New Cabinets

Our New Kitchen! Our most recent project was to stain the cabinets! I sanded and Jonathan stained! They look great! So in total we stripped wall paper, textured, painted, removed a metal plate thing, removed the laminate flooring and replaced it with vinal tile, stained the cabinets, and replaced the old weird hanging blinds with regular ones. One of favorite parts about restaining is there were lots of "drips" and grime and that I couldn't get off the cabinets and I sanded them right off! And the other favorite is that is looks fantastic! Jonathan is so great! Isaac is really learning to talk. I wonder how long he has been saying things because I can barley understand him, so maybe I just didn't before. Today he said, "I want to go outside" and "more cracker please" Alle said, "hi" and "mama". So proud of my little guys! Today I watched 4 kids for a family whose mother is in the hospital (so 6 kids at one time all under 6). I think my kids are really easy now. : ) We'll see how long I feel that way. Life is still fantastic. We have had so many great blessings and we are so grateful to our Father in Heaven.

Allie is all over the place! She can pull herself up and walk along furniture. She has become a fast crawler. She is happy to explore and is working on standing by herself. Isaac has gotten pretty defensive now that Allie tries to play with all of Isaac's stuff. Especially when she tries to take things out of his hands. He kicks her over, hits her in the head, and shoves her off furniture. We're working on that! His speach is developing well. He puts two words together like "Push On" for me to turn on the lights. Although it is very emotional for me as he grows up, it is a relief for him to tell me what he wants instead of screaming at while pointing at the wall. We are proud of him. We are refinishing our cabinets. It has been fun. It is beautiful outside. We took all the doors off and I have been sanding while listening to music. Isaac got to swim in our turtle pool and Allie plays with toys and eats crackers on a blanket. Jonathan is doing all the staining. Its nice to have a husband that is good at lots of things. There was lots of crud on the cabinets that I couldn't clean off when we moved in so it felt great to sand it all off. We are excited to finish and then I will post before and after pictures. Isaac is really interacting with other kids and having lots of fun at Library day and play group. I love to see him enjoy his activities more and more as he gets older. Oh ya, we died my hair blonde too. I forgot to take a picture, so i'll have to post that later!

Isaac turned 2! Yay Isaac! We had a really fun party with Jonathan's Family and my parents! They came in town to celebrate! It was 70 outside when they were here and they left just in time because we had a snow storm the next day! It got down to 8 degrees! We had black outs and ice storms and Jonathan got 2 days off work! yay for hanging out in the house together! Isaac got Cars and all 4 Ninja turtle movies so we had movie parties! So fun!

BYU Magazine

Were in a Magazine! The BYU Magazine did an article with us in it. You can view it online at http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=2724 The part about us is called giving back and paying forward. This is the other picture they took but ended up using a different one. Our picture online is on the right side of of the article.

Christmas was so wonderful this year. We had Christmas with my family Jonathan's family and the Colton's. It was exciting because Isaac was old enough to kind of understand what was going on. He got double the presents this year because Allie can't stop him from stealing all of hers. :) Bruce and Katie and Julie and Tyson were in town and we spent a lot of time with them. The girls made lots of hair accessories like the purple one Allie is wearing in the picture. It was so much fun. Thank you so much to everyone for celebrating with us. Isaac has just started the terrible twos and Allie has become mobile so I am learning to work a little harder! Even nighttime has been a lot of work with both of them not going to sleep and waking up. I think they are both teething so that gives hope of an end in sight. We are having so much fun. Besides the fact that it gives us colds, one nice thing about Texas is we have random days that are 70 degrees out so we can still go to the park and play in the backyard. Isaac is turning two on the 26th! I'm so excited. My parents are coming in town and we're decorating a cake and I"m getting Isaac a Beta fish for his birthday! The Video of Jonathan and Jason moving around is from playing Kinect. You hook it up to your x-box and you don't need a controller. SO they were playing a game where their water tank had holes in it and they had to plug them up. Its really fun. My favorite is the dancing game. Jonathan's uncle Jimmy's family got it for Christmas. Isaac and Allie get along so well when Isaac wants them too. He either shares and helps her when she's crying and laughs and plays peek-a-boo. Or he rips away her toys and yells no and hits her. He's funny. He's just learned how fun it is to kick and throw things around the house. Yikes. For the new year Jonathan's workout equipment reimbursement from Scottrade restarts. We got P90X and the things that go with it. So we're going to work out and eat healthy and be in good shape! Allie is scooting quite quickly and she gets on all fours and crawls a little bit. She is so close. We are having a great time and we're very happy.