Topher's Bday Party! 3/26/11

I was a bit stressed with having 2 weeks to unpack enough to have a birthday party for 4-5 year olds and was having a hard time deciding what to do for a cake or cup cakes. When I went to Wal-Mart the day before the party I saw this and could not pass it up! It worked perfectly with our Jungle theme!

Topher with his friend Nicholas from school - he was so happy that someone from school showed up!

Singing happy birthday- after which Matt propmtly tried to blow out the candle for his brother!

Topher's best friend from Peoria- it was so nice that they drove the 2 hours to come!

Crowding around the birthday boy as he opens his presents! This dragon he got was so exciting that one of the other kids tried to open it for him!

March 10, 2011 working on the new house

We had a few things to do to get the new house ready to move in. (okay we didn't have to, but it makes life easier) We decided to rip down wallpaper and paint the bedrooms that we'd be in (Mike's and my room still not complete), so we didn't have to worry about moving furniture around twice. We also decided to put new carpet (in lieu of the lovely swirly blue stuff in ours) and found that we had very nice hard wood floors under the carpet- but Mike likes carpet in the bedroom so now we have off-white carpet. The boys wanted to be included in the painting of Mom and Dad's bedroom (this was during our sick time which is why Topher is in pj's in the middle of the day) - they didn't actually get too much paint on themselves. Hopefully one day I'll remember to take pictures of the finished products...kinda hard since we are having to re-do our bathroom earlier than originally planned. We have to have our hot water line replaced- thankfully we decided to get the home warranty so its not costing us an arm and a leg- but we are looking forward to having a shower instead of a "sprinkle" every day!