Home Remodeling

We have a long list of updates that we would like to make to our house and we finally got to cross a big one off our list! We had wood floors installed downstairs (minus the kitchen and guest room). Our carpet had seen better days and we figure with three boys it will never stay clean - so wood floors it is (and they are prettier!).

Here are some pictures of the floors before we moved our furniture back in.

The dining room (aka current playroom)


The living room:

The hallway looking from the front door:


The office:


View from dining room to office:

View of living room from stairs:

View of hallway from upstairs:

We are so happy with how they turned out!

Art Projects

Summer is here! And that means keeping the boys busy when it is too HOT to play outside! We went to the library this morning, and here is some artwork that they created this afternoon.

Collin's "monster"

Brendan's "bird"

The artists:

More artwork:

And Finley slept during all the fun:

Two months old

Finley is two months old today! It's hard to believe how fast he's growing. He is smiling all the time and coo'ing and generally just a very happy baby. He even sleeps good...which is such a blessing! At his 2 month well-baby visit he was 12lb 6oz and 23 inches long!

And we can't leave out big brothers!

Trying to catch the smile

Finley's been smiling for a couple of weeks now (starting around 5 wks) but I am having a really hard time capturing it on the camera or video. As soon as I take the camera out he becomes serious again! I think it's because he can't see my face when I take the pictures...so I must get Mike to take some pictures soon! Here are a few of my attempts at getting him to smile.

All the boys

Brendan and Collin love to get down on Finley's play mat with him:

And here are all of my boys watching Saturday morning cartoons:

Fun at Grandma & Grandpa's

Here are some pictures from the birthday celebration for me and Grandma Engleman. Thanks to Aunt Shelley for the pictures!

Grandma Engleman with Collin and Brendan:

The boys always love to "drive" and honk the horn on Grandpa Engleman's golf cart:

Brendan and Collin showing Aunt Shelley their Tai Chi moves:

Mom and I (and Finley):

Grandpa reading Collin and Brendan a story (I took their white shirts off when we had chocolate cake!):

Grandma with Finley:

After celebrations and cake, Aunt Mandy and Aunt Shelley took Brendan and Collin to Build-a-Bear! They had so much fun creating their own animal. Brendan made a panda bear named "Teddy", and Collin made an owl named "Bob".

Finley, 1 month old

Finley, it's hard to believe that you have been in our lives for one month already! You fit into our family as though you were always meant to be here! But you must stop growing so quickly. Mommy wants you to stay little forever! :)

I am stealing the cute idea from Maria Paula, to take a picture of you every month in the same chair with the same animal. That way we can really tell how much you have grown each month!