Living room reveal

One year ago we were packing up our townehouse and getting ready to close on our home. Here we are a year later and we have finished a good portion of the upstairs. We are done with everything except the master bedroom and the bathrooms. So here is the before and after for the living room. We painted, replaced the carpet with hardwood, took out all the floor tile and replace the fireplace surround with slate. And when I say we, I mean about 25% me and 75% Paul. One thing you can't see in this before picture is the blinds, which were metal and the same forest green as the carpet (just really lovely as you can imagine). Also, the picture doesn't do justice to the old tile (marbled with forest green) and the forest green grout. We'll get some pictures up of the rest soon!

Halloween - 2 weeks later

"What's this?", you say, "the third blog post in two weeks?". Yes, yes it is. We finally got our computer fixed so I have been able to do a little catch up. Here are our Halloween pictures. We had a trunk or treat at church and then went trick or treating on the weekend. Lauryn decided to mix it up a little bit and wore a Snow White costume when we went to a Halloween party at the Aquarium. Thanks to Grandma Mary for the awesome pirate costumes.

When we went neighborhood trick or treating the girls were so funny. We went with some friends and Lauryn really got into the whole running from house to house thing thanks to the older kids we were with. About half way through her bucket apparently got too heavy for her so I had to carry it. I also happened to be carrying Annie, since I had to almost run to keep up with Lauryn and her friends. As opposed to her sister, Annie would not let go of her bucket no matter how full it got. I tried to pry it out of her death grip when it got so heavy she was literally leaning over but she would not have it. Unfortunately, she could only protect it from me for so long and once she went to bed (and over the next week) I ended up eating pretty much all of it.

Lauryn's "mean pirate" face.

Arrrrrgggg, the booty.
I let Annie play with her candy thinking she wouldn't be able to open any. She showed me and ate half a tootsie roll, wrapper on.

Pahulus in the house

We had so much fun when Paul's family came to visit. We went to a farm, toured a candy factory, made and decorated sugar cookies, had a pumpkin carving contest, make pumpkin rolls, watched movies, went to a corn maze, went shopping, ate too much food and stayed up way too late. We LOVED having them here and already missed them about 2 minutes after they left.

Our favorite 4 year old

Lauryn turned 4 on Oct. 17. It was a bit of a chaotic time, but we managed to have some major celebrating nonetheless. The Thursday before her birthday I took her into the Dr. because she wasn't feeling well and we ended up taking the ambulance to the hospital where she stayed for 2 nights. We went straight from checking her out of the hospital to pick up Paul's mom, sister, and brother at the airport.
Since her birthday was on a Sunday, we went to Incredible Pizza Saturday night. (It's like Chuck E. Cheese x 10). Then on Sunday we had a family party where we played games, had dinner, opened presents and had cake. Lauryn was a pretty happy girl, especially to be out of the hospital in time for her birthday and to have Grandma, Aunt Kalo, and Uncle Shiblon and Uncle Key here to celebrate with her.



ps - I know there are a lot of pictures of the rainbow cake, but I was really proud of it and it was quite the labor of love to make (I was up until 3 am Saturday night after two nights of very little sleep). I followed the instructions from this site: http://www.howdoesshe.com/6-layer-cake-tips

pps - In case you were wondering, Lauryn was in the hospital because she has asthma (which we didn't know). She's on a preventative medicine now, so hopefully it will make life better and she can breathe a little easier now :)