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!

April Fools Your 31!

It happened. On Wednesday I turned 31, yikes! I think this was harder than 30. It was a fun day. Ash had half a day, but Ky and Kaite made me breakfast and treated me right. I did have to attend parent/teacher conferences but that went great as always. Ash is reading above the third grade level and since the school librarian wont let her check out the third grade books her teacher has given her access to her own private books. She is the class "chapter book reader". She is also trying to be the first one in her class to hit 400 books read this school year, she is so close. Anyways, we had bruschetta chicken for dinner and I got some great gifts, thanks everyone! I had a good birthday. Although, it wouldn't be my birthday without some crappy gloomy weather, mother nature delivered!

The presents. A new MP3.

The cutest throw ever!
The slicer/shredder attachment for my mixer to name a few.
My cake the girls made.
Kami enjoying the decorating. And Pillsbury makes a wonderful chocolate cream cheese frosting milk free!!! Kami is loving life! FYI this is a spatula not a knife.

April fools started us out with over three inches of snow- not a good April fools joke! After school Ash spent some time unearthing a dinosaur from one of my presents. She loved it and may still end up a paleontologist after all!

We also attended a wedding reception for Erin. Erin is the girl that does our hair and also one of the cutest people EVER. She looked so gorgeous and did a great job decorating and doing her own flowers. She really was a beautiful bride. Of course, not one of us brought our camera or phone! Here is her announcement, it too was just adorable.
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I thought it was fitting that she got married on April Fools- so her!
Here is what else we have been up to.
The girls spending "quality time" with Aunt Marianne over spring break.
My bathtub has been turned into an incubator for the tomatoes and peppers!

And we are hitting the basement hard to catch up on how far behind we have fallen. We also have numerous Easter activities this weekend, provided the weather doesn't ruin everything. Thankfully, I haven't focused too much on the fact that I am moving closer to 40, ahh! Oh well it has been a fun week!