Winner Winner!

Embrie is the winner of the Ugly Egg contest 2012!



I did it!

I've been talking about recovering my ottoman for over a year now. And I finally did it! This thing is only a few years old but it didn't take long for it to get ruined unfortunately by my kiddos.

Now here are my before pictures. You can't see all of the damage in this picture, but I will just inform that it was stained, by water and whatever else, as well as it had been jumped on leaving it flat and with baggy material, also the button holes were being ripped. Now don't worry we've since had a very long discussion about how we treat things (ok so we've had many discussions and I am sure not for the last time, but rest assured we don't jump on furniture anymore or even have drinks out of the kitchen.)

No damage on the inside

I wanted to do as little sewing as possible and I wanted to keep the inside the same and keep all the mesh material intactand usable. I just wanted to replace the foam and fabric.


So I pulled all the staples and out took the hardware off. Brad and I decided that though I had bought a foam pad to use as extra cushion, that it would need more reinforcement since we wanted people to be able to sit on it if needed. So Brad built a support using scraps we already had, a few support beams cut from a 2x2 or something and a cut peice of partical board. He nailed that into the seat and I placed the foam on top. I picked out my fabric at Ikea.

Ta-da! What do you think?

Now I don't think its professional grade re-apholstry or anything, but it looks better than it used to and it matches what I have been trying to transform my living room into for the past couple of years.

The only thing left to do is scotch guard. Because although we have rules, you never know right . . .

Easter Weekend

We spent down in Price with the Callahan side of our family.

First Grandma had the kids dye easter eggs. There were dozens of eggs, but I guess that is what you have to do with almost a dozen grandchildren.

Most of the weekend was spent outside.

(Alex holding Maren)

4-wheeling

how many clowns can you fit in a car?

cooking tin foil dinners and roasting marshmallows.

playing games and pretty much getting as dirty as possible.

Of course we had to have an Easter Egg hunt!

We stayed in a hotel so that the kids could go swimming and maybe share the pool with some cousins. And luck had it that the Easter Bunny found us there.

The Easter Bunny's biggest hit this year was that everyone got a tiny "Angry Bird" in their basket.

Picture of Grandma and Grandpa Callahan with all their grandkids! We love you grandma and grandpa!

The Ugly Egg Contest 2012

Please vote for your favorite! :)

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The title holder for the last 2 years is Garrett.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Sweet Conference

Go ahead, call me crazy.

This was our new way of trying to keep everyone quiet and maybe listening for conference this year so that mom and dad could actually listen to conference. And because my son inherited my sweet tooth it actually worked quite nicely. For each time they heard one of the words that they picked out to listen for they got one peice of candy to put into a little bag, or eat. Surprisingly it didn't turn out to be as much candy as I thought although much more than one would usually eat in a day. However, conference only comes twice a year so I am justifying it a little. And they were listening! (Embrie did loose interest a little durning the second half, but she's 3 and doesn't like sweets as much as her brother.)

But we really did enjoy conference!

With Friends

Egg hunting with our buddies

Enjoying the sunshine

and the feel of grass under our toes!

and candy

and more candy

And once again in March just like every other year mom lets us all get our frist sunburn so that it can remind us that the season for sunscreen is here. :)

First popsicle. This girl really likes to be the one holding the cards, or in this case food.

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