Happy New Year!!!

Sorry it has been such a long time since updating.  Life has been going 100 miles a minute and we are chugging along.  This is a big birthday year for Jason....Duh, duh, duh.....40!! He has embrased his aging, while I on the other hand feel as though I have aged over night.  I am getting gray roots now. Ack!! I see the wrinkles getting deeper in my face each day.  Botox, you and I will become the best of friends very soon :) All joking aside, things are going great and everyone is good.  Here are each little updates:

Austin just had a birthday. 11 years old now. WOW!!! Can't believe that we have a preteen in the house.  And boy let me tell you, he knows everything (or so he thinks :)) He got his braces a few months back and his teeth are looking so wonderful. He is doing well in school and is counting down the days for middle school to start. He has agreed to try playing baseball one more season this spring with the compromise that I won't make him do it again if he doesn't like it this season. I have agreed, but most of all I just want him to have fun.

Kole is a huge, wonderful ball of energy always going.  He is such a fun and loving kid and has a room full of boys over almost daily.  I love that we live near such wonderful people with kiddos that are all friends. It makes me feel that small town feeling that is so often lost now a days. We redecorated and painted Kole's bedroom for part of his xmas present so the boys could have their own cool place to hang out and play video games. Here are some pics of it below:

drawing desk

view from door

reading nook

Coop is 1 year old now.. Wow! This past year has just simply flown by so darn fast. He is running all over the place and babbles like crazy.  He says a few words now they are: mommy, daddy, six, and of course DUNK!! He got a basketball hoop for xmas from daddy and it is his most favorite toy ever! He holds the ball and stands under the hoop and yells, "DUNK, DUNK". That is him telling us that we have to pick him up so he can dunk the ball in the hoop :) So adorable.

Jay is good. Just working his tushy off as usual. He never ceases to amaze me with his loyalty, patience, love and kindness. God must really love me to have brought this wonderful man into my life! He is the absolute best husband and not only because of the previous sentances. But, because he makes me a better person. He brings out the best in me and gives me the feeling that I want to get up each day and live life to the fullest for him and the children.

I'm also doing alright. Just working my 3 days per week at the hospital and loving each day of it. I have started doing some crafty type of stuff with furniture and think I have found a new hobby. Sanding, painting, repadding and applying new fabric to the chairs was seriously so much fun!! Not tough at all either :). Check out some before and after pics of a buffet and dining room set I recently completed below:

 

Chair before

Chair after







Buffet before

 

Buffet after

 

 

Table and chairs finished