It's Spring Break........and Snow everywhere, what do you do?

The snow has been falling and falling with no end in sight! Maddie is out of school but Ron isn't so we couldn't very well go anywhere. I thought to myself, hey let's get Maddie's wisdom teeth out and I'll redo my upstairs bathroom! You can guess who was most excited about the planned activities! Maddie was out until 2:00 a.m. at the HS spring breakout and so I decided to start my activity and bought the paint (yes mom I stole the color idea from you!), taped things off, opened windows and got 'er done in one day. I then gathered the items that Aubrey and I bought while she was here in March, scavenged throughout the house for other decor ideas, I stole pics from my bedroom, used other stolen items from Kurt's house long ago and plan to steal more items from unsuspecting friends and neighbors. I'm pretty pleased with the results but need financial help to replace the hideous cabinets and counter tops! Next snow storm maybe!

Grandbaby #4 to arrive!

So Maddie and I went to the David Archuletta concert in Pocatello a couple of weeks ago, (that's a whole other post!) and upon arriving home at midnight, we were welcomed at the back door by footprints taped to the floor! Down the hallway a little ways, taped to the wall, was a very modern, hard to understand or figure out riddle, written in Ashley's handwriting. Maddie and I continued following the arrows and came upon three little baby items! Hmmmmmmmmm....what was this about? The red arrows led us upstairs to the extra bedroom/grandbaby room and we saw our traditional Birthday greeting banner taped to the closet door. Made no sense since the next family B-Day is in April. Also taped to the closet doors were some small 3x5 cards. Maddie and I looked a little closer and TA-DA! Ethan & Ashley are expecting a baby in Oct. around Ron's birthday, thus the birthday greeting banner to Ronnie and little Ronnie! We are so excited for them and will now have twice as many grandkids as we did last year! As you can see by one of the 3x5 cards, Ashley had written strict instructions to NOT tell anyone until she & Ethan had done so.................OOOOOPPPPPPSSSSSS! I almost made it Kids!

Bath Time at Grandma's!!!

As our little Courtney Rose would say, "Nakey, Nakey, take a baff." What is it about babies and baths, especially when it is in Grandma's tub? I'm not sure who is more excited, the babies or all the adults gathered around. There is something to this bath stuff...........total freedom, nothing to bind any baby body parts, and total thrill and excitement filling up a cup with water, emptying it on the younger cousin....over and over and over! These two little munchkins don't see each other very often but when they got together this past March it was fun for all! Courtney will have a new sister to play with in August and another new cousin....................(see following post) by fall. I love these little ones and just don't seem to get enough of either of them!