It’s Never Ending

Being busy. It never ends! We’ve been working on so many home projects, and had family here, and had Dalton’s birthday…whew!

Chris’s dad and step-mom were here last weekend for Dalton’s 5th birthday…well, technically, they were here for his party. His actual birthday was Thursday.

We had his party at Jump Zone this year, and it was a blast! Here are the majority of kids that came, minus the babies…

Jackson enjoying himself! He had a blast!

 

Dalton and Davis.

This is, perhaps, my favorite picture. There’s this HUGE ship with an octopus on it, and it’s a big giant slide. It goes almost all the way to the ceiling. So Grandpa and Dalton come down…Dalton’s face says “Cool, let’s do it again!” and I think Grandpa’s face says something to the effect of, “Oh, crap!”

Big D’s cake.

Dalton and Taya.

Opening his presents in his King’s chair. :)

Playing with a new toy with Grandpa. He’s so much fun! 

Playing Wii with Grandpa!

AND he got a scooter from Grandpa and Grandma Bane! Super cool!

It snowed a foot the weekend they were here…no, I’m not kidding. First day of spring and it snows a foot! But it was mostly all gone within 24 hours.

We’ve been working on a lot of home projects, too. We’ve replaced all the interior doors in the house, and with that goes new hardware…doorknobs and hinges. We added insulation to the attic. We replaced all the door bottoms on exterior doors, and replaced the weather stripping. We replaced the kitchen faucet, put in our vegetable garden (although haven’t planted our seeds yet), painted the accent walls in the dining room and our bedroom, and painted all the trim in the house. (My sister Julie has done most of this stuff!!) A week from Monday, we’re getting the carpet torn out and wood floors installed! YAY! So this weekend, I’ve been packing. The floor company will move all the furniture, but we have to move all the stuff off the bookshelves, off the computer desk, the TV equipment, the toys, anything on the floor, etc, so I packed up about 6 or 7 boxes today. And in one month, we’ll be getting our new windows installed! It’s sure been busy!

To top it off, Jackson has a nasty cold, and now I’ve got it too, plus a ripe sinus infection. Bleh. But we’re slowly getting things done around here, and I must say, it feels great!!