My dad has been working with all the grandkids on how to collect and display stamps. They learned how to mount and remove stamps and how to handle them. Over Christmas break they all did some layouts to enter into the stamp show. My dad is involved in a stamp club here in Lincoln. He is using some of his dads stamps and finished out collections and doing new things on his own and thought he would involve the grand kids. So this last Sunday the kids got to put them on display. What made it extra special was that they won first place!
The winners!
standing by their display
looking over the other ones with my dad
They found a lot of interesting stamps
Their favorite part was digging through these bins of stamps so they could put together another display
carter and will digging for stamps
Carter and callan finding their gems. Carter was collect sports stamps and grace was doing animals. Callan did a mix of disney and other random things. I think Will did space I believe.
It is such a fun thing for the kids to do with their grandpa
They have been hard at work and taking advantage of the nice weather to get things done on the house. They poured a lot of concrete. In the garage, the front entrance and the back patio. One step closer to it looking like a real house. We also made some decisions on tile/quartz/and paint colors. They also started on the deck and putting up the post for it to be screened in.
inside the 3rd stall
back patio
front door
entryway
back patio after it has dried some
the full inside of the garage
shower tile (grey), glass tile is the accent in the shoer and the white is the quartz for the master
The grey is the quartz for the kitchen. The white is the subway tile for the back splash and the little bar of grey is the grout color
some paint color choices with the fire place tile (the old wood tile)
We are going with galveston gray in the master and callans room (benjamin moore), Revere Pewter will be in the bathrooms and the laundry room (benjamin moore color) and then Pavestone gray throughout the rest of the house (Sherwin Williams)
We are trying to get in a few fun evenings with all our neighbors before we leave. We planned a little backyard grilling one unusally nice evening. We are going to miss our neighbors a lot when we move but we will just have to have them come visit often.
they love playing tag or nerf gun wars
callan and ava getting ready to eat dinner. the sun was already going down since it is February
We also got to hang out with a few of the Vlieger boys one evening because Kaci needed to take Kinley to the emergency room because she thought she broke her arm while rollerblading. So we took the boys and went to go eat at Freddy's. These boys are the sweetest. They were so polite at dinner.
February has already been a whirlwind and we are just a little bit over half way through. We have been busy with picking out things for the house, meeting with our designer, kids birthday parties, orthodontic appointments, putting our house on the market, selling our house, negotiating, amazing weather, swim lessons, school projects and basketball. We have been keeping busy and have cleaned more than ever in the last month. The kids are tired of hearing me say "pick that up, or put that away!" Thankfully we can relax now and not have to worry about any of that. Now we just need to focus on packing and getting everything ready for the move.
camden enjoying part of his birthday present from a friend. he had never had a raisinet.
waiting for dinner
eating at Jimmy's Egg
family chinese dinner
playing with dry ice
my work gave me left over dry ice to let the kids play with and they thought it was very cool
look at these two!
love them
how I think their dorm room might look like someday
the next night they all slept in the top bunk after they put themselves to bed without us knowing
playing with some foam he got for his birthday
his creation
tatze nervous about being out of the house for a showing
camden worked on his panda diorama with me. he did a great job taking the lead and asking for help when he needed to
the best part was him telling me all the cool panda facts
Time for another house update! We have siding and dry wall hung! It is starting to look like a house now! They will pour the patio soon, and start on the deck. all the plumbing, electrical and all home sound speaker boxes are in. We picked out our final quartz and granite and made a final decision on the floors. We only have a few more things to pick out before we are all done!
east side of the house
putting up the siding in the back
the siding all done
standing in the living room with the drywall hung
callan standing in his room
carter in his room down stairs
camden in his room
this is our mailbox down the street
the main rec room
this is our downstairs flooring
the light board on top is our upstairs flooring
that is our outside stone (the lighting is not good and makes it look washed out)
the back grey tile is for our shower and then we are doing those glass accents (ignore the square granite piece on top)
this is the grey quartz we are doing in the kitchen
this is the quartz we are doing in the master
Those are just some of things we have chosen so far for our house. Can't wait to see what they get to next. It is coming together SO fast now!
