Wake up and open a couple presents
Climb in Annabel’s crib and read my new book to her
Pancake breakfast – I ate 5
Take the cupcakes I made to school to share with my friends
Sushi date for lunch with my girl Nina
Pick up the balloons for my party
Find more presents in the house to open
Last minute grocery shopping
Rest to get ready to party
DANCE PARTY
Open the rest of my presents!
(my new t-shirts)
So – in the nick of time to meet the Easter deadline – Mom and Dad were caulking and painting before the new carpet arrived. Many late nights, early mornings and paint splatters, and they got it done with about 20 minutes to spare. The only things remaining are those pesky finishing touches that will be done before my cousins come next weekend (I made my parents take a break to focus on my birthday this week.)
Here is the laundry room. Despite it being pink, I’ve given in that I actually like it. (mom is beside herself and would sleep in their if there was room for a bed.) The cabinets are from IKEA and were modified to fit the space. Now we can hide our dirty stuff in drawers below the machines. As mom keeps saying “the possibilities are endless.”
This hallway between the laundry and bathroom is quite different from before – there was a fake wall that blocked the window and enclosed the electrical panel – the wall was removed, a new window revealed and the panel was relocated. I’m happy because it meant I get a magnetic chalkboard to play with – more space for me and all my stuff! (This brown color is in my play area and the hall and stairs – the tv room is still green – that space is a mess so you can’t see it.)
The bathroom is done!
The sink was reclaimed from a store that sells old home parts…
I’m just happy to have my basement back and now we get to get ready for the dance party! (oh…and by the way, I do not know what penultimate means…I think it means that soon I’m not going to let my mom take over my blog with home decorating pictures.)
Annabel’s 1st Easter was a lot of fun! Grandma and Jidi were in town and our cousins and friends came over for an Easter Egg hunt.
Here are some of the highlights – if you want the whole lot of pictures, click through to see the whole album:
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| From Easter 2010 |
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| From Easter 2010 |
The Easter Bunny put new crocs in my basket:
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| From Easter 2010 |
It’s hard to get a good picture of me and my sister. Here she is in her Easter dress – made by our friend, Kay Evans. She ended up matching Audrey in their yellow dresses and white sweaters. CUTE.
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| From Easter 2010 |
Here are our cousins – Max, Klara and Leo (they are our 3rd cousins – for those of you Atchitys who want to know the connection: these are Kristen Atchity Fristch’s kids, and she is the daughter of Mike Atchity – my Jidi’s 1st cousin.) We lucked out that they happen to live in Seattle!
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| From Easter 2010 |
Say cheese!
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| From Easter 2010 |
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| From Easter 2010 |
We had so much fun hunting for the eggs Max hid in the front yard – we hid them all over our house. Mom and Dad are finding eggs in some pretty tricky spots. There are still a few suspected missing eggs. Eventually, they’ll start to smell and then we can find them.
