Ka-CHOW!!!!

Well, the transformation is complete...we did it!!! I found a Lightning McQueen race car bed on Craig's list (for like 1/4 the price of a new one) and last night we drove out to Beverly Hills to get it!! That was an interesting experience all in itself.  Nothing beats going to a swanky apartment building and having the owner's own personal mover/handyman help you carry out a giant plastic car bed!!  Note to the rich...make your parking garages larger...our truck barely fit in there enpty, only Greg could have possibly gotten that truck back out with the bed sticking off the back!!!

Anyways, we got it and made it home!! Here are David and Greg putting the bed together the next day...you think Freddie's just a little excited about it??

Honestly, I tihnk Greg (and David) were just as excited...and a little bummed they didn't get to sleep in it (it's a twin size bed, so it's large enough for an adult to sleep in!!)  We got it all set up with the mattress and got Freddie switched from the crib with NO ISSUES at all!! This means that so far we are 2 for 2 with switching from the crib to big kid beds!!  We put on the Cars bedding Freddie got for his birthday and his room looks amazing!!

Thanks to Uncle David for coming over to help...there was no way I was going to be able to help Greg carry that thing inside!!

A little home decorating....kid style...

Well, here they are....after weeks of painting and patience, the kids rooms are decorated and pretty much ready to go.  Now we just have to change the toys and bedding and we'll have Freddie in a big-boy bed, Karyl on the trundle bed, and the crib all empty and ready for Nicole in 4 weeks!!

Here is the "Girl" room....

Here is the "Boy" room - which Freddie will have all to himself until the next baby if it's a boy...if it's a girl then he'll get to have it all to himself for a LONG time!!

The paint is the same, there was just more light in one shot than another. 

For any of you thinking that a border is an easy way to add pizzaz to a room, learn from us...apparently the borders ARE NOT self adhesive.  They have to be moistened and then attached...which didn't work since the walls in thise house have funky texture.  So, the men did what they had to...they went and bought spray adhesive.....it worked....

Now, Greg just wants to find a "stop light" lamp for Freddie's room and some other racing things...we also have self-adhesive (we checked) stickers that match the borders for the walls once we get the furniture in it's final place.

For the girl room we just need to put the stickers on the wall and get a railing for the trundle bed.  Other than that, her room is all done.

Greg has done an awesome job.  Now he is going to start working on our room (we already have the paint, it's a medium blue). We want crown moulding in ours, so that's the only additional purchase we have to make...and paint it white (the ceiling will be white too).  We still haven't decided on what color the bathroom will be, but we're in no hurry.  We needed to get the kids' rooms done first so we could switch them before the baby...our room can be done at a more leisurely pace!!

It's that time of year again

The rain has stopped, the warmer weather is creeping in and it's that time of year again....when Uncle David and Greg start working on the house again.  Today the chosen project was laying the drain pipe for the other side of the house (the non-RV parking side).  This morning, they got up, headed out to Home Depot with Freddie and attempted to rent something called a "Ditch Witch" - otherwise known as a trench digger.  Well, turns out that if you call and ask the Home Depot rental geniuses if they have a tool or not, they don't bother to check and see if it's working.  They drove out there, only to find out that the ones they had weren't working...neither were the ones a few miles away...
So, they came back slightly ticked off and set out digging their trench by hand....over 100 feet later and they are only about 6 feet from the fence line now - rather impressive!!

Here are some pictures of our beautifully green and luscious front lawn torn apart - literally - there are long chunks of grass and dirt sitting alongside the trench so they can be planted back when they're done laying the pipe.  Apparently, one up side to doing it all by hand was that they didn't break any sprinkler pipes...and they came across like 5 or 6 of them while digging that would have been torn up by the automatic digger.

So, here's our front lawn -

At least I have plenty of men around to do all the manual labor...right???

Daddy's little helper

These past few weeks Greg has been doing a lot of work on the inside of the house to get the kids' rooms ready for them to switch and to get ready for Nicole.  One of the big projects was putting mirrored closet doors in the rooms instead of the big wooden eye sores we've had for the past 2-1/2 years.  So, this past weekend Greg was putting up the mirrors in Freddie's current room and was using a screwdriver to raise the wheels on the bottom before putting them on....and Freddie had been watching for a minute, disappeared, then returned with his own screwdriver!! A friend of Greg's from work just gave us a cute "tool bench" for him to play with and even though he'd only had it for like a day, he recognized what Daddy was doing and brought his own tools to help!!

So, Greg got the wheels raised and then let Freddie give it a shot with his screwdriver.  It was cute to see him try to imitate Daddy!!

Oh the cuteness overlaod we experience in our home...

Guess all those Home Depot and Lowe's Kid's Clinics are paying off....