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I am a week early for Christmas pictures of the kids this year, but I decided I'd better try early since they don't have a great record of cooperation!

These were the best. There were a ton of photos of Finn running away! Eliza lost another tooth last night to add to her cute kid smile. 

Belated Halloween wishes

We have a dragon, Nacho Libre, Frankenstein, and Link. Not pictured is a rock and roll star with purple hair.

Downstair bathroom make over!

So please excuse the fuzzy pictures, but look at our downstairs bathroom! One of my frustrations is the kids taking over our upstairs bathroom in the morning. So I thought if I improved the downstairs one, they would use it more! I painted the walls elephant skin gray and touched up the white baseboards.  We replaced the towel rack with Ikea coat hooks. I found some great rugs, garbage can,  and handtowels at Ross, and got large, fluffy, luxurious towels from Costco. I created the art, painted picture frames from DI and printed the art out at Costco. We moved the hand towel hanger and when I find a classy over the toilet organizer, that will be the finishing touch. 

 

We cleared out the garden this week, and this was the amazing butternut squash result! What am I going to do with it all? Please come take some, please!!! We only got three pumpkins so we might carve a squash or two.

And since I did not take my camera to document it, thanks to Julie for taking pictures at the Church's women's meeting! We had a lovely time with cousins, second cousins, aunts, and old friends.

In other news, this is Finn on his new balance bike. He loves scooting around on it. He is now potty trained and full of mischief. Seriously he surprises me everyday with the things he says, the faces he pulls and the overall enthusiasm for life!

I haven't posted the kid's room redo's that I did this summer. I also finished two quilts of Grandma Green's, that was a fun project. My next project is to finish an attic window levi quilt and redo Mike & I's bedroom. That should keep me busy for the winter!

Back to School Post of Course!

On the last day of summer vacation, the kids really wanted to take Ian's raft out again. It was raining on and off and not exactly warm out but we did it anyways!

 The Portneuf River is really full this year because of all of our August rain.

 Ian started 5th grade, his last year in elementary school, sniff. Eliza started 2nd grade.

 I tried to get a picture of Finnegan looking sad that his siblings were going off to school but he is too much of a clown. He does miss them and drives me crazy because he won't play on his own!

 After the first day of school was done, we drove up to Rexburg for some Rexburgian fun. The kids loved loved loved this carousel. Even Finn agreed to wait in line multiple times to get another ride on the horses.

                                         Our family picture from July 2014