Painting is so much fun!!

Kitchen before...

Dining room after.

Kitchen after.

Dining room before.

For some reason, I can not for the life of me get these pictures to post in the correct order. Anyway, you get the idea!

Wal-Mart and Toys from Goodwill

We went to Goodwill yesterday and Morgan got this pink guitar that has the shoulder strap and makes music. I was calling him my little rock star yesterday. He was in the backyard last night on the hill just jamming on his guitar. Matthew got the little Dirt Devil vacuum that we used to have for Morgan. I hope when they get old enough to actually vacuum they'll still want to.

We found the Super Wal-Mart closest to our house. Yay!!! I'm so glad that we have one, that will make the weekly shopping so much easier. It's really nice too - brand new. There is also a Little Caesar's Pizza so I'm sure I'll need to start budgeting $13 a week for pizza and crazy bread. Chad loves that stuff.

I ripped all the wallpaper out of the kitchen, it looks so much better. I need to wash the walls with something, but I can not wait to get paint up on those walls. We're gonna get the paint this weekend.

Austin is definitely teething, his two top teeth are coming in and boy, is he cranky?! I'm also weaning him, we kinda did cold turkey. No more during the day and just once or twice at night. I'll totally wean him in a couple of weeks in time for his birthday. This will be the first time that I've weaned a child and not been pregnant with another one! Okay, Matthew is screaming to go, "rockabye!" so I'm done.

We are finally home!!

Yep, you read right, after only three weeks of living with my parents and hearing, "we're only waiting on a couple more things, should be tomorrow." we have finally bought our first home. It wasn't as scary as I thought, but it truly was a pain in the behind!

On a much more serious note, Matthew had a horrible accident last Friday and almost lost the tip of his left index finger. He smashed it between a brick and the floor of Mom and Dad's patio. I hope to never again see anything like what I saw when I looked up to see why he was screaming. It was truly the most horrible thing ever. It is slowly healing itself back to the way it was, it looks really good except for no fingernail. He is such a strong, brave little man. Last night after I changed his bandage, he goes, "thank you mommy" and gave me a huge hug. I love him so much and I think it kills me so much when he hurts himself because he can also irritate me quicker than anyone. The day of his accident he was being such a little stink that when it happened I just knew it was payback, but I know it wasn't, it just hurts me that I can be so irritated with him one second and then feel so horrible the next. Anyway...it's healing and that is all I can ask for.