My little loves :)

My buddy who has to wear sunglasses when the sun is out :( He got a "normal eye exam" but he still wears them. Must be a white boy with blue eyes thing. My ever curious Grace. She doesn't fear alot of things if I am around her. She will follow her brother anywhere and anytime.
My baby girl who will rarely let me put hair pretties in her hair.
My big boy who loves dirt and mud.

and trains with pumpkins on the front of them :)

My kids love animals. Grace would take a bunny rabbit home if she could.

Grace, who looks like me, talks up a storm and loves OJ.

Hunter, who looks like Larry, loves wii, playing on the computer, and laughing with anyone.

So this is what my little loves look like right now. They make me laugh, smile, scream, and cry but I know when I wake up in the morning they are with me. They give me hugs and kiss me and that means the world to me. :)

rest of the kiddos room pics

Here is the kids bunkbeds and organizer on the laundry door. Here is the other side. Cluttered I know but it was the best I could do for a small room for two kiddos. Thanks Cammie for making Grace's name sign I finally was able to put it up! I was going to put up curtains to hide the toys in the wall closet but thought no the kids can get in easier without it.
Here are the new closets! Nice, huh?! I put baskets and bins above them to put their snow wear and bedding in but I couldn't reach it when I needed to put Grace's swimsuits in and that is why stuff is spilling out. And than Hunter has his baby memorialia on the wall :). This is the wall I need to put up their coat and hat hooks and then I am done!

Next I will try to blog Hunter's soccer game pictures and I took 205 pictures at the pumpkin patches we went to do today so I got to weed out some pics through that. But for the most part I think I am almost caught up on blogging!

a first

This is probably the first time I put a picture of me up on my blog willingly. More pics to come :)

pics that i promised...

Not the greatest picture but here is one part of the fish tank wall that is done. I still have to get a big art frame to put between this and the fish tank wall to fill up the wall. I hope to get the frame tomorrow at Kohl's with a coupon :) The shelf here is from IKEA a steal. The silver collage frame has already been changed to a picture of us (minus Grace she wasn't born) rafting with Hunter and Uncle Corey. I did the peacock feathers for something different and for height and it was cheap. They are sitting in a Starbucks frap jar and yes I cleaned it but I thought why not and the rocks are from the rocks outside. Super cheap. Used a gift card on the candle holders and candles (thanks Lindsey and Corey!) and I bought the frame of Multnomah Falls cause we took the kids there and they love falls so I wanted to give them something they new about. Hunter wanted the gourd on the shelf cause I had just bought them to put on the table. Again, not the greatest picture but I am still trying to figure out the lighting with my camera. Grace was getting mad at me cause I kept getting in her way of watching Wonder Pets, her favorite show it has replace Little Einsteins. Here is what one side of the kiddos room looks like with toys all organized in their bins. Love that. I wrote about the shelves later on in this post.
Kids reading books on Grace's bed.
Hunter sleeping in his bunk bed. Grace was put in her bunk bed after falling asleep in her crib. Lasted 2 hours than she woke up and I had to move her back to her crib. She hasn't been back in her big girl bed since.

Grace's baby memorabilia finally up on a wall! The white shelves were given to me for free!
Finally a picture of the computer/office aka the room off the kitchen. Lucy put a hole in the blinds. This is her second set. After the winter I am taking them off and keeping them off. Yes, I drink wine. Love wine. The wine on the wall is 2 buck chuck...Trader Jo's wine that is $2 and something and I love it and it is great with my budget. I really, really like this new space. I used a frame table I bought when I was single living in an apartment and it works perfect for the space. The part you can't see is the cool red rug :) Tried to use alot of colors since the kitchen has a green counter top and the kitchen is basically the same room as this little nook the fridge seperates them.

The two cute kids on my screen are Grace and Nate!
I realized I didn't take a picture yet of the kids closets! I think it is because I am still putting clothes in them. Right now I have 5 bins in the living room and a table of clothes to decided whether to keep or put in a bin of clothes that haven't even worn. They got a lot of hand me down clothes in the size they are in now and I feel very blessed about that. I will try to post pictures of Hunter's first soccer game tomorrow! And pumpkin patch pictures that we will be going to tomorrow. And I will take pictures of their closets and room. Their room is almost done I just have to get a coat rack up and it is done. :)

In other news around the house. I stopped giving Hunter milk in bed big huge deal and he wasn't happy for 1 night and 1 am and has been awesome ever since. He gets Club penguin game day Wii if he doesn't drink milk or wake me up for a week and if he does this he gets the game and yes he has to continue not having milk and stay asleep. He has a couple more days to go and he gets the Wii game :) so very proud of my little dude! This is huge because I haven't slept the night through in about a year because of one or both of the kids. Also, I tossed all of Grace's bottles yesterday evening. One because she really should have been stopped a long time ago but cause of the drama in my life I wasn't at that stage in mine or hers to do it. I also dislike washing Dr. Brown bottle pieces by hand they are a major pain. She had one meltdown that lasted less then ten minutes. Threw her sippy cup once and then came back to it and she has been drinking from it since. She does ask for her bottle but accepts it and says she doesn't like the milk in the sippy cup when she gets it but after awhile she starts drinking it. Can I just say that I am so proud of both kids they are suprising me so much in what they have done in regards to the changes I am doing to them in regards to drinking milk. They are troopers and I honestly thought they were going to be more, more stubborn about the whole process of not getting something they want and are used to. I love my babes!

been awhile...

I haven't blogged in awhile. Been busy. With soccer and the kiddos closets and filling them up with clothes and I am almost done with that project. I will take pictures tonight or tomorrow and post them. I am still working on my fish tank wall got most of it done just have to find one more picture frame. I know what I want I just have to look for it and see if I can get it on sale. The kids are doing great. Grace talks so much. She can count to 15 and says thank you and your welcome and is starting to say it without being told to. She has this strut she does when she walks that is pretty cute. She loves stuffed animals and right now kitty cat and puppy dog are her favs and sleeps with her and sometimes has to go to daycare with her. Too cute. Hunter, my buddy love, is doing great. He is playing soccer and learning more each time he goes to practice and does the games. He is far from knowing what to do but I am so proud of him because he is learning to listen to others other then me, Larry, and family. He is the sweetest to this one girl on his team that doesn't play just comes to practices and watches. You can tell she wants to go out there but something is stopping her. My little buddy last practice sat on the ground next to her and asked her over and over if she wanted to play soccer. Super cute. He is showing a little side of me :) He has played two games and the first was crazy for him the second it rained on him and he was miserable cause he had an eye appt before the game but he played for a few minutes. We didn't give up. I think he is liking soccer he is still alittle young but for not knowing what soccer was just to be thrown in it he is doing pretty good. I have pictures but I have to download them. I have alot of projects going on but I am getting them checked off my list. I have to finish the kids clothes and the fish tank wall then I can work on the bedroom and hopefully sleep back in my bedroom in the next month or so! Yeah! My living room can turn back into a living room I just know it will with time! :) I am also training Hunter not to have milk anymore in his bed the first night was rough and last night was a dream so I hope it keeps continuing! Got alot of cool things for him if he stops drinking milk so I think that is helping persuading him. New wii game and a hermit crab! Wii game for not drinking any milk for 7 nights (which is what they say trains kids and than they forget about it) and a hermit crab if he is dry for 7 days. He gets to pick his hermit crab out and Grace gets one to. We might have new animals in our house in 7 days :)

Promise pictures soon!