Birthday Boy!

I missed blogging Kade's 5th birthday... Seriously Mom! He has really been looking at pictures and scrapbooks lately...I did not want to get the... why was my birthday not on the blog speech! ;)

Big Boy Room- Cowboy Style

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Kade gets a Big Boy Room! As part of the Remodeling Guy's Spring Round-up I decided to share our recent re-do

of Kade's Big Boy Room. This room used to be shared by Kade and his little sister. Since she was so small and in a crib she went to bed early... one thing Kade has never done. In preperation for school we decided the time had come! We moved Karlee to share with Kati our niece who will be home for the summer and Kade's room got a facelift!

I added some star drawer pulls as we were missing one of the knobs on one of the drawers.

My custom Art Work!

Bad news is I did not get a before picture... Hubby moved the furniture out while I was not home. Trust me when I say the room was crowded with Karlee's crib and all the furniture you now see and toys and junk!

The entire makeover only cost $30.00 for wood fence pickets that we installed like a chair rail and the paint and wisk broom we used for our denim treatment.

Here are the steps:

1. Remove everything from the room.

2. Paint the bottom half of the wall with Bayer paint in denim blue color.

3. While the paint is wet drag a wisk broom through the paint to create the "denim look". I wanted the Ralph Lauren denim treatment but as I stood in the Home Depot and read that the treatment took three days to complete I said no way... we will just do this...

4. Use overhead and clip art from internet to draw the bucking horse outline on the wall. Harder than I originally thought it might be since I was drawing on textured walls!

5. Use leftover brown paint from half bath to fill in the Custom Mural! My husband commented that he did not know that I had such "Mad art skills!"

6. Allow paint to dry and install wood fence pickets. Hubby's job... He cut the ends of the pickets to be straight and then nailed them to the wall. Thank you!!!

7. Clean out drawers and closet of all Baby girl stuff!

8. Re-arrange furniture and hang pictures.

9. End Result One happy little Buck-a-Roo! There you have it a Texas style little boys room makeover. I apologize I am not the best photographer...

Cousins are Cool

Baby boy ones are even Cooler! This past weekend I got to hang with Cooper and Luke. Cooper is growing up to be an awesome buddy. Can't wait to show him my new lightsaber. I had a blast feeding Luke his bottle - alot more fun than those girl babies at our house!

Hold on little buddy as soon as Luke is done eating I will take you and show you where the fish tank is!

Quack Quack!

My Mommy showed me how to make this paper plate into a bill just like a Duck. Too Cute huh?

Church at Nana and Papa's

We spent Easter Sunday at Nana and Papa's church.

Hanging with the Cuz

Karlee giving her fun dip away while the big dude holds Cooper up.

Kade giving big hugs out...

Kayleigh teaching the egg hunting ropes to the new kids getting to go out this year!~

SPring is here

Dinner at the Park? What a great idea. We opted for fast food and headed to a new park in our town. The kids loved the inpromtu surprise. Everyone got some exercise and some fresh air. Karlee likes to think she is all grown up... she is getting sooo big. Kayleigh was the picture taker...