That's right, I said thirty dollars. Sweeeeeeet! Oh, and did I mention I bought it new from the store!?I need some major color in my living room, but I don't want to settle on a color until I can afford a rug since that's the most expensive thing that will go in there. I don't want to spray paint all my stuff and get pillows and other decorations and then find a rug I love and realize nothing goes together. So as soon as I have the rug, that room will look colorful, just you wait.
Speaking of rug, does anyone know where to get cute rugs for cheap. Preferably a yellow rug.
2. Pretend to light the end of it, make a hissing sound then tip the blocks over. 3. Boom! The blocks make a nice firework sound as they hit the wood floor. 4. Tell mom to clap. No, not like that. Clap louder.
He followed them all over the yard. At one point I think he sat down and cried, poor little boy wants to be big like his brother. Also, I had no idea Benji mowed the lawn bare foot.
I think these pictures will have me laughing for weeks. Our poor kitten puts up with a lot of nice loves abuse. Oh man, look at Dewey's face. He is not happy. Big kisses, yum!
Here's the front door with the trim painted and some new flowers. I am loving how it is looking. I only had a 4 inch paintbrush so I still have the bottoms and corners to paint on the trim so it's not all the way done. Now I just need to spray paint the mailbox. Since we won't be getting mail on Monday, I'll paint it Saturday, that should give it enough time to dry.
I painted my front door for the third time since we moved in. That means while we have been living under this roof, our front door has been four different colors. I liked the shade of green that was on the door when we first moved in, but there was something about it I didn't like.
The before, before, before picture
So I wanted to go a darker green, but the first shade I chose ended up looking like that 80's forest green that was so popular in kitchens. You know the forest green coupled with salmon pink or mauve. Yeah, it wasn't so pretty. I don't have a picture of that one, I hurried over to Walmart as fast as I could to get a darker green.
I liked it better than the first shade of green, but there was still something about it that I didn't like. Maybe it's because it made my house look like Christmas. I don't know.
Anyway, just barely I decided to go navy blue. I thought with the orangish red bricks it might look good. I picked out the darkest navy blue I could find, but when I came home and opened the paint can it looked electric blue! Like this color:
I decided to just go with it and even though the color darkened as it dried it still was brighter than I was thinking, but at this point I am NOT painting my front door anymore, so I'll have to deal with it for awhile. I actually kind of like it, and out of all the colors it has been this is my favorite. So there is some more work that needs to go into the front porch that might make it all come together. I'm planning on getting planter boxes to go by my door filled with orange flowers, spray painting my mailbox white, painting the trim around the door white and getting new larger, cuter house numbers.
Something like this:And I'll probably hang them horizontally instead of vertically.
Anyway, I'll post a picture of the whole house once it's all done.
(Don't mind the title. Unless you are Mindy, of course!) :)
Jordan is obsessed with fireworks lately, which is actually kind of funny because he hated them 2 months ago. He used to be terrified if we even said the word "firework" But now he loves them.
Lately, he's been doing firework shows with his hands. It's hilarious. He gets really into it with sound effects and actions. This is just a sample of one of the shows. Usually he turns off all the lights and they last 10 minutes! :)
Now here are some of our County Fair pictures and videos.
Jordan was so excited that he was tall enough to ride the roller coaster. He had so much fun, but he always looks so serious on the rides! Jordan was excited about the spaceship ride and especially that he got to go on a ride all by himself. Every time he went around he would say hi to us, but then he got disoriented and couldn't find us
Sam just got thrown in the air, but he enjoyed that more than the rides. We tried to get him to go on this ride with Jordan, he had fun for a few minutes, but got sick of waiting for it to start, and started crying and trying to bail. I'm so happy he did that before the ride started!
I got stung by a wasp on Saturday for the first time since I was four. It stung me near my arm pit, which can I say is a very sensitive place to be stung. It hurt for a minute or so, but then I started feeling really weird. For about an hour after I was stung I was really light headed and that soon turned into a huge headache. My arm had a quarter size area around the place that I was stung that was swollen and white and then a rash that spread out from there. I never knew I would have such a weird reaction to being stung. Good thing it was only one sting. Is anyone allergic to bees or wasps? What does it feel like when you are stung??
I went to my first Pack Meeting last night! I am now in the Primary Presidency (and loving it!) so I get to go to Pack Meetings and Den meetings for the Cub Scouts. They had the meeting at the Box Elder campground and made hot dogs and marshmellows. I'm so happy my boys were invited because they had so much fun, but I now know what I'd be getting into if we ever went camping. Withing 2 minutes Sam was covered with a rich, dark soil that was immediately wiped off with wet wipes, but then it got to the point where I couldn't keep up with the dirt, so I gave up. He ended up looking like this
I don't even think this does the dirt justice, when we went in for a bath Sam looked like he had a farmer's tan with dirt. Awesome!
I didn't take any pictures of Jordan, but as he was exploring around the camp he stepped in mud, and was covered from his knees to his toes in thick, stinky, black mud. That was my clue that it was time to go home!
We got so dirty and smelly, but that means we had fun, right!!?
Jordan insisted on putting his own swimming suit on the other day and didn't get it quite right. I'm kind of proud of him though because he successfully put his shorts on backwards, inside out AND upside down. (Okay, maybe it was only semi-successful.)This might help you get a better idea of how he did it. He put his legs in the wrong way and pulled.
Jordan loves Jessie from Toy Story. He loves Buzz Lightyear more, but I think he has a crush on Jessie. We told him as soon as he kept his pull-up dry all night we would go get a Jessie toy at the store. He finally stayed dry (and has pretty much stayed dry from that day on) so we went to Walmart and picked out his toy. I don't know why the lighting is so awful in the video....but here you go.
I need some major color in my living room, but I don't want to settle on a color until I can afford a rug since that's the most expensive thing that will go in there. I don't want to spray paint all my stuff and get pillows and other decorations and then find a rug I love and realize nothing goes together. So as soon as I have the rug, that room will look colorful, just you wait.
(P.S. He had been walking around outside all morning--that's why his feet are so dirty...)
He followed them all over the yard. At one point I think he sat down and cried, poor little boy wants to be big like his brother. Also, I had no idea Benji mowed the lawn bare foot.
Here's the front door with the trim painted and some new flowers. I am loving how it is looking. I only had a 4 inch paintbrush so I still have the bottoms and corners to paint on the trim so it's not all the way done. Now I just need to spray paint the mailbox. Since we won't be getting mail on Monday, I'll paint it Saturday, that should give it enough time to dry.
The before, before, before picture
And I'll probably hang them horizontally instead of vertically.
We tried to get him to go on this ride with Jordan, he had fun for a few minutes, but got sick of waiting for it to start,
I got stung by a wasp on Saturday for the first time since I was four. It stung me near my arm pit, which can I say is a very sensitive place to be stung. It hurt for a minute or so, but then I started feeling really weird. For about an hour after I was stung I was really light headed and that soon turned into a huge headache. My arm had a quarter size area around the place that I was stung that was swollen and white and then a rash that spread out from there. I never knew I would have such a weird reaction to being stung. Good thing it was only one sting. Is anyone allergic to bees or wasps? What does it feel like when you are stung??
I don't even think this does the dirt justice, when we went in for a bath Sam looked like he had a farmer's tan with dirt. Awesome!
This might help you get a better idea of how he did it. He put his legs in the wrong way and pulled.
