Macy's Big News

Macy at the grand old age of 6 years, 3 months and 8 days old lost her first tooth!! She was so excited to have finally lost one. All of her friends lost theirs months ago. I can not believe how old she is getting. I thought it was just yesterday that she got her first tooth. She was super brave. Not one tear was shed when it came out. Now the funny part was when Hanna asked if she could take one of her teeth out so that she could have some money. You have to love the way Hanna thinks.

I see the light....

This is my wonderful dining room and kitchen as of this morning. Buy tonight I hope that all the mudding and taping will be done so that I can paint in the next day or so! Do you all love the nice wood window!? I sure do!

One day there will be a counter and a sink where those 2x4's are. On that day I will be a much happier person.

My pretty new french doors. Okay they are a lot prettier when there is not a piece of drywall in front of them.

Pay It Forward!

I got this idea from a friend of mines blog and thought what a fun idea! Here's how it works. Be one of the first 3 people to leave a comment on this post and I will send you a handmade gift sometime in the next 6 months.You get to pay it forward as well by doing the same thing for 3 people on your blog. Once you leave a comment telling me that you want to participate, you need to make a pay it forward post on your blog, then come back and let me know that you've posted. Make sense? It should be fun and if I do say so myself I do make some cute crafty things!

The Redo Part 2

Our Beautiful Dumpster!

The back of my dinning room!
This was not part of the plan. On Sunday we got a lot of rain and the large back window started to leak. So out it went and down came all of the siding. We knew that the window and the siding were going bad but wanted to replace it at a later time. That all changed. Now I have beautiful french doors and two new windows on the sides. We are going to put white siding up later in the week.
I can't thank Kevin, Jon, Anthony and Susan enough for all of the help at the last minute.

Look real close at Macy. She is all safety first!
You have to love her Pick safety glasses.
She must have asked Jade where his safety glasses were 20 times when he did not have them on.

A Fun Warm Day!

Addison on the swings.

We were sitting on the Hammock swinging and saying what the clouds looked like.
This is Hanna's cloud. Can't you see that it is a Dragon?

My sweet Hanna. At least for this minute.

The Color Choice

So here is what I think Jade and I have picked for the dining room and kitchen. What do you all think?

The Rhinestone is going in the kitchen and the Gray Clouds is going in to the dining room. The Cajun Red is the color of the curtains that I have for the dining room.

Home Remodel Day One

Well here we go. I think that we have lost our minds. When we moved into this house the one thing that I hated the most was the dining room! It was all 1970 wood paneling. I can't think of anything that I hate more then this!!! So we painted it and went about or life. Now two years later we are taking it down and redoing the kitchen and dining room. I know what you are thinking this sounds like great fun and it is.

The plans are to drywall the dining room and ceiling. Add can lights and a fan to the dining room and kitchen. That brick wall that you see is not going to be there in about two days. That wall will be open to the kitchen. I am sanding and staining the kitchen cabinets a dark mahogany stain. Jade is putting natural bamboo flooring in both rooms and I am repainting everything a fun new color. Jade is also pouring concrete counter tops. I am going to try to do daily up dates so check back for all the fun that is going on at The Land of Brant's Crazy Remodel!

Addison helping hammer in the nails. It was so cute to watch her try to help. She was working so hard.

And now something that is totally not related. It was so nice out 65 and sunny for the last part of the day. Macy and the other girls were playing outside. She came up to me and asked " Mommy, do you think that it would be okay to play in the sprinklers? Could you set it up?" I love my baby that thinks 65 in hot enough to play in the sprinklers!

Our Crazy Life!

I feel like life has been crazy these last few weeks. With Macy and school, getting stuff together for my yw camp activitys, running around droping off and picking up the girls. Macy is doing an after school computer class monday thru thursday. Hanna is loving preschool. Both of the girls are taking Baton and twriling classes at or local rec center. Addison is loving having the morning with just her mom and dad. We are starting the remodle on the kitchen and basement. I should not say starting on the basement because I have had 100 2x4's sitting down there for over a year with half of the basement framed in. I can't wait for jade to open up the kitchen wall to the dinning room. It is going to be a lot of work but will be great when it is done. There will be lots of pictures to come!!! That is what we are up to in a nut shell. I just don't know where we will find the time to do anymore once they are12, 14, and 16! I do love having such a great fun life with my three crazy, fabulous and beautiful girls!Hope everone is doing great.

P.S. I am typing this in my car on my cell because I have a little time right now! Fun,fun,fun.

Baby Addison.

The other day I walked into the girls room and see this. I told Macy, Hanna and Addison to go play in their room. Macy had just found her old baby bed when we moved their rooms and though that it would be fun to put her baby Addie to bed. Addison being the most easy going kid ever went right along with her sisters plan. Addison would snooze, pretend to be sleeping and cry well they played. They must have played like this for two hours. Hanna wanted nothing to do with this because as far as she is concerned she is still the baby.

Mom & Dad of the Year!!!

Jade and I went out Bob Evans Last week one morning after we dropped the girls of at school. Addie went with us. We sat down and asked her what she would like for breakfast. She opened her little kids menu and turned to the last page and said with a big smile on her face " This!" She was pointing to the Ice cream Sunday! We both agreed that the other two were not with us what was it really going to hurt if she was to have ice cream for breakfast? Well, our 60 year old server took or order and looked at us like we were the worst parents in the world. Now when she came back to our table with the ice cream she under stood why we did what we did when she saw Addie's face. Her eyes lit up, she gasped and with the biggest smile Said "Thanks mom thanks dad!!!" You can't replace memories like these small little ones that only happen when they are so sweet and young.

Her happy cheese once she got over the excitement of the desert. She even decided that it would be easier to us a spoon then her tongue.

Lip licking good!