Weekend Fun and Accomplishments

We had a fun weekend. Friday we went out and flew kites in the backyard. Ash was at her friend's house and missed it.

Ky also worked with Kaite on riding a two-wheeler. This was the second time he has worked with her and by the end of the night she pretty much had it.
Kami checking out her bigger bike for next year.
He had us all laughing at this.

On Saturday we cleaned up the yard and then Ky worked with Kaite again. She had it down within a couple of hours. Here are the bike riding videos from Saturday. Way to go Kaite we are so proud!

Our plant progress, before we gave a ton away. My bathroom is finally looking less like a greenhouse!
The basement is wired and now we have to build the duct work before we can sheetrock, and the carpet will be in next week. Time is our issue now, Ky is staying super busy and now has a ton of side work popping up and a new project in the works, which means more planning and zoning and city council meetings, ugh. I am not complaining about the work, but those meetings can last forever.
Sunday we had the monthly dinner with Ky's family. This is Chris playing Operation with the girls. What a busy weekend.

Fun

Here are some fun photos to see. Kaite got a hold of my camera the other day and this is what I found. Marianne taught her how to take pics of herself, but there are also always pics of random objects throughout the house too.

I just love her cute personality! The other day she told me "my pillow smelled like mom" I asked her if that was good and she said "it is better than smelling like dad"! She cracks us up.

Kami in her new sunglasses- she won't go anywhere without them.

This last pic is of the science fair at the school last night. This was a fun idea. They had all sorts of experiments set up in every room. The girls really enjoyed making slime. Ash loved the portable blowup planetarium best. We all had a good time and Kami even got in on some of the action- she TRIED to pull some of the exhibits down! Got to love those three!

Birthday Photos

On Sunday I took some birthday photos of Kami in her dress. She is such a ham, sometimes it is really hard to get a pic of her and she has this camera face she makes. We had some fun and I got some cute ones where her personality really came through.

This one was my favorite you can really see her smile in it, little stinker wouldn't sit back up!

I have been fighting a nice case of laryngitis since we cleaned out the basement and now the farmers are starting to plow, that will help me get back to normal! Anyway, Ky said I sounded horrible on Sunday so we stayed home from church and Kami wanted to wear her dress just like her sisters. I thought I would seize the opportunity and take some photos. I think I will try again with some flowers. There have got to be flowers blooming somewhere! We did set up the trampoline this week and I think all of our snow if FINALLY gone! Now we really need to get the yard cleaned up, we made the biggest mess when we cleaned out the basement this winter.
Last Saturday we went to the Easter egg hunt, yep two weeks late thanks to the snow storm. The S&R puts it on every year and this year the girls got to help stuff and hide the eggs. Kami was so cute though, she just wanted to pick up the eggs and shake them. She had no interest in picking up more than three, I had to convince her we would open them later. Ash and Kaite did really good and Kaite got to a point where she thought she had enough and stopped, funny girl. Kaite did end up with three prizes. The girls had fun and the weather was so nice! The weather has been so nice the past few days we have been riding bikes and jumping on the trampoline. We have all gotten a little too much sun at times, not complaining about that! Ky has stayed busy getting sprinkler systems going. The basement has kind of stalled a little. The wiring is all but done then we can redo the duct work and start sheetrocking! We have two weeks until the carpet is here, now we have to find the time. I have everything ready for them. Kaite's new bedspread came yesterday, she was so excited! We do need to repaint their dresser, but I honestly think we will be waiting for trim and carpet so I am not too worried about that. Wow, that ended up being a longer post than I planned. I guess that is our weekly wrap up.
I also have to post the funniest story about Kami. Last night she was sitting on the potty by herself before she got in the tub and Ky heard her come out into the living room. He asked her what she was doing and she said poop. So he asked her if she went in the potty and she started walking away. He followed her and found out what she had been doing. She went on our bathroom floor quite aways from the potty. When I explained to her that it goes in the potty she said "that's right" all we could do was laugh. This morning she went in and pointed at my floor and said "yukies all gone, yukies go in the potty". She is so cute!

Happy Birthday Kami!

Wednesday my baby turned 2! We had a good day. When we woke her up and said happy birthday she said "cake"! I promptly said no cake for breakfast! Throughout the day whenever we said happy birthday she would continue to say "cake" and then go point at it and point at her mouth. She loved all the attention. We started out painting her toes. She has to have her toes painted sparkly pink, she is such girl! We had her favorite for lunch- pizza and strawberries, what a mess. Everyone came over for cake and ice cream. Opening presents was a bit of a disaster. I am not quite sure who the party was for Kami or her older sisters that were tearing into her presents faster than she was. Anyway, when it was all over Kami loved all her new gifts. She has been playing with the ball Chris and Chantelle gave her non-stop. She has also been pushing around all her dolls and Mickeys in her baby stroller. She now sleeps with 8 or 9 different stuffed animals. And she wont go anywhere without her Mickey sunglasses. I haven't taken pictures of her in her birthday dress yet, maybe Sunday. I still can't believe my baby is 2, it seems like she has been with us forever but then just like it was yesterday that she was born. There was a lot of Mickey at the party, but that is what she loves. I did a Mickey cake last year and had a hard time deciding this year, but figured that is what she would love best. I also didn't even really think about the cake until a couple of days before since we have been so preoccupied with the basement. I didn't have time to make the cake exactly how I wanted, but it turned out good anyway. I just used frosting this time instead of fondant, which would have given it more of a smooth look. I also used cream cheese frosting out of the can on top, which doesn't smooth or crust very well but Kami loves it. I cheated and made the Mickeys and the dots out of gum paste instead of fondant and didn't have my red gel color for the icing so I improvised and probably turned everyone's teeth red for a week! I thought it turned out well especially since I started it the night before, I way procrastinated! Here is her slide show of the craziness! Happy Birthday Kami!

Basement update: The homeruns (electrical term) are run for the entire basement and the girls' room is wired. We are going to start to rebuild the duct work today. The carpet is picked out and ordered and I just need to finalize the paint colors. I am so excited!

Basement Pictures

Here they are the pictures of the basement everyone has been requesting. I have a ton of pictures to post, so this will be a long post. I will eventually do a slide show, I think. We managed to have everything ready to spray on Saturday afternoon but decided to wait until Monday morning to spray. (We sprayed the kilz to get rid of the basement smell and anything that could potentially be growing down there! And it does smell better.) We then went and got 25 sheets of 12 foot sheetrock- that was fun carrying down to the basement! We also got all our duct board and are now wiring everything up. Ky is hoping to have it wired in the next day and then he will redo our ducts. Hopefully, we will be sheetrocking by the end of the week! The only obstacle we have run into is carpet, frustrating. I had carpet all picked out that I absolutely LOVED and of course they no longer make it. We are now still looking, but need to get it ordered if we are to have it ready for May. Warning, the basement is still a basement, but it is no longer just a scary area of the house I pretend doesn't exist!

Here are the before. There was a big cinder block room in the middle of the basement with the water heater in it. There were also three halls that we took out and made more open.

The duct work and beam we took out.

After we sprayed.

This is the last load of crap, and the dog and cat checking things out.

After we finished getting the basement prepped and ready for the kilz we decided to celebrate. This was Kami's first time bowling, she would go over and point to her ball and say "that one". She would also tell us when it was her turn, she loved it! Ash bowled a 92 I was impressed. The girls had so much fun and really loved it, they very much deserved it after all the help they were.

We also went for ice cream. Kami enjoyed her star pop thing.

This is what happens when you don't have a nap and are in timeout too long!

We woke up to this, nice. The kids got sent home about 11:30 and then it cleared up and ended up being a fairly decent day, winter just doesn't want to give up.

Easter

Well our Easter activities didn't go exactly as planned. We woke up Saturday morning to the phone call of the egg hunt being canceled. It turns out that storm did hit us. We aren't sure how much snow we got, Ky said 6-8 inches was his best guess. The road was closed and we had 3 ft drifts, as tall as the hood of my Tahoe. So we spent the day watching conference and dying eggs.

Kami loved dying eggs, although I think she would rather have been eating them! Ash and Kaite always have fun with it. I bought a kit with glitter sheets this year, what a mess we won't do that again.

After we always "color" the snow outside.

Easter morning we woke up to this

And girls out of bed almost half an hour before we said, oh well at least they still get excited. They did manage to find all 81 eggs. They loved their baskets (which I never did get pics of), and had a good morning.

We had bunny pancakes courtesy of Ky, I make chubby bunnies!

Then we enjoyed more conference and a trip to my family's house for Easter lunch, the weather cooperated.

Monday Ky went out with "the boys" for some snowmobiling. He rode Chad's sled, which is the one he really wants to buy for next year. They had two feet of powder and at times waist high fresh powder. No one got hurt or rolled a sled, much to my and Becca's relief. He enjoyed his day and a break from the basement. Here are the pics he took. The first is the sled he rode, a skidoo who would have thought he would have crossed over!

If all goes as planned we will be spraying the basement on Friday! I know I have been saying that for weeks, but we are finally on schedule this time, knock on wood!