Poor little craft table....

I wish I had a room devoted to crafts, but our house definitely isn't big enough for that, so I have settled for a craft table. This is my craft table. But notice there aren't any crafts on it. Instead there are books, notebooks, pens and a calculator. It has been like this for almost 9 months. That makes me sad. I am in the process of studying for a really big test. Thankfully that test will be over on Friday, so I am hoping my table can get back to normal. (Technically this will be the second attempt at the test, the first didn't go so well....)

So wish me luck, as I set out to pass my test and get my craft table back!!

Big Shoes to Fill

Daddy is a Police Officer. The schedule is hectic. Sometimes when we are getting ready for bed he is getting ready to go to work. His job is really dangerous and important. He has some really big shoes to fill ( I mean really, those shoes are a size 12!)

Picking Apples!!

We visited Sky Top Orchard this weekend to do a little apple picking!

We searched and searched for the best looking apples .... Fuji and Granny Smith were at the top of our list.

Tyler really got into picking the apples .... but he definitely liked eating them a lot more!

We had fun but apple picking is hard work!

We like Tractors Too!!!

See we like Tractors too ...........

OK .... so maybe not big ones like our buddies Wes and Josie .... but Granddad's John Deere seems to be the new favorite toy at their house!

PS - We even wear our camo hat when we sit on the tractor ....

A blast from the past ...

OK .... so not to far back. Not even 2 years. But I was looking through my pictures and I found what is probably one of my favorite pics of Tyler and Kyle. He was so little.

It just makes you wonder how they go from being that small to getting so 'big' in such a short time!

New Floors!

We have lived in our house since December 2006. The moment we moved in, I have DREAMED of putting in new floors. The carpet wasn't horrible. I just always felt like it was 'dirty', that I could never get it clean enough, even with my Dyson (one of my most prized possessions). Well 3 years later we finally got the chance to replace the carpet!

We decided to go with laminate floors. Mostly because of the cost and plus we heard that they were pretty easy to put in. Don't be fooled ... that doesn't mean that Kyle and myself put these floors in without any help! I was able to get three guys from work to come over and put the floors in for me (they gave up a whole Sunday to do this and I appreciate it so much!).

They started around 8 am and ended up finishing around 5-ish. It was definitely a full day.

I talked about always thinking the carpet was dirty. Well that fear was confirmed when they started ripping up the carpet. I definitely could have done without seeing what was really in the carpet , i.e. the stains on the backside of the carpet. (In our defense ... we bought the house from someone and I like to think that they made those stains!)

After a lot of hard work the floors were finally done. Don't they look wonderful!!! I am really pleased with how well they go with the furniture.

*** Special thanks to Alex, Jason and Clayton for spending a whole day putting these floors in. They look wonderful!****

Happy St. Patrick's Day

This past weekend was the St. Patrick's Day festival in Five Points. It is a pretty big deal here in Columbia. Kyle and I have been before but that was "BT" (before Tyler). We wanted to take Tyler this year so we decided that we should go and but this time we would go early enough to catch the parade and leave before the crowds got too crazy.

Tyler really enjoyed the parade, but I think he mostly enjoyed sitting on Dad's shoulders. He could see everything up there. This was really the first time that we attempted the 'shoulder sit'. Once Tyler got up there, he didn't want to come down.



The nice thing about going so early was that Tyler could walk around without getting run over. ( He is definitely over riding in the stroller.) So of course we had to go check out the green fountain.


On a different note .... March 17, 2010 is St. Patrick's Day. And Tyler's class is having a party (I think they use any reason to have a party!) Like a good momma, I signed up to make cupcakes.

They were pretty delicious (if I do say so myself) ... and my taste testers agreed.