Our Birthday Bash!

Happy Birthday Jaiden!!

Jaiden hit the big 2 yesterday. He had fun doing whatever he wanted for the whole day...well, almost whatever he wanted. He even rebelled and decided not to take a nap yesterday, which by the way is unheard of in this household. (Mom likes nap time) We decided to move his party to Tuesday so that we could have more people come and because he had a little bit of a cold yesterday. Instead of a party we took a walk over to the dinosaur museum because Jaiden LOVES dinosaurs.
Me and Jaiden, Justin didn't get to come with us to the museum. He was still at work. Jaiden poses just fine by himself but when it comes to taking pictures with his mom, he will have nothing of it. This picture was the fifth time I tried to get one of us. Every other time he would start saying, "No, no" and then push me away. I think he's already embarrassed of me. :)

Jaiden was too scared to pose in front of this one.

Simple Pleasures

Here is what Jaiden did at Grandma's to entertain himself while we were getting ready for our yard sale last week. Grandma thought that he was doing all of his art on his nearby paper but when I walked into the house to pick him up he was just doodling away on his little leg. Now I will say usually I would get upset at him drawing all over himself but he was so proud of all of the tiny doodles that he did on his foot I just couldn't get mad.

Our little Visitor

Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam, to Shine for Him each Day!

Here is my little Sunbeam class. I have been teaching them for about a month and a half now at church. 3 and 4 year olds are the cutest. It took a little while to get used to teaching them but now I love it! Today's lesson was about being a good friend. We were talking about how we can be friends with everyone in the class and treat everyone kindly. For that part, I brought my camera and photo printer with me to church and took this picture right in our class and then had pictures for them printing while I went through the rest of the lesson. They were so excited to have a picture of their class. Of course, if I have a picture I have to put it on the blog. The other woman in the picture is the other teacher. We have a lot of fun together.

Jaiden the Cutie

Jaiden is almost to old to call a cutie but I'm going to get away with it one more time for the sake of this blog.  It is very hard to get a picture of Jaiden now because he does not like to hold still at all but here are a few that I took as fast as I could.  I can't believe that he is turning two this month.  He isn't a little baby anymore...so sad.  

I Love Flowers

Just wanted to show everyone some of the flowers growing at our house.  I've never had this many flowers at any other place that I lived so this is exciting to me. I think they are so beautiful.

This is a huge vine that we have growing on the fence of our very long driveway. I'm hoping next year the flowers cover the entire fence so that there will just be flowers the whole way up to our house. Here are a few of our roses from the rose garden that we have by our front door. They're so pretty.

Home Sweet Home!

Well, here is our cute little house.  I love living here now.  We still have not finished with all of the little home improvement projects around the house or with unpacking (we're slow) but it already feels like home to us. 
I couldn't take pictures of all of the house because we are still trying to put stuff away. But I will show pictures of the little bit of remodeling that we did before we moved in.
Here is a picture of our kitchen before we painted.

And here is the pics of our kitchen after we finished.  We painted the walls, cabinets and the hardware.

The old bathroom vanity. I never got around to actually taking a picture of the whole bathroom before we remodeled but believe me it was ugly. You can tell just from this picture that the whole bathroom was bright green. It was too much.
The new bathroom vanity. Justin did all of it by himself even the tile. He did such a good job on it. I couldn't do a shot of the whole bathroom because it's not done yet either. When we get everything done I will take more pictures.

I had to put this picture on because it shows the wall color and the tile.

Back into Blogging

Hooray for the internet! We are back online at the Lyman house again. So that means that I can start blogging again regularly. I am waiting 'til I get a few more pictures of the house before I do a post but don't worry they are coming.