Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Extreme Home Makeover.

Brigham's latest interest has been coloring and has decided to display his artwork- all over the house.


Unwashable crayons. A little bit of Clorox sink cleaner got most of this smiley face off (thanks mom).


I'm glad this is washable marker!


Unfortunately this is permanent marker on my wonderful dresser.


A closer look at what I'm up against.



Any ideas on how to get this off without having to refinish? Seriously- I'd like to know.


Whew! Washable marker! You can see that the smiley face didn't quite come off all the way yet.




I'm done crying over my dresser and so glad that everything else was easier to fix! I still love him. I hope he will learn to use crayons in coloring books though!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

An Update!

I just have a random assortment of things to say. Matt found out that he can't make it into the police academy this summer which we had been planning on. So now we are on to Plan B or maybe it's now Plan C or D for us now as far as his future career goes. At least he still has his delicious job right now at Dominos in this interesting economic time- which is like our Plan X or Y! We don't have to worry about starving, we just have to worry about our expanding waistlines right now!

We went to a family reunion last night where we celebrated the life of Matt's late Grandpa Larsen on what would have been his 100th Birthday. It was interesting for us to learn about his life, he passed away before Matt was born, and it is amazing to see how many people we are related to! I had to do a family tree for one of my classes and I think I deserved major extra credit because I had to do the Larsen side on the family. Grandpa Larsen had a total of nine children to start with then you add wives and husbands and their children, it gets very large very fast! It's so hard getting all the names and faces straight. I also finally got to see a couple of Matt's Aunts that I haven't met yet too! I regret leaving the camera at home and not having pictures. I need to work on my New Years resolution to take more pictures at family events!

I've added some of my favorite pictures from the past few weeks:



Matt, Sarah Jane, Brigham (and me too-but not pictured) have enjoyed the few good weather days we've had. I really hope it doesn't snow again, I'm really sick of it!




I'm so glad these two get along! This is in Brigham's new room-we just did the switch a couple weeks ago- it's in the room formerly known as the junk room and toys in time out room.


I so wish I could believe in the 5-second rule this day.


Sarah Jane's reaction to her first taste of cereal.