Happy Birthday Diana!

I just wanted everyone to know that today is my beautiful wife's birthday! I am so grateful for such a wonderful, thoughtful, considerate person to spend my life and eternity with. She is my best friend and I love her so much! So everyone, wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Climbing on Up

Sorry for all of the videos but I couldn't resist. Anna has learned to crawl up the stairs! I guess it's time for a gate. She really does seem to do something new everyday. Life is much busier now and much more fun!

Anna is Crawling!

Anna has been crawling around for a little over a month now but we have yet to get a good video of her. Every time we turn the camera on, she freezes. So this is the best one we have. She's really growing up.

Blackberries

We went to Eckert's today and had so much fun! It's this place in Illinois where you can go and pick fruit and pay by the pound. Unfortunately we just missed the peaches but we did get some delicious blackberries!! It was really fun.
I was really surprised when I looked down at my hands after only picking a few berries and they were stained red. Throughout the day, they just kept getting darker and darker. Then I look over at my husband and his hands were glistening clean!! I couldn't quite figure out how he became such and expert berry picker. Who knows, maybe this is a good career for him. His bucket had the most perfect round blackberries while mine were kind of falling apart and such. I guess he's really got a knack for it.
We're going to make homemade ice-cream tonight with the berries, blackberry jam, and freeze some for smoothies. It was really fun. We're really glad we went.

We just had to eat some! They were delicious.

Funny Faces

So, no one takes a perfect picture all of the time. In Anna's case, we seem to take about 20 pictures to get the perfect one. She's only about six and a half months old, but we've got quite a collection of funny pictures. We thought it would be fun for you to see them. You can just really see her little personality shining through. Check it out.

These are her sneezing pictures. She seems to do that a lot.

We Just Love this Girl!

Before and After

So what makes the best, most wonderful mom in the world? How about a mom who is always unselfish. How about someone who is just as happy as you are when something exciting happens in your life. How about a mom who will spend countless hours working for something you want. How about a mom who loves unconditionally. Yep, I have the BEST mom in the whole world. She's really great! She and my sister came up to visit last week and we had a blast!
I was very determined to do some redecorating. Or I guess, just decorating since I really hadn't done anything with my place yet. Our complex lets us paint which is WONDERFUL! A little paint goes a long way and really makes your house feel like home. We got a bucket of paint for $13 and it made it through the whole room with literally not even a drop to spare.
So we have about one million pictures on this post so buckle up.
Here's the before of Anna's room.

Very bland and boring.....

And the BIG REVEAL. Drumroll please.......TADA!!!

We painted her walls a light purple, painted her crib, got new bedding, filled pictureless frames, and made curtains. It was so much fun to do. I LOVE having a little nursery for my princess. I thought I'd not have one until Josh was out of school and had a real job but look. It's great! What do you think?

I've been collecting these Precious Moments statues since I was a little girl. My dad gives them to me on very special occasions. I'll always cherish them.

We still want to blow some pictures up and get a glider for the room but for now, we're more than happy with how it came out.

Cute little butterfly to hold her towel behind the door.

So, do you remember the dining set that I blogged about earlier? Well, I still love it but hate the cushions because they're so dirty. They are officially no more! We recovered them and they look brand new.

Um, eww.....

Ooo La La!!

Much better.

So, we didn't take a real before picture but you can get the idea. This is our downstairs bathroom. It was so rediculously white that I just couldn't stand it any more. We painted it a rich gold/tan color to go with the decor and I think it turned out pretty good. Take a look!

So white and boring.....

..... And now, beautiful!

It was very hard to take a picture because it's such a small room, but I think you get the idea.

And this is a beautiful mirror we got for our bedroom.

It was one busy and very fun week. We got so much done and had a blast doing it. Thanks Mom and Kellie!

P.S. We published a lot of posts so keep scrolling!!