Great Vacation!

We have returned from our WONDERFUL vacation back to IN to visit my family. We were able to go back for 12 days this year which was so nice! We spent most of the time at my parents on the lake...Derek had no problem fishing all day! I'll add a couple different posts with different pictures throughout our trip.

Taylor had a great time riding on the boat.....and helping Grandpa drive!

Father's Day Fun

I want to first wish my dad a Happy Father's Day! I am so sad I can't be with you today, but I am really looking forward to spending 2 weeks with you very soon! You are such a great dad and grandpa, we appreciate all you do for us, We love you Dad!!

I wish I could say here at home we were able to give Derek a nice relaxing Father's Day...unfortunately we are still feeling the effects of moving our house around for the new carpet!
We had Derek's family over today for lunch to celebrate Derek, Bob and Greg. Taylor and Bea had a great time playing together today, especially in a box that Grandma brought over! It is fun to watch them interacting and playing together, although sometimes it is more watching Taylor trying to take whatever toy Bea is interested in at the time! We will need to work on that!

Taylor and I would like to say Happy Father's Day to Derek. Derek is such an amazing father and works so hard for our family. Taylor is already such a daddy's girl, and I love watching every second of the two of them together! Thank you for all you do Derek, we love you!

Home Improvements Continue

Saturday we got new and MUCH needed carpet! I was very surprised and impressed with how quickly they did the whole house! I would estimate the installers were here around 5 hours or less. Derek and I had a good time standing in the hallway watching each step in the process. Here are some pictures...I didn't do a great job of before pictures, so unfortunately the one attached is of the living room once we had already moved stuff around.

Here is a before picture...(I would like to add a disclaimer that we usually do not have that much stuff on our couches :) )

We love the new carpet and are so happy to have the process complete. Derek and I did a lot of the work before the installers came, we wanted to move a lot of our things on our own....which also meant putting a lot back on our own...we are tired and looking forward to our much needed vacation in a few days! Below are some of the after pics!

Father's Day Finger Painting

On Friday we had a playdate with Molly and Logan and Sharon and Roman. Molly suggested finger painting pictures for the dads for Father's Day...I thought what a great idea since we were getting new carpet on Saturday!

All three little ones did a great job....Roman gets an award for the cleanest baby! Derek loved his masterpiece that Taylor made for him! It has a place of honor on the fridge!

Tough Camping Trip

For those of you that know Derek you know he loves to camp, this was something I had to get somewhat use to when we started dating! I say somewhat because I am still not sold on camping and after this weekend I am leaning toward the somewhat not wanting to go anymore! Don't get me wrong the scenery is beautiful and I love spending time with our friends, but this weekend proved to be a little more expensive and frustrating than others!

We had a couple of mishaps with the car, we will be heading to the body shop today to get our passenger door fixed and Derek had to take it to the tire place to get a new valve put on one tire (a brand new tire to be more specific). I also got eaten alive by something out there...so lets just say it will be a while before I return to the woods...I am sure Derek would go this weekend again if he could!

I did have to include pictures of the fire that Michele and I (with Ashley's supervision) built...we were pretty proud of ourselves! The boys were fishing and we decided it would be wise to start the fire so there were coals later to cook our food on...and we decided we didn't need to wait for the men to build it for us!!

Home Improvements

We have a lot of things we have been working on with our house. The latest change we made was switching out the rock in our front yard. We decided we'd like a darker rock...and we wanted to put down weed barrier to keep the weeds out. Here are the before, during and after pictures. I can honestly say I am happy to have this done...shoveling 10 tons of rock is not an easy job!

Before...this is the lighter color rock that we have had since we moved in.


During...this is part of the pile of rock that we took up...the neighborhood kids enjoyed playing on it!







After...our much darker rock, more importantly our darker rock with weed barrier!!

Hanging at the Pool

Our good friends Jill and James were in town this weekend, we had a great time spending time with them. Sunday night they stayed at a super nice resort right by our house...we were very excited because we got to use the pool! There were four pools and a lazy river, we set up along the lazy river and actually didn't even explore the other pools, we had everything we needed at the lazy river. Taylor once again LOVED the water and barely napped because she was having so much fun. We didn't take too many pictures since we were in the water having fun the whole day!