30th Birthday Surprise Party!

My wonderful husband threw me a surprise birthday party for my 30th birthday! I felt so special to have so many friends and family there to help me celebrate and for all of their help they gave to Andrew so he could pull it off. I was truly surprised and touched. Kellen loved the cake, and even shared with me!

New Kitchen Lights

So we finally tore out the old fluorescent lights in the kitchen!! I've been wanting to do this since we saw the house over a year ago, and we are so happy with how it turned out. We ended up putting moulding inside the box to help cover the flaws, it flows so nice and looks beautiful!

Sunday Morning Fun

We dog sat Venn Saturday night, which Kellen just loved...Venn, well he's still getting used to such a loud little kid. Sunday morning we woke up and had some great fun we wanted to share with all of you.

Running from the mower

Kellen used to help Daddy mow the lawns, now he seems to be a bit apprehensive about it.

Easter

Easter was great! Kellen found his Easter eggs as soon as he came into the living room in the morning. I put some yogurt melts and fruit gummies in colored plastic eggs, and he got so excited when he saw inside them. When he saw his Easter basket he started to bang his shovels on the tile in the dining room, Kellen might be a drummer in the future! We had everyone over to our house and grilled up some burgers in the afternoon. It was absolutely beautiful out side so we had horseshoe and croquet games going. Kellen was really helpful with making the croquet game interesting by moving the wickets around for the players.

Yard Work

The house when we first saw it in April 2008, and then just one year later after a lot of hard work

For the last two weeks, when we have had a chance, we've been doing some serious yard work trying to transform our yards into something we could be proud of. Andrew did a wonderful job taking out all the rocks in the front, laying a new drip system both in the front and on the hill in the back yard, installing the bender board in the front, and digging the holes where I wanted them for the new plants. We've had such wonderful weather these days and it's felt so great to get out and work on our projects. Wow, what a change!

Sprinkler Fun

Kellen recently found out how much fun it is to play in sprinklers, so now whenever he sees one he has to play in it!