goodwill purchase

I have been wanting to go to Goodwill and find a small piece of furniture to redo..and I finally did.  I dropped Charlie and Bradley off at soccer practice the other night and right down the road is a Goodwill.  I ran in and saw this beauty..well, I was hoping she could be a beauty!  I had no idea where to put it, what to do with it..but I loved that hardware1  I really wanted to paint this a light turquoise or maybe a pale yellow, but Bradley was already less than thrilled that I bought it...so why make him hate it more by putting color on it!  I think I finished this in 3 1/2 naps..not bad!

I sanded, painted, sanded, distressed, stenciled and added some scrapbook paper..nothing big or hard.

The sides had messed up wood and instead of making my little project a big project, I opted to cover the majority of the bad wood with scrapbook paper as opposed to pulling out the bad sides and putting in new wood. 

 It turned out to be the kids "craft stuff" holder, so it didn't need to be perfect!

In addition to the kids "craft stuff holder", it often tends to be the "kid holder"....still think it would have been fun if it were turquoise.  Maybe another goodwill day in my future?!?!?

my bald beauty

So, I have the greatest one year old there is..there it's been said.  I know everyone thinks that their baby is the greatest, but trust me...I win.  Easton is my sweet, cuddly, sensitive, funny and charming boy..and finally and possibly, the most important.....HE IS A MAMMA'S BOY!!!!  Sweet, right...finally one prefers me!!  Although, big brother finally thinks I am as cool as daddy!!

come.on.

look at those lashes

the only unfortunate thing going on for East..his ears.  We meet with the ENT in a week and a half to get a surgery date for tubes..lets pray he can keep clean ears for that long!!

:)

OMGoodness..I love this sweet boy..and he is at an age where he is sooo fun.  He manages to make me smile, giggle, laugh, scream, threaten and smother him with kisses every day.  Three is for sure more challenging than 2, but dang, it's so much more fun too!!!

love.him.to.pieces

holy cow

This is abnormal right...

holy cow his mouth is huge

I see many competitions/challenges in his future.."East, put your fist in your mouth again!!"

That cute little mouth is huge..and loves to pile food in it all day long..as much as the boys are eating me out of house and home now..and I am thinking I'll need a second job when they are teenagers to cover food cost!!

School pictures!

So, I picked up school pictures the other day and I was impressed that I just managed to get one picture for $15..you guys now I cannot turn down cute pictures of my boys.  But since I love the natural ones, I opted to only get one posed one and I LOVED it!!  I texted it to my mom, mother-in-law and Bradley..since I can text pictures now!  And the responeses were along the lines of .."omgoodness, so stinkin cute" and "great smile from an awesome kid"..and then there was "love his smile, but his shirt looks gay".  I think you can guess who sent what..and can you guess who got the reply of " You suck Brad Way":)

the one I bought..this is a pic of a pic..sorry!  But OMGoodness, I smile everytime I see it!!

this is a picture of one on the computer..the cheestastic pose was AWESOME!!!

spell check is not working, so my appologies in advance:)

I can text again!

Almost a year ago my picture texting just stopped working. I assumed it was something with my iPhone and I loathe the apple store, so I just put off going.  A year later I made my way into the apple store only to find out it was an AT&T problem..that I fixed in 10 minutes!  While I am happy to have my picture texting back, I am irritated that I went almost a year without it and could have fixed it much sooner.  Not to mention I'm irritated since they screw up on accident and just took the feature off:(

Oh well, its fixed now and I was super pumped to get theses recent texts during a workday...love these sweet boys!!

No way..look how old he looks:(

too cool for school, right!

Easton turned one!..a while ago!:)

The day after Easton's birthday party our house came down with the fever, coughing, croup-ee, nasty nose, sore throat junk..and at least 2 people were sick at a time..until today.  Can we all say "Whipping."  So, here are..what feels like 6 months later, playing catch up!!  I tried to get more of the cake eating photos uploaded, but for some reason they stalled out blogger.  I know your sad that you only have 457 pictures to look at now as opposed to 934...your welcome.

his pirate cake.  If you want to believe I made it, go right ahead:)

thrilled, right.

this looks like the caption should read "hallelujah"")

this is what I am talking about!

Charlie was loving the water and I am hopeful he will learn to swim without the life jacket this summer.  Maybe, maybe not..we will see!

Meet Easton, the large baby fish....kiddo.loves.water!!

Sweet  birthday boy had a great day..and is loving his new toys!

Easton was being a bit girly about eating his cake, so big bro helped him out!!

The next few are just a few of the decorations I made!

this was my favorite..you could watch him grow from tiny baby to sick looking baby to plump baby to ginormous baby!!

Happy birthday to my favorite one year old!