Birthday Flashback!

Anna Kate got a little tea cart for her birthday.

She loves to push it around, but usually it has anything but a tea set on it.  It's mostly used for an animal hospital or a rolling library, but at least she likes it! :)

On her actual birthday, her dear Aunt Buzzy thought she needed a cake (her mother was slacking).

Anna Kate LOVED it!

Actual party pictures coming soon (as I always say).  There are just too many to pick from!  Happy Monday to all!

Hair!

While brushing Lydia's hair today, she said, "Momma, did you know that God can count every single strip of hair on your head? That is so incredible!"  We started discussing that fun fact, and then she began listing people off, "He knows how many hairs you have, and Anna Kate, and Daddy, and even Uncle Eddie!" :)

Dress Up!

Lydia's Room!

Here are all the cousins at Anna Kate's birthday party! (more pictures of that coming soon hopefully!)

And here is Lydia's room all cleaned up for the party!  We still need to put mats in those frames, and I'm hoping some shelves will be installed on the other wall someday.  And I just learned at Moms for Moms today that I need to invest in a bar of Lava soap to help out the carpet stain.  Ha.  Hope I can find some!

Even though we haven't done much to change this room besides paint the walls, here's the before...just because I like before and after pictures. :)

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Had to go back in time a bit to find some pictures. :)

Happy Birthday!

We all love you SO much!!!

Happy Birthday, Eleonora!

New Kitchen!

I know I just posted these on Facebook, but I just wanted to put them here too to look back on later.  I also tried to lighten them up, because they were too dark on Facebook.  I meant to do that before I posted, but I just got too excited and forgot.  So, here she is!

Just looks so different!

Joel is a miracle worker! :)

I know some of you fine folks preferred the original cabinets.  I apologize, but it just had to be done! Ha!  They really do look better in the picture than they did in real life.  They were worn out.

I love the island!  So nice to be able to spread out while you cook!  It will be even nicer when we get some stools!

Joel still needs to put grout on the backsplash.  He did the left wall but not the right.  You can't tell in the picture, but you can in real life.  Also, the island still needs to be painted.  Most of it is only primed.  And eventually we'd like to get some new lighting above the island and maybe even some can lighting...we like to dream.  My favorite features of our new kitchen are the island, the pantry, the countertops, the trim around the door and window, the white cabinets, and the ice maker in our fridge. Ha! So pretty much everything!  I still need to add some decorations of some sort...pops of color you might say.  We could also use a new plant.  That one in the corner has seen better days!  So, there ya have it!