Cleaning the deck with Dad

Mom and dad came for Easter. On Tuesday Dad helped me power wash the deck. It looks so much better. Though my arms hurt for awhile! :)

My 1st try

Starting to get the hang of it

finished product

Learning how

Finished product

New Bedroom Furniture

So we decided to prespend some of our tax refund money and get a new head board for our bed. Due to a good sale we decided to go all out and get a matching set. We feel very grown-up now. Here's pics of the furniture and us working to put it together. It looks really nice and we are really enjoying it. Even if the drawers are a little smaller than the old stuff!

how the boys helped :)

Spring Flowers!

bush in front of house-matching one
on other side in light pink

front of house

view of backyard out of bedroom window

Don't know what kind of tree this is
but WOW!

Cool weeping tree by the deck

flowers on backyard tree

Having moved into our house in a very hot July we had no idea what kind of flowers we would have in the spring. I'm very happy to say our yard is beautiful! Pretty trees and flowers-though still waiting for more to come up. Here are some pictures of the pretty flowers.

Date Night In

Last weekend we had a fun date night in with our new fondue pot. We had a cheese fondue for "dinner" and then a chocolate peanut butter one that was to die for. We need a little more practice on the cheese but it was fun and we hope to do it again. Here's a few pictures just for fun.

Harper's Baptism and Lenhart Christmas

On Dec. 1st Luke and Emily had a little girl Harper. We are 2 of her sponsors so we headed to Iowa after our Nebraska stop for her baptism and a belated Lenhart family Christmas. It was fun to meet Harper and spend time with Logan's family.

Baptism

Snuggles

Baptism

Getting ready for bed with Uncle Logan

Nap time with Aunt April

Mira's Cabbage Patch Doll

I'm watching you Uncle Logan

Tate's Bey Blades

Visit to Nebraska

Over the long weekend from school in January we headed to the Midwest. We started with a quick trip to Nebraska to see Sarah, Kurt and the girls.  We had a good time playing playdough, reading books, hide-n-seek, painting nails and all kids of other stuff. We also got to go to the Pizza Ranch where we pigged out on all kinds of yummy pizza. We had a great time and wish we would have had more time.

Playdough

Good princess/bad princess

building houses with dominos

reading

painting nails

Looking good Rebekah!

Home Improvement Projects

One of the things that needed to be fixed when we moved in was the patio doors. We had planned on just replacing them, but when Dad was here he gave us a way to fix them so we could put off having to buy new doors for awhile. We are happy to say this is one project we did pretty much all by ourselves. Well we had a little help from Pastor and very specific step step instructions from dad, but still we exucuted it ourselves so that should count for something. :)  So here are pictures of the before, sanding, the primer, and for now the finished coat. We'll put another coat on this spring after we hopefully have both doors opening and had a little more practice with painting. I believe the proper quote dad shared with us for this situation is "at least its clean."

           The other project we did this weekend was door knobs. When we moved in EVERY door in the house had an outside door knob that needed keys to unlock. Very weird! And of course we didn't have keys to them either. Seemed like a disaster waiting to happen so we went and got 13 new door knobs and changed all the doors to normal inside ones. They look nice and well it just makes more sense. No pictures of them though. Thought that'd be a little cheezy. :)

Before with the rotting bottom

Logan using the new sander

April hand sanding the fancy middle

All primed

And they're painted!

Looking good!