Our presidents day weekend project.

So some time ago Chelsea got some cool stickers and wall paper for little Joshua's room. We got the stickers up as soon as we got them but have been very lazy about getting up the wall paper. So this weekend we decided to finish his room decoration which is supposed to mimic Andy's room from Toy Story. The wall paper we go looks like bead board and is paintalble. So we put up the paper on the bottom half of his room and got some chair rail to finish off the look. Then we painted his base board, wall paper, and chair rail a bright white to offset the blue that we had painted his room when we first moved in. I must say that it looks really good, and just looking at the bead board I can't tell that it is actually wall paper. It was a fun project and Joshua really like it too. See the finished product below.

Washer and Dryer Stand Project

For the past two weeks I have been working on making a stand for our front load washer and dryer. It is kind of a pain to bend down to load and unload them. But Chelsea and I didn't want to pay $200 each for the stands the the manufacturer has for sale. So for the past few years we have just been dealing with it.

Then Chelsea saw this project on www.pintrest.com one day and said that we needed to do it. :) So for $60 and some paint that we already had I made this stand. I think it turned out great considering I only had pictures to go off of.

This is the top/bottom of the Stand.








This is the stand put together.








Here is the stand with 1 coat of primer 2 coats of paint and trim pieces added. Not bad looking huh? Chelsea has 3 laundry baskets to put in the space underneath which will hold detergent and other various cleaning materials for the laundry and the house.

Theatrical Children

For the past few months the kids have been acting out this scene from the movie Despicable Me. They have not rehearsed it in any way, they just one day started to do this between them while at play. I wanted to make sure that I got this on tape before they stopped doing it.

This is the scene where the 3 orphan girls come home from selling cookies all day and we first meet Miss Hattie the orphanage director. Enjoy

Hospital Newborn Photos

Baby Tanning Bed.

Olivia has had a problem with jaundice since we brought her home. Yesterday we took her to the Doctor's office because she was looking a bit orange and the doctor said that she needed to be on a bili light for the next 24 hours. That means that we can't hold her unless she is feeding. And even then we have what is called a blanket bili light that needs to be on her back. At first she didn't seem to mind but this morning she has decided that she doesn't like it at all. Probably because it is beginning to work.

Any way It looks like she is on a tanning bed. We thought that we would share.

Olivia Ann Barnett

Monday September 19, 2011 4:33 PM we were blessed with a precious little angel. Her name is Olivia Ann Barnett. Chelsea was induced at 1:50 PM by breaking her water, no pitocin was used. After about 20 minutes contractions started. After about 2 hours Chelsea began pushing at 4:30 PM. Chelsea was awesome when it came time to push and it only took 3 rounds of pushing to get Olivia into this world.

Olivia wasn't breathing quite like the nurses and Doctors would have liked her to so they took her up to the NICU to put her on a CPAP machine to help her get going a little better. They also put a feeding tube in to get her a little nourishment and an I.V. in her hand to get some glucose into her system as her blood sugar was a little low. After about an hour on the machine the took her off and she did great on her own. So we took her down to the nursery to get bathed and dressed.

Currently her and Chelsea are doing well and resting. Olivia's blood sugar is a little low but nothing that a good feeding or two won't help with. We are so glad that she is here with us finally and that Chelsea is now going to return to normal after 9 months of not being able to eat normally, having migraines, and having her heart race at 200 beats per minute for no reason whatsoever.

Halloween costume shopping

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