Birthday Party

Sunday we had a birthday party for Danna and my dad. Below are pictures. Connor Jessie and Jenna

Danna and Connor

Granny, Jessie and Jenna

Jessie, Jenna, my dad, Danna, Connor, Granny, Mom and my Aunt Sheila.

Cabinets

All the cabinets are in. They turned out very nice, but not exactly what I thought they would be. The alder wood that the cabinet maker used was knotty, so they turned out more "rustic" looking then I would like, but the glaze and color is what I wanted.

This is the desk that is in the kitchen area. The girls will do all there art project here and homework. We will put there computer here, so they don't have to go into the office. This is part of Jessie's vanity. It is much bigger then I expected, which will be very handy the older the girls get. They will have to share this, it will have all the towels and other necessities.

This is the vanity in the master bath. It's extra tall for Jeff, but comes up to my.....chin. Just kidding, but it's rather tall.

Here are two pictures of the kitchen. The cabinet above the stove is not what I wanted. I had a picture of a cabinet like this one to show him some details I wanted, and then gave him another picture of what I really wanted, but needless to say.... I got this one. Oh well.

Kitchen and Office

Above is the kitchen with our two tone walls. I was afraid that the chocolate brown was going to be too dark everywhere. So two walls in the kitchen (one actaully extends into the family room) and the wall that the fireplace is on will be the choc. brown. The other walls in the kitchen, mud room and hallway into the dining room will be that lighter tan that you can see where the butlers pantry will be.
I went to Menards because that is who I had color match the other brown and wanted to know if they could color match the brown again, but add white to it, so that I could take it down a few shades. They said they couldn't so I had to become a paint mixer. After about a gallon of white paint to about 1/4 gallon brown paint we finally got the right color. Now I have to go and get that matched so we can have more.... so much fun.

This is a picture of the office. I was trying to get a picture of the floor, but you can't see it all that well. But then I figured it would be a good oppurtunity to get everyone's opinon on curtains. I'm not sure what I should do for curtains. So if you have any good ideas I'm looking for some! :)

We are painting the girls play room tonight, they want to help, so that should be a lot of fun. I will take some pictures of them "helping".

Halloween Part 2

After we went trick or treating in the "old" neighborhood, we went to the "new" neighborhood. We had been invited to a kids costume party, but it was the same time as Bettendorf's trick or treating. Of course the girls wanted to do both. So we took them to the old neighborhood to trick or treat and then over to Port Byron to go to the party. We didn't realize that it was the night for Port Byron's trick or treating too. So the neighbors took all the kids at the party around the neighborhood on a hayrack and then back to there house for a party. As you will see below the girls had a great time. They both fell asleep on the way home. Jenna asleep in her chair.

Jessie cashed out. I'm sure this was not the safest way to ride, but I didn't realize it until we got home and I took the pic.

Playdate Fun!

Jenna has a lot of friends, but most of her good friends are all boys. Below are pictures from her playdates today and last week. Below her and Ryan are playing Wii. They usually play cars, dress up or Barbies. Thank goodness the girls have boy barbies that he can be. Below are a couple of pictures of Henry and Jenna wrestling. They played really good until Jenny came to pick up Hen, then they thought it would be funny to wrestle. Jenna got two good take downs as you can see.