The Re-Model

Okay pictures as promised forever ago. There are not very good pictures of the before room, but I found a few that will help.
Okay I know this picture is sideways. I forgot to rotate it before I uploaded it, but this is what my closet was before. The entry was as wide as my shoulders and it was scary inside.

Here is the room before. Notice the green/yellow shag carpet and the yellow wallpaper which was the 3rd level of wallpaper.

In this picture not only do you notice my hubby sleeping, but you can see the ceiling tiles which were stuck up there was some pretty amazing glue

They all were folding their arms, but as soon as I pulled out the camera they stopped. This was after Kellen and I had finished painting the walls and ceiling and starting to get the room prepped for the carpet.

Here is the NEW closet. It is HUGE. I love it. This was the main reason for the room being so much work to give it the facelift, but after doing this room we know what needs done with the rest and the face lift of the rest of the house.

The new door, which Kellen had to re-frame because the old short was really short.

The finished room, with new carpet and light with fan. I love getting out of bed in the morning and standing on the carpet. It is sooooo soft.

Juliet's Birthday

I can't believe my baby girl is three already.
Picture of the sweet desserts we served. Raspberry pie along with Cherry's delight.

Jet showing me how old she is.

They were so tired and I love the arm draped across Kellen's neck. I guess that was her way of keeping herself on the couch with Kell.

Showing off her dress she got for her birthday. She loves it and her blanket that she got.

February

These are all from February. Although the baby horse was born on the 31st of January.
These two are helping in the remodel. We had to wear face masks while sanding, because the dust was really thick. We updated the electrical including the outlets, thermostat and heater.

Our two little helpers. They wanted to be involved so we let them have the hammers and bang on the frame for the door, which Kellen had to re-frame so that a regular door would fit. The door before was really short.

Mason got caught playing in the used motor oil again. Luckily the spread of it wasn't as bad as before. Before, it was the whole front, all the sleeves, some on the hood which is not attached to the coat in this photo, and then all over the sweat pants he was wearing. In this one the nose covered is what made it look so funny and I thought it was funny, THIS time.

Here is the new baby horse. We have decided to call her Bells. She was born on the 31st of January, a Monday and the warmest day of that week. It was barely into the positives. That was the week of mostly -20s each night. We kept her and Lucy (her mom) in a shed with a heat lamp on and the door closed at night. We put this coat on as well. She kept it on for about that first week then got it off and would not leave it on after that.

Another picture of Bells and Lucy.

January

I am having some trouble so I will have to do the rest later today.
the little Princess. She got this outfit for Christmas and has worn it about every other day. i love Mason's jammies.

Mason is trying really hard to be the chef around here. He even figured out a tempoary hat.

Played hard and now is sleeping. This is at Grandma Woodland's house.

November and December

This picture is so cute. She is so girly.

Our family photo we sent out at Christmas time.

Mason ears are so big Kellen put Juliet's tea cups on them. We all got a good laugh from it.

This is after Christmas we went with Kellen's family up to the cabin in Island Park for a few days. My niece's birthday happened while we were there so this is Mason eating his piece of the cake. He sure makes it look good.

Christmas Eve we did a progressive meal day thing. We are currently at Jake and Laura's. Jenny and Chad have this little snow machine. Halee (their daughter) was a good sport and took both our kids for rides on it. The good thing about it was that if it got in snow that was more than about two inches in got stuck so the kids were limited to the driveway.

Juliet with Halee. Both my kids loved that thing, but we didn't feel like they were old enough to drive it by themselves.

Mason playing on the piano at Grandma's house.

The ward Christmas party. Santa came. The kids weren't afraid of him. We all laughed because we knew that santa was actually Kellen's brother, Nick. So all the nieces and nephews had looks of concentration on their faces trying to figure out who that voice belonged to, because they knew that voice.

Playing in the laundry basket. now they don't both fit in it anymore.

Mason loves to wear hats mostly because he wants to mimic his daddy who is almost always wearing a hat.

Kellen took this picture with his phone.

We were all sitting in the office with a nice fire going. Kellen and I had just gotten our new phones and were trying to figure them all out.

Random Pictures from September and October

I cut my hair in September and here is a picture. My hair ends right at my shoulder.
I have been lazy and so here it is a bunch of pictures that will help to catch you up to what we are doing or just some great pictures I couldn't help giggle when I look at them.

Mason and Juliet were on the table getting at the crackers that had been left there.

A hard earned snack. We had just moved the cattle up to this point and were taking a break so the trailers coule be brought to where we were. The buckskin in the background is my horse Lucy.

The kids dressed up as Pooh Bear and Tigger for Halloween. They got these baskets that were all hairy and were basically monsters. We went to the Elementry's trunk or treat and then to Grandma Reynolds'.

I raked up all the leaves into this huge pile from the front yard. We played in them for a few hours and then took them over to a hole we had dug and burned them all away.

Thursdays (a thrift type store here) was giving away these glasses to everybody for Halloween. The kids looked great in them.

Mason's ears were to floppy to hold the glasses on.

We went camping the beginning of October. Mostly because we wantedto go in our new camper (to us) and test everything out before winter.
We rode our Horses each day up to a different lake.It was kind of nice to go by ourselves because we could do what we wanted when we wanted.