Rachel's big day

Rachel called me at work for the first time today. I answered my phone and she pauses, then says, "May I ask who's calling?" I laughed. She was calling me to let me know that she had lost her first tooth! I then told her that I would email the tooth fairy to come tonight. It was a fun call.


It was just last Friday when we were at the dentist that she figured out that her tooth was loose. Every day since then she's been wiggling it around and finally it came out today. Her other tooth is already growing in underneath. She tells me that her other bottom tooth is loose as well. How exciting!

Memories

I almost hesitate to do it, but I'll play along with this one:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together, or one of the first memories you have of me. (please do the same for Heather)
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.

Kaylee's Birthday Party

Pictures from Kaylee's birthday party...

Ode to Colin

Well, it's a little late and the boy has already grown some. We're happy to have a new cousin/nephew in the family. Congrats to Nate and Kirsta!

Projects and more

Some might say that I'm a little behind in my blogging. Yes, this may be true. What I'm not behind in is my house work. Over the last few weeks we've been busy with painting our house. It all started the week before July 4th when Heather and I purchased a new King bed. We wanted to keep our old bed to be available for guests, but Bry's room just wasn't big enough. So we decided to switch Bryant and our office/craft room.

We started by moving Bryant and his things into the girls' room. We primed the blue wall and repainted the entire room to a medium green. We think color turned out really nice. From there we moved the office to the newly painted room and then painted Bry's blue accent wall again. He now sleeps on the queen bed and still has room to play. If any of you come to visit you're welcome to boot him out for a decent bed!

The painting didn't stop there. Some of you might recall that we had painted the front room and living room a light tan color. We decided that the color was too light. We found a darker tan color that we thought would look better and proceeded to repaint downstairs. We did a slightly darker accent wall in both of the downstairs rooms. While Heather and the kids were gone to a family reunion (Johansen side) I took on the monumental task of painting the stairwell. It's a good thing I have a Little Giant ladder, otherwise this would have been extremely difficult. Here's a picture of the setup.

I have the platform extended between the ladder and set on top of a bucket of wheat. The food storage came in handy! I was able to step off the upstairs landing right onto the platform, then I used the kids' stool to reach up into the corners. It all turned out pretty well.


Oh, remember the "colorful" couches we inherited for the front room? Don't the slip covers look great?!

Kaylee's Blue Steel

Retiring the duck and rabbit

This post is primarily for our friends Josh and Farrah Keeler who are responsible for the large stuffed animals in our house. They watched Rachel for us one evening and Rachel took to the large duck they had. They wound up giving it to her for her birthday and it has been a good friend ever since.

When Kaylee came along, she too liked the duck. But this was just too much trouble - they had to share. That is, until we found a large pink furry rabbit that Kaylee could call her own. We've decided the animals have had their time and we will be parting ways. Here are a few pics from the years...

The girls wanted to take some last pictures with their furry (and no so clean) friends before they were tossed.

Thanks for the great memories!