The last 6 months

What have you done in the last 6 months? When I look back at pictures I'm always amazed at how much our kids have grown and how much we have done. So here is a brief recap of our last 6 months: Camdyn and Daddy made a snowman, we bought 4.5 acres of land, visited the Brocks in Stillwater, Carter perfected crawling, enjoyed christmas(twice), spent new years eve at chuck-e-cheese's, Camdyn started to like books, visited the Gunters in Missouri, Potty trained Camdyn, Craig spent 10 days in Mississippi while I went to Nebraska, went skiing with the YFC, Carter's first birthday, Camdyn had a medical scare, Craig spent 4 days in California while I went to Nebraska, we planted our garden, refurbished our house, broke ground on our land, Camdyn graduated from pre-school, and Carter learned to walk.

Six months

Wow! Without pictures I might have forgotton half of those events. Thank goodness for digital cameras.

Fun in the Sun!

swimming

Yesterday I decided to fill up our little sand turtle with water and let the kids play in it. I actually filled it up for Carter on Sunday and he loved it even though the water was straight from the hose. Yesterday they played in it for a couple of hours.

Over the weekend, Carter started walking almost everywhere he went. He is so proud of himself when he gets to where he is going. He still falls down quit a bit, but at least he doesn't crawl much. Click on the above picture to see more pictures and a video of Carter walking.

Kitchen update!

Well here is a before pic of our kitchen and below is what it looks like after we tiled the backsplash. Craig has spent his time recently tiling and grouting the backsplash while I painted our pantry, and started scrubbing the kitchen floor grout. We decided not to retile the kitchen so we plan to replace some of the bad tiles and scrub and seal the grout. So far everything is going as planned. The end is in sight. We are almost done with most of the major stuff and then it will be time to do the little clean-up stuff, and to start on the curb appeal.

School Program

Last week Camdyn had her school program, were each class sang a couple of songs. I wasn't really sure what Camdyn was going to do. I thought she would stand there not doing any of the hand motions. She did really well. She did all of her hand motions to both songs. The scratch on her face was from the night before, where she fell on brick and took a pretty hard landing.

Tile Time

tile

After our housing painting adventure the next thing on our list was to tile both bathrooms and the entry way. We are thinking about selling our home, and we were told that tile in the baths instead of Linoleum would help the house sell quicker. Also Craig thought it would be good time for him to practice his tiling skill (or learn them, since he has never tiled before). I have to say that he did a great job. Both bathrooms really look great. He even let me set some tiles with mastic using the notched trowel (I thought I would throw in those tiling terms to make me sound experienced). It is tougher than it looks on TV, but overall it wasn't that big of a project and cost less than $75 for both bathrooms. Click on the pic to see more.