Wesleys Room

When we first moved into our house I told Mike I wanted to paint on the walls, he told me I had to wait a year.  Well, it's been a year! So Wes now has stuff painted on his walls! We moved into our house when he was 7 months old.  When we first moved in I decided I wanted to do Monkeys.  I couldn't find any bedding that I loved but I did find a blanket that I loved so the room is based off of the blanket.  Which I didn't take a picture of.  I started on one wall, I tried drawing with a pencil first and it was horrible! I guess I'm a better painter then drawer so I free handed the first wall.

 My very talented sister in law came over and painted the cute little monkeys. I didn't dare try.

Then I added some leaves and a bird.

 I wanted a tree in the corner.  For this one I borrowed my father-in-laws projector and traced the tree silhouette. I added the curly end to match the other wall.

 Then it just need leaves a couple birds and a monkey.  I did paint that one myself. And I'm pretty proud of it. :)

I'm really happy with the way things turned out.  I still need to finish the birds on the big tree and I think I am going to put some little birds standing on the closet.

Happy Easter...

a little late. We had a really good Easter.  We were able to make it to the Hooper city Easter egg hunt. 

We actually made it in time this year and they made out like bandits! Sunday was wonderful. First things first the kids needed to find their baskets.  That tricky bunny is a really good hider! It was interesting trying to explain the resurrection to Jaycee, I think she kind of gets it. Hopefully.

Look at my cute kids!

After church we were able to go to Mikes house for linner and a hunt.

Wesley makes this funny face all the time.  Especially when he is trying to tell us something and we have no idea what he wants.

My sweet girl.

Then over to my house for dinner and a hunt. 

In the above picture Wesley and Brody are running away.  Not fond of group pictures.

This is about 5 o'clock with no nap! He dropped about 10 minutes later

We really have the best families around.

Gardening!

We are pretty excited about our garden this year. We didn't have one last year, lucky we had a neighbor who shared some of thier goods with us. I didn't think I would miss it as much as I did. Here's the plan for this year. We are a little behind on planting some of our stuff, but I think we will be ok. We are going to try canning some spaghetti sauce, salsa, potatoes, tomatoes and maybe rhubarb. I'm also going to dry some of my own herbs...never done that before, so it should interesting. I guess I've never canned veggies before either, so that also should be interesting!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I had the best birthday. Since my birthday was on a Sunday this year I got to celebrate all weekend. The kids took me birthday shopping on Friday. They picked me out the best outfit. :) Then we had pizza for dinner. Saturday Mike took me out to eat and to a movie. On Sunday Mike's mom made my favorite dinner. Meatloaf and for desert jello cake. Yum! Then we got together with my family at Joy's house. What a good day. Mike got me a new camera! A canon T1i. I love it. Yay for birthdays! Oh and if anyone was wondering I turned 29!

Just Another Hat

Owl...I actually made this hat for me, because I liked the owl so much. This one has a little different eyes and ears, still one of my favorites.