More fun that we had

Some of the bowlers...

 Kermit & Ruby roller skating!

Hattie and Ruby's new friend

The little girls with our special meeting company,  Dale and Matt, and it was very special company! Big kids were at school here....

Dale is now one of their favorite persons  after walking upside down on the ceiling with him holding them up and burying him with their toys!  They loved the attention!

January

Great Wolf Lodge FUN!

Great Wolf Lodge, Grapevine, TX Jan. 2013

I am posting a lot of pics from this trip for the kids!!!

 The wave pool!

 Fort McKenzie--all about dumping buckets of water on people, then a 1000 gallon bucket drops on everyone!

 There is the 1000 gallon bucket!!!!
 Life jackets were provided for the littles....

 On the far wall are the big slides!  There are 2 bigger ones that you can't see here that the whole family can go down together, if they are big enough.  Hattie went down the orange one and the yellow one.

 The lazy river...

 Just before leaving :(

 I couldn't pick which one so I put both.

 These are the slides that come off of Fort McKenzie, Ruby even did these!

 The green slide drops into this pumpkin shaped thing and then spits you out at the bottom.  Soooo fun!

 Here is where you get spit out of the three...

 The stairs to take you way up to your good times!

 The tower clock in the lobby where they have story time every night at 8.

 Here is a good one of "the bucket."

 Clay dumping water on some poor person down in the lazy river.

This one is for the little people.  The girls had a blast on those slides on the back wall.

 More outside pics.  We love looking at these because it was such a rush.

Good by fun place.

The yellow and red was the Howling Tornado...It drops you down in that spiral thing and you fly up one side on your raft, and then the other and back to the other...That was sooooooooooooo awesome! (Ruby said this a lot on our trip.)   And much much more...................
Highly recommend this for a easy family trip!

Master Bedroom Redo

This is what we worked on last week,   300 pounds of trash later (Carpet, carpet pad, wall paper, some ugly pillar things etc..) and a lot (lot lot lot lot) of elbow grease and about $100 worth of paint wa-la an updated clean room.

We took the pillars and 1/2 wall out and patched and Casey hung a rod from the top so I could hang curtains. I think they glam it up.  Through the curtains is the m. bath and dressing room & closet.  We also removed mirrored sliding closet doors and opened the weird little area up for the dressing room.

The headboard is from Rhonda!  We are making a trade!  And the curtain is from her as well, it is hiding the ugly windows....

As for the floor, I painted it a tan, like Ivy's room, and it looked so bla, so I glazed it with black paint and that did the trick.  Now it looks like acid washed cement.  And the blemishes just make it more interesting.  I want to add a pretty chandy and a few things for the walls maybe, (really like it spare though).

Entryway redo!

We love chalkboard walls.  Talk about personalizing your home!
Here is the wall Ivy and I did last week.  I think we will do the whole entry, both sides.  But for now we are out of paint.

Random December Stuff

Ruby in her cowgirl shirt from Grandpa. 

One evening it was awful quiet, so daddy went to check and found this little gal in her closet passed out! 

From the machine shop:  A random project Casey built for a fiber optics guy--some sort of tri-pod for some sort of thing.

A cold December morning they showed up dressed in their swimsuits with some Audrey Hepburn eyes.

On the farm:

These guys have been hanging out on our farm.  Behind them is the Pecos River.  They are so welcome here, as we are missing the wildlife from the ranch we used to live on.  We want to get a turkey feeder for them.

 And around the house:

I added some curtains to our dining room window.  

Also to the kitchen window.  I love the way it dresses it up.  Also, we do have some pretty ugly windows so I think it detracts from them a bit.

On Christmas Eve, Ivy decided to take down the lovely wallpaper from our entryway.  It was about time...So she spent all day and got it off.  It was hard.  I helped her some and put so much water on the wall that it went into a light switch and we had a current running through the wall for a while, so we had to take a break.

Then she painted an entry wall with chalkboard paint.  Fun!

Since flowers are not available right now, we are using spruce for  flower arrangements.

The living room is a  little more  cozy up for winter...Trying to add texture.

And layering it up a little more.....

Clay with the camera....

And not to forget Clay, here is a picture he snapped  of himself.