Mykenzie's Room

So here is the new and improved Mykenzie's room. The colors are colonial yellow and heart -something or other - pink. We were gonna just do all yellow, but we didn't have enough, so we figured if we had to buy new paint, we might as well get an accent color and kenz was begging for pink. The comforter and light she got for christmas. the quilt I made for her a few years ago (like back when she was in the toddler bed.). above is the doll corner: a doll bed and a rocking chair. it's hidden from view when you first walk in the room.

cute curtain...just one adds a little something something to the yellow wall. the shelf is going to have a letter M on it too, chris has been busy.


a bulletin board and picture frams
more scrapbook paper on poster board...looks good, doesn't it!
and a bed skirt...so needed one of those. anyway that's kenzie's room!

Objective: to lighten up the room and make it look more girly
mission accomplished!

Jayden's Bedroom

OK, so when betsy was here a few weeks ago, I decided it was time to do something with the kids rooms. We started with Mykenzie's because it was SOOO dark and not girly and not even kind of cute. For Christmas, the kids all got some new bedding...so we started with that. Jayden's bedding was monsters (it is the cutest thing EVER). So we went with that theme. The colors of the wall are vivid turquoise and dewey green. I probably wouldn't have ever picked them out (betsy did) but they look AWESOME! They hurt the eyes to put them on with the other orange-y color that we had on before and it took a little getting used to, but I love it.

above is the back wall of his room. those are scrapbook paper of robots and gears and gadgets. they look really good on their with the monsters and aliens on the bed.

ok, so we had this big long wall with nothing on it, so i thought i'd pick a few of the monsters from the bedding and paint them on to poster board. I cut them out and convinced chris to help me make some frames for them. I LOVE the way they turned out!

here's a shelf we hung up...it used to be in my room, but now it holds the smooshie and a picture or me and katy on my wedding day...gotta change the picture!
yeah, i'm kinda proud of myself for the monster thing

i made the curtains...they are nothin' special...just white on a plain curtain rod.

anyway...it took me forever, but jayden's room is officially DONE! and it came out SOOOOOO good. Thanks bets!

Not to be outdone....

Jaxon came home from school, heard that Mykenzie had lost a tooth and insisted that
I pop out one of his two loose teeth....so I obliged. It popped out easier than I thought it would and it went down his throat. He about choked on it...but all is well.
Jayden would like you all to know that his teeth are all still perfectly attached inside his mouth:

and now the tooth fairy must make a trip to the bank...

It's About Time

So Mykenzie lost her first tooth today. It has been loose for months (seriously, months). Her permanant tooth started growing in behind it....clear back in January. Anyway, it FINALLY fell out today with a little help from mom.
It reminded me of when I was little and losing my first teeth. Mom would ask if she could see how loose it was and then she'd just pop it out without any permission. It used to make me so mad. She'd always say, "But it was so loose, it was just hanging there!" Now I understand. We've heard complaining about this tooth for two months and it was just time to get that little thing out. But, I asked permission to pop it out first!

Spring :)

The kids had their first "picnic" of the season yesterday afternoon. It was finally warm enough to be outside without freezing to death, to they took advantage.

Can I just say...BRING IT ON! I'm SOOOO sick of the winter and being cooped up inside all day.

PROJECTS!!!!

So...with betsy here and all last week...I thought I'd start on some projects. This is actually the last one we did, but it's the only one that is 100% done. Total cost on this project was like $3. (because I had the paint, wood, and a person who could put it all together). It's just scrapbook paper and mod podge. This project morphed as the week went on and finally ended up with this:

it sits on the wall behind the kitchen table...and I LOVE the way it turned out!

Sick Kids

I was so excited to have Betsy come and spend a week with me last week. Too bad the first half of the week was dealing with this:

Jayden and Payton came down with something about the same day betsy got here. Poor Payton was so sick and so tired he wanted to be held pretty much all day...and betsy was so kind to oblige him :) He was really funny about his "stuff" too. He always had to make sure he had Mr. Lion, his blanket a binky and at least one sippy cup with him at all times! If betsy was using her phone, he'd swat at it to make her put it away. If she was patting his back and stopped, he start fussing and trying to do it himself. One evening he fell asleep on the counter while I was getting dinner together. (as seen above)

But we did persevere and were able to get two major projects done and one smaller one. And as soon as they are all the way completed, I'll post some pics!

Dr. Suess Day

Our version of "Daisy Head Maisy". The kindergarteners dressed up like a dr. suess character on friday in celebration of his birthday. Kenz decided to be daisy head maisy. It took betsy and me a few days to figure out how to do it, but she looked AWESOME. She even ventured into walmart like this...got a few weird looks, but mostly laughs!