the deck out back!










They left us an old record player that works and my mom saved some records from when I was a kid and the kids have loved dancing to them.



The one place in the house I want little to do with is the crawl space and the kids LOVE to play camping in it!!


The kids didn't have Easter outfits this year so I had them wear the same ones as last year, they were super cute!!



Well, we are finally almost getting settled into our house. It is great, we love it!! At this point in time things are still rather orange(but we are slowly fixing that.) The first two rooms we put together are Grant and Lucie's. We tore up Grant's seventies carpet and this is the hardwood that was under it! We also put up Diego stickers-which is a quick fix until we have time to do more!








In Lucie's room we are keeping the carpet and we just bought daisy stickers for her room to girl it up. I also made her a "dancing" corner with her dressup stuff and my old mirror from when I was a kid-she loves it!






Our little half bath(in the salon/mud room/playroom) was a horrible blue but to quickly fix that I decided to make it a Nemo bathroom and we put up Nemo wall stickers and I actually think it is adorable! The only problem is the wall stickers don't stick great and I followed directions, I hope most can stay up awhile.






Our biggest project is our main bath, we are retiling and painting it, it is coming along great and I love it but pics will be coming later! We are so happy with our house and we are glad we bought this house!!!