Royal Guests & Rachel's New Room

Matt, Rachel, and I were invited to be royal guests at Hannah & Kate's princess party. Rachel has had her share of odd little illnesses this week and Thursday night started showing signs of pink eye. Matt got her an appointment for Friday morning and she had an ear infection and pink eye. I really wanted to go to the princess party and the doctor said as long as she had been on antibiotics for 24 hours and had no eye goo, she would be fine to be around other people. The medicine (eye drops) worked quickly and we had no more eye grossness. She had a great time at the party as did everyone else, especially the kiddos in the pool!




Rachel is figuring out how to get places in the pool by leaning forward and kicking. Yesterday, Matt taught her how to hang on to the side of the pool and inch her way to the steps. She is going to have big muscles if she keeps that up.






















I started Rachel's big girl room a while ago, but Matt and I are tying up the last loose ends. He changed an outlet and light switch out and put up some blinds this weekend. We still have the doors to stain because you will notice in the pictures that the door trim is watermelon colored. My Dad and I got new baseboard and stained that already. Matt got some doors that had been primed because they were half the price of the special order doors that are unfinished. We were told you can use gel stain and it will still bring out the wood grain. We tried one yesterday and it looks awful. So, we will have to figure something else out and for now, her room will not be completely done. The furniture is my old bedroom furniture that I got when I was around 5. It is in really good shape and I repainted it antique white a few years ago. She has lots of storage with the closet, desk, and dresser and also the window seat has room underneath too.








We have had a trench in our front yard for about two weeks now that DJ dug. I felt really bad for him because it was so hot and it took him a few days to do this. Matt wanted a lamp post so people could find our house and so the trench was for running electric out to the post. We got the post together and it looks really nice. This picture isn't the greatest, but it is raining and I don't want to go outside.