Easter Fun!

We had a great Easter! We went down to Ollie and Sharon's. Lee & Cherrie and Kevin & Michelle brought their families down as well. We all went to church, came home, had a great lunch, and then we hid a VERY large trash bag full of eggs all over Ollie and Sharon's yard. The kids had a great time while they stayed with them for a few days but Blake was READY to come home. I was ready for them to come home also. Ryan is going to be working out of town all week, so I'm already missing him! But I do hope that everyone had as nice of an Easter as we did :)

Lee was doing his annual "tricking the kids." He ties fishing line through some eggs and when a kid goes for them, he moves it. It is hilarious! Blake fell for it last year, but this year was Samuel's turn ;)

Whew!

Easter Graphic Comments

Yay, I am totally finished with Taylor's room. I realize that I have been working on her room for a couple days, but... I didn't work CONSTANTLY in there. I did a lot of other things and Ryan and I left our house a few times, so it really didn't take me 2 full days to do it ;) But I did get it all accomplished. I'm very happy with the results. I have 3 trash bags full of yard sale stuff, and that's just from the kids' rooms. Taylor has a very girly girl room. The people that lived here before us had it decorated just the way it is, and I love it! I wouldn't want to change anything. It is a very cute girl room. But I wanted to update everyone on the progress :)

All of her toys are confined to this area, plus all our books.

Here is Taylor's school collage, I am excited to see how the kids change over the years :)

Craigslist rocks!

When we moved to this house, we had a love seat that used to belong to Ryan's grandpa, and that's all the seating we had for a long time. Then Lee and Cherrie gave us a recliner, which was great. So we had enough seating, for our little family, but when we had any company over, I had to pull in our office chair and sometimes dining room chairs. It was obvious that we needed another couch. Well a couple weeks ago, Cherrie told me about Craigslist. I have been looking on Craigslist for a couple weeks and yesterday I came across a couch (leather) that definitely fit into our price range, which isn't much ;) So I'm VERY happy about my find! It is a very comfortable couch and in really good shape. Anyways, we only paid $25.00 for it. I'm so happy! Here is what it looks like:

Blake's room

Cherrie requested that I showed some of my progress for while my kids are gone. I actually am in the middle of doing Taylor's room. I did Blake's room yesterday. I didn't just clean it, I went through all the small clothes, and toys that aren't being used, and tried to actually organize everything. So I'm really happy to have his done with, but Taylor has a lot more stuff that I have to go through. I'm going to have a yard sale probably in the beginning of April. But here is some pictures of Blake's Star Wars room. He loves Star Wars very much, so do me and Ryan! Blake calls his carpet "Chewiebacca carpet". For those who don't know, Chewbacca is the big hairy guy from Star Wars. I will post more pictures of other things I get done later, but that is what I have done so far :)

This is the collage I told everyone I was working on when I first got this blog.

No kids

It is going to be a different, but nice few days for me. Our kids are staying with Ollie and Sharon down at the lake. I hope to get a lot of things accomplished while they are gone. I need to go through their rooms and get rid of some junk and clothes. I need to do some organizing around the house. I need to do some spring cleaning, mow my yard, do other yard work, etc... I love my kids SO much, but it is so nice to have a little break to do extra things. Plus, Ryan and I really don't get much time without them, so it will be nice to just spend some time with only him. We will probably go to their house on Saturday, and spend the night. We have Easter plans there at Ollie and Sharon's house on Sunday. But for now, I'm just wanting to focus on getting some things done. But I hope the kids are having a great time!