Happy Birthday Brielle!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIELLE!

It is so hard to believe our sweet Brielle is 9 years old!  Where does the time go?  (Am I sounding like a broken record??)  It always shocks and surprises me as we get to another birthday or milestone and I realize just how fast time is flying by. 

It's Brielle's last year in the single digit age - WEIRD!  Brielle is such a sweet and special girl.  She always seems to have a smile on her face, and is the biggest help to me and her sisters.  She makes this time of being a single parent a little easier as she sees things that need to get done, and just does them.  Including calming Molly down, getting people snacks, unloading the dishwasher and turning on shows for whiny kids. 

I don't know what I'd do without her!

We had a nice day celebrating her birthday on Saturday, and then took some pictures for her turning 9 which turned out fun!  (Shout out to Aunt Sara for the cute scarf, and Hadley's for the dress!) I don't have a lot more to say (shocking I know) because it's just surreal that the little girl that made me a mom is already 9.  Makes me feel so old!

Enjoy the pictures!

She wanted some action shots of her doing hopscotch.

More pictures - some being silly too.

Celebrating on Saturday:

Watching Frozen for the millionth time.

 Getting ready for cake and ice cream! 

Thinking hard about what she wants her wish to be.

Blowing out the candles

I took these few pictures with my nice camera, and then the battery died...which is why the pictures above are all from my cell phone.  I didn't plan ahead very well.

 The kids waiting for the cake 

And there we have it.  

We sure love you Brielle, and are SO glad you are part of our family!

Cell Phone Pictures

Time - again - for me to purge some cell phone pictures onto the blog.  Luckily, my awesome husband helped me figure out how to hook my phone up to the computer and get the pictures right off of it, rather than emailing myself the pictures...yeah, I never claimed to be too tech saavy.

Anyway, we've been busy cleaning up the house and yard (HUGE thanks to my sister Emily and her handyman husband Dave!) but have managed to have some fun as well.

Enjoy the pictures!

I came out one afternoon and found Molly and Brielle all snuggled up on the couch.  Molly was happily watching Brielle play a game on her tablet.

We have an old office chair in the garage that we need to take to DI.  The girls have discovered it though, and for some reason like pushing themselves around on the driveway on it.

Molly being cute while playing outside

Then Molly wanted to push Addison around in the stroller

We were going through clothes and sorting them, so we had stacked up the bins as we finished.  Addison and Molly thought they were a great place to sit and eat a snack.

Marty tried to make lemon bars.  He accidentally used baking soda instead of baking powder...they were not successful.  HOWEVER he tried again a couple days later and they were perfect!

Addison was being cute and asked me to take her picture.

 Long story short, Brielle had to have this molar extracted because of an infection.  It's the same molar she already had to have a little root canal and cap placed on.  Poor thing did it with basically no numbing medicine either.  The numbing medicine wouldn't take becuase of the infection, and the dentist office didn't have any sedatives or laughing gas. :(  She was a trooper.

I got to go on a girls trip with my mom and sisters.  I was treated to a pedicure and a haircut/dye.  It was great!

Four cute girls eating lunch during spring break

Molly is obsessed with getting her hair done in two piggy tails lately.  So one day she kept going in my bathroom, dumping out all the elastics and bringing me two to do her hair.  Then she'd take them out of her hair, go in my bathroom and pull them all out again and bring me two more.  The elastics have been moved now.

Molly ended up getting sick a few days ago, so we entertained ourselves by taking silly pictures. 

(You can also see my new hair color)

Apparently during Spring Break, my girls took to spying on me.  I found this awesome note.

Mother

- Looks everywhere

- buys stuff from Malaysia (apparently our barstools say "made in Malaysia" on the bottom)

- picks up bread weird (didn't know there was a proper way to pick up bread)

And that is all!

Master Bedroom

Okay, the master bedroom was a nice transformation.  As soon as we were under contract on the house, I started planning and plotting exactly how I wanted this room.

Marty worked on painting the walls gray before we moved down.  We changed out the ceiling fan for something a little cooler, added curtains and decorated. We also had plans to eventually replace the carpet, but didn't get to it.

We had to make the room a little bit of a multi-tasker (bedroom and office) but I love how it turned out!

Before:

After:

 

 

Master Bathroom - Finally

So, I realize that we have lived in this house for almost a year, and now I'm finally getting around to posting these pictures.  And it's also sad that we've got the house looking all perfect just in time to move. :(  Oh well...here is the master bathroom!

We didn't change much in here other than the knobs on the cupboards and put our own towels and decorations up.

I really love this big bathroom though, it has been so nice.  The kids (and I) love the huge jetted tub, and two sinks is heavenly.

Before:

After: