Goodbye purple

Jane has been looking for ways to re-do her room for a while now.  With the help of Emily she came up with the idea when we were in the middle of renovation with the Teasdale home, trying hard to get it up and renting.  We loved her ideas but almost every weekend we were busy shopping for the house or actually in Teasdale working.  Here we are a year later with the Hill Top home finished.  Finally we turned her vision into a reality and she is thrilled!  This girl has always loved purple but she thought it was time for a change.  This room has definitely become her favorite place and secretly mine too!

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During... (Special thanks to the best Dad aka Bart the painter)

 

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Batter Up for Aaron's 9th B Day

To know Aaron is to not be surprised when he requested a baseball birthday party.    

I researched taking his friend and he to a Bees game and buying some hot dogs, dippin dots and nachos and calling it a day.   Complications were it was the final couple of games for the season and football practice was on Sat. and football games on Monday night.    So we decided to hold it at our house.  

First up after meeting at our house was a trip to Mulligans for some miniature golfing and the batting cage.     

Then they came home to a ballpark style dinner, hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, and some root beer.  

Gift time

Baseball bat and ball rice krispie ball.  Rice Krispie cake balls instead of a slice of cake.   I later found these all over my basement.  Probably not a big crowd pleaser.  😆

Poor Andrew.  He had just fallen off of the deck and was trying to so hard to be brave for the picture.  What a good sport.   

I think the boys watched maybe 2.5 minutes of the Sand Lot movie but had a blast making a muck of my basement.  

Sunday we celebrated again at Nona and Papa's house ending his birthday weekend with a smile.  

 

Zooming through Labor Day

We made it this year to the annual Labor Day Pace campout.  This year was at Dark Valley.   Looking at all the pictures my girls took I'd say a lot of Gas was burned that weekend zooming around the trails surrounding the cabin.     A whole lot of smiles were had on one of our favorite weekends of the year.  

Brooke brought out her 150 and taught Aaron and Jane how to ride.   The clutch was a little tricky for Aaron so I think we will wait a year or two before getting him one for himself.  

Bart and Aaron took off fishing one afternoon and on the way back Aaron learned how to drive the can am.   He was so proud 

Most everyone casually took part in putting the zig jaw puzzle together but Brooke and I were obsessed with it.     We finally did it with only 1 piece missing.