Backing up a Little - December

I got a little behind on pictures.  So if you care to join me this week we will be backing up and reviewing a few things I have pictures of.  My mom has far more pictures of events as they happened.  These will be more of our pictures from home.

Our Christmas tree just a few days before Christmas

Helping scoop - this was before it got really old all the snow we had!

Christmas Eve at Keith and Bev's

And in our true fashion one of us got sick.  This time it was Kris.  He felt awful and missed some of the festivities.

Keith with the boys

New Tractor

Christmas morning at home

Helping Dad open his presents too

Reading books after we'd opened everything

Garbage Truck Birthday!!

My mom made this garbage truck! 

Everybody in!

Lots of running around

Knocked down.  Armor and Kam were told to help him up...

Lol then he couldn't get up because they were holding his arms!

Cousins!

Cheesin' with dad

Driving Kam around

Group Photo!

What do you think is in here?  "John Deere Mower!"

A Gator!

PK was all serious and Armor was giggling the whole time!

Happy Birthday Parker!

3rd Birthday?!?! How is that possible... love you buddy

Nice Weather!

 Since winter is now over... And he refused to wear his boots.  It is now time to wear them!  Now I can't get him to wear his tennis shoes.  (Puppy rides with us to daycare in the mornings and we give him kisses before we go in; then he rides to work with mommy)

We trimmed bushes and this guy thought his shovel also helped trim the bushes.

Selfie?

Rest of the Weekend

Since let's just say January, Parker has asked when we are getting the camper from Uncle Kelley's at least once a week.  Monday morning we finally went to get it!  He was soo excited!  Unfortunately he thought we were going to get it and go camping right from there.  So we settled on eating lunch in the camper... Does that count?  To our little 3 (almost) year old it was a win.  But now the question of when we are going camping is about every 1/2 hour... and immediately when waking in the morning.  We need to get this little guy out camping!

On Saturday night Kris had a bachelor party for my soon to be brother-in-law.  My dad and brother went so my mom drove them home after.  Carter came to play with us.  Parker was so excited to play with him and was showing off.  It was pretty funny.  He was so chatty with him too.  When he woke up and Carter wasn't there to play with he wasn't too happy!  He raced down the stairs looking for him :(

Our friend Joe is a veteran so we invited them over for supper on Monday night.  They brought these gorgeous flowers for me.  They smell amazing too!

Our Little Helper

Parker is doing pretty good so far with the "rental house".  He likes taking his mower over there and "working".  We didn't have him there while we were demoing or running the power tools.  He was at daycare on Friday and Sunday he spent the day with Aunt Dani and Armor.  While he's there tools tend to disappear and others are offered to you in place of what you need.  On Friday night after I had picked him up from Daycare he was starting to wear pretty thin.  We had plywood set up on sawhorses as our work area and it was at the perfect height; he just kept running into it.  Got himself three times around his eyes.

We don't really have a routine yet but we've spent every night over there so supper tends to be a little different than normal.  As far as I'm concerned its better to have a picnic in the driveway then eat anything in the house until we get some work done.  We've been heading home just in time for him to go to bed.  We will probably take a night off to relax at home each week.

In the pictures it looks like he has nice clothes on.  We have since learned our lesson.  He toasted this outfit.  He fell in the garage after supper and had mud/grime from his heels to his neck.

Week 1

One week in and going strong! :)

The back mudroom only had storm windows (that went all around 3 sides) but had no insulation or heat ran to it.  There was water damage from just having storm windows in.  So we decided to tackle windows!  The Habitat for Humanity Restore had these windows that we thought would fit perfectly (they didn't; we had our measurement flip flopped) but we made fit!  We had to lower our wall a few inches to make them fit and had some trial and error.  But we are pretty proud of them.  Our friend Joe helped put the windows in with us (also no experience).  While we were at the store a guy walking by had to tell us how you drill them into the walls and walked away shaking his head like "they are in for it; good luck".  haha.

So on Friday with Joe's help we got the two windows in facing the backyard.  Once we had them in I convinced Kris we wanted another one facing the driveway.  So Sunday morning we put that one in.  I had to keep Kris motivated after my brother-in-law's bachelor party that took place on Saturday night but after Joe took off I convinced him to tackle the 3rd wall.  We went ahead and just put studs in to make it a solid wall.  Definitely more work to do.  The interior needs a little more demo work before we can insulate and add drywall. And we need to figure out how to trim out the exterior part of the window and fill in siding.

The pictures look like the paint job is really bad but there had been plastic stapled from the top of the peak down below the storm windows (a few were broken).  So we think that extra moisture in there causing all the paint to chip up; the rest of the house isn't peeling like that.