It has been almost a week...

since my last post. WOW. I have been wanting to post, but really just haven't had a chance to get it done. Everytime I sit down to actually do it, I find myself reading some of the blogs I visit often, or just wanting to scrapbook, or hear the laundry that needs to be folded calling my name, or same with the dishes, or a child needs me. This is just a small list of things we have been up to lately.
We have also had a few doctors appointments for the babies for shots and to check on both of their ear infections. Then we had to get more x-rays on little Jacob's foot so that the insurance would approve his referral to go back to the specialist at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Finally I feel like we are on track to getting his poor foot taken care of. Really we never wanted to have to wait this long, but things were always happening, and the doctors wanted to wait and let him try wearing the foot brace and such. Well now the foot brace is getting a bit too small, and I can feel his bones in his foot. I cannot wait to get his foot straightened out so he can play sports like he wants to. It puts me in pain to see his foot too, but he never complains that it hurts. Every now and then he says that his feet hurt and it is hard to walk, but that is it.

Everyday I am amazed at this little guy. He has his moments, but for all that he has gone through he really is amazing to me. There are times when I wish that I could take away all the pain he has been through. He is such a strong little guy and comes through it all like a champ. Just this last time he was in the hospital he never once complained about anything and only got upset when they would come in a poke him. He has such a disposition about him, and is a pretty happy little man. I really think that God has a big plan for him. I think because of all that he has been through health wise he will do great things for children one day too, like be a doctor or something.

So plus all of this we have been getting ready for the wedding stuff. I finally registered at Target on Friday. That was alot of fun. I have been wanting to change the living room and kitchen a little and this is a good chance to get started. In the living room I want to take out the red and go more with just a black and tan/brown look. In the kitchen I have the walls painted this same brownish color and have grapes in there. I am a little tired of the grapes now, I think we have had grapes in the kitchen for like 6 years now. So I am over it. I want to go with the black and tanish color in there as well. Our kitchen is all open with the living room so I think it would look good to have it all the same. I was thinking if it was just black and tanish/brown then I could just accent with any color that I wanted, whenever I wanted. Like for Easter do pinks and yellows and greens and orange for Halloween and stuff like that. Right now I don't do that becuase it doesn't look good with the set colors that I have in there. So I am going to be working on that too. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want this clock that I registered from at Target. It is $100.00, but I really want it. I want to hang it over the fireplace. THIS is the clock I want and here is a picture of it.....

So if we dont' get it as a wedding gift, I will be saving up to get this one for sure. So I want to put up different curtains, and a different rug. In our living room there is no longer the fish tank, and I moved the black chair to a different wall. We would love to eventually get a new tv (a flat tv that doesn't take up so much room) and put it on the bigger wall it is diagonal with and get a big entertainment center and stuff. But just one step at a time.

In the kitchen I would really like to paint the cabinets too. Right now they are a light oak color and they show all the dirt you can imagine. So I would love to paint them black, but I am kind of affraid to go that bold and dark. Our house doesn't have tons of windows so it seems to be on the dark side, and I am a bit affraid it will make it too dark. Also since this isn't our house I don't know if the owners would mind. They have let us do really whatever we wanted so far, so maybe. So then I was thinking maybe just staining them a dark wood color, but staining is alot of work too. So I just don't know yet.

I am going to be painting the coffee table black as well. I was just waiting for it to warm up a bit so I can do it outside in stead of in the garage.

(don't pay any attention to the half painted wall behind the bookcase in this picture. lol)

Also in the living room now the light oak cabinet is now painted black and that fish tank isn't there. I also have a picture haning next to the cabinet and there is a table and black chair next to is as well.

So those are some plans I have for that half of the house. I am finishing up painting the kids bathroom. We are painting it grey, and have a metal shelf over the toilet and are accenting it with black. I am going to get a black shower curtain liner, and then a clear shower curtain and black and grey towels for in there. Black rugs too.

Then in their room we finally figured out what color we are going to do it. After all these years of them just not knowing, I finally figured it out. Since they share a room and Ryan's favorite color is black and Marcus' is green we are going to do it black and green. I want a nice shade of green to paint the walls and then we can get black comforters for their beds and it will look great. I am thinking I really want to paint their bunk bed black as well. I will see. I think a big black rug on their floor would look good too with some black curtains.

I finally got around to start finishing up painting our bathroom. Ok I started painting it OVER A YEAR AGO. Holy moly. Well I let it sit for a long time because I just wasn't sure if I liked the blue I had painted. I really didn't, but just never painted over it. So I started painting it again the other day. I of course ran out of brown paint and have to get more. I already am liking it so much better. I think I will go to Walmart on Friday and get some more paint so I can just finish it up.

So that got me to thinking about painting our bedroom. Now this is going to be a big task becuase the celings in our room are vaulted. It will be alot of work, but worth it in the end I think. Our room and bathroom are dark brown and light blue, and the bathroom is painted a dark brown I was thinking of just going with a tanish color for our room. Our bedroom set is a lighter oak. So I was thinking just a tanish light brown color for our walls, so the dark colors stand out more. I think this room I will save for last to paint.

In the babies room I kept the walls white and painted red, dark blue and light blue stars all around the top of the walls. Well I am getting a little tired of that as well, so I was thinking of just painting the walls a dark blue color. I have red white and blue stars in there, and was actually thinking of going with a different theme as well. I don't want to go with an actual "theme" like sponge bob or something, but like sports or things like that. I found these really cool sports ball metal things for the wall at Target too. But I don't know.

I have ideas for the backyard too, but that is another long list.

I think this is my year to really focus on the house and stuff. I would love to move into a bigger house, but I am happy here knowing that we can definately afford it, becuase just who knows what is going to happen this year with the ever changing economy.

So I think I am done being long winded today and will come back later with a fun scrappy post. I am going to flip our mattress (with the help from Marcus) and remake our bed with nice clean sheet and blankets and then clean up around the house a bit and make us some spagetti for lunch and then take a few things outside to photograph and then come back and post them.