Sunsets and a New Day Dawning

Let's do a little catching up on the summer. 

We added a family member, sweet nephew Blake.

We finally took a family hike. Something we always say we want to do but never seem to find the time to do it.

We watched the sun set on my Beloved's 20's.

Celebrated with good friends, good food, and a little beer tasting.

We spent our last day of youthful freedom at the park.

It occurred to me that with Ballerina starting school this was the last days of having all my babies home all day, everyday. I was bummed that I didn't do more with the summer. Blast you hindsight!

My big girl started school. . . sniff

 

 She loves it and is doing great! She's her mamma's girl with her daddies head for numbers.

We also started on an adventure of terrifying proportions with our own business. I'm so proud of my husband for taking the leap into something he has wanted for several years.

 Mr. Bean is very busy these days. He loves to do odd jobs around the house and by odd jobs I mean bringing garbage cans to the front door, unloading the dishwasher even when the dishes are still dirty, stashing toys, combs, and brushes in my kitchen cabinets. He's a hard worker, I tell ya'.

 

 While baking cookies this afternoon I found cookie monster and a rocket pilot in the drawer with my cookie sheets. After removing the cookie sheets I also found my lost comb on the bottom of the drawer.

Belloise is getting plenty of time to bond with Bean. Something she and Ballerina often fight over. 

I love these moments.

~And So That's What She Did.

One Year

So hard to believe that this was a year ago today!!

Now he has eight teeth; can sign: more, eat, and milk clearly; he is able to walk but still prefers to crawl because it's faster at this point. He even says a few words, mom, dad, up, and good. And kisses on command, although they are open mouth kisses.

I had to force him to lay down so I could get a little perspective.

This sweet little boy has brought so much laughter, mischief, joy and blessing to our family. I'm thankful everyday that the Lord chose us to be his parents. 

~And So That's What She Did.

Afters

Finally, here are the before and afters of our bathroom.  I realize I didn't really get any good shots of the floor but it's hard to take a picture when you are smashing yourself against a wall so you won't be in the picture :).

Here are the before pictures

The bathroom was fine before until. . .

Take Pergo floors mix a sweaty toilet and kids who like to flood the sink and here is what you get.

So we stripped everything.

and moved out to my dad's for 10 days

because this is part of the mess while work was being done.

Here is the finished product

Well mostly finished, we still need to pick out a mirror and a hand towel hook or bar or ?

                                     Before                                                                                                           

 

After

My Beloved has also been working on our front yard.

Right after I took this we bought a new front porch light but I'll save that for the pictures of the finished entry since we aren't quite there yet.

~And So That's What She Did.

Nine Months

We have had a busy couple of months so I am a bit behind on these updates.

Funny thing happened, I missed his seven month pictures and when I went to take his eight month pictures well . . .

That's right I used the blocks for seven instead of eight.

Seriously mom!