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I took my nieces pictures last week and thought I would share how darn cute they turned out.

I tell you it was a work out...I was sooo happy that so many turned out!!

Just Peachy!

When life gives you peaches...??

91 quarts bottled
18 quarts of frozen

15 pints jam

Most important...

Memories

Togetherness

Tradition

Grandma & Gandpa Steiner & Matt

Kenna halps fill the jars

Listening to the "pop" of the

jars as they cool is my FAVORITE

part :0)

Seeing spots!

Finally - we are DONE with Makenna's room and she is so happy

with it and I think her ideas came together soo well!

Libby had to be right there with me as we worked on

Kenn's room!

One down three to go!

This is just the happiest room ever!
We are going to repaint her lamp and a few

frames and hang the curtains (they are just

hanging from the blinds LOL) but we are

pretty much finished. When she called me

to tell me she was home from school she said

"guess where I am".....and she said...IN MY
ROOM!!!!

Quote of the day

I came across this quote today. I loved it. My friend
Natalie has a recent post on her blog about motherhood
and the changes we go thru. This is for you Nat...I hope you are reading
this in your yoga pants and t-shirt. *wink wink

To all the mom's out their - b r a v o :0)

"Some people think we put our lives on

hold to raise a

child, but we know

that to hold a child IS life"

~Anonymous

The curse of the wallpaper

Once upon time a family found a house they LOVED. They went thru the process of buying this lovely home only to later realize...almost every room had wallpaper. Now, the mom of that house...refers to wallpaper as a swear word. The end.

I have four rooms left in our home that have wallpaper. Three, floor to ceiling. We are tackling two of those rooms in the next three months.

For their birthdays, Matt and Kenn are getting their rooms redone. We have been here four and 1/2 years now and thought it was time to make them their own. Kenn's is first...we are trying to get it done by her bday this weekend.

She has chosen a polka dot theme of these fun and yummy bright colors.

So if any of you are in the neighborhood....stop by. I am sure I have an extra scraper ;)

The gift card

I would like to share the following experience out of my journal:

September 7, 2008
For Easter, I believe, all the kids got gift cards for their ipods in their easter baskets.
Matt never used his. Seems like when he found the card, the ipod was lost or not charged. And then later on our internet was down so he couldn’t access the store anyway. We finally got the internet working and found the ipod and now of course….the gift card is no where to be found. Matt has a tendency to loose things but this really upset him. He felt bad and new it was something of worth. He looked everywhere…with Makenna’s help he looked everywhere we thought it might be. No luck.
This went on for a few weeks. Today I really started to look while I was cleaning. Matt had come in for a drink and I said while you mow the lawn…I will help look for your gift card. He then exclaimed matter of factly, “ I have been praying for help that I find it - so I bet we will .” What an example my children are to me.
I am sooo happy that Matthew can turn to our Father in Heaven in prayer. That he has that testimony that He is there and is ready to listen.
I took this example and went to my room and on my knees said my own prayer to our Father in Heaven.
Thanking him for such wonderful children and also asked for help finding the gift card. I then continued dusting and looked thru a few drawers in our filing cabinet (ones we had all looked thru many times before) and there was the gift card. Need I say more???