Dog Gone Fun!

Wow! We had a very busy day today! Anara and I went to a birthday party for one of her friends this afternoon (hopefully pictures to come soon) and then when Ben got off of work we went to a party that one of his co-workers had. She had the cutest puppies and Anara LOVES dogs! They even let her hold one of the puppies and she kept petting the puppy and saying "hi dog" and "good dog". Too cute!




The funny thing was, there were actually two dogs but Anara was really only interested in one of them. They tried to get her to hold the male and she kept saying no and asking to hold the girl dog.

This is Anara on the way to the party playing with Mommy's glasses.

They had a swimming pool at the party so Ben and Anara went swimming.

Anara thought it was hilarious when Ben would go under the water.

Lazy Summer Days!

Summer is definitely here. It is HOT!!! We decided to turn on the sprinkler and run through it with Anara. In her typical fashion, she was unsure about what was going on and very cautious. Ben ended up carrying her through the water. We thought it was fun, she wasn't so sure!



We are keeping my parent's dog Dixie while they are out of town. Anara LOVES Dixie but after the tail pulling indecent the other day, I am not sure that is reciprocated! We made it up to Dixie though with the sprinkler. She had more fun then Anara and I think Anara had more fun just watching Dixie play in the water!

Fun Pictures of our Princess!

Here are just some fun pictures of Anara playing around the house. We have an indoor slide and swing that has saved my life on these rainy days. Thanks Nana!

This first picture is for Aunt Connie.
Anara loves to look at her Purdue book while she swings!

Pretty in Pink!

It has been rainy and nasty outside the last couple of days in Tulsa so Anara and I have been stuck inside. She has been teething so it has been even harder! She has become interested in the camera so we have had fun taking pictures. She especially likes helping to take pictures of Little Bit and Minnie so they are featured on our blog as well!

My Personal Gardner

We have been busy painting the outside of our house (still not finished....) and Anara has loved spending time outside. I bought her a little water jug and she loves watering my yard. (Or watering the rocks, or her feet, or the sidewalk, basically she has a different idea of what needs watered then I do!) I managed to get a few really cute pictures!

This is her carefully watering the yard.

This is her watering her shoes.

This is more of dumping the water then delicately pouring it out!

"Oh-oh! I am out of water, what should I do?"

"Momma, more water please!"

Hmmm...Wonder If My Child Will Be Moody?

Oh the many expressions of a child. These pictures were taken in very close succession and I just love her different expressions. Too funny! We were trying to take pictures of the mess that she had made as well as her playing with her bowls but instead we got this hilarious row of photos!

Happy Face

Curious Face

I don't even know what to call this face!

I'm Sleepy Face

Hmmmm....Face

Let's Eat Face

New Project

I figured it was finally time to do something with the outside of the house before the neighbors really started hating us! At the end of the fall we had to pull up most of the landscape because it was growing out of control and was terrible. Now it is time to paint. I went through 5 different colors and I am not 100% convinced I like the color we went with. Oh well. It is definitely better than what it was. I think once everything is painted it will look great but now it looks funny because of the different colors.

Plus we are going to do something with the two small windows in the front. Right now I think I am just going to frame around them and paint that the burgundy but I have also thought about adding shutters. Not sure yet!

So you can get an idea of what the house looked like before, I have
included a before picture below.

Here is a picture of the front of the house. Please remember that it isn't finished yet! The dormer windows will be painted in the light tan color and you can see the two small windows I have to do something with. I am going to wait until I do something with them to decide if the poles should be the dark color or the tan.

Here is a closer view of the new paint.

This is a picture of the side of our house and how high we have to be able to paint. It is hard to tell but we have painted the top area with a VERY long pole. This side of the house gets all of the sun so we had to scrape off some of the paint, fix some of the boards and caulk some of the holes to prepare it for painting. Hopefully we will get this painted the tan color tomorrow! I think I am going to do the garage door in the burgundy.

A closer look at the top where my dad painted.