Patrick wants out

Patrick wanted to play outside after dinner. Unfortunately, the weather here has not been friendly latey. I closed the curtain thinking this would help things, but it obviously didn't.

For Aunt Brenna

Here are some pictures of the boys, since I failed on that front in my last post. Apparently some people would prefer to see pictures of the boys over pictures of the house. That's okay, I think they're a lot cuter too. Sorry Brenna, these pictures aren't that great either. But atleast you get to see them in their favorite new place - our yard. Dan fenced the side yard, which is where our sliding door and patio is. Now they have our entire backyard and sideyard to explore pretty much whenever they want.

The Power of Paint

See here for the before pictures:

http://johnbakken.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-big-kitchen.html

We're far from done with these two rooms. My next project is to paint the trim and cabinets. Long term goals are to raise the living room floor and add oak to match the kitchen, refinish the kitchen floors, new countertops, lighting, etc etch etc....

I noticed these pictures are rather blurry. What's wrong with our new camera?! Hmm... maybe the lens was smudged when this fellow got ahold of it?

The Life

Does life get any better than this? We got to watch this digger and bulldozer work in a new neighborhood across the street from our subdivision. Our house is among the trees across the street.

Finally, at 26 1/2 weeks along (third trimester, here we come) I got my first pregnancy picture. I'm just praying this baby doesn't already weigh 10 lbs... cuz s/he sure looks like it.

We've been enjoying our new yard. We have lots of plans to improve it and make it more useable. Right now we're mostly just pulling out junk trying to clean it up a bit.

Jack loves to mow, or as he calls it "blowing the lawn."

Still my baby.

Happy Easter!