Crafts, Kids, House Stuff, and Fun

Our "Rich Life" has definitely had some bumps in the road recently, but I am happy to say that our spirits are still high, we are keeping busy, and things are progressing!  We don't know a definite finish date for our house, but we are hoping before Thanksgiving!! It will definitely be bitter/sweet since we are having so much fun at the Guilfou's!!! We pretty much do everything together, and I can't really imagine life without them!!

Here is what we have been up to:

1. Crafts:
We have had a couple of birthdays that we have crafted for
1. Mary (we made her a painting for her kitchen wall.... it's behind the present parade in the picture )  :)
2. Braelyn who just turned one (we made her a bow hanger for her hair bows).

 And a wedding:
3. Amy LeBlanc (Mary's sister) who is getting married on the 27th and her bridal shower was this weekend. We made her a collage.

And...
4. I made a collage for Keaton's Dr. Seuss room :)
5. And a fabulous door hanger for outside my dad's classroom :)

I learned that Mary is so crafty and didn't even know it! I think we have created some monsters!! We already have our next projects lined up!@ :)


2. Kids:
These kids are so cute! They crack me up! They are so happy to see each other first thing in the morning and when they wake up from naps....they hug, kiss, and hold hands. They love riding in the truck together and tickle each other, share snacks, and just have a blast! They definitely love to be mischievous together-taking mud baths, eating grass, eating dirt, eating mulch....lots of eating haha! They are lost without each other.

Here are some pics from this week....

"Just the two of us"

Chillin, eating, and sweet Marie! Keaton does what ever she does, and what every she wants him to do ;)

 Botany Class 101: 

they love picking grass, clovers, and dirt. They have discovered lots in their botany research lol

Rainbow Rice: 

The kids love this rainbow rice (even though all we had was green). The rice didn't stay in the bucket long by itself as you can see. But they loved spreading it around, scooping it, and of course sharing ;) ;) 

3: House Stuff: 

We are so lucky to be one of the first in the community to receive our insurance money. We were ahead of the game and it is definitely a blessing and paying off. Hopefully we will have enough and everything goes smoothly. Things are really starting to progress! It has been a long 6 weeks, but we are finally seeing the light. We signed a contract with our contractor, there is sheet rock in our house ready to be installed, we ordered flooring that should be here by Friday and unloaded at our house so it will be ready when the contractor is ready, we should have our quote today from 'the cabinet guy' (as we call him) and from the countertop company, and we are starting to plan out paint colors and things. Here is what we are looking at :)

1. There is the dumpster outside our house! Good sign! Work is about to begin!

2. There is the sheetrock in the bottom picture; ready to be installed

 NOT THE BEST PICS, BUT...

3. The granite on the left, and the one in the middle are options for the kitchen countertops. (There will also be a better pic of the left one in my next blurb about "fun") It isn't really yellow like that. We are trying to decide which one we like best. It will go with The "Cordovan" color cabinet on the far right. It will most likely be the recessed cabinet like that too.

4. The bathroom will be: expresso cabinets like in the top left pic, framed mirror, square sinks (but set in the countertop), and white granite kind-of like the pic in the bottom right. (the little sample I have like the other two isn't photographing that well)

We are very excited to receive the quotes today, and our floors should be in by Friday which are beautiful Mahogany Porcelain Wood. 

4. FUN: 

We had cupcakes for Mary's birthday, bridal shower, Braelyn birthday party, football party, eating Mexican at La Carretta's (owned by our neighbor), volleyball games (and home practice every night), ping pong tournaments, company, cooking lots of good food and desserts, shopping, playing with babies, FHE at the Hall's, Avengers movie night, etc.! It has been GREAT!!! 

Even though we are going through the biggest trial we have in our married life thus far, I couldn't ask for more, I couldn't be happier, we couldn't be luckier, we couldn't have better friends and family....

We are truly blessed and have a wonderful "Rich Life"!!