New Dining Room Floor

*The dining room - BEFORE*



*And our new flooring - After*

I HATE HATE HATE carpet in dining rooms. I think the last 3 places we rented had carpeted dining rooms. It just does not work with little kids. The carpet gets so nasty and stained. So before the carpet we actually owned got too gross, we decided to get rid of it altogether. It looks so much better (even if we have to sweep after every meal).

Happy Birthday June!

*June eating her cake outside on the deck*

*The PINK bday decor (cherry cake made by Beki Cook's Cakes. thanks Beki!)*

*Joey helping June open her presents*


Our baby girl turned 1! She is getting so big already. She wasn't too interested in any of it. She liked her gifts, once they were opened for her. She didn't want her cake, and she was crabby and tired. But she was so cute!

Fire Pit

Dave's been begging all summer for a fire pit, so we finally just dug a hole and put some rocks around it. Here are Dave and Joey just after they completed it, burning part of our brush pile.

New Car!

We finally traded in Dave's car that had been making noises like it was going to cost a lot to fix...so we bought a brand new 2012 Hyundai Elantra Touring. Yay!