Bronsons Room Complete

Bronsons room had a leak so we decieded we would just fix it all at once.

New paint, new trim, new baseboards, new closet build out, new fan, etc.

Tom has been working long and hard on this and his happy to be done, but I want him to move on to the next room.

Here are some before and after pictures..

Yes, the door is still brown.  Tom wont paint any doors until the whole upstairs is done.

updates are ugly.

i know i hate love them... you know you do too. as i sit here and do this update sophie is asking me how to do a letter s and a letter b, while bronson is running around with pens and crayons coloring on who knows what. i get really frustrated when the before mentioned child sophie wants to write everyone a note and asks me how to spell everything. the problem is...
the problem is she does not know all her letters yet. so we write letters to ty guy with the same letters over and over again. but this was supposed to be an update post and all i can focus on is that sophie thinks ty's name has two l's in it. so do i correct her or do i let her continue so that i can do a blog post?

lets see where to start. first since I last posted in December my mom is doing so much better. she has recovered from that horrendous surgery where they gutted her (literally). she does chemo once a week for 18 treatments. she feels really good and is excited for the end of chemo and for her hair to return hopefully in the summer. weird fact is that her hair is supposed to come back curly. who knew! i shaved her head about two weeks ago and since then i think there are a few more bald men and young children walking around this country. they all look really good and so does my mom. people ask me if i am ok and i would just first like to thank everyone for prayers and thoughts toward my family. that being said i don't think i have thought why us ever. I have been so touched with so many stories of cancer that i can't comprehend how i could ever say why us. cancer affects everyone. if it has not affected you or your family i pray that it does not but chances are it will some day. we are all in this together, and luckily it is not a lonely disease for me because so many people can relate and understand. moreover, i do however reflect on my life more and the things that matter the most to me and the things that i want to experience before i die. its a wake up call of sorts.for now there is hope that this will all be ok and that we can enjoy every moment we have.

christmas was different but we still all managed to enjoy the season together as family. we had the party at our house this year and had a killer ping pong tourney and ate loads and loads of food. my highlight of the night was trevor my brother in law wearing his one piece pajamas that i so graciously gave him for christmas. nothing makes you feel better than a full grown man in a one piece pajama outfit that has sock monkeys on the feet. the girls had the most fun riding there new scooters around the house until finally tom and i had enough. bronson is now equipped with more trucks and cars than any little boy would ever need.

new years came and we had the best time watching the kids celebrate early with the harris family down the street. i guess it is also the rohbacher family too. the kids had a blast on the roller coaster. yes a roller coaster for little ones in the middle of the living room. then we came to our house and partied the night away. the kids all had fun and other than bronson and danny they all stayed awake past midnight. we have awesome friends.

bronson has changed the most since i last updated. duh. he turned one on january 21st and we had a joint party with my dad because they share the same birthday. tom saved the day after i had a melt down over my lovely homemade cupcakes being destroyed. bree had to get to gymnastics. he brought home the cutest football cupcakes and eclairs that made me so happy. tom was not so happy with my meltdown but what is a girl to do when she slaves all day making something special, and then for those special cupcakes to just die. die. the party was great and bronson was spoiled yet again by wonderful people we like to call family and friends.

my birthday was soon after and i turned old. had a fabulous day with food food and more food. most of the food was shared with my little family, but i had a great lunch with all the girls too.

we had a leak in the chimney which caused a problem with bronson's ceiling and wall so we have been re-doing his room for the last couple of months. luckily we have the extra bedroom, otherwise the room would have been done faster. tom has done a really great job, and i love love the paint color. i want to paint the rest of my house the same color.

kid update. bree is doing really great. she can only speak spanish and absolutely no english in her spanish class at school. it is amazing how well she is doing. her gymnastics is going really well. she is getting really strong and her class is starting back tucks. 

sophie is loving all her activities and really loves all her boyfriends. i think we might have a problem. or tom does. sophie really likes boys. her best friends are of course ty, james, and charlie. i will ask about the girls and she just says that sometimes she plays with kate, if kate will be her dog.for now it is really funny.

sophie and bree sit in the back of the car and fight about jesus. i know that sounds weird but they fight about if he is dead or if he died. we try to explain but it is so entertaining for them to scream abut this subject. sophie will say "jesus died for us so that we could live, but he is not dead". then bree freaks out saying "he is dead but that they are the same thing dead and died". then sophie freaks back and then sooner or later sophie will say "yeah that is what i said" and oh how that irks bree. tom and i just smile.kids are great. they do shock us by knowing so much about everything. bree will pull out resurrection and crucified and tom and i are like what? did she just use those words. your kids might use big words but ours usually use the words like crap holes and poop.

bronson is walking and talking now. dr. v is worried about his growth and weight, which worries me but i can't get the kid to gain weight. i feed him all the bad stuff now but he still refuses to get fat. go figure right. so unfair.

Bree's gymnastic program

christmas tree is up. thanks koby and em for switching trees with us!

Tom preparing to put lights up on the house. he is a sissy and ends up doing them the safe way. i don't blame him, our house is so tall.

bree painting the secret room in the playroom

my step mom jane watched the kids all day while tom and i were at the hospital. she had a cake and everything when we got home that night. thanks jane your the best. tom is old.

tom took the girls skiing. bree loved it. sophie liked it but was over it after the first run.

treats for neighbors and friends. last minute!

elite property management snowman.

christmas with toms family

all the schrievers.

santa gives our family dart guns as he leaves so we can shoot each other for an hour after.fun.

christmas eve pj's

santa for bronson

santa for the girls

good times good times.

sledding at the big hill and bronson was so done.

new years eve. late late.

bronson birthday breakfast

they love the hot tub. me not so much.

drive in theatre at preschool.

cheese heads for the super bowl

bye bye hair. my mom fell and hit her head that is why her eye looks awful.

shaving toms head

 we don't make the kids wear seat belts after church because we live seriously two seconds away. tom decided to slam on the brakes to be funny. poor sophie slammed into the seat and her nose was so swollen. she laid here for 20 minutes with frozen peas on her nose. parents of the year right!

update complete. do you think the kids will like this one day? tom has a cousin megan who published all the journals of tom's grandma and sent one to all the family. lets just say that i have never ever ever walked into my bedroom at night to find my husband reading a book. so this makes me realize the interest that my children and their children will have in this blog, so for them i will continue to write about our lives.

if i were president

kids make things so simple.
that is why i think bree should be.....
the next president

translation.
if i were president, i would tell the truth and if they were sad i would tell jokes to them. and if they were hungry i would give them food if they were poor i would give them money. not to fight and not to fight back. no to being a bully.
she addresses all our problems i think.


i am trying to decide how to do an update post without it taking a year to do so we will see. it might just be pictures. i needed the break. but i know that my kids will love this blog one day when they can read and see what life was like back in the dayz.hope everyone is good!