Projects too!

 The side yard is still a dirt patch but it sure makes a nice place for the dogs to roam and the kids to play and for a garden to grow.  Brent's made a dog house for the dogs in that lean too there and he made some garden boxes and our garden looks great this year, Yeah!!

 This is our girls playhouse!!!! I had the idea and the motivation for others :)  Thanks to Brent for building it, thanks to The Anderson's for the window and the wood for the door, thanks to me and the girls for priming and painting the base colors, thanks to Tina Terry for painting the beautiful artwork, I love the tree, flowers and Butterfly's!! I am still going to stain the door and brent's going to shingle the roof but overall I am happy with the house.  There is a sandbox inside and the steping stones outside have the girls handprints and names on them.

 Here is my beautiful Garden.  It could use some growth and and color editing but I am please that I didn't kill everything this year that things can grow from seeds and my willingness to wait for things.  Thanks to Cassie for my perennials.

 I made Doughnut holes for our trip to Canada.  I hate it when up pack food to save money and it doesn't end up doing that because they secretly don't eat the food you sent back and by the time you realize that it's not eaten the foods gone bad and they are hungry and grouchy and so are you.  So you end up having to spend more money on food along the way and counteracts the plan in the first place.  So I decided that making food we don't normally eat might help them actually eat what I pack.  Cross your fingers!

I made this taggie for Ella I must say she loves it!!

 This isn't a great before picture of this dresser but you can see that I really changed the color.

 I did a cream paint with a grown glaze to make it look atique and the put new knobs on it.

 This also isn't a great before picture of the table but you can get an idea.

I also did pretty much the same thing with this table that I did with the dresser except I also did a poly finish so it can be cleaned easier and wear better.  I'm glad it gave my table and dresser more years with us and saved me money thanks to Erica for letting be use her glaze and I guess Ruth too cuz it was passed from her.  Thanks to Cathy for the new dinning room Chairs.

It's been a year and here it is finally!

We moved about a year ago to our new house.  Here are the before and afters!

 This is a look at the empty lot before the house even got here.

 The house arrives and porches were put up and other things were in progress...

 Here is grass fence side walks, and bushes and flowers to get bigger with age. :)

 a rock garden in the corner

 Grass and gravel pad for parking

 The wall were all speckled and full of vines I painted all the walls and had fun decorating.  Brent and Curt put in wood floors.  We also put in inset lights and new light fixtures.  Just the other day the girls were reminicing about the old gold chandelier and saying that they loved it and missed it.  So funny the difference of oppinion with age.

 The pictures of the bedrooms were taken right when we moved so they have changed a bit like paige no longer has a crib and Kota and Cloe wanted their beds bunked so we did that.  My room is basicly the same, I love the Country Feel.

 Whoops! :)

 Alright that's more like it! I made the curtains and throw pillows and also the curtains in the bathroom bellow.

 It is so nice to have a master bath!

 I must admit I wasn't happy about the timing about these kitchen picks it's not really clean but you get the idea of how it looks at least.

 We are really enjoying our house and whew I'm glad that I finally got these pics posted that I've been saying I'm going to post. :)

Casey Family Reunion

                                     

We had a Blast at the Family Reunion this year!  We got to do sealing in the Rexburg Idaho Temple for family.

 We got to go to bear world and see bears and albino elk and they had a petting zoo and fun rides for the kids.

 Trish and all sorts of fun things planned for the kids.  We painted faces and did nails and went for a hike and Aunt brenda brought reunion shirts to sign and decorate.  we also went and saw the falls there and waded in warm spring which wasn't really warm by the way but it was fun and uncle trevor did swim. :)

 And trish made all the kids matching PJ's and put them in totes and just made us all to welcome!

We got to go out to dinner for brent's parents anniversary it was really nice.  Look at that lemon brent had in his drink I never did see a deer lemon before or maybe it's a bunny. We also had a lot of fun playing minute to win it games although I may have gotten a little competitive sorry to all you sheaters out there that I had to tattle on. :)  I must say I was very happy that I was able to get the sticky chocolate cookies in my mouth by starting on my forhead not touching it with my hands and it was delicious!  Also the Cabin that we stayed in was really nice too. Great Reunion!  Thanks Trevor and Trish it was really nice!