Bathroom Project!

So, last weekend I got a wild hair and painted our downstairs bathroom this great color that my great friend Allison has in her 1/2 bath. I love the color! After it was painted, Brent and I headed to Hobby Lobby to get some decorations for the bathroom. It looks soo good and makes the house feel so different. I have no idea why it took me only 4 YEARS to paint it! HA!
So, with the downstairs bathroom painted and looking good, I got the idea to paint the master bathroom upstairs. Yes, 4 years, and nothing on the walls! I am not good with bathroom decorating 101. Yesterday we started painting the bathroom at 2 in the afternoon. Brent was helping tape and take down things while I was getting ready to paint. In the middle of painting, Brent gets this great idea to tile the shower! While I am still painting, Brent rips out our old shower walls and begins the project!! So as of now, we have no shower. The bathroom is painted and looks Great! Now, we will have to see how long it takes for him to tile. This is his first time and apparently it's not as easy at it may seem. That's what I've heard. But, Brent is really talented and is such a handy man! I love him. Here are some pics of the project. I will keep you posted on how it goes. If anyone wants to come over and help tile, we would love it!! We will even cook you dinner!

Tearing down the walls

Hopefully our shower won't look like this for a while

Painting the white walls

New paint and towel bar

Finished paint job

Coming up for Air! (after the holidays)

We have been busy! But we had such a good christmas holiday being able to share it with both Brent and I's families! We started out christmas eve going church at 5, then headed over to my dad's house in Boerne for dinner with him and his wife, Joann. It was a nice, good time. Then christmas morning, we were able to spend christmas with just US! It was so nice to wake up and have all the presents from santa under the tree and seeing ezra's face light up. He didn't fully grasp what was going on but sure was happy about all of his new things under the tree. He even wanted to help little Emersyn open all of her gifts. He really took to the roll of handing out the presents, that at times, we had to remind him to stop and open his.

Helping little sister

Then he just did it for her :)

1st christmas!

After we were done with our family christmas, we packed up the car and headed to Fredericksburg. We arrived to a house full of Eilers! It was so fun to be with the whole family. That afternoon we walked over to the Cabin and had a dinner with the extended Eilers family. The food was Delicious! Then we walked back over to brent's parents and celebrated christmas with them. It was such a special time. The kids got all dressed up to celebrate the Nativity (for about 5 minutes, then they were finished). The kids exchanged gifts from cousins (pj's and books) and we sang christmas carols, laughed and talked. The next morning, everyone got up, we celebrated Mass with Fr. Brian, even though he just had surgery on his ankle.

Ezra was joseph and Emersyn was baby Jesus

Our sweet angel neice Maria

 Then everybody headed seperate directions. We packed up, got in the car again and headed to Dallas to spend christmas with my family. This is one of the first years that everyone was together, My mom, her husband (for the first time), Malachi/Shelby, Ashley/Hunter, Brent and I and my grandmother. For a few hours, my grandmother's brother and his family came to spend some time with us. It was a great time. Lots of laughs and good memories. Ezra had his fun playing in the left over snow that Dallas got on christmas day. He loved making snowballs and throwing them at everyone.

We finally headed home monday and got home just in time to watch the Aggie bowl game. We had a relaxing week and celebrated Brent and I's 4th anniversary and brought in the New Year with some of our closest friends. God has truly blessed us this year. We look forward to the things to come in this New Year of 2010, and pray that God is at the center of all we do!

Zoo Day, Hooray Day

Yesterday, Ezra, Emersyn and I went to the zoo! Ezra had been asking me to go for the past couple days so we went! We had a great time! We felt like we had the zoo to ourselves! The weather was great and all of the animals were out and about. It was so fun today because Emersyn is so much more active and involved and just curious about what is going on around her. She had fun. She really liked watching the fish swim around in the hippo tank. We had a great time!

Ezra talking to the Black Bears

Emersyn looking at the Hippos

More Hippo watching

The Playhouse!

The playhouse is DONE! Brent finished it within a week, with some help from some good friends. Ezra LOVES it!! It wasn't even completely finished and Ezra was on it and playing it. Emersyn even loves it. She is great at swinging! The day it was finished we had our Lifegroup Christmas Party and the kids were playing on it non-stop until around 830 or 9. I see good times in our future!
Thank you to everybody who helped Brent put it together!

The guys who helped Brent: Chris and Scot (minus Matt)

Lifegroup Gang

Santa 2009

Last night we went to one of Brent's co-workers house for a chirstmas party and Santa showed up! Ezra shook his hand when he first walked through the door, but when it came time to sit on his lap, he wanted nothing to do with him. Ezra hid in the hallway and didn't want to come out until I told him he did not have to sit on Santa's lap. After seeing Emersyn and Hailey and Syndney sitting on his lap, he warmed up a little and sat on his lap. Emersyn did great. She just looked at him with a funny look. The second time we put her on his lap with Ezra, she started to cry. Ezra must have told her he was scarey! It was a good time.

Ezra trying to escape

hiding in the hallway

Emersyn showing big brother it's no big deal

Ezra finally gave it a try

Day 1 and 2 of the Playscape

So, for christmas this year, Santa dropped off some boxes full of boards and screws for brent to build a playscape for the backyard. He left instructions too, but it is yet to be determined if those are being used or not. :)

It is going to be a great playscape for the kids, but it is definitely a project to put it together. But, as you know, Brent LOVES this kind of stuff. He recruited some of his good friends from lifegroup to come over and help. So yesterday, Sunday, a couple of the guys came in shifts to help put up the base of the Playscape. Today, Monday, Brent is working on the things he is able to do by himself. Hopefully this week we will have the completed project. The guys said they would come back friday to help finish it with him. Ezra already loves it; but he also loves doing his projects with his daddy just as much!

Setting everything up

Big helper

Brent and Matt (first shift of help)

Brent, Scott and Chris (second shift)

Brent and Ezra (Day 2: third shift of help)

Cookies!

The other day, we went over to our friend Lisa's for some homemade christmas cookie making and decorating! Martha herself, well aka Jennifer, came to help. She brought the good ol' homemade sugar cookie receipe with the frosting and sprinkles. Ezra enjoyed it for the first 5 minutes of course, then he wanted to go play with Hailey and Sydney's toys. He cut out a couple of the sugar cookies, but was definitely on board when it was time to ice and decorate. He decorated two cookies and then ate them right after he was finished decorating. It was good times. Emersyn even helped out a little bit. She got a hold of the TollHouse chocolate chips and was trying to put as many in her mouth before we could take them away. Tis the season!

Sydney and Hailey mixing the icing

Ezra and two cookies before he ate them

Jennifer and Lisa

Emersyn found the chocolate chips!