June 2011 updates

6/26 - Kasey started wearing underwear more. She was tired when we went to lunch, threw a complete fit wanting to and not wanting to go potty at the restaurant. Then she took a nap. somehow she stayed dry through all that. She also went number 2 in potty -she's not to sure of it, but we'll get there.

After Kasey's crazy fit Landon and I decided to get out of the house and go to the neighborhood pool. We had fun and Landon got to swim and play with a little boy from the neighborhood.

6/22 - We cancelled tball practice because so many kids were out so we took the kids to the neighborhood pool. we had a good time playing in the pool, racing and Landon practicing his swimming

6/20 - There are a lot of kids in Landon's skating class and they have different skill levels. They are moving Landon and a few kids up to hockey 2 class. Now we'll have skating on Saturdays instead of Monday.

6/19 - We had a good fathers day. We had a good lunch with Grammy and Gramps at Paesanos. The kids got to share Fettuccine Alfredo with Grammy. Of course we had good desserts. We rested in the afternoon. Landon made Greg a book with pictures that he drew and things about him like how old he is and that his favorite food is chicken salad ?? he also made him a little book with words in it. Greg also got a few shirts from Kona brewery - his favorite beer is Firerock from Kona Brewery.

6/18 - between soccer and tball games I took Landon to ice skating (make up). He was doing really well. When they were getting them to go backwards he would be all the way across the ice and the other kids would barely be halfway. There was a Canadian couple there saying he'll make a good defender.

6/12 - Kasey is wearing underwear today even running errands. She has been doing well for a couple days with pee pee - 1 accident a day.

Aggie baseball team plays at 3pm to try to get to the world series, Landon has make up tball game at 5pm, FC Dallas has a game at 6pm and Dallas Mavericks play one of final games at 7pm....

6/11 - We had 2 games again today with a birthday party in between. Soccer at 9:30am, Kasey, Grammy and I went to Tegan Reed's first birthday party at 10:30am and then Landon had a tball game at Noon. Needless to say we took a nap in the afternoon. We went to Freebirds for dinner and got to have draft Shiner - Greg says it's been there a while, but I haven't seen it before.

6/9 - Kasey has started to put puzzles together more. At Grammy's she put together several younger puzzles and some that were for 4-5 year olds too with a little help.

6/6 - We ordered the books Landon was reading in Phonics. He did really well reading the ones he had read before, and started reading new ones as well.

6/4 - This has been one of the craziest days in a long time. This was our first day of Landon playing 2 sports at the same time.

We had an 8am indoor soccer game, then I went to work out at the gym while Greg took the kids for a donut because Landon played well in his game. We got ready and went to Landon's tball game at noon. The team did well and got 6 outs - in the league you either get 5 runs or 3 outs. One of the innings the team got 3 outs before 5 runs. Go Rattlers. Then we headed for a quick lunch since we were all hungry.

So far so good. At this time we have 1 working bathroom in our house - our new and improved bathroom. The others have had the walls redone (no more wallpaper) and now Greg is working on painting them. So Greg was upstairs doing this and we decided to try big girl underwear with Kasey. I was not brilliant with this and let her sit on our bed. We went through a few pairs or underwear and i'm still washing everything from that. Both kids are super tired. We got leave to grab some dinner (Greg has gone to FC Dallas game) and Landon gets a nose bleed and he's rubbed it all over his arms and shirt. He's freaking out because he has blood all over him. I'm trying to calm him down, get him to the one working bathroom and get Kasey back inside. He was doing well. We went and grabbed food to bring back home because everyone was tired. And even in few minutes coming home both kids were falling asleep. We walk in the door and Landon tells me he was really asleep and I woke him up.

Then I got the kids quick showers and to bed. They were out pretty quick :) I'm about to head to the movies to see Water for Elephants before it leaves the theaters.

June Pictures

Here are some pictures from June - click here

Here are pictures from the season for Landon's tball team - Timber Rattlers - Greg was head coach and I think he did a wonderful job. Every week that the kids got 3 or more outs they got to throw water balloons at the coach - they did this just about every week. - click here

Bathroom Remodel - Spring 2011

We started our bathroom remodel April 25th. Most of it was complete a month later except for having the mirrors up. Now we are almost 2 months later, but we have mirrors up and new door handles in the entire downstairs. Only little things left are finding accessories that we like and go with everything and possibly getting new towels.

February 2010 I was in Barcelona on a business trip. Greg decided that he should look into whether the shower caulk was getting water behind the tiles. so the shower sat with several tiles removed until April 2011. I had had enough of taking baths so we found a contractor to do work.

We went through different options of how much to redo, and ended up with plan to take out most everything, make a big shower and enjoy.

along the way we kept finding new project. we also replaced the tile around the fireplace because it was cracked. We replaced a few other cracked tiles in the entry. We also had them redo walls in all other bathrooms in the house for Greg to paint. we're still working these projects.

Here are pictures of the bathroom process.