Mini Stylist

This is my daughter, Elliona. We call her Elli for short. She is 4 years old and I love this age, because she still does the really adorable things that just make you smile!!! I don't know if you can tell by the picture, but she is kinda obsessed with the color pink. Lately she is all about wanting to pick out her own clothes and they must be pink. From head to toe pink!!! This pic is one of her outfits she put together. I think she did really good. She wore it to the mall and she received 3 complements on how cute she was.

This is my son, Jevin (he's trilled, can't ya tell?). He is 7 and for a boy he also is very into what he is wearing. Today Elli insisted on picking out every ones clothes. This is what she chose for him. He didn't put up a fight, so I took that as an approval from Mr. Fashionista!!! Most mornings before school we are fighting over what he is going to wear to school!! I didn't think boys were supposed to do that. Don't they normally just throw on their clothes and call it a day?

Date Night

Rich and I tried to arrange to go on a date this past Saturday, but it didn't quite work out that way. So, I thought we would take the kids to the movies. We have never taken them to see a movie before. Plans got changed again and Jevin was asked to stay at his friends. Guess who he chose? So, Elli got to go on a special "date" with mommy and daddy by herself. She was soooo excited to be going to the theater. It was so cute. We took her to see Tangled.

It was so good!! Rich even liked it!!! I thought we would be incrediably bored watching a cartoon, but I was totally wrong. I recommend you watch this movie even if you don't have kids. Elli really enjoyed the theater, but she wasn't to happy that she had to share her daddy with me. She is such a daddy's girl!

Basement Before Pics

This is the corner where the wood burner was.

The living room

The steps minus the beautiful pink carpet

Project Basement Overhaul

So, we are going to finish redoing our basement. Over a year ago we started the basement bathroom and it is still not 100% complete. That's just how we roll around here!! The basement also has a living room and a bedroom. That's what we will be working on. It is covered in paneling, which we will be painting in a pretty light blue. The floors are also on our to-do-list and this past weekend we bought the flooring for it.

We love it!!!!! It made us want to hurry up and get started so we could put the floor down. So, yesterday was a snow day and we were so motivated. Rich removed the wood burner that was in the corner, tore the lovely pink carpet off of the steps and ripped up some tiles. He was very productive. The kids and I had the dirty job of washing the cobweb encrusted walls and they sure do get nasty when you don't wash them in 8 years!!!

Today we had BIG plans to start priming the walls. That never happened. Oh, the excitement lasted for one whole day!!! Rich estimates it should be complete in about 2 years!! Ha-Ha, he is probably right!!