Johah

As I am writing I am having to hold back the tears from coming. Many of you do not know this sweet little Guy but this is my nephew. It is my husband's sister little guy. He is 8 months old and this coming Thursday he will be having his second open heart surgery (in California). He is such a fun loving baby and a blessing to all of us. Please if you would remember him and his family in your prayers this week as it is going to be a very stressful time.

Mom where are my TOES?

Today at the store Little A picked out his new fall/winter PJs. Since it is suppose to get below freezing tonight is our great valley I decided to out them on him. He was so funny because he thought his toes were gone since his summer PJs did not have feet covers. He just keep pulling at his PJs trying to find his toes.

Also if you have not read the next post and tell me what you think we should do?

House Update 9-19

We are getting way excited because the house is starting to take shape and look like a house. The Sheetrock is done and most of the exterior is based. We have been working on the finish work and it is fun but a lot of work. Here are some of the things that we are doing to add character to our house. My hubby put these columns in with out asking me and a first I was a little worried but I really like what he has done with them. In little A room we have created a wains coating that goes 2/3 of the way up his wall with a shelf on 2 of the walls in his bedroom. In the other room we did a shadow boxing on 1 wall. We think we are going to add a little shelf on the top.

We are running a chair rail with a board look in the living room. We have them cut but not hung yet. The bottom picture is to show a window but it did not work very well. It also shows our crown molding in our tray ceiling.
I love our doors. We wanted to go with something that fit our home style and was not seen in every house. I think that my hubby has framed them awesome to add the right touch. I has to put my hard working hubby and his little helper in one of the pictures.

Baseboard not to exciting but I wanted to document it. Now is the big question... On the exterior we are debating what to do with the top part that looks like boxes so I want all of your opinions. Here are the 2 ideas. The first is to do it all one color that is lighter than the wall color. The second on is to run the wall color in the back and just do the trim or the part the stick up a lighter color. (the horizontal and vertical lines). Please let me know what you think.

Big First Hair Cut

Today Little A got his first hair cut. Thank You Aunt H for doing it for us. This morning I took one last wild hair picture. The next is the first cut, then making it all look good. At one time he had a killer Mullet but we decided that business in the front and party in the back was not a good look for him. We keep giving him drinks from the pray bottle to keep in entertained during the hair cut. The last picture is the finished hair cut. I love the look on his face like he is now big enough to rule the world. I have to agree I think it makes him look a whole lot older.

Labor Day!

So I have to start with an update on the house. The Sheetrock is still coming along they have the whole house taped ready for texture and the garage is getting taped tomorrow. My Hubby build the columns on the front other the weekend and I love them they give the house great character.

The whole front. You can not tell but the trim work is started and it is awesome. I will try to get a good picture of it so you can see it.
On Monday we had a day fun of events. I did not take many picture so check out my sister blogs they did a better job documenting it. We started the day off with the 5k. I was so excited I bet my all time best with a finishing time of 38 minutes and 40 seconds. After that we headed to the parade. Many of the kids were in it and so Little A got a lot of candy. After the parade we went to the Sham Battle. It is a reenactment of the cowboy and the Indians fighting over land and the Calvary come in at the end and saves the day. Yes they burn a wood house down and wrestle and fight.

After all of that we headed to my sister's house for a BBQ. I had to laugh that there was 5 men cooking the hamburgers while 5 women (one behind the pole) taking care of/watching one baby.

I loved this view of Little A so I just had to add it to the post.