Bathroom Remodel

My Dad is renovating the bathrooms in their house right now. There is one bathtub in the upstairs bathroom, which is the 1st project he's working on. He has completely gutted it and is now starting to put in tile, got the sink and vanity the other day.....etc.....

So, the tub is still useable, but the tile is very delicate b/c of the renovation. He had a few tiles to put in still and so a week ago he asked us to be very careful while I gave the kids a bath. (Mind you some of the flooring is showing (wood) too, so splashing is NOT an option. So, the bath I gave the kids was SUPER quick and kind of stressed me out.

Then, he went to the mountains and I needed to give them their next bath. I thought it would be awful if I (or the kids) cracked a tile or got water on the floor while he was gone, and I figure that the chances were pretty high of that happening while he was gone and he would come home to a NOT nice surprise, so I came up with a solution........

Sink bath for both kids :)




(Breanna stayed in for over 20 minutes, in this cramped position and cried when I told her it was time to be done. She also found out that sitting like that for 20 minutes makes your legs sore!!)

Happy Birthday Rob!

32 years old on March 14th! He worked hard all day and then came home and we signed papers for an offer on a house that had been accepted that day, what an awesome birthday present!

Then we went on a date without the kiddos, kind of a wierd date: Doctor appointment that I forgot I had, next we hurried to the bank to get a cashier's check for the earnest money due the next day for the house, then the fun......

We went to Texas Roadhouse for his birthday dinner and had a fabulous dinner and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly while we ate and talked with no little ones bugging us for attention, eating our food, making disasters or scenes in the restaurant. Going out to eat without children is the only way to truly enjoy your meal your paying a lot of money for!!

Then we went to a couple of stores looking for new work pants for Rob, his keep getting ripped, and then found him some new earphones for his Ipod b/c 2 pairs broke last week, and he uses that thing all day doing the route!!

Came home, had an awesome cake for him that Breanna and I made during Ethan's nap time and Grammy and Breanna decorated while we were on our date. Hooray for our kids being in their jammies and fully bathed and smelling so clean when we got home from our date! (Shout out to the awesome grammy and grampy who are so kind to babysit our kids so we can regularly go on dates - even if they are house hunting or watching the kids while we sign papers, or dinner and a movie!!! we love it!!)

What a busy and awesome day. Can't wait for more exciting things to happen this next year for us!

By the way, we are doing the home inspection tomorrow and if everything goes as planned will be closing on April 20th!!! Very excited for our busy and awesome adventures ahead of us.

Wildlife Experience

So if you are a member of the Douglas County Libraries then you can take part in a few cool activities for free. We tried out The Wildlife Experience a week ago and it was quite fun. I definitely recommend it, especially on a cold day, what a fun activity!

There were pretty fish to look at:
Fun Grammy to hang out with:
Tons of animals that looked very real ( a couple were too real for the kids that they cried or ran to us, but the majority they LOVED - I mean look at the height of the polar bear compared to Ethan, I would be scared too if I were him!)




It actually "snowed" from the ceiling in this one part, the kids loved it!
And Rob was done early enough to come with us, which made it even better! Thanks mom for bringing the camera :) There were tons of animals we didn't take pictures of anything but us really, and I definitely am looking forward to going again in March for our next free day!

(Oh I forgot, Breanna got a cool "scavenger hunt" paper where she was supposed to find all the animals on the page. It was like a Dora or Diego "adventure" for her to find all the different animals while we went through the experience and she would say, "check" every time she found one :) She was thrilled!