Aaron’s room re-do!

Before

We’ve been doing lots of moving around of stuff with the start of home-schooling and the twins’ moving to big beds. So, I thought we’d go ahead and give Aaron’s room a make-over. Before now it’s been a hodge-podge of furniture things we’ve had around and a strange mix of Cars, baseball and dinosaurs. He’s grown out of the Cars things and now it’s just a strange mix of dinosaurs and baseball.

After

Thank you IKEA for some decent quality and cheap solutions to a little boy’s room. And, also thank to my husband for watching all the boys and baby Lance for actually taking a bottle so I could spend the afternoon at IKEA by myself!  The desk was $20, bookcase $25 and the red little shelves were $12. We’ve had all kinds of baseball décor sitting in closets that I was able to  bring out. We got an awesome deal at $50 for a used bunkbed and two twin mattresses (the twin boys are now in the bed that used to be in). I just put a request on our neighborhood’s facebook page and a family was just looking to get it out of their house. Love when it all comes together like that! Add a can of paint for $20 and we have a look that can last a long time!

January pictures

Yeah, what happened to January? Take a look at these pictures and let me know! I’d write something cute and fun about each one, but it’s 2:00 and the house is starting to stir again…

The highlights: The twin’s turned 2 (took a trip to the San Antonio Zoo to celebrate), baby Lance is 3 months and the sweetest thing ever, and Aaron started Kindergarten at home!

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Here is a picture of Aaron during school time. He has been doing an awesome job. The biggest challenge has been with occupying the twins, but we’re finding our groove. I took this picture when Aaron was working on the “d” and “a” sounds and wrote the word “dad” for the first time. It made me tear up and a little bit. It’s so exciting to see your kiddo learning to read!

2011 in pictures

January 2011

The twins turned 1!

February 2011

It snowed in central Texas!

 

March 2011

It’s HOT in central Texas!

April 2011

Beach trip to Port Aransas

and…Grandparents, and my brother’s family came to visit!

and…this really awesome cloud hung out over Kyle for a while!

May 2011

Baby #4 bump!

Grandma Terri came to visit!

June 2011

Aaron has baseball and dinosaur fever!

July 2011

It’s HOT-HOT-HOT outside here, so there was lots of indoor action.

August 2011

and when we did play outside, we very often ended it with frozen strawberry lemonades!

September 2011

What’s this wet stuff all over the ground??

October 2011

Aaron turned 5!

and baby Lance was born!

November 2011

Snug as a bug!

December 2011

Playing at the park on New Year’s Eve makes up for the insanely hot summer!

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Merry Christmas!

Praise the Lord for sending his son as a precious baby to this earth to teach us how to live and love and to die on the cross for our salvation! And, to celebrate this precious gift the Lord has given us, our boys were blessed with lots of fun and gifts this morning!

Thank you to all our family that sent gifts. We miss being with you this Christmas! Here are a few photos from this morning’s mayhem. We are enjoying a quiet family day at home with all these new goodies to explore!

Baby Lance is up first and wondering what is taking his brothers so long to get down and open presents! Greg went upstairs to get the boys up and then I heard the bathtub running, which is usually a sign that someone has woken up sick. Our current little trouble-maker, Eric, came down with the stomach bug that Aaron had last week. Poor guy, the one day we let him rip-roar through the house and he’s sick.

But, let’s flashback to yesterday when Aaron helped make some Christmas cookies with his little brother, Lance, who likes to sneak up behind him.

We opened up some of the gifts from Grandma Gloria the day before Christmas. I knew there were some cute new PJs she had sewed.

Here they are the night before Christmas. I wanted them to look all cute and open presents in the morning in them. And, they would have if Eric hadn’t gotten sick all over them the next morning. I think next year I’ll save the cute PJs to put on the next morning just in case!

Grandma Gloria also sent some cute and snuggly blankets for each boy. They are great, thanks!!

We got everyone cleaned up and put together enough to come and see what Santa had brought them. Grant decided he wanted to put on a stocking cap to complete his outfit.

Santa brought Aaron a remote control moon to put in his room that shows each phase of the moon.

Play tent, thanks Santa!! 

Eric came down and played about one minute in the tent before…

…ugh, “I feel sick, mommy”. Shortly after this we went back upstairs and Eric slept, and got sick a little more. Nope, never a day off around here!

Aaron made daddy a special Christmas tree.

Our little burglar, Grant, loves his new puzzle from Grandma Gloria and Grandpa Mike! And, Eric, trying his best to stay up for this.

UT FOOTBALL GUYS!!!

Thanks Grandma Terri and Papa Jerry!

Cardinal Championship Calendar!

Thanks Uncle Tyler, Aunt Susan, Jillian and Anna for all the other great Cardinals Championship gear! And, lots of wonderful Usborne books from Uncle Doug, Aunt Angie and Jaedon! Thanks to all!!!

A fun little race track for the boys from Uncle Ben and Kamren!

We saved Eric’s presents for when he got up. Here he’s feeling much better and ate a little bit. He’s already doing much better! Quick little stomach bug, I hope!

Yes indeed, this is the best picture I could get of all of them together. The twins love their new little animal chairs from Grandma Terri and Papa Jerry! And, baby Lance is ready for a nap.

Despite the unexpected sickies, we’ve had a wonderful day. Gonna go now to check on my boys and enjoy the rest of the day! Merry Christmas!