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This activity takes about two minutes to set up and entertains the children for a good hour. It’s awesome that baking soda, food coloring, vinegar can be so fun!

After they are out of reactive fun they get all mad scientisty with their pretend play. It’s all Jekyll and Hyde (SO should have recorded THAT bit!), and witches and wizards at the the kitchen table.

Kaylee couldn’t figure out how to use the medicine dropper, so I had to stop filming and teach her how to do it.

 

cousin b-days

IMG_9239I LOVED how much Cassie LOVED her pinata. She wouldn’t let the thing go until it was time to crack it open.

IMG_9243Jon brought his laptop so he could play with Isaac. Isaac got to pick what they did.

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IMG_9279Cassie and Isaac have June 6th and 7th b-days.  So they get min pinata since it’s two pinatas in one day. Can you imagine the candy output/intake if they were full size pinatas?

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IMG_9324Forgot to FOCUS. So sad…

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IMG_9364Cassie got a cool projector night light.

It was a fun party. We love living near family!

Before and After: Living room

The living room was big white and pretty empty when we first saw it.
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DSCF3405 (2)Can you believe that Josh didn’t like the door knobs in this house?! I kid. They were not anyone’s cup of tea.

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2011-10-29_11-06-43_515Looking from the kitchen into the living room.

DSCF3074 (2)Josh recruited many family and friends to help paint and stuff. We have the best family!

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2011-11-08_18-44-25_531The bee-bee gun for shooting pigeons off the roof.

DSCF3086 (2)I took Kaylee over to the house with me to check on a few things during reno. She passed out by the front door. The next photos are of the mostly done living room. I still need to finish caulking baseboards, and do some touch up painting.

IMG_9066I got this AWESOME shoe dresser from Ikea. Inside those four drawers is a hot mess of shoes. 🙂

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IMG_9059My area rug is getting sort of sad…. I found a dreamy orange and white chunky stripped one online that I fell in love with. Dreamy as in it’s just a dream…… Pretend it’s there though.

IMG_9056Looking from the play room toward the kitchen. I think Josh bought the biggest t.v. he could. I was not thrilled with having such a massive t.v. in the living room because I knew we would get used to it, and not be able to go back to a more reasonable size when it left. Jon and I are SO very used to having the giant bachelor t.v. It’s going away to Joshily house soonish. Jon has been eying replacements.

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IMG_9057Looking from the front door into the house. Jon says we need more color. I think the orange rug would be perfect……. 🙂