Busy weekends were well worth it!

Our last few weekends have been pretty busy! Not last weekend, but the weekend before, my brother and dad came over and installed new windows in my living room. They look fantastic, and I am soooo happy with them!! I cant thank them enough for doing that for us! It was a little scary at first seeing a saw cutting into your house, but once they got the holes cut where the windows would go, I was very excited!
Thank you so much Chris and Dad!!!

We've had some leaky pipes in our master bathroom, and until this weekend had just chosen to ignore it, and quit using our master bathroom shower. Derek's uncle Mike came over this weekend to help us with the pipes, and we had to cut a big hole in the ceiling in our kitchen to get to them. Again, very scary seeing a hole being cut into your ceiling! It appeared that the problem was that the builders had just failed to tighten the pipes very well when they built the house, and also not enough putty around the drain.... I think. There was also a little mold where the water had been sitting. Thank you Uncle Mike for volunteering your Saturday morning to help us with this! We greatly appreciate your help!

After that, we had to go to Home Depot to get some supplies so Derek could patch the hole in the ceiling. He did a fantastic job for having had no experience, and I am very proud of him! Then Saturday night, I was getting ready to go to bed, and I opened the front door to call the cats inside, and I noticed what looked like a huge spider on the porch railing. So I called Derek to check it out. Turns out, a certain plumber who thinks he's funny had left a plastic spider there for me to find and freak out at. Lets just say that even being close to a plastic spider made me a little panicky, so I made Derek throw it away.... BUT I made him wrap it in toilet paper first because I just know that when I go change the bathroom garbage, I would see that spider there and probably scream and scare the daylights out of Jadon again!

Anyways, I wanted to show you pictures of our windows!

Here's a before shot, showing you our old windows.....

And here's the new windows....


While I'm at it, here's a picture of the main upstairs bathroom that I recently painted (cupboards white, walls tanish color...) sorry I don't have a before shot of the bathroom.

Happy unBirthday Jadon!!

Today was the day Jadon was supposed to have been born (a year ago anyways).... obviously he had other plans though! Its just weird to think about... for me it really puts into perspective just how early he was. It seems like his first birthday party was months ago!

Well it looks like we might get some snow tonight! The weather men are saying theres a chance! I cant believe it, its April 18 for Pete's sake! I'm more than ready for some warmer, nicer weather! I even bought some flowers to plant yesterday, but thought id keep them on the porch until this unseasonably cold weather passes. Its beginning to feel like winter is never going to leave!

Tomorrow morning my big brother is coming over to replace our downstairs windows! (He is a general contractor.) I cant wait!! I hope the house will look ok with bigger windows! I took before pictures, and I intend to take some after pictures as well! I'm very excited!!!

Well, Jadon is AGAIN sick! Wednesday he was doing a little coughing, then Thursday it got a little worse, and by Thursday night he was up all night coughing, and today he's got the coughs, sneezes, and really runny nose! He had a very minor low grade fever tonight as well. Poor guy! I feel so bad, we are still not quite over our other colds yet! I'm sooooo ready for summer!!!!!!!!!

Sorry!!!

Sorry to all my loyal readers.... i've been MIA for a while! I decided to paint our main upstairs bathroom, and it took a good solid week and a half to do it! I decided to paint for several reasons. Its a small bathroom, so I decided to paint the cabinets white to try to make it look bigger. Also, when/if (I say if because of the way the economy is now) we sell I want it to look as good and as big as possible! So the cabinets I painted white as well as all the trim, and the walls are now a light chocolate-ish color... very pretty! Then yesterday I went to town and bought a few new things: shower curtain, a few hand towels, soap dispenser, 12" fake palm plant, a yummy smelling reed diffuser, and a bath mat. So after I got the place cleaned up of all the painting materials, and put out all my new things, it now has the feel of a mini-spa! I love it! I still need a few more decorative items (artwork for the walls mainly), and I still have some minor painting to do, but other than that, I am very proud of the fruits of my labor! It was really hard trying to balance everything: Jadon, Derek, my other household duties, etc.. along with the painting, and I started to feel like every other aspect of my life was beginning to suffer... Jadon wasnt getting my attention, the house hasnt been cleaned in a few weeks now and is totally driving me nuts, and we had a few nights of just nachos for dinner. So I feel great now that I'm done with that project for the most part and can focus my energies back on the things that are more important in my life.

On that note, I wanted to update you on Jadon's sleeping. A few weeks ago I had written that he had 6 great nights in his own bed, then 2 bad nights. After those 2 bad nights, he went back to sleeping again in his own bed, and has been there ever since!!! I didnt want to say anything sooner and jinx it, but its been two or so weeks now, and things are going well! Last night wasn't the greatest, he was awake at 1:45am, and didnt sleep much more after that. So I think he's going to be conquering a new milestone, or cutting some more teeth, because thats usually what he does for several nights when something big is going to happen! We'll just have to wait and see now! Also, he is completely walking now... only crawls about 3% of the time! He just LOVES being able to wander around and carry his toys with him! Its so cute! I am so lucky to have two of the greatest boys in my life! :)