Trouble

Madilyn is walking, she is smart, and she is TROUBLE. She is into everything. She prides herself on being able to go up and down the stairs by herself. She refuses to sit in her highchair. Today I gave her a bath, put her in clean clothes and let her play on the floor while I read to the boys. I look up from my book to find Madilyn sitting in a large pile of ashes by the fireplace, playing very happily. She was not too happy when I took her away from the ashes and cleaned her and her pile, and then locked the fireplace doors so that she couldn't open them again. I sure love this girl.

Mom

Rylan saw your picture on facebook this morning, and said that he misses you.  I do too.

Look what's new at our house...

Brian way house

We found this house right after we found the house we are in now. It was listed as a short-sale, and we thought it would make a good rental house, so we made an offer. Long story short, we got the house and the short sale was approved, and we will be closing on it next week. The house isn't much to look at, but we love the location. It is nestled in the foothills of SE Boise on half an acre. It's backyard is the view that you see below. It is in walking distance to the greenbelt/river. Right now it will be a rental, but someday we might remodel/add on to it, and move in.

Front of house

Front/side of house

Back of house

 

Upstairs bathroom

Living room

Downstairs Bathroom

 

                                                                          Bedroom

                                                                      Dining Room

                                                                            Kitchen

Strange slanted wall room/office

The view from the back porch

Get those bullets

Rylan was trying to convince Merek to retrieve his nerf bullets...

Rylan: Merek get me those bullets
Merek: No
Rylan: Do you want to be a nice boy? Do you want Jesus to like you? Jesus likes nice boys. Go get me those bullets.

When Merek refused to get the bullets, Rylan decided to punish him by punching him. Too bad Rylan is now in timeout.

Bubbles

This room needed to be mopped anyway...

House updates

We are in the house now. It has been a crazy holiday. We moved into the house a few days after we closed. We found that we couldn't really fix it up unless we were in it. Corbin quoted us a price to clean the carpets that we couldn't resist, so we let him help us out.

We have also decided that we might want to rent out the mother-in-law quarters, so we have decided to fix it up first.  Mike and his dad have been busy ripping out the flooring and wallpaper, and then texturing the ceiling and walls and painting.  Here is their work in progress.

Darin came over and helped us with some wiring issues and we now have heat in this part of the house. I think that this part of the house may be done by the end of this week or next week. It will be nice to have something finished. 

Next we want to attack downstairs.  We need to finish painting, and I hope to get new flooring in the bedrooms. I'll keep you posted on our progress... There is so much still to do.