Our kitchen table, just for you Ellen

Okay Ellen, here is the picture of the kitchen table. Whatcha think? The camera makes the table tops look much lighter on both of them than they are in person.

Our coffeetable

So here is our *new* coffee table. This is the one that I saw on the curb while on a walk and sent Mike to go pick up. Mike stripped it down and refinished it so that it matches our kitchen table. We really like the way it turned out!


Now, Mike has a wild itching to reupholster our couches...the next big project. We bought them used from a family on base and we really like the shape of them, but the fabric pills and it itchy on bare skin. So Mike did some research, ordered some new micro fiber fabric and now we are just waiting for it to come in.

So I'll post more pictures when the next project is done....

the kiddos

So here are a few pictures I took of the kids the other day. I was folding laundry and thought hmm this blanket could be a backdrop.


On another note, I made Mike go curb shopping the other day because while on a walk I notice that someone was throwing out a decent coffee table. We used to have one but it was a piece of crap. We bought it new and within a few months it was chipping and wobbly. A total waste of money. This new one was a little beat up but was solid wood so Mike went to work and has stripped the stain, and is now in the process of staining and painting so that it will match our newer kitchen table that we bought. I love it already! So far he has the bottom (legs and ledge) stripped and painted black and all he has left is the table top. I can't wait to take a picture. Silly me forgot to snap one before he went to work on it....

Football!

We brought out the football that Mike's dad brought when he visited last time and boy Ben loved it. He chewed on it, rolled it, and then threw a fit when he couldn't get it back.

Looks like we may have a football junkie on our hands, well just have to wait and see.

I fell down!

Ashley has gained a new sense of invincibility and with that has come some daring trials and of course that have ended with booboos.

She had been running around in cirlces on the back patio and tripped, fell and scraped her knee. Although it was traumatizing she was back doing stunts in about 3 minutes. Today she fell down the back stairs onto the cement while I was mowing the lawn.

Wagon fun!

So now that Ben can sit up I broke out the wagon for today's walk. They both had a blast! Ashley had a tough time staying seated on her bum because she wanted to see Ben and then wanted to watch where we were going.

Thankfully daddy installed a seatbelt last year. It worked great to keep Ben upright and happy (and in one place) for our adventure.

more catching up

Just like Mommy! Ben loves typing on the keyboard so much that I can no longer hold him while getting anything done. So low and behold I dug out the old keyboard to our MAC and gave it to him. He loves it.

Buddies, well Ben loves Boca and Boca loves any form of attention, even if it is ear pulling. They make a great pair. It's so funny because Boca will come by and force her head under his hand so that he "pets" her even though it's more like hitting.

Here's a few pictures of Bath time lately. Ben has outgrown his baby bath and is now ready for the bath seat. He loves splashing and between the two of them my bathroom is drenched afterwards.


Ashley loves blowing the bubbles off her hands. Bubble baths are so much fun!

Catching UP!!!

So here are a few pictures of Ashley when we went to the CanadInns Waterpark for Kadence's birthday. We got there early so we had to wait for a little while. Ashley was so excited to get in the water.

Here she is chillin on the beach chair before having cake. It was a great birthday!


W's boss made instant buddies with Ben and held him almost the whole time. It was great cause I was able to take Ashley out in the water without worrying about him. As you can see Ben enjoyed himself also.

Fudgecicle

Here's another pic from when Ashley stayed with J. I gave her another fudgecicle yesterday and oh my what a mess.

here's a couple pic of Ben smiling up a storm. He is quite the smiley kiddo!

the big 100

So this is my 100th post....and a boring one at that. :)

I finished my finals, turned in both my research papers and only have 2 assignments left to finish before tomorrow night and this term is done!!! Thank goodness. This has been a pretty crazy week so I am glad that I have managed to pull through!

Tonight we are heading to KK's 3rd birthday party at Pizza hut and then over to the Canad Inns new water park. Should be fun!!! Ashley is really looking forward to it.

Happy Birthday KK!

Ashley on the trampoline

Mike and I had our first date in FOREVER last night. We went to the Nickleback concert. What a blast! My head is still ringing! My friend J was sweet enough to watch the kids for us and Ashley got to experience her first trampoline!

Thanks J!

Uhh Oh, I need help

So I was in doing homework in the office and little miss someone got into trouble. All I heard was "uh oh, I need help" and this is what I found.

The new paint I got for her the other day is gone, as well my address book which she decided to pour it on.

Poor girl was so upset!

Our New Toy

We bought a fun new toy from our friend Jen. The kids both really love it.

Ashley is getting really good at pushing Ben and he loves every minute of it.

Painting

I went to pick up of some office supplies today because they are super cheap for back to school. I was in the Crayola aisle and saw some paint and thought it could be fun. So I picked it and some paintbrushes up and put Ashley to work creating my first paintings to hang on the fridge .
She had a fun time of it and honestly didn't make too much of a mess. So I thought I would share them with everyone! I also bought a bunch of Crayola markers too cause they were only 88 cents a pack. So that will be another fun project for a different day.

6 month check up

I took Ben for his 6 month check up and he is 20lbs and 28 inches long. She said he is doing well and is very strong. He is meeting all the milestones so far except not much in the field of babbling. He does lots of squeals and shrieks but not babbling.

Mike left for WA state at 5 am this morning to go and visit his mom and grandma before he deploys in Sept.

My finals are on the 24th so my posting will be scarce until then! But I will try!

4th of July...well, the 3rd actally

We went to Roma's Pizza parking on on the 3rd to light of fireworks. We got there early because every other time we have gone it has been really crowded. Umm, well not this time! We were the only ones for a long time and then one other family showed up just before we were packing up and heading home.



Ashley was so excited to see the fireworks. Mike would light one off and she would have the next one already picked out.



She liked the ground blooms the best!



Here we are watching the show. Well the early stuff.



The only bad thing is because we were the only "fresh meat" there when the sunset the skeeters were awful!!! And I mean AWFUL!!!!! The next morning we realized Ashley had close to 30 bites on her face! Yikes. Ben made out with only 3 bites.

The community picnic

The community picnic was fun although there wasn't a whole lot for the little kids to do. Ashley really enjoyed watching the older kids play on the inflatable water slide.

She got soaked and was walking funny. It was so cute to see! She also got to have watermelon but that didn't compare to the excitement at the water slide.

We miss you Burman Family!

I watched T's kids while the movers packed them out. It was great to have one last chance to let the kiddos play. Although Ashley keeps asking for Kamdyn to come over for dinner or night night.


The girls all decided it was so hot they needed to lay down and rest so they made a big bed on the floor and rested.



Bailey and Kamdyn loved our bouncy horse. They kept playing on it all afternoon.

We will miss you guys!!!

Turtle River Picnic

So we managed to take advantage of the wonderful weather lately about a week and a half ago and packed up a picnic lunch to eat at Turtle River state park. We had a blast. We walked some trails, drove around, picked a spot and had lunch! It was quite fun.


Ashley really enjoyed the chance to run freely without mommy yelling, "stay in the yard" "too far" "Ashely....". She was able to pick up sticks and run and overall had a great time!

I think we picked the wrong stroller to bring along as some of the places were quite bumpy. Oh well!

As we are not the most outdoorsy people we did have a little problem with bugs while we were eating our lunch. We made it pretty quite and planned for next time to do all the prep at home instead of there!

Oh and a quick update on Mike. He is doing better. He's back at work but is still pretty sore. He is not taking his meds at work because they make him really sleepy. But overall he's doing better.