Hello!! Spring is on the way- hooray!

Hi family!! Hope everyone's doing well! : ) We have been busy enjoying the nice weather.. Spring is almost here!! Somethings we have been doing are- going for walks, jumping on the trampoline, playing foosball and basketball in the family room, painting, and decorating for Easter. We also got a new puppy (half Chihuahua half Doxen = "Chidoxie" !) We named her Tika after the Elephant in "Barbie as the Island Princess" She is so cute! We have to watch Stitch around her cause he literally tries to step on her- it's like the running of the bulls! ( or bullDOGS ha ha)
Memphis is enjoying Preschool after being sick for a whole week! We celebrated his Birthday with ashley Britt, and of course - Grandpa! he wasnt feeling too hot so we just kept it low key. It was a Star Wars birthday all the way with Light sabers, Storm trooper guns, and a Darth Vader birthday cake! Luke and I celebrated HIS birthday watching american idol with chinese food in our new king sized bed-- with sick little Memphis sitting between us! ha ha
Claire continues to be the queen of the coop here, and is such a good talker now! She is potty training, and gets chocolates if she uses the tiolet. Blue wrapper for pee and GOLD for poop. She is a chocolate FIEND and will pretend to potty just so she can eat the chocolate. : ) She makes us laugh so hard with the funny things she says and does. she really is a character! Lola is getting prettier and prettier every day, and looks so much like Luke's baby pictures! She is SUCH a good baby- always in chill mode. Lucky us! She rolls over now, and makes lots of cute sounds. She still likes to wake me up at night though!
Luke has been hard at work trying to get his new Primerica business venture going while working full time.. we appreciate all his efforts! He is such a wonderful husband and father!! The kids ADORE their Daddy, and Claire is in love with her daddy for sure! I have been watching a five month old full time, and a nine year old girl after school every day now for extra money, and let me tell you- i now know what it would be like to have twins! the baby I watch is only a month older than Lola! My days are VERY full now with Preschool, babies, potty training, puppy training, Modbe, and housework! not ime to RELAX.. I am hoping we have a few good road trips somewhere this ummer where I can realx... maybe to Clint and Ra's new pad? : ) That's all for now folks!! Love u all!!

here is the kitchen. the cabinets are all painted and the hardware is new. the semi-circle handles were a beast to put on but their straight and tight. that stove went crap on us so we have a different one in there now but i guess you cant tell from the pic. also the computer is still in the same spot. im writing this blog from it RIGHT NOW! were going to move it as soon as we paint my desk or move ranias computer hutch in from my old place.

this is our front room looking out from the kitchen. it was a mess like this for a while. we had problems with Build Direct getting out flooring so we lived like this for about a month...i think. rania might have to correct me on this. those are doors i painted in the windows in case you were wondering.

here is out beedroom, or it has been for a while. we just finished the floor in kaileys room a few weeks ago so kailey is in her own room now. it was fun for a while but it i was glad to see her go (down the hall)and she felt the same too.

here is the hallway bathroom. dad and i took the tile out and the toilet. we wanna take the bars out of the shower but that might make the tile underneath (how do you spell underneath?) so were not sure waht to do.

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"before" pictures

here is the kitchen floor...that wall is down now so it really opened the room up.

this is the hallway bath. a really old lady lived here so thats why there are stablizing bars in the shower. were not going to redo the tile in there so well probably just leave em....for now. right now the toilets out and the tile is gone too. well get to it in a week or two.

this is the kitchen. you can see where water has done some damage so all the tile came loose. i was extremely sore for the week while i was breaking it up. we ended up paying 1-800-Got Junk to come get it and the carpet.

heres the front door and entry. all the brown tile is up near the door there and that grey carpet too. the banister is still brown though.

this was easier to take down than rip up the tile. now in its place is just painted wall where the rock was. the fireplace is still there though. oh, and the blinds are gone too. in fact we just got some yesterday and ill probably be putting them up today.

here is the hallway from the entry to the bedrooms. pretty boring.

here is the master bedroom. thats the closet door there and the bathroom is just to its left.

this is just us a few weeks before the big day. i just thought id put it up too.