A Week With Nana and Poppa Ron

This past week, Camden and Casen went and spent time with Nana and Poppa Ron. It was a very exciting time for the boys, and especially Casen, since this would be his first time to spend such a long time with them without us. Nana and Poppa Ron had a lot of things planned for them and they were ready.

Nana and Poppa spent Friday night with us and Saturday morning we all got up and went to the boys soccer games. I was so excited that they got to see Casen finally play! After nap time, they packed up the boys and headed to Winnie to a place called Elise's Family Fun Center. What a fun place!!!! It is a huge place that has an indoor roller coaster, other carnival type rides, bounce houses, a video arcade, bowling allies, black light mini golf, bumper cars and a roller rink. To say the least, the boys had a blast there.

 

They also went to the movies, went out to eat at restaurants (which the boys love to do), swam in the pool and played games.

Camden teaching Casen how to play Connect Four

They took the boys to a little water park that Nana took Camden to last year and they had a great time.

Today on their way to meet Shane to pick the boys up, Nana and Poppa Ron stopped at Gator Country and let the boys see all the exciting things there.

Casen's face cracks me up in this picture.

Playing with a raccoon.

You can just see the excitement in Camden's face

Their stuffed Lizards

I can't believe he held a snake!!!

On the way home, it was obvious Nana and Poppa Ron wore them out!!! They had a great time - I hope Nana and Poppa had as good a time with Camden and Casen as they had with Nana and Poppa.

 

A Little DIYing

Ever since we moved into this house, I have despised the yellow-orange color on the walls. I have been wanting to get it painted, however choosing a paint color has proven very difficult for me. After one year and fourteen paint samples later (literally, fourteen) I finally decided on a color.

So, mid July we had the interior of the house painted, minus the boys rooms and the guest room, since I know we will eventually be painting the boys room to match whatever 'decor' they pick out.

From yucky to pretty!

I can't tell you what a difference the paint has made. Everything looks so bright and clean. The only down side I see is that the carpet looks absolutely horrible now. I knew it was bad, but now with the pretty walls, my wood floors need to come sooner more so than later. To tell you how bad it looks, Shane, who has not been a fan of getting wood floors until the boys were a bit older, feels we should probably go ahead and get new floors. So, after much discussion, I think we have decided to put the kitchen upgrade off for another year or so and go ahead and get new floors. Woo Hoo! Stay tuned for that - since I already know exactly what I want, it should not take me forever to pick out a color.

Now that I feel like our house is becoming a home, I have started doing some things to work towards what I have envisioned for our home. The first thing I did was make a roman shade for our stairwell window. What Pinterest said would take 30 minutes or so took me well over 3 hours - darn that OCD. While I am not 100% totally pleased with my finished product, it definitely is better than what we had.

The second thing I have done is I used some hand me down door knobs from my sister, spruced them up with some oil rubbed bronze spray paint and changed out all our door knobs in the house. I love the way they look and am anxious to see how well the paint job holds up - yet another Pinterest find.

The knobs in a box

After 'ORBing' them

Installed on some upstairs doors

Unfortunately summer is coming to an end, so my DIYing may just have to slow down - not that it was in over drive or anything. : )

Twin Time

Don't you just hate when your friend, who just happens to have twins, has to go to work and her mother-in-law can't watch the babies???? I DON'T!!!! That means twin time for me!!! Woo Hoo!!! I headed to Orange on Saturday afternoon after the boys soccer games so I could spend some time not only with the babies, but to catch up with Lisa since her reign of mother hood began. I can't believe how much Finn and Madison have grown. I must say, taking care of two at one time is definitely more taxing than taking care of one, but I enjoyed every minute of it.

 

Maddie looking so big in the new chair

Finn testing out the new chair

Lisa and the babies before church

A selfie with the sleeping babies.

Such a sweet smile

I had a great time with Lisa and the babies, and I am already looking forward to our next time together!!

Soccer Playing Fools

All I can say is we had a VERY successful day playing soccer! Like I have said before, when Casen finally decides to quit being stubborn and shows what he can do, he goes full force! He played soccer like a champ today running all over the field and having a great time.

Red faced and sweaty.

Up until today, Camden has refrained from playing goalie. Honestly, that does not bother me one bit - that is too high anxiety for me. Shane felt he needed to try goalie one time this season since he is always defending the goal from his brother when they play together. Generally the coach asks for volunteers, but today Camden when right up to him prior to the game and told him he wanted to play goalie. I was so proud of him for taking the initiative - that is big for his shy self. He started off a little timid, but once he got settled into the position he did well.