It's Party Time Again!

Well, either no one cared to read my post or no one took the bait to get them to comment on my blog....I thought I'd get the details of Blake's party out in the open...lol! We're having a cowboy themed party this year! I've been wanting to do this theme since his birthday party last year! I rented a few ponies for an hour to give the kids rides, which Blake is so excited about! I'll have a ring toss and a bean bag toss going on as well. We're going to have food and cake (of course) and a pinata at the end. I finished the invitations on Monday--Blake made me read them to him over and over because I read it in a funy western voice and it has funny country, cowboy language, such as cowpoke, y'all, y'hear, mosey on down, our corral...haha! I'm thinking about getting some big boxes and creating an old time western village with the boxes, but not sure if I'll have the courage to go to places and ask for huge boxes--I'm weird like that. I'm inviting Blake's entire school (which is only like 22 kids, not as many as you might think) and some of our friends, so we're hoping to get a good crowd this year. October is difficult because it's UT football season and there are just so many birthdays that month! Anyway...if you have any good cowboy party ideas, I'd love to hear them!

Oh How The Time Does Fly

Well, Kendall is 5 months old today! What in the world has happened to the time? She's a really happy baby--she usually wakes up smiling and laughing! She really only cries when she's tired or hungry, otherwise, she's happy laying on her back sucking on her toes--haha! She's not been too fond of sleeping, which does not work that well for me since I'm a huge sleeper! Usually her daily report from daycare says she's slept a total of maybe an hour and a half the entire day. Yikes! I can get her to sleep longer if I RUN when she makes a peep and put the pacifier back in her mouth. She still likes to eat every two hours, sometimes three if she's really tired and doesn't wake up to eat. We took down the Pack N Play in our room and have moved her completely to her room. We didn't really make a big production out of it, it just sort of happened one night and then we realized she hadn't been sleeping in her PNP, so we just took it down. It's nice to have our room back.

Anyway, just a quick post to acknowledge Kendall's 5-month birthday! Hehe! Everyone else is doing well...Blake's 4th bday will be here before I know it! Any guesses as to the theme? We're doin' it big this year!

Birthday Party

Me and Blake in T Rex's mouth
Blake and T Rex

Morgan and Kendall
Morgan reading Kendall a book

Today we went to Bryce's cousin's son Wesley's birthday party at Dinosaur Park. We got to go on a walk through the woods to see the dinosaurs--it was very hot and humid, but very fun nontheless! Bryce's cousin's daughter Morgan has been the only girl out of 5 cousins until Kendall was born! She's so excited to finally have another girl cousin to play with--she was very sweet with her! We had a really fun afternoon with the family!

Yikes....don't look at the leftover belly!

Random Kid Pics

I tried twice to get the top two pictures to upload the right way, but they just won't--you know how testy Blogger is. Anyway, just thought I'd put up some pictures since it's been a little while. Kendall's starting to sit up a little bit--not on her own or anything like that, but she'll sit supported and is getting geared up to be a sitter!

And The End!

It's all finished now! We have to wait until Tuesday to start moving the furniture out of the garage, so one more day of being out of sorts, but it was worth it! I think the floors really add a richness that wasn't there before. We have to get new baseboards, but that will come eventually. We also have three boxes of wood left and are thinking about taking up the tile in the entry way and putting wood there as well. We'll see....we have a dilemma as you walk into the living room and there's the step down....the carpet used to be on that step and now we dont' know what to do there.....we'll see. Anyway, the major part of the job is done! We have a few finishing touches, but they'll get finished eventually! I'll try to get some pics in the daylight--it looks so much better in the light!

During....

This is how far they got on Friday.....we were left with a partially finished floor until 6:00 on Sunday. The stove had to be unplugged Friday through Sunday--talk about a pain! We're trying to get back to normal, but it'll take another day....

Before....

Here are the before pictures....

We had a garage sale over the weekend.....I had to grab my camera because, no lie, this van pulls up to the house with a trailer completely full of junk!!!! I guess our sale wasn't junky enough for them, they left after only a couple of minutes--they were there just long enough for me to run in and grab my camera and pretend to take pictures of Timberli while getting the trailer in the background..haha! Nichole brought a bunch of her stuff over and we both got rid of a ton of junk and made a little money as well!

This weekend was VERY busy! We had the floors installed--they look great! I'll post some pictures once I get some of the completed work. They started Friday and then couldn't come and finish until Sunday! We had no stove the entire weekend and couldn't really walk on the floors all that much! We were confined to the upstairs and couldn't cook! I had to work at PBK Saturday night after the garage sale...Blake had a birthday party Sunday...it was just a lot going on this weekend! I need another weekend to recover! Hope everyone had a good one!

AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I have to vent!!!! I normally park my car safe in the garage each night, but since we've got the whole flooring thing going on, the furniture had to go in the garage and I'm parking in the driveway. I noticed a scuff mark on my back bumper that hadn't been there the day before. Upon further inspection, I noticed that the scuff mark is from the football my stupid neighbors were throwing around last night!!!!!!!! They freaking hit my car and didn't have the decency to leave a note! ASSHOLES!!!!!!!! Pardon my expression, but it's only been two weeks since the hit and run and I'm a little jaded when it comes to spineless people not being able to own up to their vandalism!!!! Now I'm going to have to go over there tonight and lecture them and find out how they plan on making this right. I already have to pay $200 for the tail light someone hit and ran and $600 for the bumper someone hit and ran, and now I have to pay to get this scuff mark buffed out!?! What the hell!?! I hope it doesn't cause a fight because these people just moved in and are renters, so we're probably stuck with them for the next year. What would you do? Would you go over to their house and say something? I seriously don't feel like this should be let go. I feel like I need to say something. I'm just so angry I hope I don't cause a feud.

RIP Tarantula

So, yeah....that's a real, live tarantula. Here's the beauty of living in Texas--Bryce found this thing outside on a jobsite and brought it home!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously! Bigo' tarantulas really live in the Texas wilderness! Makes me want to steer clear of any sort of treed area! Well, it lived in a little aquarium on our back porch for a few months before it starved to death! Yeah....the boys sort of slacked on buying its crickets and it died. Nice....I hate having once-free animlas in captivity! But, yeah....and, yes, in the last picture, the darn thing is in my house!!!!!!! I did this jumping up and down, running in circles thing when Bryce brought it inside and I realized it was in there....omg...yuck!!!!

You can't exactly tell, but she had the tag of this rattle in her mouth sucking on it like a pacifier--lol!
And she has learned how to grab her pacifier and take it out of her mouth. She's holding it by the nipple in this picture. She's sort of getting the hang of putting it back in, but she's not quite there yet.

I wanted to post these pictures of Kendall for you all. I took them last week. I think she looks so different in these pictures and you can really see how much she's changed in these 4 short months! No one can really pinpoint just who she looks like, but I like to think she's a good mixture of us both. Her hair is getting thicker--I hope she gets Bryce's curls!!! It's fun watching her grow and change!!! Oh, and yeah, more naked baby....I swear, she really does wear clothes!

Peace Out Carpet!

Look what I did! I took the carpet off the little step into the living room. Yes, it took me over an hour to get the carpet and tack strip up, but so what!
Watch out, girl with a hammer!


Getting the linoleum up out of the kitchen wasn't as bad a task as we thought it would be. Bryce ripped it out in a jiffy Saturday morning. we started to work on the carpet a tiny bit and then realized what a job it was and decided to be lazy and put it off for another time. We will be working on it this week--blah! The installers are coming Friday and Saturday to do the job for us! I can't wait!!!!

Correction

Um....I'm still suffering from baby brain (from what I hear, it doesn't go away)....When I posted about Kendall rolling, I meant to say she rolled from her back to her tummy! Geez! I'm losing it! She rolled from her tummy to her back at the beginning of July and now it's back to tummy. Ok, correction made. I am sorry for any harm this incorrect posting may have caused.

Little stinker thinks she's so stinkin funny! I had her ready for daycare and put her on my bed so I could get dressed and I came out and found she had pulled her socks off! She absolutely loves laying on her back playing with her toes...apparently her socks were in the way!

Well, she did it again! But this time she rolled from her front to her back!!! She doesn't roll too often, but I know she can do it, so that's what counts! Why is my tiny little child always naked in these sorts of pictures, you might wonder? Well....normally these pictures are taken at night and by then, she's spit up on herself so much, her outfit is no longer wearable. Can't wait for her reflux to go away!!!!