Children's Museum

We bought a membership to the Everett Children's Museum, and the kids love to go!

This is Tycen's performance, they LOVE playing on the stage!

Kayla and Grandma did a really cool magic show, Grandma makes Kayla appear, then turns her into a chicken, and makes her make silly faces, then Kayla disappears! It's pretty funny!

Lance playing the xylophone

Kayla's Fifth Birthday

Kayla turned five on Feb. 10, here's some pics of her and her friend Sophie. She got to make her own cake, following in the Harston's tradition. It was a fun day.

This is Garrett, trying not to feel left out!

I should have thought this through...

I gave Lance some chocolate cereal for breakfast today since I was feeling kind of lazy... I thought it would be quick and easy... needless to say, I should have thought this through. This was way more work than pancakes would have been!

The answer's Yes...

Hey everyone, I know the rumor's been floating around, so I thought I'd just say YES! We are having another baby in October. (Probably the 2nd, I'm having a C-section, but it's not scheduled yet.) This will be our last one, so that makes the pregnancy seem a little easier. Well, mentally anyway. My body is exhausted, but it's so nice knowing that this is the last time. We were overwhelmed when we found out... it was definetely a surprise, but we are excited. We find out on May 14th if it's a boy or a girl, so that's exciting! I'll post the ultrasound pics when we get them. Life is good!

House Update

Sorry it's taken so long... life gets busy! Here are some pictures of the remodel:

These are new couches (I don't konw what I was thinking getting such a light color... I've regretted that several times since, but they are fairly easy to clean!) and we got new carpet throughout the whole house. (yeah!) We also moved our piano to where our table was and the table to the piano room. I didn't want the kids to eat on the new carpet. It makes the living room bigger, so I like that, but I don't like having our company walk right into the dining room.

I LOVE the granite counter tops! They're really pretty, but the think that I wasn't expecting, is that since they're so much colder than regular countertops, it takes my bread longer to raise since the dough gets cooled down so much while I'm forming it into loaves. But now that I'm used to that, it doesn't bother me.

I tiled this floor and counter myself! It was fun to learn something new.

It used to be carpet under the barstools, but Quinn added the wood here to match the kitchen and dining room. I LOVE it. It's so much easier to clean! 4 kids under 6 make a lot of messes!

Random Remodeling Pictures

There's supposed to be a sink right here... :)

New drywall

I learned to tile! It was fun. Thanks Kim for teaching me and for all your help!

This is after it is grouted.

Quick Update

I just wanted to post a quick update on our family... we're still living in a hotel, hopefully we'll be able to move back into our house this week. The counter tops should come tomorrow, and then all we have left is the insulation and the heat ducts under the house, and then the trim. I'll have some touch up painting to do after that, and tons of laundry, but at least we'll be able to be back home. I'm ready for the "suite life" to be over! We have eaten out at every restaraunt in town, and for anyone visiting Marysville I would recomment Froso's. It's a little ma and pop, hole in the wall restaruant, but it is delicious.