Fence Building

We have been wanting to put up a fence for some time now and with baby Ezra arriving soon and Cohen loving to be outside, it was time. I told Danny it needed to be done before Ezra gets here. Now Cohen can play outside where I can see him and not have to worry about him running away or getting in the neighbor's garden.

We invited the boys over, fed them lunch, and put them to work. Thankfully it wasn't raining or too hot out. They got most of it up in a few hours and there are just a few more parts to finish and we are in business. I'm so glad to have it done and I think Danny is too!

The womenfolk got to get a few things done too. We have garbage bags full of scraps from diapers that we were able to sort into piles of scraps we could get more diapers out of, scraps to be cut into squares for baby quilts, and scraps that I will find another project for. Not even our scraps go to waste around here! 

All in all a productive and tiring day, but we are so glad to have the fence up! 

 {The first piece is up!}

{Danny working hard}

{Sorting scraps}

{Cutting scraps into squares for blankets}

{Cohen's contribution was dumping a bag of chips on the ground and then eating them}

 {The boys showing off the fence}

Snow Days

It has been snowing off and on the last few days and we have been enjoying our time inside snuggling on the couch, taking naps, walking to the mailbox, and watching the snow fall out the window. We have about 6 inches right now and it is cold...16 degrees 9 degrees. Tonight is supposed to be the worst night with more snow on the way. We cancelled our appointment in Seattle tomorrow and plan on having a nice relaxing day at home.

{Our backyard}

{Russell kitty watching the snow out the window}

{Attempt at a self portrait on the way to the mailbox}

{Love these chubby baby hands}

 {MMM dinner...white spinach pizza with sundried tomatoes}

Saturday Projects

We didn't get too much done around the house this weekend...Danny went to Seattle for his friend Andy's birthday. It is a "Cowboy & Indian" themed party so one of my projects was to make him an Indian costume to wear. Here he is trying on his outfit (and yes he knows I put the picture on here, haha).

He later added a bow & arrow to his ensemble

 Since tomorrow is Easter, Danny is just making a quick trip and is leaving early in the morning to make it back for church and lunch with the family. He has decided that the lawn is his project this spring/summer so he put some fertilizer on the lawn and then watered it. We'll see if it grows a little better!

I didn't do a whole lot this weekend, I did plant pick the weeds out of my little front garden and plant a few flowers. I also ordered the bedding for the cribs! It was a little expensive since we had to buy two sets, but we have gotten a lot of our other stuff handed down to us our at second hand stores so we decided on a little splurge. Plus, I really like it and its pretty neutral so if we have any more kids we can use it again!

The rest of the day I spent at Michelle's Easter concert at church, and then my friend Kim came up from Seattle so we went to the Lynden Dutch Bakery for strawberry rhubarb pie (yum). Then, it was SO nice out so we pulled the lawn chairs out of the garage and soaked up a little sun!! I finished the afternoon off with the first spring/summer BBQ at Karen and Josh's! Now I am ready for bed :)

Jordan waiting for the concert to start

Michelle getting ready to sing!

Saturday Projects

This week's Saturday (and Sunday) Projects included painting the babies room. The room was yellow (like the entire rest of our house) so we painted the ceiling white and the walls a light brown/tan. We have one crib from a consignment store and we are inheriting another one from one of my aunties. As soon as the paint is all dry we can start moving our little piles of stuff we are gathering into the room! And now that we are done, I hope we don't have to do any painting again for a long, long time.

I have also accumulated quite a collection of stuff from middle school, high school, and college so I have been working on putting the things that I want to keep in scrapbooks and then parting with the rest. I finished the high school book so I just need to make one for college and maybe one for elementary/middle school.

I also planted a few things for my garden. I probably should have waited a little longer since we just had snow last week, but i just put them in little starter pots and then I can move them later. I know I probably won't actually be doing much with a garden, if anything it will be more like a container garden, but when the sun finally comes out it makes me happy and I want to plant things :)

Our next projects will probably include:
- Extending our little patio out to the corner of the house
- Cleaning out the garage
- A fence...this one may not happen, we need to see how much it will cost. Right now we have a nice dirt/grass hill behind our house but they are rapidly building houses and I have a feeling we will have one right behind us sooner rather than later, so a fence would be nice.
Flowers in my garden :)

Saturday Projects

Saturdays have become our work days since, as previously mentioned, I don't accomplish a lot after I get home from work (other than napping). So this weekend we finished painting the primer on in the baby room and picked out a paint color for the room.

And, since all last year Danny used one of these (that we borrowed  from Joel) to mow the lawn, we decided it was time for an upgrade. So off we went to True Value and got a brand new push mower. Danny got it all set up and away he went! First lawn mowing of the spring!

 I feel like we have been getting quite a few of our little projects done that we have been wanting to do for some time but never quite get around to (we have been talking about the lawn mower since LAST spring). It helps that the weather is finally (sort of) getting nicer and it is good motivation that we also have a little bit of a deadline to get some of these things done before the babies come!

And this wasn't a project of mine, but I do like to reap the benefits of fresh eggs! Mom got 24 new baby chicks and she stopped by so I could see them!

Twin baby chickies :)

Next up is the kitty door in our garage for Russell, who is beginning his transition to outside kitty. Right now he thinks the baby things we are collecting are his. We always find him sleeping in the bottom of the bassinet. I taught him everything he knows about napping :)

Accomplished!

After a slow start to our Saturday, we got a lot of things done today! We have had an ongoing list for some time that we haven't quite gotten around to since we've been a little busy lately. We started with a little housework and then my dad came over to put a door looker (peephole?) in our front door. It always drove me crazy that I could never see who was coming to the door, so now I can! Thanks Dad!

My mom and Karen were down the street painting my niece's room but ran out of paint and couldn't get more. They had extra primer and they were on a roll so they asked if I wanted them to come primer the baby room while they were at it. We weren't really planning on painting for awhile (we don't even have a color picked out yet), but I won't turn down willing help! So Danny moved his computer desk to the dining room where it was going to go eventually anyway, and we taped off the room. So the primer is (almost) all taken care of and now we just have to pick a paint color! We are starting to accumulate a bit of baby stuff so it will be nice to be able to put it in the babies room. We have a baby room!
Danny spent some time moving furniture, cleaning his BBQ, and fixing the headlight in his car.

We have started to get a few things for the babies from friends, family, and my mom finds a lot of good things at 2nd Chance (the Lynden Christian thrift store!). We got two carseats from another nurse who also had twins that have since outgrown them. So I spent a little time cleaning the carseats and a bassinet we also got. So those are all ready to go! I've always been a planner and someone who liked to be prepared. Obviously we aren't going to have everything ready, but I figure the more we can get ready in the next couple months the better! Thanks mom and Karen!

My last project was to finally, after 2 months, put up my curtains! I got new curtains but they were too long so I had to shorten them. I only got around to one for awhile so I finally finished fixing up the 2nd one! Yay!

After a hard day of work we had Danny BBQ some hamburgers on his new clean grill for the work crew. I am pretty tired, but glad that we got a lot of things done!!