Matt's new toy

Well, Matt has REALLY been wanting a boat!! He's been looking for awhile, and he found one on ebay that was a good deal. He went down to Kemah where it is docked, met with the broker and the owners (who are 87 and 85 years old!!) and he LOVED the boat! These owners haven't taken the boat out at all in the last few years that they've owned it, so it's in great condition.

It's a 300 Sea Ray Sundancer, 33 ft long, and sleeps 6 adults (it has two "bedrooms," a dining room table thing that makes out into a bed, a bathroom with toilet, etc, a kitchen with a stove, microwave, fridge, and a/c- very important!! LOL)

It's awesome and he got a better deal than he thought he would because the owners liked him!! LOL

Anyway, here's a picture of it:

It's just really nice and awesome- the boys (and Matt!!) are super excited!!! We are hoping that all of the paperwork gets done this week and we can go and ride on it this weekend. We're going to leave it at Kemah for awhile, just because it's easier to do that than get a trailor and take it somwehere else (and I love the ocean!!)

Nice, huh?!?!? :-)

Painting, painting, and more painting!!!

Well, UGG!!! My house is still a complete disaster right now!

We've cleaned up a lot of the dust and stuff around the house (Matt and I both vaccummed it all up the other night!) but it's still pretty bad.

We decided to repaint the living room too while we didn't have any flooring down (it was really nice to be able to paint without worrying about getting it on the carpet or tile, etc!! LOL) So our living room, the hallway to the boys room, and the front hallway off of our kitchen is all a dark caramel color. It was a mauvish color before- which was pretty, but we were just getting tired of it and thought it might not look good with our darker wood floors.

I'm sitting here right now waiting for the tile guys to get here to put the tile down, and the counter top guys to get here and put in the new granite countertops. Woo-hoo!! Once they're here and started, the boys and I are going to a few furniture stores to pick out a new kitchen table. Right now we have a glass top table that I HATE (you just can NOT keep it clean with four kids no matter how hard you try!!!) We also only have 4 chairs that go with that table and I HATE not having everyone sit together at supper!!! And I just might pick out two new sofas while I'm at it. Matt and I have had these dark maroon colored sofas for almost 9 years now, and they're just showing their age.

So, once they're done with all of that, I'll go and repaint all of the white trim work around the house, and then we'll put in the wood floors. I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY hoping that everything will be completely done by Saturday or so. And then I'm going to clean all of the rooms really good so we can actually live here without horrible allergies from all of the dust!

Okay... so I think that's about it for now on the house. I can not WAIT for it to all get done!!

Trip to Galveston and house updates

Well, apparently Matt had taken my camera to work with him last week so I didn't have it with me when we went to Galveston! Ugg!!!

We got there Saturday night and went to eat at the Rainforest Cafe. That place is SOOO cool and the boys loved it (they have been before but it's been a couple of years.) Then we went back to the hotel and watched the lightening over the Gulf. It was awesome- the lightening was going sideways all across the sky. Seeing something like that and you can't help but KNOW that there is Someone out there bigger than us, ya know??

We got up Sunday morning, ate the contintintal breakfast (gotta love those with four kids!) and then went to Schitterbaun. We had never been to that one and we really enjoyed it. Blayden actually fell asleep in his intertube (it was a double one so I was on one side and he was on the side that had the mesh netting so he wouldn't fall through) and slept for about 45 minutes while we went around and around the wave "river" there. Too cute!! We got home at a decent hour on Sunday night too, so that was nice.

Now for the house update! :-) Monday (yesterday) evening Matt and I took out all of the carpet in the living room and hallway that leads to the boys rooms and cleaned it all up. Matt has a crew coming tomorrow morning at 5:30 am (!!!!!) to tear up all of the tile in the kitchen, entry way, hallway off of the kitchen, dining room, the extra half bathroom, around the fireplace, and the laundry room. We are getting slate tile for all of that, and then we're going to get wood floors down in the living room and hallway. I'm SOOOO excited!! We also went today and picked out the granite countertops that we want for the kitchen, and we'll go tonight and get a new kitchen sink. It should all be done by next Monday or Tuesday, so I'm super excited, and it'll look awesome. I'll be SURE to take pictures of that and post them!!

Off to Galveston!

Well, the boys and I are sitting around waiting for Matt to get home so we can head to Galveston for the day. I was sick 2 weeks ago with the "parainfluinza virus" for about a week, and then Jace got it and is getting over it, and the Kelton kind of gets it. Blayden's got yucky eyes, but I think it's just allergies, but that's been sucky. So, we decided that since the boys have basically been stuck in the house for 2 weeks, we would take them somewhere fun for the day. Oh! Matt just got home so we're off- pictures soon to come!!! :-)

Barack Obama

This video just terrifies me.

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036

Daylon's Room

Well, I'm finally finished with Daylon's room!! WOO-HOO!!! Here are some pictures of the final project.

Shark mural above his bed (with shark sheets):


Above his closet door (he painted his name): Sorry this one is fuzzy!!


His fish tank (new stand), shelfs with all of his stuff (organized!), hat rack with trophies, and then you can see some of the coral I painted next to his dresser, as well as some of his sports pictures:


Looking from his bed to the door- dresser, pictures, punching bag (he loves it!), and some coral that I painted:


Turtle on the wall right as you walk in his room:


Coral and fish under the turtle:

I HATE painting!!

One of my summer projects is to re-do all of the boys rooms. (Well, it started out that we have to move Jace into Blayden's room since he's starting Kindergarten this year and he HAS to have more sleep than he's getting right now with sharing a room with Kelton. So Blayden is moving into Kelton's room and Jace is getting Blayden's. Fun stuff.)

Anyway, I started yesterday on Daylon's room. Right now his room is just "boyish" with no theme or anything. It's cute though! (I wish I had taken before pictures!!) But now he wants to do an underwater theme thing (mostly with sharks, of course!) His room was already a pretty dark blue, but on two of the walls he has lighter stripes (I worked my butt off on those stripes before we moved in!!) So yesterday I painted over the stripes so it's all dark blue. And today I'm making "waves" using a really light (almost white) paint at the top of the walls. I can't decide if I like it or not though! (He say's "it's cool mom, I don't care what it looks like" so I'm thinking he doesn't really like it either, he's just trying to be nice. It's what HE wanted though!!)

I also ordered this really big mural:


And I'll put that up somewhere in his room. And then he wants me to paint coral and fish on the walls. My hands already hurt from painting!! I don't know WHY I started all of this!!!