My friend and I were hanging out when the heavy winds started tonight. The raindrops started and she said she should go before the storm hit. We were having a great time and I said, "oh, don't worry about it, hard storms like this always pass quickly here in St. Louis." She stayed and 25 minutes (of heavy rain) later I checked the radar. This is what we saw. SHE GOT WET!




oops

I took this picture from my couch!

Here you go mom- he was talking to you- pacing of course.

We are getting there. Bill has been working hard ~Maybe he thinks I'll hold him to the verbal contract we made: That he can't get married until it's done.

Kitchen Rehab

This is a picture of the kitchen when we bought our house. We love our house and it is great for our family, but trust me, we did not buy it because of the great kitchen! This is all there is to it. That's it. No dishwasher, a single sink and about three feet of counter space. It is a job just to make lunch. I have to wash and put away all the dishes before I can even make a sandwich because my whole counter top is taken up by the dish rack. We are now making some minor changes (ok, really, we are taking out a whole wall. Oh, the dust!)

Bill is doing all the work. He is amazing! It is so great to have someone in the house that you like. He is great with the kids (the other day I was switching a load of laundry and one of the kids started crying. I came up and Bill had stopped what he was doing to help them figure it out. He now walks in the house and says, "Mr Bill is here. Chloe loves him of course and Micah thinks he knows everything about kitchens) He knows what he is doing and is doing it fast so he can get it done before he gets married to sweet Beka on July 12!

Here is a picture of the wall~ half out

I threw this one in because the ceiling had to come out in the dining room. Bummer. No more drop ceilings. So sad. The crazy thing is that there are no cracks. The woman who owned our house before us put in drop ceilings because she thought they looked good. Talk about a generation gap~ Yikes. The guys (Luke and Chad) had the ceiling out in about an hour. I had no idea it was that easy. There is still more work ahead because we have to patch the holes from the hangers, but I think we would have done it a lot sooner if we had known the ceilings were in good shape.






The wall is out! There will be a peninsula (island as I call it- i know, an island is open on all sides, but who really calls these things peninsulas? Bars, cutouts, islands. That's the lingo I know~ as long as I have more counter space I really don't care~)

I'm standing in the doorway of the back room in this picture.

Micah caught his first "keeper" and was so proud. He watched grandpa clean it and asked grandma to cook it for him. It was a great experience for him. I was a little worried that it would upset him, but he did great. My dad had a great talk with him about animals and that it is never ok to kill or hurt an animal for fun, but it was ok because he was going to eat it.

Jude and Anna~ cousins.

Micah protesting that we were leaving.

Kids with grandparents. And Jude picking his nose. Nice.

Camping in Michigan

he isn't pooping

and this is just water from her bathing suite

There were hundreds of these little turtles. So fun! We would catch twenty or so a day and let the kids play with them. We would give them a new one about every hour so they still had a chance of life!

Micah really wanted Amelia at his birthday party, but since it was all boys and a dinosaur theme I convinced him to have her come to dinner with us instead. Now, Micah knows good frosting, but restaurants, not so much. He chose CiCi's Pizza. Yum.

More May Birthdays

Micah turned five and really wanted a dinosaur party with his friends. Thankfully just three friends. And even better, he wanted cupcakes from the cupcakery. This boy knows good frosting! We had a great time and the boys had a lot of dino fun. I don't have many pictures because it was a little crazy!


Notice how happy Chloe is....