Trunk or Treat!

Ok, so going against all things that I was raised to believe, I submit to my husband every year and let my boys dress up for Trunk or Treat...I refuse to say they dress up for the "H" word!!!!

Here's pictures from the Trunk or Treat at the church down the road from us.

The boys with some friends from our church.

Jalyn can't take a picture without some kind of ninja pose.

I'll post more tomorrow the boys just wanted to get some pictures on the computer tonight so everyone could see the great time they had. I'll also post pictures of the house progress tomorrow, it's slow but moving along.

House Update

Here's the latest update on the house. We've got all the walls and ceilings up. I got most the walls in our bedroom painted today. I've still got the burgundy wall to finish and then the ceiling. We got a bid on painting the front room and all the ceilings today.....$1500 PLUS the paint!!!!!!! SO, we'll be renting scaffolding and painting the front room ourselves, we'll see how that goes!!!

Tomorrow Alfredo will texturize the front room and ceiling.

So far this has been the hardest part of this process, ok probably not the hardest part but it definitely ranks up at the top.....our house is filled with mosquito's!!! The workers come in and out all day long and mosquito's are awful right now so some have made our home their home!!!

This is a mosquito bite I got on my eyelid while in the kitchen this morning!!!!! During the day I spray us down with Deet but at night I can't sleep b/c the smell keeps me up so I'm going to try some essential oils that Lindsey recommended.

Tomorrow I'm going to start putting primer on all the ceilings and then paint them. Jonathan's off in a few weekends so that's when we'll tackle the front room. I've got the carpet guy lined up to measure on Wednesday and then the wait is 3 weeks for the carpet to come in and get installed. I'm hoping we can be on our way to some sense of normalcy by Thanksgiving!!! Stay tuned for more updates!!!

Tournament Time!

Yesterday was our local taekwondo tournament. It was put on by our school and Global Taekwondo. Jon Michael had a great time competing.

Jon Michael doing his pattern.

I kept laughing so hard b/c Jon Michael had to keep chasing his opponent around the ring....so funny!!!

Jon Michaels bracket was age 6-11...this boy is almost as big as the black belt!

But Jon Michael tried to stay in there with him, he did pretty good. It was pretty neat to see how the older boy could predict and analyze his opponent.

Kaleb swept their bracket in patterns and sparring. Jon Michael got silver in sparring.

So cool seeing the boys good sportsmanship.

His Knife Hand break.

This was just super cute to watch little ones sparring...and they were going after each other!

I know you can't see him, they kept moving to fast for my camera, but the black belt in the middle came all the way from Peru to compete and help with the tournament...very cool.

Like I said Jon Michael had a great time and I'm so glad he enjoys competing with other kids.

Papa, This Ones For You!

Yesterday walking home from taking Jon Michael to school Jalyn looked up at me and said, "Can you take a picture of me doing a knife hand and a really scary face so Papa can see it?" What was I supposed to say?!?!

So, Papa, this ones for you!!! Hope you enjoy!

Happy, Happy....Sad!

Ok, so Jalyn was having a pretty great day today and then it all went wrong....TERRIBLY WRONG!!!

Enjoying the weather and stick fighting.

He's been asking for days to make cupcakes so I thought we'd make them up and then take them with us to bible study tonight. He wanted a picture so everyone could see him being a big boy.

I literally had turned around to sit the camera down and this is what I turned back around to!!!!!

He kept insisting that I wasn't supposed to take a picture of this! You missed the huge open mouth sobs!

"Just Another Monday"

Jonathan is always off on Monday so its really like a Saturday to us....well not to Jon Michael and I b/c we still have to get up early and get ready for school, etc.... BUT it is the day we watch movies or run errands or just be lazy. This was today, so cute watching Jalyn and his Daddy together.

The guys watching a martial arts movie...

The guys watching Indiana Jones...

Here's just a few pictures of the progress on the house...you might have already seen these, I forget what I've already posted sometimes. Mud and tape, then texturing is next. Then the work starts for us, paint, carpet, and trim work. Luckily a guy in our small group at church is a carpenter so he said he could do the window sill in our bedroom, we could've tried ourselves but a professional will be much faster and one less thing we'll have to stress about!

"Cooking King"

Jon Michael loves to cook and yesterday I let him make his own eggs.....after I put them in the pan and turned on the stove...I didn't get a picture of him after he accidently burnt his finger! He was pretty proud of himself.