Kitchen redo

While we still weren't finished with the bathroom or our bedroom, I decided that I wanted to paint the kitchen.  I was bored and wanted to be doing some kind of house project, but I was waiting for Jason's help to finish somethings in the bathroom and the bedroom so the next project was the kitchen.  I headed to Home Depot and got my gallon of paint (by the way I LOVE the new Behr paint and primer all in one paint, it works awesome).  I put the boys down for their nap and I started painting.  I was able to get the whole kitchen painted doing two coats that day.  The only area I didn't get to was where the fridge was I needed Jason to help me move the fridge.  I was able to get to the fridge area a few days later and Jason and I got up the baseboards.  The only thing we have left to do is paint the baseboards.

I am pretty happy with how it came out, it is much lighter and fresher.  My inspiration for the color was some dishes that I found at Tai Pan.  I loved the color and knew that was what I wanted my kitchen to look like.  Jason thinks I am weird for this but now I want to get rid of all my dishes and go buy new ones that will match the kitchen.

I do need to make some curtains but I am still deciding what I want to do, so until I figure that out the blinds will have to do.

Here is the kitchen before.  I couldn't find any recent pictures this one was taken will we were in the process of finishing the kitchen years ago.  We had the lighter green in the kitchen and the darker green for an accent wall in the dining room.

One down, four more to go

I have finally finished Ashton's room, well almost anyways.  I wanted a room that wasn't to babyish and that I would not have to change for a really long time.  I found his bed on KSL last fall and I refinished it and I am loving how it turned out. 
I have always loved the pottery barn look so that was what I kind of had in mind with the bed and the bedding, I found his quilt at The Village Quilt shop and I bought his sheets at Target. I really wanted to get some sheets from Pottery Barn but they were $50 verses the $20 I paid for the ones at Target.

I was originally going to paint his room a blue but I couldn't find a color that I loved.  Then I decided I should do something a little more neutral, and I love how it came out.  It makes the room seem so much brighter. 

I have to wait 3 more weeks till I can take out his little toddler bed.  I guess I don't have to wait, but I am so that his head has some more time to heal.  He has never fallen out of bed so I don't think that he will fall out, but I think of these things now so we are waiting. 

I still need to get some curtains, I am thinking I want some roman shades, but I can't decided what color the curtains should be.  I don't know if I want red or blue I can't decide.
It feels good to have one room done.  Now I can work on some of the other projects I have going.  I did get the upstairs bathroom painted yesterday, now I just need to get some new trim, and get the finishing touches up.  Then it is onto our bedroom the kitchen and the bathroom downstairs. 

Say Cheese!!

I decided that I wanted to try and take some pictures of my boys last week.  So I took them outside and made my attempt.  Noah was not cooperating at all, I couldn't get him to look at me at all.  Ashton on the other hand was awesome.  It took a couple of shoots for him to really start smiling but I think I got a couple of cute shots.  I did a little editing to them but I need to practice with the editing process a little more.

On Sunday when we only had Noah (Ashton had spent the night at my mom's house) I tried to get a couple of cute shots of him.  He was semi cooperative.  I just love both of these boys even though they drive me crazy some days.

I love this picture the look on his face is priceless, we were playing peek a boo.  Just don't look at his finger nails to closely, he had been playing in the dirt.

Happy Mother's day

I had an awesome mother's day, it turned out perfect.  My mom had come and got Ashton Saturday afternoon so we only had Noah till we all met up for brunch.  I had told Jason that I didn't want to change one diaper all day and he was went along with it, I did have to change one first thing in the morning but that was all.  It was so nice to take a break from that little task.

Noah was so funny he did not want his picture taken at all, he kept trying to hit the camera away from him, it was so funny.  I am not sure what it is but I love pictures of my when they are crying.

We got one semi smile out of Noah, this is the only pic of me and any of my boys, I tried for one later in the day but neither of them would cooperate, so I gave up.

Jason took Noah out to buy a present for me so I had the house to myself for a couple of hours and it was
heaven, so peaceful and quiet.  The boys got me a beautiful hanging basket of flowers, and some M&M's and a card.  Jason said that Noah actually picked out the card.

We went to brunch at The Gathering Place at Gardner Village, it was delicious.  I loved that we didn't have to cook or clean up anything,  plus it was fun to go back there because that was where Jason and I got married almost 4 years ago.  Brunch was delicious, we sat outside in the garden and we ate and visited and enjoyed the beautiful weather. 

We had to wait for about 45 mins, so Jason was great at entertaining Noah while we waited.

Myron and his Mom Lillian

Mom and I

Our family seemed so much smaller this year with the twins both gone.  Leland is in Afghanistan, and Aaron is on a cruise.

I followed the boys around with the camera trying to get both of them to look at the camera and smile at the same time.  This was the best that I could get. 

Mom and Myron

I loved this idea I want to find an old wheel barrow and plant some flowers and put in in my yard.

Afterwards we went back to Mom's house and we spent the rest of the day just hanging out and visiting.  It was a low key and wonderful day.  I wouldn't of changed a thing!

Score

I scored an apple monitor for $100 Jason was pretty ecstatic about it.  He already had one, but everything is better in a pair right!

Ashton's Fall

So on Sunday afternoon we had what is going to be one unhappy memory and one we will not forget.  We had the Bellamy's over for dinner and Ashton and Ethan were running around the house like normal playing.  Korie and I were in the kitchen and Jason and Spencer were downstairs putting a movie on for the boys.  All of the sudden I heard this thud and then a cry.  I looked outside the sliding door and saw Ashton laying face first on the concrete patio.  I immediately ran outside down the stairs and screamed for Jason.  Ashton had fallen out of our bedroom widow which was about 8-10ft high and had landed on the concrete patio.  I had never been so scared in my life.  I picked him up and held him while Jason told someone to call 911.  It only took about 5 mins for them to show up.  They checked him out and it was decided that they were going to take him to Primary Children's.  I rode with Ashton in the ambulance and Jason followed us. 

I thought it was really cute that one of the paramedics put his sunglasses on Ashton so the sun wouldn't bother his eyes.  (thanks to Korie for this picture she had the foresight to grab my camera and take a picture.  This may not be a happy memory, but it is something that needs to be documented)

We later found out that Ashton and Ethan were watching a cat out the window and the cat went around the corner of the house and Ashton leaned out to far and fell out the window. 

While we were riding to the hospital, they were asking him questions like what his name was, if he had a brother, who I was, and so on.  He answered a few of them, then when he was tired of answering he kept saying Mommy's turn, he wanted me to answer for him.  I thought that was pretty funny. 

We got to the hospital they ordered some scans of his neck to check it out and tried to start an iv.  While they were trying to get the iv in Ashton kept telling them that they were tickling him.  The one nurse laughed and said she wished more kids thought like that.  His veins were a little tricky so after two attempts the nurse said she wasn't going to poke him again she was going to wait. 

We spent quite a while waiting for the results from the scans and to find out what was going to happen next.  Ashton was so tired so he was able to close his eyes and rest which I was happy about.  I left the room after we had been there for quite a while to call my mom and let her know what had happened.  While I was gone, the doctors had  come in and said that his scans of his neck had come back clean so they were going to take of the c collar, and when they did and had him move his head all around, when he looked up he immediately threw up.  So the collar came back on and we had to have a cat scan, and because he had thrown up they wanted an iv started so they had to try again.  It took a while for her to get it in but finally they did.  This time Ashton didn't think it ticked, poor kid was such a trooper he did pretty awesome through all of this.  I am sure it was terrifying for him.

We were waiting in the ER for a room, this is the only pic of me and it is a good thing I looked awful, I had spent the day painting and putting Ashton's room back together.   

We finally got the results and Ashton had a skull fracture it was pretty long about 4-5 inches.  It was only a little depressed and there was a little bleeding but they didn't think it was from the brain but it was from the skull.  Of course he also had a concussion, and we were going to be admitted.  They wanted to put him in the Neuroscience trauma unit, finally we were taken up to his room and settled by about 9:30pm.  My Mom and Myron came up and saw Ashton then headed to our house to get Noah and bring Jason and I what we needed to stay with Ashton for the night.
 

Through all of this Ashton was in and out of sleep, and that night was no different.  They finally gave him so Tylenol around 10pm and we let him try to get some sleep.  They only had one bed in the room for a parent to sleep in, so I let Jason lay down and I sat in the chair most of the night.  I think I only got about 2 hours of sleep all night.  Ashton just couldn't get settled, finally around 1am they gave him a small amount of morphine and he was able to sleep for about 1 1/2, then he was back to being restless for the rest of the night.  poor kid I am sure he was in pain, but the only thing he complained about was the c collar he hated that thing.

Monday Ashton spent most of the day sleeping and watching TV, he so was not his self.  We tried to take the c collar off but when they did he didn't want to move his neck at all, so the collar had to go back on, which he wasn't happy about at all.  His scans came back clean for breaks but they thought he might have sprained a ligament so they wanted to keep his neck secure.  He didn't really want to eat much, all day we were able to get him to eat some fruit loops but that was all.  The doctors weren't concerned as long as he was drinking and he was so they said to just keep trying, and he would eat when he was ready.

Early afternoon we took a walk around the hospital, Ashton rode in a wheel chair, we headed to the Forever Young Zone, it was this play room where kids could play and they had crafts they could make and video games they could play.  Ashton wasn't interested in anything so we left and just walked some more.  Ashton wanted to put some clothes on so my mom went and bought him some button up shirts so we wouldn't have to put a shirt over his head.
 

The doctors decided that Ashton needed to stay another night, and they said that when he did go home he was going to have to be wearing the c collar and he was going to have to wear it for two weeks.  This was not welcome news.  It was bad enough that we were going to have to keep him calm and quiet with two feet on the ground for 6 weeks.  That means no running, bikes, scooters, swings, parks, or play groups.  I am not sure how we are going to do this it is going to be tough. 

We decided that we didn't need to have two sleep deprived parents so I thought it would be best for Jason to go home and be with Noah and then he could get some sleep, and I was going to stay with Ashton at the hospital.  Sunday I had spent the day painting Ashton's room and  finishing his new bed so I was in some pretty grubby clothes and after sleeping in them and being in them all day Monday I needed to change.  So I headed home for a quick shower and a change of clothes.  I brought Noah back to the hospital with me so my mom could go home and then Jason was going to bring him home with him. Ashton slept much better Monday night he still was woken up every 4 hours and then it took him about an hour to settle back down again, but we both got more sleep then the night before. 

We Tuesday morning and had a visit from one of the neurosurgeons and he was able to take the c collar off Ashton and he moved his neck all around, so he won't have to go home in it.  I was so stoked about this it was awesome news.  Jason got to the hospital and Ashton wanted to go for another walk, so we headed down to the playroom again, and this time he wanted to play he was seeming a little more like his self.  We got back to the room and we got our discharge paper and we were able to go home.  Ashton was so happy to be going home, we got home and it was such a relief.

Ashton was done with me taking pictures, but you know me I have to have pictures.

 
He was so happy to be going home, he could hardly stand it.  He loved riding in the wheel chair.

We were so lucky this could of been so much worse.  I am just thankful that we are now home and we can work on getting Ashton better.  I just have to say that our stay at Primary Children's was not fun by any means, but they sure do try to make the stay as best as they can.  The doctors and nurses were awesome and they were all about trying to make the stay as fun as they could for the kids.  The hospital is totally geared towards children and it was nice to know that. 

(I know it looks like Ashton is picking his nose but he really wasn't.  Noah was so excited to have his buddy home with him)

making progress, I think

Well it has been almost two weeks since we took out the door between our bedroom and bathroom.  We are almost ready to paint both rooms.  I just need Jason to texture the walls for me then I can get to the painting.  I need to figure out what color to paint the bathroom.  I can't decide what I want to do.  Our bedroom will get painted but it will be the same color, it is neutral and I still like the color.

Since we were going to be painting the bedroom we went through and fixed some hole that were left from the previous owners.  I know it has been like well over 5 years but the holes were kind of hidden by our drapes. 

I finally finished Ashton's bed that I started last fall.  I am so happy with how it turned out.  We just need to get a mattress for the bed and put it together.  I brought it up to his room to see how it looks, I can't wait to get it all put together.

So Ashton's room is going to get a makeover, my plan is to have a room for him that isn't to babyish and he can keep it this way for a long time.  I found the perfect quilt at the Village Quilt Shop, I just need to get his sheets the ones I want are from Pottery Barn so I am trying to find the best price, cause they are not cheap.

I am trying to decide what color to paint the walls,  I am leaning toward the color on the left, I know the one on the right looks white, but it is really a lighter shade of the color on the left. 

Once those rooms are painted I want to paint the kitchen, I am tired of the green, I have the color picked out and I am so excited about it.  I am not excited about painting the kitchen the last time I painted it the room was empty it was much easier. 

Lastly I want the bathroom downstairs done.  I have picked out paint colors, the sink, and the tile for the floor.  I want this done it has been in the works for over a year now, it is time!