Bday balloons!!

We had such a great time!

Here's a little snap of the twins waking up to their birthday balloon filled room this morning!

Getting ready {4} our PARTY WEEKEND!!

"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself"....

It's our BIRTHDAY!!

We will be 4 on Sunday!

The quote above, my Mom shared with me this week and i loved it. These are our two scents that you see above that are poured onto us every day!! :)

I have always loved that they were born in the Spring! It's such a lovely time of year to celebrate life in general. But each year, their birthday has been such a wonderful time with family and friends. Although it will be quieter celebration this year with just the four of us, we have decided to make an entire weekend out of it and do some special things the kids have been asking to do for a while. So we're packing our bags for a fun-filled 4 year old birthday weekend full of surprises!! THey have had their little miniature roller bags packed since early this morning.

Happy Birthday to our babies!!!

We love and miss all of you who make Luke and Isabel's life so full of JOY!

HAPPY HAPPY SPRING WEEKEND!!

Oh..we are breaking out the white denim this weekend!!

7o's all weekend.

{Even though a girl here yesterday told me it snows in April here!!}

In other Wyoming news.....

There could seriously be a clogger in our family soon!!

Stay tuned :)

Kitchen Update!

Hi there!!! Welcome to our new Wyoming home! :)

Let me show you around... :)

We'll take this slow. The kitchen first, which still needs knobs,

curtains, and such...but I didnt want to keep you waiting. Ha!!

So, come on in...I'm just having some tea!

First, I wanted to show you a few of my saving graces thus far.... this great park for the kids with a view of the mountain, one block down from our house!

Baby Lips, by Mabelline. $3.99 people! And it is terrific!

So, here is our kitchen in the condition of which we purchased the home.

You see, my Mom has always told me you have to have a "vision" when looking at homes....of what can be. So this is what we did. I never saw the home in person, but what we found when looking for homes here, was that the new ones were way out of budget for us and lacked character. So we chose to take an older home and put our "modern" touches to it.

So do you think this one needs to be welcomed to this century?????!!

And this is the kitchen yesterday. We still lack knobs and a few touches of color, but we added light colors, much more our taste. For the cabinets, we used Benjamin Moore's, Jogging Path.

For the walls, we used Behr's, Pot O Cream. We color matched using Sherwin Williams paint.

I decided to remove the plantation shutters in the kitchen b/c they were quite bulky and dark.

I will add a curtain at some point.

Another angle before..

And after..

The kitchen sink, + a banana :) No before on this one....but you can sort of see from the first picture above.

I look forward to showing you the rest soon! I will make it my goal to show you a new area each month. I love love to blog, but I have so many more things right now that my priorities rest with. They are about 3 ft tall!! :)

We made it!

HI!!!!!!!!!!!

WE'RE HERE!!!!

OH BOY... our hearts are FULL of the awesome girth of God's amazing creation!!!

IT's been a long week....a good week...a productive (unpacking boxes ALL day week)...

So today we took a break.....

SOOOO excited to go sledding!!!!

"THE" sledding spot...we found out today!

Lots of big kids...Mommy was a bit nervous amongst the excitement.

Helmets are a must!

Post sledding...COLD....Oh this sweet BOY....a natural born adventurer!!!!

Daddy LOVES this sweet little girl.....he must have laughed for 5 minutes upon seeing her for the first time today in her "marshmellow suit" as Josh has named it! You know....marshmellow suits don't seem so crazy in my eyes....i mean its COLD.....i may be looking online for a marshmellow suit myself :)

Oh MY HEART MELTS WITH THIS LITTLE BOY.....

Our little sweethearts could not be happier to have made it to their new home! Always ready for adventure, this is Luke right when the snow started falling the day we moved in. It was supposed to snow 2-3 inches the previous night, which would have possibly delayed the move in.

But, again, our GREAT GOD is even in the details! The snow didn't even began until that morning, and started to fall (...and continued to bring 4 inches), literally as the moving truck pulled up.

THe re-do/before and after pics of our home i promised will be up by early next week. We get our countertops monday! I am excited to see what you think!!!

In the end.....it's not about the love you take....it's the love you MAKE!!!!!!!!!

God bless you DEAR FRIENDS!! WE LOVE AND MISS YOU EVERY ONE!!!

So long sandy toes and flip flops...

Until we meet again!! We've traded you in for snowshoes and hats!!

One week tomorrow we will fly far away from this wonderful little piece of this world called the gulf coast! It's so hard to believe it's here. The first post I will bring you will be the before and afters of our new home. We have never tackled a remodel/update like this, but it's just what I wanted and I am so excited to show you! A special thanks to my Mom and sisters for all their patience in helping me deal with my indecisive nature to pick colors and such!

And just to not leave you hanging on pictures...here are some from about a month ago...A weekend away with my parents and the twins at Rosemary Beach! It was a special time. I cannot even fathom having lived here without my dear dear parents being so close by over the last 4 years. It is too overwhelming for me to think about. Their presence in mine and Josh's life has made us such better people, a better couple, and family! They are encouragers, always challenging us to go where we feel God was leading us...never once doubting Gods great provision. Just a true blessing!

I LOVE YOU MOM AND DAD!!!

Love....

Happy Valentines!