slowly but surely

So this was Liam's room when we moved into the house back in 2009. Blue and Yellow seemed great for him and it matched his bedding so we left it just as it was.

However, I wanted something different for this up and coming little "squirt" and since I am due in 6 weeks nick and I set out to paint the room last night. Of course it is NOT finished yet, because we do NOT know what we are having. So I decided to go neutral(sort of a dark neutral), and then once the baby is born I will add a color to the room. Also above the crib will go the baby's name in wooden brown letters. Of course can't do anything with that just yet either.

As you may notice there is a BLUE fitted sheet on the bed currently and perhaps thats because I think this is a boy. This way it is all ready, but if for some crazy reason i am wrong and out comes a little girl, a fitted bed sheet is WAY easier to change than the paint on the wall. I have blinds for the room, they just aren't hung yet, and I hope to get some sort of curtain too at some point.

Liam turns 3!!

Technically Liam doesn't turn 3 until tomorrow on the 20th, but we celebrated his birthday yesterday after church. Liam has really gotten into Lightening McQueen and usually watches the Cars movie every day(minus the times I tell him NO). So what better way than to celebrate with a Lightening McQueen cake?!
He was overjoyed with the cake when he finally got to see if finished! He had quite the excitment!!

Let the party begin with soup, lettuce salad, fruit salad, and breadsticks. Yumm!! Here are the little kiddos at the kitchen table(minus a few adults for supervision). The floor is easier to clean in the kitchen than it is in the dinning room so the kiddos always sit here.

Immediately after dinner he wanted to open his p'wesents!! He was so happy to sit on the mater chair as he really thought it was his birthday chair. We have had mater for several years(a gift to Elijah from Aunt Joy when Elijah was little) but Liam didn't know we owned him so he was thrilled when he saw it and got to hear that it even TALKS!!! A chair that talks....now how cool is that? He loved it!

He wouldn't look at the camera and smile, so this is the best we got with him and his cake. It took one simple little blow to blow out those candles. No effort at all.

The wonderful cousins that came to help celebrate!!

Happy 3rd Birthday Liam Nicholas!! We love you very much and are so thankful God gave you to us to raise. You are such a sweet, funny and ornery little guy! We pray that someday you will grow to live your life serving Christ!!

Here are just a few video's of his party!

Recorder Concert

This past Tuesday Elijah had a recorder program at school. I guess the new music teacher wanted the kids to show off what they have learned since Christmas with their new recorders. The school has never had a recorder program, but the principal was game for it....so of course we went to watch Elijah play. He did a good job, and there is a short video of him playing his solo for the concert:).

Super Bowl 2012 plus more....

Last year was our first year to host super bowl and we once again decided to make it a yearly thing and host again:). This year we had 32 people in our home for the super bowl and it was very fun. Just a few pictures from that night.
Em Shidler came with a friend but it was great having her in our home. She does a wonderful and I do mean wonderful job of babysitting my boys when we need her and on this particular night Liam sat on her lap for a good portion of the night as she read him books!!! Emilie....you rock!

Of course the girls don't care to much about the actual game, but we sure do enjoy sitting around eating and talking:).

This is what the boys do.....we bring up our tv from the basement and rearrange furniture to accomodate a large crowd. Even though the commercials this year were pretty pathetic, and we didn't care to much about who actually won the game, we did indeed have a great time and look forward to next year!!

Now onto a few pictures I just thought were cute and needed to be posted.

I had to take a picture of this, because I think my mom might think it looks a bit familiar. Laying on the counter eating raw noodles!! Yep, this is what I did when I was a kid. Good memories:). I did add a few raw peas to the mix.

Jayla and Joy came to visit for about a week. Didn't take many pictures, but did get this cute one of the kidos looking at books. Actually I believe Caden was reading to Liam and Jayla.

And last but not least....Liam was walking around today looking alot like this!! Silly I know, but oh so cute:). And this book he is reading(so he says), is his favorite book. He looks at it multiple times a day....anything with Lightening McQueen!!!