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Connor's birthday party

My dear friends' son Connor had his 4th birthday party while we were in KC a couple of weekends ago. I didn't catch as many pics as I'd hoped - Hannah was pretty much glued to me the entire time - except when Tony worked his magic and carried her around a bit. But there are some cute pics I can share...

Madeline and Connor watching a show the night before the party

Ashlin, Madeline and Connor

Madeline became quick friends with Holly - they were together the entire night!

Madeline and Holly

Ashlin - what's in that cake?!? Connor - Birthday Boy!

Halloween 2008

Here are our Halloween pics! We went to a local church festival with our friends Kathy, Gunner and Rylee and family Nana and Manda. We had a great time and the girls were super cute!

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Preschool Homework

Madeline has been begging me for homework lately (hillarious, I know). In fact, last night she cried herself to sleep over the fact that we forgot to do some homework before bed time. So I figured I'd better capitalize on the interest she's got right now. I found a cool website with assignment pages for preschool and kindergarten aged children and she loves it! Thought I'd share it with you...

http://www.kidzone.ws/

Please feel free to send me your links if you have some favorites!!!

Jen

Bathroom Renovation...

I'm a bit embarassed about this post... I first chose the items to adorn our bathroom 10 years ago when Chris and I were just starting out in our marriage and I had no sense of style. We hadn't changed a bit of it in 10 YEARS! As we get closer to leaving our small starter home, we're updating things to make our home more marketable. I still feel rather inept at decorating but I'm trying! Anyway, I'm going to take the plunge and post before and after pics because I don't think you'll have a clear idea of the depths of my excitement until you see the bathroom we've lived with for so long!

Our old shower curtain and wood towel rings

Our old vanity, pretty banged up and blah huh?
Our old wall cabinet - overflowing with "stuff"
Tada!! Our vanity after a couple of coats of paint, new hinges and hardware. Looks like new doesn't it?? I'm especially proud of this because I spent an entire day applying kilz and paint and I think it turned out gorgeous!
We updated the wall cabinet, chose brown and orange for the towels and bought a really pretty new shower curtain. The wall color you can see in the reflection of the mirror is the truest color of the walls - the flash washed out the color in every shot.
Chris installed a new light fixture and faucet and he framed our mirror for us!
A closer shot of our mirror, which formerly was just a big slab of glass
Our bathroom is now our favorite room!

Next projects: Front garden and kitchen

Silly pics with my girls...

The pics with madeline were taken in my car while we were waiting to meet some friends at the Mall and Hannah was snoozing. The ones with the goofy pink cap were very fun. At the end I'm going to add just a few more cute pics of the girls. Enjoy!

SURPRISED

SAD

SCRUNCHY (we look a lot alike here huh?)

I found the girls watching Little Einsteins this way - so cute!! Hannah wasn't sleeping but if she were it would be even sweeter.