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Today I swung by Marsh in Brownsburg and found this.......

In case you can't tell because this pic was taken with my phone, that's the owners of Schmidt and Young Construction on the shopping cart at Marsh. They're famous!!

Happy Birthday Allison!

Today Allison turned 2, it's hard to believe!! Here are a couple pics from her party yesterday. We had a balloon party, the girl loves balloons.

Here is the balloon cake Ryan made, he is a 'jack of all trades' he says.:)

I am usually not one to post any sentimental stuff but this birthday has been a hard one on me! I am coming to realize what an amazing little girl Alli really is. There is a Jars of Clay song that has become very personal to me the last two years since she was born called Valley Song. A part of the song says, "I will sing of Your mercy that leads me through valleys of sorrow to rivers of joy." Allison has completely changed our lives and I can say she truly is a joy! Ok, enough of the sap, Happy Birthday Allison!!

Cheap Thrills

A couple weeks ago my washer and dryer died so we went out and found the fabulous Whirlpool Cabrios. The kids were fascinated with them, they have glass lids so the first time I used them they spent at least 20 minutes watching the clothes wash. Well, I thought it would get old eventually but here we are, 2 weeks later and they are still totally fascinated with them. When they are bored I say, "Hey, lets go do a load of laundry!" and they jump at it. Doesn't take much to amuse my kids!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We didn't go out to dinner or even exchange gifts for Valentine's Day, instead we stayed home with the kiddos. We did, however, make a special dessert, chocolate fondue.

We had pound cake, pretzels, cheesecake, brownies, marshmallows, bananas, and strawberries, all dipped in Ghiradelli chocolate.

All of that and all JJ wanted was the plain strawberries, he didn't know what he was missing!

Alli, on the other hand, loved everything. I think she would have taken the chocolate by IV if possible!

Hope your Valentines Day was as sweet as ours!

Paint, Paint, Paint

Last week my friend Kit came over and helped me pick out some paint colors for the house. Here is a sneak peak of what I've done so far. One wall down, a lot more to go!!

Before

After

Sleep Over

Last night we had a little sleepover, Rylan and Madison spent the night at our house. I was a little nervous about how the girls would do all night but we had a great time!

We watched movies.

The girls did not want to go to bed

So sweet!

Disgusting!!!

We have had this odor coming from our downstairs coat closet for about 4 months. I did everything I could think of, washed the coats, cleaned the floor and walls, even disassembled the vacuum and cleaned it out. Finally Ryan cut a whole in the wall and found the culprit, a dead mouse. Kind of disgusting but at least the problem was solved. Well, today as I'm digging through the glove basket to find JJ some gloves to go outside I noticed that most of the gloves smelled, I figured it was just lingering from the mouse Ryan found earlier to I took it up and washed it all.

Once the gloves are done washing I go to get them to dry them and I notice the laundry room smells. Well, I just think, wow, maybe I need some better soap if they still smell this bad. I go to unload them into the dryer and grab this lint to throw it away, only it isn't lint.

Even after 5 washing I can still feel the wet, dead mouse on my hand!