Makeovers at Mary Kaye

We got back about 11:30 last night from Oklahoma. It was a short trip - a 5 hour drive both ways is hard when you're only there for a day and a half. On Saturday, us older girls and my mom went for a Mary Kaye makeover for my mom's birthday. It was so much fun.... we all got a kick out of Vanessa clumsily trying to put on eye shadow. :) Here's us after the Mary Kaye treatment.

Afterwards we went to lunch at a French cafe and saw the Nativity movie. We ended up spending all day in Tulsa, which made the trip seem shorter since we were split up from the rest of the family and didn't get to visit with them as much, but we'll see them again soon. The kids have their state basketball tournament in OK City in March. I think the kids and I are going to try to drive up for that.

I'm so tired from the trip. The drive back is always torture since we're already super tired from running nonstop the entire weekend... I have trip stuff to put away, dishes to do, laundry to fold and a lesson to prepare for ELO on Wednesday, but I just want to veg. Or sleep. Yeah, sleep would be even better. :) Oh yeah, to top it all off... my youngest sisters were sick with something (fevers and fluish symptoms) while we were there and my mom came down with it Sunday! AS IF we need anything else!! I'm trying to stay positive and hope for the best, but it's almost inevitable. I'm so sick of being sick! I need to go pick up some airborne but I'm just too tired to drag everyone out in the rain. That would probably be counter productive! :P Maybe when Tom gets home from work....

The Boys' Birthday Bash

Boys' Birthday Party at Chuck E. Cheese!

What a fun party! This was the boys' first real party and I wasn't sure about Chuck E. Cheese... it's such a rip off sometimes. But we had pizza and tokens out the wazoo and everyone had a blast - especially the adults! :) The favorite thing was the photo sketch booth. Stephanie, Jess and I tried at least 4 times and in everyone one of us was doing something goofy. And then Dave and Tom had to get their picture taken together. So silly. The ice cream cake was Yuuuummmmy! (yes, I had some when we got home, Jess... I was trying to be good, but it looked so good and I had to do my part to eat up the leftovers! ;)) The boys' made out like bandits... thanks everyone so much! What a blessing... I think. They did get an awful lot of music/noisy toys. lol It really surprised me, I guess since we'd never done the friend party before. :) Have fun browsing the pictures of the night!

We're leaving for OK this evening, so I have tons to do! See you when we get back!

Spur of the moment home improvements!

Today we had to stay home from church yet another Sunday to make sure we didn't pass around the virus that Brayden had. Thank goodness, he seems to be quite recovered!

Anywho, Tom had picked up a few supplies from Home Depot on Friday so on a whim, we started moving out furniture to prime and paint the living room!! I'm SUPER excited!

Tom has wonderful, grand plans for the architecture, lighting and decor of the house, it's just that it takes much planning, time and money to make happen! I'd somewhat given up on ever getting the painting done and despaired over never having anything hung on the walls. :) So to finally be moving forward with painting has made me the happiest wife ever! I love you, Honey!! You're the GREATEST!!

Today we got the ceiling scraped, the spots spackled, and sanded and tomorrow we'll be priming. The next day painting!! The plan is a caramel with a slightly darker glaze to make a leather finish. :::Happy dance::: I'm simply giddy right now! We're doing the hallway the same as the living, the dining room red, I think.. and the bathroom might even get done too! I don't know what color yet though. :)

Here's the dining room filled to the max with all the living room stuff. I LOVE the part where it's like this... it's so fun to live like this for a few days. If Tom would let me, I'd switch the living and dining furniture around just for kicks sometime. ;)

Tom scraping the ceiling acoustic in preparation for priming.

Me up high -- I was sanding the spackle near the peak of the vaulted ceiling. :) Ooh ooh, with my new Zune!! Yeah, I'm cool.

And this is what it looks like now. So messy. We moved the couch back into the living room for the Super Bowl -- of course! -- and I dragged the elliptical back in from the playroom to work off all the cheating I did tonight. (Super bowl munchies are the devil) I was on that thing for 75 minutes and burned over 1000!!!! calories!! Woo hoo! (Notice the empty water bottle-- I went through three of those things) Seriously though, I cannot sleep now to save my life. lol

Past few weeks

Weeks have past and I haven't even thought about blogging. It's germ city here! I swear, I'm scrubbing every surface in this house and even changing our diet trying to stay healthy! If you think of it pray for us. :)

So, first it was the flu thing that all the kids had, back to back with the chicken pox .. we finally got over that a few weeks ago. Then on Monday Brayden came down with some sort of virus from he-double hockeysticks. :P He was vomiting and had constant diarrhea. Yuck! We got the diarrhea under control and by Wednesday he was feeling much better. Then, on Thursday Piper arrived all nice and spotty... her turn with the chicken pox!! Sigh. And on top of that, today Brayden relapsed big time, causing us to have to delay our weekend in Oklahoma. He's still not feeling well now. My poor baby.

Here's a few pics of things have gone on -- (click on the picture)

Past few weeks

I realised the Sat before last that kids had not been out of the house in two straight weeks in attempt to not spread our germs. :0) They were about to go crazy! So, I loaded up the older ones (Brayden was still iffy) and let them expend all their pent up energy at KidStation for the afternoon.

We got some bunk beds for the boys! I'm so excited and so are the boys. I've always wanted ones just like this, but I've been patient and I think God blessed that. :)

Um, oh yeah. It snowed in Texas! You can't see it in the pictures and it certainly didn't stick, but it did indeed snow! The kids loved catching it on their tongue. Chandler wanted to hold it in his hand first and then put it in his mouth. :)

The last one is Little Brady (that's what Phia calls him) -- he's so sick, but he's still smiling!