Before and After

We finally moved in to our newly remodeled house. It's been a crazy and busy summer. I finally have some pictures to post so I'm doing some before and after shots.

First a before and after of Zander's hair cut. Isn't he a handsome little guy. This is after we've moved in so he was long overdue for a hair cut.

You can see our tile and carpet in the living room, but until I have organized a little more I think I'll wait on taking an "after"shot. :)

Before: These are in the master bedroom. We added a bigger closet and took the carpet and wood floors out and put new carpet in. Framed in the dinky little space over the closet. Also notice the ceiling. Half of the ceilings in the house had to be replaced, mudded, textured, primed, then painted. So glad it's done!

After: So it's a different view but it is the same room. We used the framed in wall as a headboard and painted it blue.

In-between: This is the closet that we made. This is before it had doors or paint. We also enclosed the master bathroom as well. I'll post more pictures later.

Before: Now this was fun. I found this in a shed in the back of our house and thought it would be fun for Ivie's room. It was in pretty bad shape. Lots of parts missing, bent all over, and ugly!

After: Wa-Lah! White spray paint, some new pink beads to make up for not many clear ones (and to add some girliness to it), and new covers over the coils. I love it!

Before: Ivie sitting in her room. Actually the half mauve half teal carpet has already been taken out so you really don't get a true before.

After: We painted her room a light yellow. It reminds me of a banana smoothie. I think it turned out really cute. We still have to finish her closet that we discovered the day before the carpet came so I'll post those later as well.

O.k. last one for today.

Before: This is the laundry room.

After: I'm starting to really love this little room. I still have big plans for decorating and organizing pretty much the whole house but it will have to happen after the main stuff is finished. Sigh!

There will be more pictures of the bathroom, boy's room, and others soon. And I must say Thank you to all of you who helped us so much with tearing stuff out, framing, putting up drywall, mudding, sanding, painting, cleaning, packing, moving, etc. the list could go on and on! We truly appreciate it and feel so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends that support us and always help us out.

Spring!

AAhh, Spring. I love when all my perenial flowers start blooming. Especially without any effort on my part! It's the one time of year that my yard looks somewhat nice. Even the mass load of dandelions in our grass look great. (as long as they are in bouquet's from Ivie and Zander) One morning they were both picking them and both proudly brought me a dandelion bouquet. It was so cute the difference between the two. Ivie's was very carefully picked and put together. Zander's was full of energy. I could just imagine Zander running to each dandelion he saw and picking it as fast as he could. They were both so excited and proud of their bouquet's I just had to take a picture.

This is just a picture of some new earrings I have in my little boutique. I just think they're so cute I wanted to show'em off a little. If you like them you can call me or go to my etsy shop. Zandie.etsy.com

Easter

The Easter bunny brought a little surprise today. Can you see it hiding in the corner of the couch. Zander spotted it first and then Ivie caught on. They were so excited and both wanted to hold the bunny all day. They have had so much fun with the bunny. We think it's a boy and we haven't decided 100% on a name yet. Ivie definitely has some creative ideas though, like Cajika, and Santa Claus. We'll keep you posted.

The kids also got to have an easter egg hunt at my Parents' house and at my Aunt Valerie's huge neighborhood and family egg hunt, and probably one more to come at the Froerer's

Zander and Ivie just picked through the candy they wanted instead of just grabbing piece in sight. This meant that they both ended up with about 5 suckers each and just a handful of chocolates. Which is fine with me. I don't know about anyone elses children but mine are not happy after a day of eating candy.

Funky Fresh Vintage- My new Boutique

Check out my new boutique. I have my feather headbands as well as necklaces, earrings, and more. I will also be adding more things soon. Such as my sister-in-law Victoria's adorable crocheted headbands, hats, and hair clips. If you see anything you are interested in let me know.

http://funkyfreshvintage.blogspot.com

Brighton's blessing

We blessed Brighton last sunday. He looks so cute in his little white suit. I wanted to take a lot of pictures but these are the only ones I managed to take. It's always a little crazy after the blessing. We had everyone over after for lunch. The one of the kids was taken before church and it was the best we could do with trying to get three kids ready for church in time. There was a little bit of drama with Zander and his sippy cup. Everything else went great. Thank you to everyone that came and helped!

2 months old

Little Brighton is getting so big. He now weighs 13 lbs. and is too big for his 0-3 month clothes already. This is so different since Ivie fit in 0-3 stuff until she was probably 9 months old. I had Brighton in a outfit the other day that Zander wore when he was about 7 months. Anyway, here are some recent pics of our cute little guy.

Feather Headbands

I've had a few people ask me where they could get these headbands. I made some for friends and family members for Christmas and these are pictures of the ones I've made. I'm going to be making more for a few more people and so I'm offering to make headbands for anyone who wants one. I'm charging $10 if you want one of the first two. I can also get these two dyed in other colors such as pink, turquoise, purple, orange, blue, and red.

These cost a little more because of the peacock feathers so they would be $12

If you would like to buy one email me at breklynfroerer@yahoo.com