Our Home

The built in shoe and coat cubbies

This is the kids bathroom upstairs. We painted some of the tiles at a pottery store and the tile man put them in for us. The top two are the kids handprints from 2005







Noah's shadowbox full of his infant items and the tub in our master bath. I added a candle chandlelier because by code your not allowed to have an electric one over the tub!!














Abby's infant items and the Bengals basement

























Our home

The theater room

Our covered porch, backyard and playground

Noah and Abby's handprints when they poured our driveway

Noah's room that's been decorated in Star Wars, but now is also filled with many Cars toys!!

Our bedroom which is my favorite room in the house, I love all of it!!


The playroom's many crazy colors and tons of toys!!

Our Family Room with a plasma screen tv mounted over the fireplace and built in display shelves

Abby's room that's all pink and girly!!


Not pictured: the kitchen, it's just too messy right now!!

more pics for fun

Here's some more pics from the fall last year. Abby's field trip to Schappacher Farm, me and Åbby going to see My Little Pony Live and Noah's trophy ceremony for football. Just thought they were cute to share!!

Abby's new clothes

This is the outfit I talked about on Sonya's blog, from the Disney Store. I think it was worth every penny!! She looks so cute!!

Snowy Sunday

Well of course everyone knows that it snowed on Sunday and we of course took some time to go out and play around. We used the little sleds that we got at the end of last winter and I tried to pull the kids around together, but boy were they heavy!! Jasmine loved running around out there and she ate a lot of the snow!! It was lots of fun

Noah's first Basketball Game

Noah is in the Upward Basketball League at our church this year. It is absolutely the best thing I have ever seen. Noah has played several other sports and this one takes the cake, and I am not usually a basketball fan at all!! They are very fair and let's just have fun oriented, but also very Christian centered. Every practice stops halfway through for devotion time. They always pray before they play and everyone is just so positive and upbeat. For everygame they turn off the lights, blow some fog from a machine, play music, shine a spotlight and announce every player and cheerleaders name. It is just so cool. They give out 5 stars everygame for different things and this game Noah got the best effort because they just rave about Noah's attitude and his willingness to go out there and try his best. He's not the best player on the team, but he's always smiling, cheering and doing whatever is asked of him and that means so much more to me than best offense or best defense. I always was so uncomfortable playing sports because I was so afraid I'd mess up and everyone would laugh at me, so I tried to avoid them as much as possible, but I am so relieved that my son is completely opposite. He loves it!! Now I only hope Abby is the same as him, so far she's headed in that direction. The pictures came out a bit dark and blurry for some reason, maybe the next game will be better, but here's some.


This was when they announced Noah's name, I know it's really dark, but he's number 14 and if you zoom in you can see him


Noah playing hard

Yay, 2 more points!!

Noah's party

Well last night we had Noah's Birthday party!! It was so awesome. We had the biggest turnout ever and it was just a blast. I think everyone had a good time. I know we did!! We played several games to qualify for the piston cup, we ate skyline chili with spaghetti and hot dogs (Noah's favorite), we had cake (and cupcakes), opened presents and then watched the movie on our movie theater screen. It was so awesome. I have so many great pictures thanks to Sonya and Steve!! I remember Friday night when I was up folding more laundry at 11:45pm, my husband asked me why I go to such lengths for these parties and when I saw the pictures, it hit me why. Noah's face says it all to me!!


Jonah, Noah and Sammy completing the pit stop challenge


Sawyer and Steve


Zach having fun


Abby hanging out in the giant pile of tires


Everyone is ready to roll and stack the tires!!


Go Noah!!

Go Sammy!!


Go Aaron!!

Go Julie!!


Go Abby!!

Go Jonah!!


Go Claudia!!

Go Zach!!


Our last challenge the time trial, I hope everyone can race their car to the front door in under 18 minutes!!

Simon is such a cutie!


Yay, everyone qualified for the piston cup!!

Sonya and her baby boy!


Noah is very serious about a good video game!!

The cake (and cupcakes) that I made for the party!!


After all the wonderful gifts he got, Noah yelled out a big "Thank You!!!"

Our theater is full and ready for the movie!!


Let the movie begin!!