I can't believe Piper is 5!!!

This year Piper has been busy as well. This past summer she was asked to join the competitive team for Gymnastics. Recently she did a demo where she was a cute little elf.

She is also taking Ballet. It amazes me that she remembers all the terms. She is learning so quickly.

Charleigh has been a busy girl!!

Charleigh is in 5th grade this year and is busier then ever. Between book reports, homework, singing lessons, activity days, and presentations at school we seem to be forever busy. This month she had three performances. One was for dance which was Happy feet. Doesn't she make the cutest penguin!! She is very good at tap!

 Her next performance was a 4th and 5th grades take on snow white. They did a really good job. Charleigh was witch hazel. From where I was sitting I really couldn't get a very good picture.

Her last performance was her vocal music concert. Their opening number was Hot Chocolate from the movie Polar Express. They did really well. Charleigh is very expressive when she sings.

She is working hard to do well in everything she does....I am very proud of her!!

our new floor!!

Our poor living room floor was in need of something new. Our wonderful dog decided he would water our rug and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't seem to get the smell or stain out of the carpet. So a friend of mine got me addicted to a sight called Pintrest! Love it.....anyway as I was looking thru some pins I saw a picture where someone had used paper bags on their floor. It looked really neat so Dennis and I decided to give it a try.

This is the floor after the rug had been removed and floor sanded.

 This is our kitchen

These are wonderful friends of ours who came to help Dennis put the floor down!! Thanks John and Terry!

This is the finished product. We also painted the molding and made me my wonderful pallet shelves! i have such a good hubby and I think the floor came out great. I will have to take a picture once we get everything put back.