Our family room!

We are loving the new carpet and paint, it's like a new room! I just hung some pictures and things I made and it is starting to look "homey." The "office" part of the room (tiled area) still looks pretty cluttered, but trust me, it's like 1,000 times better than it was. There just isn't a place for everything to look good in a small house, so oh well. I like it and the boys certainly do too. I finally got to dig my sewing machine out of the pile in the garage to do my mending today. Yay!
(The living room looks great too, I just don't have any pics yet)

Kins the maker

Or so I'm called by a few people. Here are a few things I've made this summer. I will get pictures and post some more because this was fun.
Invite for the upcoming B-Day Party
Quilt I recently made for E
Upclose of cute cowboy flannel
Recieving blanket with a new stitch MIL taught me
An example of my scrapbook

Garage?

So now that we have the carpet ripped out of our "family room" (aka master bedroom) we decided it was once a garage. Why? There are tire tracks on the floor, and also now that we look at it, it looks just like our garage. It's right behind the garage, so we think they just made it a room and then built a garage later in front of it. I think there must have been at least 5 additions onto our house. (which explains the roof!) But I'm glad, because if not, our house would be like 700 sq. ft. and really, that's just too small. Our house currently has NO carpet whatsoever, and is really echoey (not a word) when the kids play or stomp (their current favorite) The guy will be here in 20 minutes to put in new. Yay! We have had to put shoes on the boys 24-7 to keep them from stepping on the tack boards, although E has already gotten one stab. :(

The best part, bikes in the house!


family room

living room

Black Eyed E

So, E had a bad spill on a neighbor's slide and looks like he was punched in the eye. I feel so bad for the poor little guy.


So, I HATE packing. That and getting my picture taken. Other than those 2 activities, I'm pretty cooperative. We are leaving for Boise today for 5 days, and I always forget at least 3 things. Bummer.

Also, I got at least 35 good shots of Riley the other day. This is nothing short of a miracle, and I'm proud of my work!






Also, for any of you who live close enough, please come pick peaches off our tree while we are gone. There is a ladder on the back porch. They are ripe, good, and will soon be eaten by the birds.

That's all, thank you for your time.

Again with the home improvement!

This is what we've been doing since Friday. (Thank you, Annzy and Ty for the help) This is the carpet that we are getting to replace all the yucky carpet in our house. It is coming on the 10th so we are trying to get things done so it can be dry in time.



Yesterday we went clothes shopping and I figured that it wouldn't be that crowded because while the back to school sales are still on, I thought most people actually starting school (tomorrow) would be done shopping. WRONG! The worst was TCP, which is small anyway, and trying to get my double stoller in there was no easy task. But we came away with a big pile of clothes for the boys for less than $50, so I guess that was worth it. Also, though I said I never would, and we all know I DON"T need any more hobbies, I joined one of those "Sunday paper coupon groups" or whatever they're known as. It's GrocerySmarts, and it's actually much easier than any I've seen and I think I might save a lot. Anyway, I'm off do take my brother's senior pictures. I hope they turn out, he's not exactly famous for being photogenic.

TEC-Free

So, E is done having blood draws! The one Thursday showed significant change and they are confident his levels will continue to climb to normal, all he has to have is a heel prick at his next well-baby visit in Oct. to make sure he hasn't relapsed. I am so glad. It's sad, because I guess he's finally resigned himself to it, on Thursday he didn't even whimper or cry at all when before we walk into the lab at the hospital and he starts screaming right off.

We have been crazy busy with fun things the last few weeks. Just a lot of swimming and visiting people and trying to get the most of the rest of the summer I guess. Here are some of them:


Playgroup at the "train park" in Farmington


Playing the "pillow game" in our Family Room


Some of our garden's harvest


The train at Lagoon, E's favorite ride


M, with Grandma & Uncle Che spinning

6 Years

One more year and I'll have an itch. (hopefully not)

This is how my DH came home today:

This is what he brought me:

Pretty sweet. Thanks honey, and happy six year anniversary!