Cooper

This is Cooper's Ma I know im not suppose to play with this face... I could not resist to snap this photo of Cooper on the dog bed with this chin resting the the ball. I did give up on this ball and he loves to play with it we all must pick our battles.

I think I have seen it all in potty training….

We went to buy a now toilet seat and found the Bemis 546ch at Home Depot it was about $30.00.  I can’t believe I don’t have to hall that padded Diego potty set on and off the potty 20 times a day!  I was a little worried it would not work but it did and looks nice, and Regan is super happy to have a big potty seat.  She calls it the rapido potty, yes to say she loves Dora and Diego is a bit of an understatement.

Kitchen Chairs

Old nasty cover with years of wear

We bought this table with 6 chairs about 10 years ago at a furniture auction (a closing business) for $250.00 dollars it was a great buy.  As with most kitchen tables they seen a lot of action. Several years ago I had Rob sand down the top and I refinished it,  it was like a new table again.  Now the chairs are a different story, I’m not sure why they put cream colored fabric on chairs but after only a year I redid them and put on this blue and green plaid fabric (5.00 bucks a yard I could not pass it up) it has served us well.  But you can tell they are in bad need of removing, but not wanting to spend a ton of money I went to my fabric stash much to my surprise in the deeps of it was this amazing wine bottle tapestry, it is perfect but I needed an additional yard.  I turned to Google found it Harvest wine bottles double score!  So for under 30.00 bucks, fabric and a can of Scotch Guard I have new chairs!  I think the new fabric goes so well with the wood of the table and chairs as well with our floor. 

 



New cover



Breakfast on the river

I took this photo out of A's Bedroom window. 

It was just so amzing to watch! 

Break week!

Winter break wow what a week....

Friday...we are off

Long car ride to Maine we arrive at 11:30 pm

 Saturday...with friends

Saturday the girls hit up the local School Cheering comp.

Sunday... day inside!

the boys wanting a turn with the Ipad!!!

Kati and Cooper playing.  It took Cooper a bit to figure out how to play with a smaller dog.

Puzzle fun

you can't go wrong with Sponge Bob

Monday... busy

Kids went ice sk8ing at the local college

Dinner at Kon's Asian Bistro always fun!

Tuesday... on the road

on the road again we stoped in NH to see friends on the way home

Wednesday...back home

now this is how you should play with play doh

Thursday...must get out of the house

the bowling crew!

Friday...wow what a week

the girls playing in their pj's

Saturday...work

we cleaned and hauled out all day but Riley needed some loving

Sunday...Cleaning and hauling still

Time to close the chapter on potty training in our house!

We had a great break week but man we were all very tired!

Baby Deer

Regan has been obsessed with Baby Deer or Deer in general.  We have several that live around our home.  On this day it was first thing in the AM and the kids were getting dressed as you can see my the toddler buns.  There were 3 of them munching on the bird seed on the ground.  Cooper was enjoying them as well.

Family Fun Calendar

 So  every year time seem to fly on by around the holidays and everyone get so wrapped up in just that one day.  A few years ago I started make this family fun calendar.  We try to put a different thing on each day for us to do as a family.  The kids help me make a list and they I look at what we have going on and place them all on the calendar.  It is a ton of fun and It gives us lot of great memories.  

Here is this years… If you give it a try let me know how you like it.  We do lots of easy things some that are quick and some that are just things you do at this time of the year.  Two of the kids favs are the kids choice and sleeping under the tree.