A quick update!

On Friday night Ava had her cheerleading and gymnastics show at the YMCA!  She has been doing a cheerleading class since last September and she has been doing gymnastics since she was 2.  It was cute to watch her show!  Brock and Grandma Jan went with me to watch her. Graig had to ref a basketball game so we took lots of pictures to show him.

Here is Ava with her cheerleading team.  They are SO cute!  They did a cheer, a chant and a dance.   

Ava with her friends Anika and Lennon

Ava doing her dismount on the balance beam

Ava doing her vault (this is her favorite gymnastics element!)

Ava on the uneven bars

I told you I took a lot of pictures!  Have a great Tuesday :)

Here is quick update, this past week has been CRAZY busy!  I have been painting our kitchen and our whole house has been a wreck for the longest time!  We are putting our cabinets on tonight and then for the most part our kitchen will be FINISHED!  I am so excited.  The only things that I have left to do is pick out a  new throw rug for in front of our sink and get new kitchen towels.  I also want to get a new countertop.
Here are some quick pictures I took this morning. 

This is the door way leading to our dining room

Next to our microwave

Our display shelf

This is a shot of our side door, I love these new toile curtain. 

Today is Graig's 38th birthday!! We celebrated by going out to dinner on Monday night.  He didn't want a present (like usual-ha ha) so he is going to make an extra mortage payment today as a birthday gift to himself.  Also today our friends Dan and Jenn had a baby boy!  We can't wait to meet him!

Soooo tired!!

Last night Ava got home from her dance classes and was sooo tired!  I thought she was watching some TV but when I came into the living room to check on her, this is what I found.  She was knocked out, poor thing she was exhausted!  Our Dog Daisy was tired too, he spends all day barking at cars, squirrels, and people so he gets tired too-ha ha. 

In other exciting news I ordered curtains for our kitchen, living room and sunroom! I can't wait to get them.  We have Roman Shades so the curtains are to add color and warmth to the rooms. 

I ordered black and white toile curtains for our kitchen and I ordered khahi and white toile for our living room and sunroom.  I will post pictures when I get them.

Tonight I am going to a spinning class, we are having chicken casserole for dinner and Brock and Ava are working on their homework.  What an exciting life we lead-ha ha! 

 

DIY Day-Sunroom!

Over Christmas break Graig and I re-did our Sunroom.  We painted it SW svelte sage and I repainted the trim.  The window trim is black and the baseboards white.  Graig re-did our wood floors, we had nasty carpet but we ripped that out.  I am SO happy with the way the room turned out!

I want to add more plates to this wall.  I got these two at a garage sale, I always find the best things at garage sales-ha ha!

Here's a better shot of the floor, I love the color that we chose.  We are going to get a new area rug for the floor. 

I also painted our heater covers black too.  I also added some new accessories. 

The other side of the room.  Ava's toys are in the corner and in the other corner is a little tv tray side table (it's just temporary I am looking for another side table I want to find one to hold our games, puzzles, books, etc.

The longaberger basket my sister gave me!  She always gets me these baskets, I LOVE them!

Happy Monday!

Weekend update!

We had a busy weekend of painting, moving furniture, hanging up pictures etc and it was SO fun!!  Our living room and sunroom are finally put back together and I LOVE the way both rooms turned out.  The sunroom looks so nice!  Our house has been a total disaster since right around Christmas time because of these room changes
Here is a rundown of what we did:  I will post pictures of our projects later this week!

Living Room (this is where we will spend all of our time)
-This past summer I painted the room Tobacco Road (I LOVE this color!)
-We painted the window trim black and the baseboards white
-We moved our very comfortable sunroom furniture in our living room
-We got a 50 inch flatscreen TV for Christmas from Santa
-We got a large area rug
For our living room we still need to get curtains and I want to get a new screen for our fireplace

Sunroom

-removed the nasty yucky carpet
-Graig redid the  hardwood floors
-I painted the room SW svelte sage
-We painted the window trim black and the baseboards white
-We moved our red living room furniture into this room
For our sunroom we still need to get curtains, an area rug and a little side table or chest to keep games, puzzles, books, etc.

Oh and Brock and Ava had a fun weekend too! 

Ava spent the weekend with our new neighbor Sarah.  Sarah and Ava have known each other for a long time because they go to the same school but Sarah recently moved into our neighborhood and Ava is THRILLED!  They spent the whole weekend going back and forth from her house to our house!

Brock spent the night with Grandma Jan on Saturday night.  They went snow tubing and Brock made Grandma Jan dinner on Saturday night.  They had so much fun together!

TGIF!!!

We are all so happy it's the weekend!!  The first week of school and work after Christmas break was rough!  It has been SO cold and with our renovation projects our house is a MESS!!  I am so thankful we have this weekend to (hopefully!) finish our painting projects and to start putting our house back in order!

I just got the Pioneer Woman's cookbook and last night I made these steak sandwiches and mashed potatoes!  They were SO good!!  She has so many good recipes that I want to try!  Her book has a ton of pictures and step by step instructions so it's really easy to follow her recipes. 

We also rented Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs for Brock and Ava.   Ava really wanted to see it in the theatre but we never got around to it. Anyway, it was a cute movie and they really liked it and it gave Graig and I the chance to do some more work on our never ending list of house projects-ha ha!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Show us your life-New Year's Resolutions!!

Happy 2010!  I am SO excited about the new year and what 2010 will bring for me and my family.  We are all happy, healthy and VERY blessed.  I know that 2010 is going to be a great year for our family and of course (like everyone else!) I planned a few new year's resolutions to keep myself on track.

1.  Take the time to spend LOTS of time together as a family this year.  Graig and I both want to do this because Brock and Ava are getting SO big SO fast.  We are going to be the parents of a TEENAGER when Brock turns 13 in August and Ava will be 8 in March!  It seems like yesterday when they were this small

Now they just keep getting bigger and bigger every day

2.  Enjoy spending time with our friends and family.  We are blessed to live so near to Graig's family and I am thankful that Graig's parents are so involved in Brock and Ava's lives!  I also want to go back to Illinois again this year to visit my family.  My Mom is also planning to come out for Ava's first communion in May.  I also want to have our friends over more for dinner and cookouts, it is SO much fun when we do that! 

Ava and Grandma Jan

Ava and Graig with Grandpa Larry and Uncle Garth

My mom and sister Shelby

3.  Like everyone I am trying to lose weight and be healthier in 2010!  I joined a new gym and I have signed up for a few exercise classes each week.  I also want to eat better in 2010, more fruits and vegetables and less fast food and diet coke.  My sister Shelby and I have this same resolution so we have been calling/texting each other every day to keep each other on track!

I think that's it for 2010!  I didn't want to do too many and get overwhelmed-ha ha!  I am trying to start small.  I can't wait to read though and see what other people's new year's resolutions are for 2010.