New Living/Dining Room!

We FINALLY got around to painting the living room and dining room!  Here it is:

Before (living room- looked like someone painted the whole thing in Kilz, bleh!)

After (entry way, Behr color winter lake, walls kilim beige, I forget whose, at 75% strength, looks a little yellow, it isn't)

After (doorway into hall)

Before (dining room, not pretty in pink)

After

After

 We love it, and now I need something new to hang on my walls because all of our old pictures went really well with sorta ugly paint since that is all we ever lived in :)  But now that I have beautiful paint, I need beautiful decor!  Don't hold your breath though, it may take a while!

My daughter made bread

Grace started bread on Saturday and finished it Sunday after church and we ate it last night with dinner!  She is amazing!  Okay, HERE is the recipe :)  It was super good, we will definitely make it again.  It was really crusty on the outside and soft on the inside.  The cool part is, you probably have all the ingredients on hand to start it right now! 

Why I have children

 

One of the reasons I had children :) is so I could brag about them shamelessly, so here goes!  You may wonder why I let my daughter have a HUGE candy bar, at church?  Well, the little 5 year old memorized all 13 Articles of Faith and the primary president gave it to her.  Amazing huh?  All 13!!

Our little baby has outgrown her baby-ness, she is officially crawling, and thinks she is so smart because of it!  Poor Grace and Thaddeus don't yet understand what this means, i.e. her getting EVERYTHING they leave out and crawling all over EVERYTHING they are doing on the floor!  I have to baby proof my house again.

 

 

And last, but not least, Thaddeus.  His accomplishement is his first ear infection of the winter!  bleh!!  But, he loves lightning McQueen, so much he makes me draw him one at least twice a week.  No comments on the quality of the drawing please!

Stains, stains go away!

Just wanted to share with you a picture of my favorite stain fighter.  A bar of soap that lasts and lasts.  A friend of mine told me about it a while back and I didn't believe her, how sad for me because it works wonders and cost me a grand total of $.97 plus tax at my local WinCo foods store!  Get some today!!  Grace has a pair of white leggings that are still white (they had grass stains and all sorts of brown who knows what on them) plus a bunch of white shirts that are still white thanks to this bar of soap!!  Trust me on this one.