Soccer Season

Rachel and Lincoln played on the same soccer team this year.  Rachel really took off and especially did well on defense.  For a while we had trouble getting Lincoln to not lay down on the field, but he definitely improved and seemed to enjoy the snack part especially.

I turned thirty!

It was a month ago but what can you do.  For my present Joe and I are combining presents from birthday and Christmas to get a laptop, but the kids gave me some pretty awesome presents.  Who could want more then several pictures, a coupon book, and a button.

Joe and the kids did a good job making my birthday special.  The Friday before Joe also threw a surprise party for me.  My friend helped him a lot putting it together.  I was very impressed and totally surprised.

The Code of the Ninjas

Lincoln spends a lot of the day telling me about ninjas.  He has no idea about what ninjas look like or do, but he will tell me fact upon fact that he makes up.  Joe and I were excited to find a ninja outfit at Goodwill on Friday.  We surprised Lincoln this morning after washing it.  He loves it.

Code of the Ninjas(as dictated by Lincoln):

Ninjas are naked

Only nice ninjas have moms

There are blue, red, and green ninjas

Ninjas don't wear shoes

Ninjas don't drink green smoothies

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Rachel's Room is Finished!

Here's Rachel's room that I've been working on decorating for a long time.  It's fun for me to try to decorate cheaply and customize the decor just how I want it.  This might be less exciting to some readers but you'll have to humor my obsession...

The drawers and night stand were both originally different shades of brown and the night stand didn't have matching pulls.  Joe was very nice to do the painting and I found pulls that were similar.  We got oil based paint not realizing the clean-up that would take so Joe gets extra bonus points for painting.

I made matching picture boards for Rachel and Hannah.  I just covered a cheap bulletin board with batting and fabric and then stapled the ribbon and material down.  I made covered buttons where the ribbons intersect and appliqued on their initials.

I found the lamp at a garage sale and made the doily underneath it.

The butterflies on the wall I bought off of ebay from our good neighbors in Hong Kong.  No hand craft there but I really like them.  They were a good deal too.