Before and after pics..

Here is GG's favorite wall before: And after:
We had pictures of the great-grandkids framed for the new white wall.

I need to go back and take some pictures of the completed walls so I can show more comparisons. This wall was the most dramatic.. everything else went from dingy yellow to white. The house looks beautiful! :) More later..

Puppy learning to walk..

Here is our boy at one week old :) Just learning to walk...

Puppy loooove..

As in, I am in love with our puppy. We now know which one we get -- the dark brindle. Here are some pictures from yesterday:
It is nice knowing which one is coming home.. but terrible how it happened. :( The other brindle boy got sick and died with some virus or bacteria. Poor baby. If you remember right, we were the SECOND on the list for a male brindle so should have lost this cutie pie.. BUT the lady ahead of us decided she wanted the fawn male THANK GOODNESS! Now tell me he isn't the cutest thing EVER?! :) :)

On to family news.. GG is back!!! The kids have been sooo excited to see her. It didn't take Jonathan remember how much fun GG is. The day she got back (Saturday before Easter) Matt and I and the kiddos took her out to Dallas for an Easter surprise. While she was gone, the mysterious family project was painting the interior her house. It was a dingy yellow color before and now it is offwhite. Also, she had this gold, half shiny half fuzzy wallpaper (seriously) in her foyer and we got rid of that. I have before after pics but no time to upload them right now.. I'll try to post them later.

PUPPY UPDATE!!

Oh man oh man, ready for some melt your heart pictures?!
That could be our baby and his momma.. here are the two boys -- one is ours!! A light and dark brindle!!
Here is a face shot..
Ok ok.. I will make a separate puppy blog soon or he is going to be all I talk about here!! :) :) Sooo excited..

On a sad note.. one of the fawn boy puppies died yesterday!! One of the dangers with large dogs -- he got stepped on by his mom!! Yikes.. poor baby had internal bleeding and didn't make it. :( I was just thinking that could have been my boy!!!!! Thanks goodness they are both ok.. anyhow.. I'm off.. I have a TON more Easter pics from Grandma's house to upload.. I will try and get to that tomorrow. Until then..

HAPPY EASTER!!

What a wonderful Easter we have had so far!! :) Alissa woke up before us, found an egg hanging suspended in the middle of the hallway with a pair of ears and when she opened the egg and found a note she decided to wake us up so she could find out what the note said :) We quickly got dressed and put on the ears and woke up Daddy so we could find out what the Easter bunny had to say!! This is Alissa grabbing some eggs the Easter bunny left in the living room, but the fun was just about to begin!! And Jonathan grabbing eggs as well..his were ball eggs (basketball, football, etc) and Alissa's were princess eggs. All were filled with candy eggs.
Now for the fun!! We have a tradition carried over from my family that to get your Easter baskets you have to work for it. There are a series of clues and riddles you have to solve on your journey to your basket.. each clue leads to an egg and each egg contains a clue, get the picture? :) Last year we did this for Alissa for the first time and she needed lots of coaching to figure things out -- this year she was a PRO!! She got through all the clues and found her basket pretty quick! That Easter bunny will have to make things more difficult next year.. but the way, in the pic one of the clues is missing.. in all the post-Easter chaos I couldn't find it :)
JACKPOT!! :) The baskets were hidden in the linen closet. Here they are checking out the goodies. Now.. the Easter bunny couldn't forget about Matt.. so he found a great big egg (painted like a police car) and surprise surprise there was a note for him..and a clue. Here is what he had to solve:
Poor guy wasn't awake yet so I had to give a few hints to him (the Easter bunny had given me a cheat sheet to help him out knowing he is getting old and all). He trudged his way through the clues and found his basket!! I didn't get a chance to take a picture of his basket before he tore into it.. but it had a couple movies, candy, and misc. goodies for him. I will have to have a talk with that old bunny and make sure he makes Matt's clues a bit easier next year.. that OA is a killer. (Old Age) :)

After all the hunt fun Papa came over to take us to The Red Lion hotel for breakfast buffet.. we got there and were told that without reservations we would have to wait two hours for a table.. WHAT?! Umm.. no thanks. They were pretty rude about the whole thing to.. so if you are ever thinking of going there -- DON'T. It was very aggravating. (there is more to the story but it is long and I don't want to get into it.. just trust me when I say to stay away :)). So we went across the street to Almost Home and ate a yummy brunch there.

Now I am home, Alissa is playing with Papa and her new toys, Jonathan is sleeping.. and all is well on this Easter Sunday. :) Hope you had a great Easter!!!!!

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