Visitors from up North :)

Neal was off for FOUR days with only a few phone calls and interruptions from work. It was SO NICE!!! He has been working a lot lately so to have him home was just amazing. I literally unplugged from the computer only checking e-mail at night and even had my phone off most the time. It's nice to do that once in a while. 

We also had visitors form up North (hehe yes we are Southerners now....I even caught myself saying NO SIR to Christopher the other day we LOVE it here) Gwandma Jenny and Aunt Judy came to spend a few days with us. I did not get too many pictures but we just had a nice relaxing time. Once again the weather did not cooperate but they had a little taste of the mid 70's that we enjoy here most of the time. We have been needing the rain though. Neal ad I even got to spend Saturday MOST OF the day alone. We packed a picnic and ate it on the pier on one of the swings down town Charleston then we got to walk around and check out all the shops, art galleries and antique shops downtown which was really the first time we got to do that. It's pretty tight down there and doing all that with 3 kids is just not enjoyable. We then went out to eat and went to a few furniture stores. It was just fun and relaxing. 

Thanks guys for giving Neal and I a little breather it was MUCH needed time alone away from the kidos. 

 We went to the Charleston Aquarium

 And saw lots of pretty fish all from the Carolina coast

 Mr. Christopher with Grandma

Touching the stingrays. 

Wow I'm really ashamed of myself I really did not get many pictures. We had a really nice time and can't wait for them to come visit us again. 

March and April are looking to be really busy months for us this year is going by too fast already!

waiting...

I forgot it was Monday and I have supper all ready but no hubby!!! He usually works even later than usual on Mondays :/  SO we are waiting trying to hold off as long as we can. I did feed baby because he goes to bed at 6:00. I just wanted to share this with you guys!

 I've been working on this one for weeks. It's actually old pallets that we got for free and Neal cut down for me. It goes well with the whole rustic feel that I'm going with for the kitchen. I distressed them and stained them then wrote out the words. I'm making another one for the other side but this is kinda time consuming so it will be a while before it's gone and we have a lot going on this next month!

 also drew up a little plan for another project! Can you guys tell I like to be busy!!!

Peek :)))))

Just a quick post....

 Big stuff sitting on the trike....he was SO happy just sat there and watched all the big kids play. I think we had like 15 boys in our garage :) there are only 2 girls on our street the rest are ALLLLLL boys.

 I've come to the conclusion that his top teeth are never going to poke through. All smiles.....cutie he has had 2 good days in a row and it has been very refreshing after weeks of crabyness.

 I finished the box......makes our table look ppurty ;)

 This kid LOVES to eat.....he eats ALL THE TIME. He had 5 pancakes for breakfast yesterday :)

 Had a little fun with my paintbrushes and canvas yesterday......gloomy rainy days are perfect for that.

 I was trying to get the pout he was giving me when I was telling him not to touch the frames that were on the ground waiting to be hung.

I finally found some floating shelves for the bathroom. Got them at the project for humanity place for $3 painted them and they are just perfect. The little sign is what I worked on yesterday........ wash your hands mom said so :) love it! The star fish wood piece and shell we found on our last trip to the beach and the sand with shells is actually from our Hawaii trip :)) I also found some really neat coral on the beach that I wanted to use but it smelled SO SO fishy and I had to throw it away. I wonder if you can get rid of the smell somehow.

I hope that everyone has a good week I know we will only 3 more sleeps and our company will be here.....we CAN'T wait!

DIsneyfied....

Our friends had their house Disneyfied. I think the episode runs on HGTV on February 24th check out their house get transformed. 

Miss you gus wish we were closer so we could see it :( 

http://www.hgtv.com/my-house-goes-disney/show/index.html

rustic box....

 Buy some cheap wood and have fun distressing it with hammer, nails or let the kids do the work then have fun with your hubbys power tools ;) nail and glue together.

 Conner and Ethan built their own with their tools.

 Stain the box whatever color you want. I had a really dark stain on hand from who knows when so that's what I used.

 I filled it with Styrofoam from our new chandelier.

 then I used the moss stuff again.

then I filled it with hidrangias that I bought at Michaels except I thought I would like blue and green but I don't so now I don't have enough green ones to fill it up all the way so I have to go back to return the blue ones and get more green ones. LOVE how this turned out and it will go so well with the signs that I'm working on for the kitchen.

sigh.....

Tomorrow I will not be defeated by my children, projects, house work, appointment, running errands. Tomorrow I will defeat the day and finish with just a little quiet time to myself and even possibly time to shave my legs ;) Tomorrow is a new day and I am so glad that this one is over.

 Happy Valentines day everyone!!

 Awwww.....

 Cuties

We had a good day though we did not have a special dinner like we intended. We had KFC for lunch because we were out and about and we were all feeling kinda sick after so our special V-day dinner will be tomorrow night :)

 Making their v-day goodie bags for their friends :) such little things make my boys so happy.

 Cute!!!

 Our present to each other.....we no longer have to eat supper in the dark though now the days are longer and a lot of times it is still light at least when we start eating :)

 Daddy with sleeping baby

Sleeping babies are the best!

I hope everyone had a day full of LOVE....we did!!!

brrrrr........

baby it's cold outside.....yeah the 60s and 70s can come back now! I forgot to turn the heat on last night so we woke up to a COLD house this morning. Only 3 days of this cold I can handle that :) 

 yay the orange walls are gone :) we finished last night.

 I ended up going with a hole different color. I know you can't tell in a picture it almost looks like the other color.

 I'm leaving the butlers pantry for now the other color......cuz I'm lazy like that.

 ahhhhh......he was scaring us all. He used the extension ladder the first time then he used the kitchen table, step ladder and the extended paint stick for the 2nd coat. I could not watch.

 Scary!

Just finished baking all these....yummy. No not all for us they are for Neal for work another batch in the oven :) 

We had a good weekend just busy as usual. Neal just made popcorn for us so time for a movie with the kidos and some snuggles :) 

I hope everyone had a good weekend.

Here we go again....

Like I've mentioned I bought the paint for the kitchen well unfortunately once again they did not mix it correctly and instead of capuchino we got this cream color that just does not work at all. Grrrr too bad that I WASTED ONE FULL day. I painted the butlers pantry and the back splash ohh well. I went back today to see if they could re mix it but they just made it worst so they gave me a refund. Not sure what to do now if we want to try again for that color or go with something entirely different. I need to sleep on it it's to big of an area to just go for it and it's not easy painting with 3 kids. 

 Before

After...much better but just not the right color. It's hard picking something that will go both with the warm cabinet color and the darker gay counter tops.

Alive......

Wow it's been a week since my last post and lots has happened but I've been tired again so camera once again has been on vacation. I think I need to go in for a check up I've been so dizzy lately and clumsy.....kinda of feeling weird but I feel like that when my anemia kicks in so that's probably all that it is. It's SPRING here and absolutely awesome things are staring to turn green flowers are blooming and it's really pretty. Not a dramatic transformation like up north after all the snow melts and all the rain but slowly it's turning green again.

 His favorite spot....our bedroom window and he loves to just run around in his diaper:) It was so nice last week that people were actually running their air conditioning. Us we just enjoyed the heat and sunshine.

 Big stuff is into EVERYTHING

 Starting to be really interested in what his brothers are doing but still prefers to be on mamas hip most of the day : / I should really have some huge arms at this point.

 Creativity at this house ROCKS

 Playing their saucer game....they love this thing

Conner and his girlfriend ;) these two are trouble! Our neighbors took us to an awesome park for the kids....we will be spending many mornings there I'm sure. We have missed our castle parks from up North. It always takes a while to discover all the little places/things to do when in a new place.

 Picnic under the 1,500 year old Angel Oak.....AMAZING!!! Yes it's just a tree but it truly is spectacular. I remember reading an article YEARS ago about this tree and thought to myself that I would love to one day see it. Now we can go have a picnic there any time we want :)

http://www.angeloaktree.org/history.htm

some history about the tree if you are interested.

 Awesome

SO I bought the paint today for the kitchen/hallways/butlers pantry/foyer so I will be busy for a little while with that. Neal will be helping me this weekend but I plan on staring some of it tomorrow on my own. So stay tuned for some updated pictures :) 

Movie and popcorn night here tonight....time for "nuggle" time for me and my boys :))))))))

Have a good week everyone