About a month ago I did the last of my home improvements on the top floor of the house. I re-did some of my bathroom and painted in the hall/stairs/entry. People have been asking to see pictures of the new bathroom and it has taken me a while to put them up but here they are so stop bugging me. In the picture of me painting the stairs you can't tell but I am super high and I am afraid of heights. Probably the most scary home improvement project I have done.
Here is the bathroom before. Cream walls, cream countertop and brass hardware and light. You can't really see lots of it and you don't get to see the roses stenciled around the top but I didn't get a better picture before I changed it all.
Here is after, I paited it blue, changed the hardware to silver fittings, replaced the countertop and sink and the light switches and light. The countertop was the most annoying, we were doing this on a pretty tight budget so we got the already made stuff at Home Depot. Well we knew we would have to cut it to make it the right lenght and make the sink hole but it was also too wide and went all the way into the doorway so we had to cut off the backsplash in the back and now we have no backspash. At some point I will probably do a tile backsplash but right now I need a break and am moving on to outside projects so it will have to wait. Over all we are pretty happy with it all.
So last week was my birthday and I turned 31! That seems so old but then I guess having six kids already establishes that fact. I am usually kind of tight with money and feel guilty about spending it on myself but this birthday I totally splurged (though in my defense it was also my present from my last birthday and from Christmas). I got a real commercial cotton candy machine and a nice snow cone maker. Last year Brock chose to forgo a present in order to rent a cotton candy machine for his birthday party and it was fun to have. I have 4 birthday parties and a primary party do do this summer and was thinking that cotton candy would be fun to do but I didn't want to waste the money to rent one so after a lot of searching through ebay and craigslist I was finally able to find a used one in my price range (I couldn't believe how much cotton candy machines cost). Anyway, to cut it short I got a cotton candy machine and it is great. The cotton candy is just like what you would get at a carnival and I am sure I will be spending more money on dental work from all the sugar than the cost of the machine but right now I am just having fun. I may be old but I can't be all that grown up if things like cotton candy and snow cones are such a big deal to me.
My baby is growing up so fast (she actually turned 9 months a couple of weeks ago but I am just now getting to write about it). She crawls like a champ, stands on her own for long periods of time, just cut her first tooth and is showing promise of possibly having hair some day (still bright red).
Evie is a still a sweet and mellow little girl. She has started laughing really loudly when she wants attention (always better than crying) and she takes the "love" of her siblings very gracefully. SHe crawls quickly now but still uses one foot and one knee, so cute. And I love that she still sometimes wrinkles her nose when she smiles. She is a perfect little punkin. 
You have to have a good nudy picture.
She just cut her first tooth but she can eat cherrios like a pro.
I thought that I would add a couple of pictures from the past couple weeks. I'm not so great at this whole blogging thing and I meant for this picture to be the last one since it is pretty much the result of the other ones. Brock took this on a Sunday afternoon when Aaron and I snuck in a quick nap (collapsed in exaustion).
I took these next couple pictures after church when the kids were still relatively groomed. What a family!
This last one is one of my favorites. Aaron works most evenings on his computer and Evie enjoys sitting with him and trying to type so we gave her Mia's toy computer to keep her occupied. It worked pretty well.
