Broken and Painted

In the last 24 hours I have had glass shattered all over my kitchen floor 3 times. Last evening for supper Greta dropped one of my Corelle plates. Isn't that stuff supposed to be shatter proof? Lunch today... I had my blender filled with fruit to make smoothies. I went to the garage to get some frozen pineapple and heard a loud crash. Some little almost-3-year-old-man thought he needed to push the blender buttons and in doing so he pulled the whole thing off the counter and my glass pitcher to the blender shattered. Fruit and all. Then this evening sweet Morgan was helping me put away groceries and crash... a jar of homemade salsa all over the cabinet/floor. Is hardwood flooring that much harder than fake??!!?

Today my wonderful mother spent the better part of the day painting away. Thank you, thank you mom!! Our living room is officially painted and waiting for trim and flooring and then will be ready to be put back together! I can hardly wait. My sofas has been in the kitchen, all the other living room extras have been in the basement. It will be so sweet to have our extra room finally in function.

One more note: our porch will have posts. I realized yesterday that I never said that and that will make it look much nicer!!

Outside done!!!...almost...

Steve just came through the door with a grand announcement that the outside is done!! The weather has not been cooperating lately so the last of the siding and gutter have been a long time coming.
It's still not quite complete, we are having a friend do stone on the faces of the porch. That will get completed as time and weather allow.
Yippee!!

Library

My girls absolutely love going to the library. The get as many books as they can shove in their bags and read them all in just a matter of days. I just recently let Aaron start getting his own books. He's so funny carrying this bag that is as big as he is (he calls it a pocketbook...my poor child, surrounded by girls). Anyway, the other day we were getting ready to go and he hung his "pocketbook" on the door and it struck me so cute.

P.S. This is a much more accurate color of my new front door

Cookies

We made our first batch on Monday.




No one had to tell this one what to do with a cookie.

Orderly Boy

Snow

I can hardly believe that we had our first snow yesterday. It feels to me that is should still be September (where does the time go???). Usually I really love snow and get the kids out in it as soon as there is a few flurries. I think maybe it's b/c of all the mud that is surrounding our house... or that fact that my bin of mittens and hats and such as disappeared into the abyss of my basement... or that my body is in denial that it's cold enough to need mittens... either way, I'm not ready for snow yet. But here it is!
I did want to go out and try some shots in the snow, I was too just too much of a wimp to get out there. So my here is my only shot of the few inches that we get yesterday:

Aspiring Photographers

My girls love messing with my camera. Here are a few shots of the morning.

Taken by Morgan


And Claudia