2 Down 5 to Go!

So we finished the girls room! Here's all the before and after pics. It had pink carpet that stunk like animals, before I took the pics.

Before: Dry rotted window that was very drafty!

After: New window! No more drafts!

Before: Termite damage to the wall. Out dated wallpaper on ceiling.

After: We filled in all the termite holes and painted the ceiling. We also caulked all the seams and cracks in the outer walls to ensure no more drafts or bugs.

Before

After

Before: The closet was huge and a waste of space because it took up the whole wall and wasn't built very well.

After: So we cut the closet in half and made a cute little nook and added shelves in the closet for more storage space.

Before: The other end of the closet

After: The other end of the closet. I am going to put a curtain up over the door way. Pete built it so we could easily add a door in the future if we wanted to.

I haven't hung up all the pics I've been saving for the "Girls room" and the curtains aren't what I want them to be but, it was so much fun putting this girls room together. Zach and Elora have shared a room their whole lives so this was the first time I was able to decorate a girls room and I would recommend it to anyone!

So that is what we've been working on through march. Now we are going to move on to the upstairs bathroom! It will probably take us more than a month to finish it though. But it will be sooooo nice when it's done!

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Spring Break

For Spring Break the kids and I drove 3 hours to Yakima to spend a few days with Jeff and Val's family! Val was able to sign the kids up for swimming lessons at the YMCA, so they had fun doing that. Then on Thursday Ken and Julie drove over too. So we all had dinner at Great Grandma and Grandpa's house in Sunnyside and the kids had tons of fun playing in their beautiful yard!

Danika and Snickers

Zach, Danika and Elora

Danika, Emery and Grandpa Ken, Great Grandpa Smith and Great Grandma Smith.

Snickers and Lilly

Elora had lots of fun playing school with all the dogs chew toys and Great Grandma's toys!

The kids had lots of fun!

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Two front teeth!

Zach lost both his front teeth within a couple days of each other. The first one fell out while he was eating a piece of soft chocolate. The other one I pulled out because I was sick of seeing it waggling around every time he talked! He was so excited he wouldn't hold still for the pics, so these were the two best pics.
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Who ordered the snow!!??

Yesterday this is what it looked like here in Vader! I was not expecting snow at all so it was quite a surprise! It has snowed a little today too.

So, this is Pete's new car, by the way!
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Happy Easter!

Zach, Lacy, Elora and Ben coloring Easter eggs.

Here's Elora carefully stirring her egg!

Makella and Danika finding eggs!
Lacy made Cowboy Caviar!! Cowboy Caviar is all these two girls wanted to eat for dinner!

Danika couldn't eat it fast enough!

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Duck!

My sister-in-law Bonnie and her daughter Makella are visiting with us this week so we took them to Toledo Park to feed the ducks. Danika wasn't too sure about the ducks!

This male duck had really cool markings!
Here's Aunt Lacy swinging Danika.
Makella and Danika.

We took Bonnie to the thrift store earlier this week and I found this super cute outfit. So I had to take a picture of it.

Check out this pose!










(do you like our awful kitchen floor and rusty metal cupboards and yellow counter? Just a few more months and it will all be gone!!!!! Yippee!!!) (can you tell I'm a little excited!)

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Frozen

I thought this was so funny so I had to share it!

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