A long overdue project...

This was a booger to put up... I don't recommend it with a washable paint!

I finally found a flower with purple in it!

My favorite decoration!

I've told myself for years that I was going to redo our hall bathroom. When we moved in over 9 years ago, I wanted it painted a pale yellow. The yellow I picked out was way too bright so I just had Dad paint it the typical off white color. After 3 kids and numerous hand prints on the walls, it was time for a change.

I finally decided to try a light lavender/purple color. That color is obviously not the "in" color right now as I had a horrible time trying to find stuff to go with it. Note to self...next time pick out decorations first, then match up paint! Would make life much easier!!!

Thanks Mom and Dad for your help in this project! Now....first thing tomorrow morning, bye bye Winnie the Pooh border in the twins room! Paige can't wait to get her pink room!!!

Happy 4th Birthday to Peyton & Paige!

When our lives were forever changed...

Happy Birthday to my honey!

Just wanted to wish my hubby a Happy 34th Birthday! He's in Winamac celebrating in the snow! Hoping he gets to come home tonight, but if not, we'll meet him in Indy for supper! We celebrated with Mom and Dad on Sunday and here are a few pictures of that...Sunday dinner at his favorite mother-in-laws house!
He doesn't care for birthday cake, so a cookie it was...

His 3 favorite little people...Just the coat he wanted! (He picked it out and gave it to April to buy for him at her discount. She told him they accidently sold it and he was soooo upset! He had no idea he'd end up seeing that coat a few days later!!!) Good job April!!!

Bundled up and ready to celebrate his special day in Winamac! :(

Happy Birthday honey! Hope to see you tonight!

We love you very much!
Love,

Karen, Parker, Peyton & Paige

Christmas with Santa 2009

Nearly frostbitten......

Last Saturday was our town's annual festival of lights parade. I had gotten called off of work that day so we had decided to have a fun family evening together! The parade was to begin at 6pm. We wanted to get a good "curbside seat" so we got downtown about 5:30pm. Jonathan dumped Parker and I out to set our lawnchairs up and get ready for the show! He and the twins parked in the parking garage and found us a few minutes later.

The weather was a frigid 29 degrees and the parade ran late as usual. It didn't begin until about 6:30pm! We quickly found out why such a good curbside was available! It was right under some type of a tree that had dripped nasty sap and gummy junk all over the sidewalk and road. Our shoes were completely nasty!!!! The parade was good, but extremely long. We enjoyed seeing the different types of floats and band instruments all decorated! By the way.......kudos to Columbus Regional Hospital for winning the grand champion for the best float in the parade!!!

The twins kept crying because they were having trouble grabbing the candy before other kids got to it. We tried to explain to them to keep their gloves on and we would buy them candy afterwards. That didn't matter! (By the way, once we got home from the parade, they haven't asked for one piece of that candy since!!!)

2 frozen solid hours later.....we headed to our vehicle. They were going to light the mayor's Christmas tree and have the musical fireworks, but we opted for supper at a local Mexican joint instead! The kids didn't realize how cold they were until we were on our way to the car, then Peyton decided to cry and let the whole town know!!! After sitting in the car quite some time, our fingers and toes began to tingle and we knew we were finally thawing out. It was a fun family night and we had fun being together, making memories!!!