One more project: the Windows

Our house was the model home for our neighborhood 15 years ago. But we have to wonder what the builder was thinking with some of the things they did on our house. For example, they put chair rail and crown molding in many of the rooms, but for some reason, they didn't trim the windows. This has been a wish of mine for many years and yesterday, my sweet husband finally trimmed the windows in our family room and kitchen for me and crossed it off my wish list. :)

Of course he did a fantastic job. I spent a while today doing the touch-up painting and painting the insides of the windowsills. Now they look brand new. Yeah!

The Door

Does anyone else have a little home project that you have been meaning to do for years? Well I have been meaning to paint my front door for 8 years now and finally got it done!!

I did run into a little trouble of what to do with the trim around the window over the door. I got the door painted on Monday but then the white trim around the top window looked horrible. So I painted it red as well. But it just didn't look right. Dave suggested painting it gray to match the stucco so I did that today and he was right ... it looks much better. Yeah ... finally done!

Kate's Party

Cousin Kate turned 2 yesterday and Aunt Melissa threw her birthday party at The Little Gym which my boys LOVE!! They had so much fun there. Thank Lis!

Happy Birthday sweet little Kate!!

Deer Hunting

Dave has been off deer hunting this week. Although he wasn't lucky enough to get a deer (or "catch" a deer as the boys say) he did get to do some fun 4-wheeling in both Monticello and Moab and brought home some great pictures.

We are glad that he had a good time and very glad to have him home!

Boys Monthly Letters

The boys have posted their monthly letters to their blogs. Just click on their pictures to the right.

Trees

A couple months ago I decided that our north fenceline in our backyard needed some help, specifically shade trees. I dug out a hug section of sod and we planned to plant some Quaken Aspen trees along that line. We got some advice from Dave's step-dad / relator (thanks Clark) and decided to stay away from the quakies and instead, went with Emerald Queen Norwegian Maple trees. I picked 4 of these up from the nursery last week and tonight we finally got them planted. They look great and we are so looking forward to the shade that these trees will provide.

Potty Training

Oh the joys of motherhood. One of the most dreaded things is potty training. In my opinion, it's time to potty train when the MOM is ready. Well, I was finally ready and started potty training Kyle on Thursday. Dave took Brandon & Eric up to the cabin over the weekend while Kyle and I stayed home for a weekend of potty training. I wasn't sure what to expect but my guess was that potty training Kyle would be somewhere between the experiences I had when potty training Brandon and Eric who were polar opposites.

Brandon - I started potty training him at 27 months. The first day was an absolute nightmare! He went through 20 pairs of undies the first day alone. Each day got a bit better but it took awhile and he still had accidents on and off for quite awhile after that.

Eric - I potty trained Eric at 23 months. It took one day and he was DONE! No accidents, potty trained for both day and night.

I didn't think that Kyle would be as easy to potty train as Eric but hoped that at least it would be easier then it was with Brandon. And thankfully, he has done really well. He has had very few accidents over the past 5 days. He isn't really good at telling me when he needs to go potty but he is very good at holding it so as long as I ask him if he needs to go potty fairly regularly, then he stays dry. He is especially great at staying dry when we are not at home. He wore undies to church yesterday and the gym today with no problems. I can run to the store with him in undies and really don't have to worry about him having an accident. So all in all, his potty training has gone really well and he is doing great. Good work Kyle!