Four

Someone at our house had a birthday and turned

Four!!

Here is a year in pictures of our sweet baby girl

She conquered swim lessons this last year which

was a big achievment for her, she didnt use to like the pool

 

        She loves to read books or

    pretend to read books

"Tangled Hair"

She brought me a long piece of toilet paper and a

 clip and told me she wanted "tangled hair"

It kept breaking off so we put a piece of lace in next

and finally for christmas she got the "real thing"

She is a girly girl and love painting her nails,

makeup, princesses, and mostly everyday wearing dresses

This was her first field trip at school

we went to the pumpkin patch  and loved playing in the corn pit

Hayride

Nothing quite beats taking a bath in the sink,

especially at grandmas

 

First Day of School Picture

We went out on the porch to take some pics

 and this was the pose she wanted.

Silly girl loves taking silly pictures

Sweet little girl 

Putting her new ornament on the Christmas Tree

Such a happy girl, she keeps us entertained

with her spunky little personality

She is the BEST older sister!

She loves her brother so much and yesterday she told

me he is her best friend!

Watching them play together is so much fun,

of course they have plenty of "moments" but

I guess thats just part of having a sibling.

She is also a very caring little girl. I am always amazed

at how aware she is of other people and concerned

of their feelings. She is great a cheering people up and helping

people to feel better.

 

Loungin on the couch

She Loves her Daddy

and spending as much time with him as possible

A Daddy-Daughter Date

She was especially excited because

she got to put on her bright pink lipstick!

She loves the snow!

This winter was kinda weak and we only had a few good

snowdays. This was one of the few and her and dad

made a baby snowman

Our sweet DoodleBug

We love you so much and can't imagine life without

you!! These past four years have been the best ever and

we have loved watching you grow in to a beautiful little girl

with a beautiful spirit. It's amazing to watch you kids become such

amazing people even at the ripe age of 4! We love you baby girl!!

Hunting Eggs

We love eggs
And their hunters


The Easter Bunny made it to our house this year
and the kids were so into it
they both loved finding the eggs and their baskets
and we loved watching them

D was so sweet to help her little brother find the eggs

and K was more excited to eat what was in the eggs

Sunday Best

My favorite tradition about Easter is new Sunday clothes

My mom used to sew all 7 of us a new dress

and I barely put together 2

Happy Easter

Curly Boy

We love this little curly head .

We don't think he could be much cuter.

We get alot of questions as to where it comes from but both

his grandmas and his mom and dad have curly hair.

When he gets tired he twirls the hair around his little finger,

 he has done this since he was little little. 

I love sleeping pictures of babies

So Peaceful

Hideout

While we remodeled we moved into my mom house

which ended up being such a huge help!

We would go over at night to work and it was so nice to have a built in babysitter,

 whom my kids absolutely loved, to put them to bed at night.

It was also alot closer to the new house than our apartment which came in handy with the

 bajillion trips we made over to the new house.

It was alot of fun.

While we were there this one one of my kids

found a new hideout 

The Closet

Everyday Kapp would dump all the shoes into a big pile on the floor

which at first drove me crazy because I would have to put them all back

then I just started leaving them on the floor:)

Why do kids love finding the

 perfect little sitting place?

It all started on top

Our New House

We decided to start with the roof due to a large leak into the kitchen and a bedroom.  The whole thing had to be replaced and we decided to do it ourselves. What were we thinking?!? We have a contractor friend who taught us what to do and helped us order supplies.  And we had family and friends who willingly risked thier lives helping us rip shingles off the roof during a thunderstorm.
   Honestly I think this was one of the most difficult projects we undertook, but we learned ALOT! I now consider myself to be a master roofer, I can roof with the best of them! It took us a whole week to finish of working everyday, and made me really grateful we have a fairly simple, not very steep roof!
       Lessons Learned
 1.  Order a giant dumpster before you start so that you can throw all the old shingles in directly            instead of spending the following 2 weeks picking them up and hauling them to the dumpster:)
 2.  Don't rent the nail guns until right before you need them, taking the old roof off might take longer than you think, so this could save you a hundred bucks.

This is the only picture I took of the whole roofing process

Now that we have mastered roofing,

next time I think we will hire someone else...

Firstimers

We have had a rollercoaster of good events these past few months. We are so blessed and were able to purchase our First Home!!  After a few months of searching we found the one, It just needed alittle (or alot) of fixing up.

Official Homeowners!!

We took this picture right after we signed our lives away

Afterwards we had a celebration picnic

in our new backyard

We picked some apples from our new apple tree

And the Adventure began...

Soon to Come

Before/After pictures of the many projects

we conquered,

or are still conquering,

or conquered us....

I am the Luckiest

Being a Mom is the best job in the entire world!!

I get to spend every second of every day with

these two

It almost seems to good to be true

I am the Luckiest.