SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHERS, GIRL!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JENN!

FOREVER A SPRING CHICKEN...

MORE CARPET GONE!

 The front door/entry way

storage room off entry way

IT'S JUST A HUNCH....

but, I'm thinking not too many people can say they have a riding lawn mower

in their master bathroom!

(Well, what WILL be the bathroom!)

I think Riggs is laughing at Alex's little tractor...as he sits on his BIG one!

Grandpa brought over his remote control tractor to play with....

for the kids, of course! :)

UNO ATTACK!

 Fairly certain this is NOT how they intended for the game to be played....

but it kept this mom entertained for a good 15 minutes!!!

OF COURSE....NOW?!

 Now that we are wanting to sell our house

(well, we have wanted to for a LONG time...but, now that we have another place...)

we are trying to make the house look better.

Why is that???

Why is ok for us to make do with 'things' but for someone else...we better make it nice!?

Annoying.

So, we have lived with a bathroom floor like this....

OK....maybe not exactly like that.

The linoleum has already been scraped off...but close!

After some hard work by Corey....

Voila!!!

SPRINKALICIOUS FRIENDS

Alex had her friend Kennedy over to play....

of course, we had to decorate cupcakes!

These two girls LOVE their sprinkles!!!

.....how cute are they!?!?

TA DA

ITS MAGIC...RIGHT??? 

OK....MAYBE NOT!

Lots of sweat, blood and blisters have gone into clearing out this place.

But, the demolition part is mostly done.

There are a couple more things to happen before putting it back together.

Like getting the plans done...

minor details, really.

LITTLE YODER BOYS

McCoy, Riggs, Channing & Anderson

THE HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHERS

Scott and his brother Kevin have the same birthday.

2 years apart.

We celebrated their birthdays together tonight.

Lasagna, garlic bread and cake.

Scott ~ DQ Ice Cream Cake

Kevin ~ Lemon Cake

What did Scott want to play after eating???

Race to the Bathroom.

Well, the flu the rest of us had over Spring Break...

he decided to finally get on his birthday.

Yuck!

Before passing out last night,

he told me that this day doesn't count towards his birthday week!

(yes, we celebrate birthdays for a week in this family...go ahead, be jealous!)

THE GIRLS MADE NEW FRIENDS

SERIOUSLY.....THEY MADE THEM!
(hee hee)

HE TAKES AFTER HIS UNCLE

My brother Andrew and his wife Jessica gave me this apron for Christmas.

Thought it would make it fun for me while in the kitchen doing all my baking.

I was going to title this "mommy's little helper"

but then I realized he was trying to be like his uncle....

Uncle Andrew gettin' sassy in the kitchen...

doesn't my apron compliment his Oregon lumberjack shirt???

CHURCH...PROPERTY...TO BE HOUSE...UPDATE

We are still trying to figure out what to call our 'to be home'!?

I still say church...which I have been told to stop.

Riggs calls it 'home' every time we pull into the driveway....

but, that gets confusing since we aren't actually living there yet.

So, here are the umm...church, umm...property, umm...'to be house' newest pictures:

walking in from the entry way/front door

the side rooms and stage are gone

kitchen has been disassembled

view from kitchen...

sanctuary walls/doors are gone

glowing cross....still there!

looking back from what used to be stage area

bathrooms stalls gone

SCOTT'S PRACTICE BIRTHDAY PARTY

For 2 months and 2 days out of the year, I am older than Scott.

And, he LOVES that time...
reminding me of how old I am and how he is SO much younger.

Ridiculous.

I only have 2 more days of being older than my husband...thank goodness!

Wednesday we will have his real birthday celebration with all his family but we had our little 'practice party' this weekend.

We had his standard lasagna, basketball, ice cream cake from DQ
and his surprise gift.... 

He got so excited....it brought tears to my eyes!

He is such a good gift giver and a lot of times Im not...

so it made me happy to see him happy!

Floyd of Rosedale

(Iowa vs. Minnesota Football Trophy)

I think part of the excitement is that he will soon have a place to display all his 'trophies' instead of packing them back in the box for storage!

Yes...Scott got into his cake before blowing out his practice candle.

SPRING BREAK ~ DAY FIVE

Now its Riggs' turn....

Spring Break can be over now.

SPRING BREAK ~ DAY FOUR

Had to take it easy today...Alex still wasn't feeling 100%.

It was hot today so the other two enjoyed freeze pops...in March!?

And, Riggs decided he didn't need his shirt on anymore.

SPRING BREAK ~ DAY THREE

It was going so well.....

then another one goes down.

Its Alex's turn!

RIGGS & HIS TREE

Riggs loves this tree!

And, I love watching him work so hard to climb it...

He's got a ways to go....

DAY TWO ~ SPRING BREAK

 MUCH BETTER!!!

DAY ONE ~ SPRING BREAK

OFFICIALLY SUCKED!

Well, at least for Brooklyn and myself.

At 1:30am Brooklyn comes into my room to let me know her stomach was feeling yucky....as she throws up on my bed and me. Wonderful. I really do need to switch sides of the bed with Scott!

Every 30 minutes she went running for the bathroom and I went in after her to help.

Awful.

Then I started at 5am.

Scott left for work and I quickly realized that I was not going to make it. Every time I had to stand up to help one of the kids, I got sick. Scott came home and kept Alex and Riggs busy while Brooklyn and I slept and took turns in the bathroom.

Here's to hoping day two is MUCH better!

MORE TEARING DOWN

 Helping his daddy remove the stage up front

Grandpa needed assistance next.

He is a very busy boy!

 There's still plenty of time for games...

and rides...

But, then its back to work!



taking the carpet out of what will be my baking storage room

look at that vert!

carrying the carpet out to the junk pile

Wish I had a video of this....

It was really windy and Riggs chased this weed all the way across our parking lot...

I mean our back yard!

Super proud of himself when he finally caught it!