Friday, February 28, 2014

Painting Nathan's Room

Time to paint our last yellow room!  Remember Josh's getting painted in 2012?  Seems so long ago already!


Prepping.  Taking the fan down to paint the ceiling WHITE!  We love bright white ceilings.


Now what to do with Nathan's stuff?  In our room it goes!

Speaking of bright white ceilings...this one is NOT.   We need to paint it.  Had we known it was so yellow we would have just had it done when we got the room painted, but it wasn't obvious how yellow it looked until you put grey up next to it!  Yes, we do like grey...if you haven't noticed.



The boys are excited. 


Our little painters.


Little does Josh know...he's about to go down for a nap!

Now the paint can come out.  We let Nathan up with us a for just a little so he can "help".


Stirring the ceiling paint.


Here we go!


He loves it!  Here's a video.


Working men.




"Look what I painted!"

Then Nathan took his nap and we painted while they slumbered.  Then we took a break for dinner and the evening until we got them in bed again for the night.

2 coats of paint on the ceiling!


And Nathan's out.  I actually came in and found him rolled off his mattress and laying between the bookshelf and mattress!  I picked him up and placed him here...under a blanket :)


Love him!

While we were able to work uninterrupted we went ahead and rolled out both coats of pain on the walls as well that night/early morning.  I think we went to bed after 2 or later?

Great decision!  Looks good in the morning light.


Matt loves this gray!  Nathan likes it's name "sweatshirt".


We were pretty tired but we made it to second service and then put them down for naps.  Matt just had a second coat of edging to do in several areas.  We tried an edger and tape...but just simply painting the line seemed to work the best!  Matt was so much better than I was at it so he was the official edger and I just rolled.




Nathan during his afternoon nap.  Do you think he likes monkeys? 


Working on Nathan's Big Boy Room

We've been working on Nathan's big boy room these last few weeks!

Daddy putting hooks in Nathan's closet for his hats and dress-up clothes.


Nathan wanted his pen tucked in his ear.


With toys in his room now it becomes a big mess pretty quickly!  here you can see his bed, bedding, bookshelf, etc!


Ta-da!  Nice work daddy!


Nathan loves being able to get to these himself. 




My construction workers conked out.

Must have been a tough day.

Josh hugging Nathan.




This vest was $3 at Ikea!


Next step...paint!

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Valentine's Day

I woke up to Nathan saying, "Mommy!  Daddy got you a Valentine's present!"


Did I mention Nathan is up at 6:45 every morning now that he can get out of his bed and play?  Whether the room is dark or not has not bearing...it's still the same time.  Come quickly daylight savings! :)  But how cute is he in this moment?


It was actually a rough day for the boys and I for various reasons, but daddy made it all better when we came home.  Nathan and I ran out for a Louie's heart shaped pizza and all was right with the world.


A video of Nathan asking mommy to be his Valentine.

Especially since the boys eat pizza so incredibly well!


No dinner fights tonight!




We got Nathan a "Planes" dvd for Valentine's.  We really just wanted an excuse to buy it.  We rented it on New Years Eve and knew we really liked it!


Josh got a toy "iphone" that he's crazy about.  We can even record a message to him on it that he can play back to himself.


After midnight.  A Valentine for my favorite valentine.  Love him so very much.

First Half of February

Shoveling snow on February 1st!   We got a lot of snow in a week or two span.  Hardly felt worth it to shovel, as it would snow more the following day!














Josh was so funny.  He would fall over and stay in this position saying "Mama, Mama" until I rescued him! (stood him back up)


My snow angel :)




Josh and I throwing snow on Nathan.  Great fun until Nathan got a big shovel and dumped it right on Josh's face!  That's when we went in.  Josh was sort of done :)


Talking to Grandma J on the phone.




That night (Saturday) we decided to take the boys to Bass Pro Shops for fun.  Anytime it snows, we love to get out in it!  My parents always do this too :)  We didn't realize it was to continue snowing through the night so we called Nicole & Cactus to see if they wanted to join us!


We were there awhile before they arrived, so we checked out the "fishies"!  Matt had brought them here the weekend I was in Denver for the conference, so we already knew they loved this place!


It really is so cool!




Fish face!


Nice bear!








Here is a video of the night.

Riding a four wheeler with Cactus!


Josh & Nicole checking out the smaller one.

So as you can see, they braved the snow and made it!

Nathan loved these things.  He was back and forth on them and off of them.  Cactus would shake them for us and we all piled in for a ride!  They boys loved the boats they had there too.  Such a fun place!


Taking a ride with Aunt Cole!

Nathan's driving...scary :)

Josh touching the bear.


And there's daddy!  He was with us too :)


The following week we spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was going on with our dryer.  Matt even took the whole thing apart!


We totally laughed about this, because it was kind of unnecessary!  But at least we know everything is intact in there! ha ha.

For those interested, our dryer vent was clogged.  It runs a long way down in our basement and out the side of our house. 

You were right dad! :)  Anyway, it was just a LITTLE clogged! ha!

Yes, we know.  Fire hazard.

In other news...in February we took Nathan's crib rail off again.  This time we put up a safety rail and he loved it.  I think he felt safer.


Josh loved it too because he could climb in Nathan's bed!

And they both love this new reading light from Ikea. 

Nathan reading George a book :)






And he's out!  He even turned his light off and it tucked it away and towards the wall before falling asleep.  I love this kid.


Another fun thing we did with his crib was make a fort.


Nathan was into making and sending "mail" this particular week.  We would make an envelope, tuck something in it, put a sticker "Stamp" on the outside and address it.  He'd even "mail" it in one of his empty toy bins.  Here he's giving Daddy his mail!


A fish was in his envelope!


Pretty quickly we moved from the crib to the bed after he had the safety rail.  He was all for it, and we just went with it before he changed his mind.  We got this bed at Ikea (of course) and mattress at Sam's for him.  However, we forgot the bottom frame boards at Ikea so we were going to need to make another trip!  Josh like it like this because he could sit on the ledge since the mattress is on the floor :)


The frame boards don't make it all that much higher though.  It's a really low bed which is awesome for them climbing on and off.  And for when Nathan falls out. ha ha. I'll save that for another post!


Our car needed a good scrubbing after all of the icky weather lately!  We had some sunshine so we headed outside to spray off the mats.  We love these mats!


Somebody started having fun with the hose while daddy wasn't looking.




Nathan got wet on the bottom, so we lost his pants inside :)