Ryan's room makeover

Robin and I completed her son, Ryan's room makeover today!  Ryan hasn't had a bedroom of his own in two years (he's now 6) and has been begging for one.  So last week we shopped, this past Friday we painted the room and some of the accessories/furniture and then today we put the room together and revealed it to Ryan after school...



RYAN



I love doing room makeovers :) especially for kids!  The smile on their face the first time they see the room makes all the hard work worth it!

Here's Ryan's sister, Molly's room that we redid a few months ago...

Ronald McDonald

Last week we saw on the sign at our local McDonald's that Ronald would be visiting today at 1pm. When I told Lexy she got super excited and couldn't stop talking about it! At 6:30 am this morning I woke up to her in her bedroom saying "today is Ronald McDonald day, I get to see him, I get to see him". After convincing Lexy to go back to bed for a while, we headed out at 9:30am with Robin and kids to see a movie and then we headed to McDonalds. We arrived at about 12:15pm and after eating (and the restaurant filling up fast), Ronald showed up at 1pm. He did a magic show for everyone and then stayed for pictures and they handed out goodie bags and the smallest ice cream cones I have ever seen :-) Robin and I even got in on the picture fun (while all the other parents thought we were crazy)!

And no Brooke he didn't drive his shoe car...Lexy looked for you!!

Swimming Fun

To break in my new look this month (and no we are not going someplace exotic for vacation, we just wish we were), I have pictures of our first swimming outing of the summer.

We decided to venture to a pool in a town about 45 min. away (the same one we went to the park at). It was a beautiful day (90's) for the pool so we packed up and got there when they opened at 1pm. Robin and her kiddos (Kenzie, Molly & Ryan) and Brooke's friend , Cassie, all joined us. We had a great time until about 3:20pm when we hear over the loud speaker "everyone must exit the pool NOW, we have had an incident". A few minutes later we found out that someone had gotten sick (YUCK!) in the water and they would need to close the pool for about an hour to clean, disinfect and shock the water. Robin and her two little ones decided to leave but Brooke, Lexy, Kenzie, Cassie and I waited and entertained ourselves by dancing to the music and gossiping about the people that SHOULD NOT have been wearing bikinis in a public place! By the way, just because it is in the 90's does NOT mean that the water will be warm...we about froze!

Lexy

A few pictures of Lexy...

Lexy & boyfriend "Ryno"

Lexy at the park

Lexy playing soccer

A day of play

Yesterday Lexy asked if she could see Ryan (her boyfriend) after school so Ryan and Robin came over for lunch (thank you Robin!) and the kiddos played while Robin and I gabbed. The kids had a great time playing dressup...

By the end of the afternoon they had pretty much every toy in the playroom on the floor. Neither of them are real keen on picking up so that part was handled with a lot of threats from both mamas! :-)

Halloween

On Friday afternoon Robin and Sean brought their kiddos over and we got them all ready for the Spook parade and trick or treating, here they are all ready to get some candy!!

Brooke from the 50's...

Lexy as Lovey...

Molly the cheerleader...

Ryan the fireman...

Kenzie the woodland fairy...

"M" went as a pink unicorn but I forgot to get any back shots of her since I can't show her face! Everybody seemed to have a good time. Lexy and "M" got hot in their costumes as it was about 70 when we started and didn't get very cool at all before they were done for the night. We ended up with SO MUCH candy!!!