Jakes Latest Projects

Jake made this shelf to go above our tv/wood stove area in our living room. The wall was just blank, so we decided it needed a shelf. The wood he used was just scrap that had been sitting out back. I like the weathered look. The shelf turned out very nice and looks good on the wall!

Here is another shelf he made. He actually made two of them. The other one is a little longer than this one, but is made out of the same material, so it looks just like this one.

I guess he got tired of building, so he started tiling. He tiled around both of our shower/tubs. Both bathrooms turned out so nice! I really adds to much to the feel of the room. This one is in our bathroom.

And these slate tiles are in the other bathroom. It is pretty nice to have a handy man around! Speaking of having a handy man, he is in the crawl space replacing our heating ducts as I type ... a handy man sure is nice!

Just Past Half Way

Well, here I am. I have had family telling me for a while now that they want to see some pics, so, here I am. I am 21 weeks this week, and getting bigger by the day!

A Project For The Weekend!

Jake had this fun idea to let the girls make their own bird houses! Jake cut all the pieces and pre-drilled holes, so the girls could pound their nails in and build their own bird houses! What a fun project (and dad!)!

Now its time to paint!

All done!

This is Sierra's. She painted a dinosaur on the front.

This is Maddie's.

ME

I just had to show everyone this cute picture that Sierra drew of ME! See the belly? How cute!

My Little Crafty Girl

I am very proud of Sierra's sailboat she made. She shut herself in the craft room, and went to town making this beauty! I love the cute steering wheel (or whatever you call them on boats). If you look hard, in the middle of the sail is a skull and crossbones. I guess this would be a pirate ship then! Love it!

Random

Here are a bunch of random photos from the last few months. Enjoy!

Sierra crafted this witch all on her own. She designed it, cut and glued completely all by herself! Very proud mom moment!


Sierra drew these lovely designs all over their faces. Not exactly sure where I was during this fun time... probably napping.

The awesome outfit Maddie made for her baby!

Another look.

Sierra drew this picture. A girl riding her bicycle. Cute!

A dinosaur eating a person!

Just doing some finger painting.

She went out to play in the snow, but came back a super muddy mess!!!

Maddie is teaching her baby how to play the piano.

Maddies cute picture!

Snow Drift Tunnel

A few days after Christmas, we had a nice blizzard blow through, which left us with a bunch of big snow drifts. We have a really big one right behind our house, so we thought it would be fun to make a tunnel through it.

The dos amigos digging the hole. Sierra is such a trooper in the cold. She loves being outside in the snow no matter what the temperature is. I think on this day the temp was single digits.

Maddie is more like me... we like to watch from inside the warm house.

Maddie decided that she had to at least try it out!

Of course there has to be a snowball fight before everyone heads back inside.

Christmas 2010

Another Christmas has come and gone. Of course, Santa was good to the girls, and so was the rest of our family ;). Thank you everyone for your wonderful gifts! We had a great Christmas being able to spend it with Grandma and Grandpa Slick (Jake's parents) and Nick and Megan. It always makes the holidays better when you can spend it with family. Here are a couple pictures of our Christmas.. and don't forget to check out Sierra's awesome roller skate video at the bottom of the page.

Sierra got some new roller skates for Christmas. Those things do not leave her feet. She skates around the house all day. She is looking like a natural. It will be fun to go outside in the spring and let her loose. Here is a fancy trick she is pretty proud of. :)

Frames and Furniture

Jake has been working hard perfecting his woodworking skills. Our next door neighbors dad is an artist and is in the market for someone to custom frame his artwork. So Jake has been working on making different styles of picture frames to showcase. Here are a few of the picture frames that Jake has been working on. The pictures inside are our neighbors dads art. He does mostly ducks, geese, and other birds... at least the pictures that I have seen.


Below are a few more pieces of furniture Jake made for a few of our friends.

Our Fabulous Christmas Tree

A few weekends ago we decorated our tree. The kids loved hanging all the ornaments.. and quickly decided they were toys.... I'm sure most kids think that. Well, lastnight when I came home from work, I noticed that our tree had even more decorations on it! They added scarves as tinsel and barbies and ponies as ornaments! LOVE IT!!! How cute is that? It makes our tree look so cute.. at least I think so. Fancy trees are beautiful, but I love homemade kid friendly Christmas trees. I added a few closeups of the AWESOME ornaments.

Yes, we have a few naked barbies on there too.. oh well.

BTW Jamie.... our tree blows yours out of the water!!!