February

Adam spent the month of February in the YMCA Peewee Basketball.

I think this was the only time the entire month that he actually had the ball during a game. He was playing on a team with 4 and 5 year olds. He had no idea what was going on, but loved running around and being with friends. He spent a lot of his time doing this: trying to figure out what was going on. They were cute to watch regardless of the lack of ability.

Sadie's colt Shasta is finally old enough to have riders. Adam was the first one to ride Shasta - she did great and was quite tame with a rider on her back.
Sadie was hooked up to a sleigh with another horse. It is amazing how much two little ponies can pull. This isn't the greatest picture, but the only one I have. You can't even see the two little ponies.

Kitchen Cabinet Remodel:

We redid our kitchen cabinets, here is our before pictures. (I had already started to move everything out of the cabinets before I remembered to take our before picture - hence all the mess and chaos.)

Finished Product: We took out the soffit boxes and extend the cabinets all the way to the ceiling- love the extra storage space. We did an over-the-range microwave and added a bake center to the end of the cabinets where the micro used to be. We also added the extra cabinet on the side of the fridge. I love all my new space and places to store things. We got rid of the hideous blue countertops and did everything in more earthy tones. Now for curtains and to paint the back wall - color suggestions anyone?

Helpers: Adam and Leslie found lots of new little cubbies and fun places to hide during the remodel. I still cannot put anything in this lower cabinet as Leslie has deemed it as her own personal place. Even the shelf I put in there was quickly removed.

This became a favorie place for Leslie to sit and read books while the sink was out of commision.

As part of the remodel - we had no intentions of replacing the appliances anytime soon. Adam changed our plans. Adam decided to heat himself a pancake in the microwave. I had no knowledge of this until it was at this point:

By the time I had things take care of - the house was FILLED with smoke. It took a week of air purifiers, many loads of laundry, scented candles, plug-ins and febreeze sprays before I was able to be rid of the smell. It got hot enough that the glass turntable inside broke into several pieces. The timing, however, couldn' have been better, since we were in the middle of our remodel and were building cabinets so it would fit above the stove.