Savannah's first story

Savannah has realized she has enough knowledge to write stories. So, she has been at it!
Here is her story. I will write down her actual words underneath so you can keep up. She worked and thought it out so well.


























"See how my baby brother
fell off the chair!
He did? Yes he did!
She then went on to begin her story. It says Page number 1 on the right side.
"I had a dog with a collar
and he had to go away for a day
my pup had to go to my neighbor's house





















Page number 2
"The dog had a lot of fun today
My dog is coming back today
My dog is going to have more fun today"





















page number 3
"when my dog catches the ball
he barks a lot
My dog has had a lot of fun"
Savannah







She is using her kindergarten 5 year old knowledge every day! Yesterday she informed Nathan and I that she is the youngest, but smartest in her class. We teach our kids to be humble!

Tanner's Invention

Tanner had the option to invent something for a school Invention Convention they do every year. He has been waiting until finally this year he can participate. He has been so excited! He invented a Baseboard Cleaner. He claimed it was on behalf of his pregnant mom. Ohhh sweet.
He worked hard on it and we were all so glad when it was done!!
Tanner put it in the competition and he received a yellow ribbon. That means he is going to Boise!
Which means we are going to Boise to see a ton of other kids inventions.
But, we reconfigured and decided just Daddy and Tanner gets to go.
Here is a picture of his final Baseboard Cleaner Presentation. If you click on the picture you will see the individual pictures. Sweet one right by his head eh?


Tanner is so excited to go to Boise just he and Daddy and sleep in an actual HOTEL!

I will be here with Corbs and Savannah and an extremely pregnant belly.
Nathan is gone all week this week and next. Then we will have a baby. So, if anyone receives a phone call come help me, I am delivering a baby alone.




I thought all would enjoy a picture of our family all 4 kids!! Don't I look lovely?

refinished table

The story behind our kitchen table.
We received this table from our neighbor in Kerman, Ca. She had used this table from about the 70's (complete with the Formica type greenish hue top) to 2003 where she then stored it in her garage. We took it off her hands complete with the original 70's chairs.













We liked the leaves that came with the table and it made this table very big.
We sanded this thing and repainted it 3 times with black paint trying to make it just right. It worked for about a year.



Then the paint began to chip. Tanner helped to chip it as he would eat dinner. I am sitting on the original 70's chair, barely holding me up.




We thought our chairs were extremely mismatching and it was time to upgrade. We checked into new table sets and then Nathan thought lets see what is underneath the last Formica layer. He went at it and found it was cherry!





So Nathan went after it big time. Mask and scraper and many hours in the garage. I did not help a bit, he was awesome! (the pregnant excuse was used)
We junked the chairs (by throwing them on our driveway to break them up and trashed them-they were beyond hope) I loved seeing them hit the curb!


Our final product,




Which I am extremely happy with! We purchased the chairs from Target.com and we have our new dining set for an extremely cheaper amount of money then if buying a new set!
(to get the full effect, click on the picture to get the WOW view!)









The more expanded view.
Nathan receives the credit for it. The end result a very happy wife!