Happy Birthday Dear Baby!

Happy Birthday to you!



This is what she's waking up to this morning!!! I hope she is excited!



Sleeping beauty. I had to be at work super early this morning so this is as much as I got to see her this morning. I'm sure Will and Dad are making sure to start her day right!

And some giggles for your entertainment!!!

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This time a few years back...

Two years ago this weekend, big brother was lovin on his sister! He has always been a fantastic big brother!



Last year this time, we took a few pictures outside for her first birthday. (And his, but those pictures are to come later this week!)



This is my favorite week of the year and I am sooooo excited for them to wake up on their birthday and see what I have planned for them! Of corse, I work really early on Lillian's birthday so I won't get to see her reaction but I think she'll be happy!!!

March already?

I know February is a short month but really? Where did it go? Since I have a new years resolution of making monthly resolutions, I have this obligation to make some new ones for the month of March and to admit that I am a failure at my goals. I'm not beating myself up about it, it's just true, I failed. Again.

Drink 4 shaker bottles of water a day: I did do better at drinking more water but nope, there were several days I missed out on the 4th, even 3rd shaker bottle worth of H2O.

Go through closet: Nope, didn't happen. It WILL happen when we move. Obviously, I'm not going to put clothes in the new closet that I hate. So it will happen, I just had only one day this month where I was around at home all day.

Find all pieces to toys: yes/ no. I did find almost all of them and put them in those cubes I wanted so badly to keep organized. BUT, it lasted a whole week. They are now back in the toy eater of all toy eaters, the toy box. I think this will not successfully happen until we have shelves to put the cubes on. When the toys were easier to find and in their own little cubes, the kids did play with them much more. So this is a great idea, it just needs to be a bit more organized.

Work on quality time with kids: Hey, I didn't completely fail!!! Yes, we have had a lot of quick meals and we will be having more. There are so many children suffering from sickness right now, especially local. I read their updates, good or bad and it brings tears to my eyes. I can't thank God enough for the health of my family, the joy I get to have with my children. I pray that those children are healed and the families can find comfort in how God chooses to heal them. Yes, I've still gotten angry with them over little things and 99% of that is lack of sleep on my part. That is when I remind myself that it could be my child who is sick, life is short and to be grateful for everything, even when they are driving me nuts.

March: I haven't really thought of any new goals. I'm trying this new diet plan to try to lean out. I have the muscle, I just want to look like I have the muscle. So far, only two days in, I'm HUNGRY and I don't do well on hungry. I've never really stuck to a diet well so I guess my one and only goal for March will be to stick to my diet as much as possible. I am allowed one cheat meal a week and so I'll just plan on making all the goodies for the kid's birthday party that one day so I can try the goodies and then stick them in the freezer until their birthday!!

To give me ideas for April, what are some of your goals that you have made?

What are ones that you have stuck to and still doing to this day?

Goofy girl!!!

I was trying to take a picture of her wild hair and she just started modeling like crazy for me!!!


CHEESE!



KISS!!!





Selfies with Mom!



Slippers! I put mine on so she had to too!!!

Allergy Testing

And is all negative. I'm very surprised especially since the 5 days prior to testing she was coughing very bad all night long and her nose was a runny mess. She enjoyed several suckers and lots of Reese's pieces from the mean nurse who poked her!



So, now it is back to the ENT Dr. Not sure what he will say or suggest. I'm open and hoping that he'll say to see if she out grows this and won't need her adenoids taken out. Another surgery is scary and I don't want to put her through that but at the same time, she's had 6 ear infections since her tubes surgery a year ago yesterday. That can't continue for the rest of her life.

Paint! pt. 2

Want a tour??


Garage, this is the only wall like this, all the rest is paint.



Laundry room, there is a toilet to the right along with a closet and the color is not right in this picture. It's a very bright blue. It makes me happy!



Dining room, this room will have stencils all down the two full sides, I may end up doing it on the wall you see too, but that's a maybe...



Bathroom that is right next to the dining room.



Lillian's upstairs room. Yes, she's our favorite, she has two rooms ;) Just kidding, she's just too young to be clear downstairs yet. This room will also have a few giant flowers on the walls. Something to make it a bit girly but yet easy to paint over once it's an office.



Shower, toilet room, and to the right is....



a big closet!



Our bedroom. All the gray needs a second coat and the laundry room needs a second coat. Otherwise, the upstairs is done!



And before we go downstairs, here's a view of this side of the living room. I realized that I hadn't shown this side of the ceiling. The 4 posts in the middle, will not be there, those were there to help them get the wall done.



Stairs...



The far wall will be my gym! YES I'M EXCITED! TV will be in the blank spot on that wall. This will be log siding. I know, sounds goofy but it'll look cool!



Bar to the right. Let's face it, it's another kitchen... Game area on the left. Again, there will be the log siding where there is no brown. All the brown is done. The empty room in the far is the downstairs bathroom. I'm going to do the same color of blue as in the laundry room.



Just the other view of the kitchen/ bar and game area.



Lillian's room!! She loved it and started dancing around when we took the kids in to show them their rooms. She will have those giant flowers all over. Much more than her upstairs room.



Will's room. "I love it! It's green! It's just want I wanted Mom!" True story, that was his reaction. It's much darker than I would have liked. Dennis agreed with the colors I chose but he wanted darker for almost all of them. This one I wish I would have said no because it will be very dark.



AND... This is what happens when I go to bed before he does and Dad isn't home! He had to have had a sore neck after that!!



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Again, I am so floored at how much painting we got done! I was expecting to only get one coat of a few rooms done. If you EVER have to paint a house, RENT A PAINT SPRAYER!!! By noon on Saturday, we had all the primmer done and the first coat of the living room done. AMAZING! Thank you again to everyone who helped!!! Mom, Nikki, Tara, Dottie, Michelle, Angela, Matt, Emmi, and Burke! You guys are so amazing for helping and giving your time!

PAINT!!

Siberian Eyes is the front blue. This was a last minute decision... I REALLY wanted a teal color and as I was ordering the paint this one stuck out to me as a laundry room.


Sagebrush is the green and that will be Will's room.


Cotoneaster Foliage is the gray on the right. This will be our bedroom, bathroom, closet, Lillian's short term bedroom, a.k.a. the office, and the upstairs bathroom. I love gray. (Lillian's temp bed room will have those huge flower stencils that I will talk about with the next color too, to make it more girly for a year or so while she is in that bedroom.)


New June Bud is Lillian's room down stairs. My plan is to get some HUGE flower stencils and paint them in bright colors, pink, red and black.  Her reaction when I picked it out and showed her was so funny. She squealed and nodded her head so hard, I thought a paci was going to fall out!





Fleece is the top white color. That will be all the ceilings that will not be drop down.


Corkboard will be all of downstairs living room and bar area.


Redwood Forest is the red, that will be the upstairs living room, dining room, and kitchen. In the dining room, I'm going to do some more stenciling. I haven't found one that I have fallen in love with yet but it's not something that needs to be done this weekend so it can wait.





And since we were talking about paint....





These two goofballs! Got the paint out themselves and got naked by themselves while I was folding laundry in the bedroom. They needed a bath that night anyway so why not?!





I want to say thank you a head of time of all who plan to help paint this weekend. Truly, you have no idea how much I appreciate it! God willing, we get almost or completely done!!!