Extreme Make-over Pengelly Addition

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Cory made me get in the picture, we didn't do any of this ourselves although Cora and I did give the window guys juice boxes... its pretty awesome to be able to open our windows now... the windows that were torn out were 65 years old! 

as for the roof... i am shocked we didn't get snowed on all winter, its a total miracle that it didn't leak! its amazing what paint, windows and a new roof can do, she looks a good 30-40 yrs younger! 

my kindergartener has a shiner...

So my beautiful child looks like she got in a fight with the school bully, but in reality she was playing an innocent game of "kitties" gone wrong. The run in was with her sister's big head and her eye blew up to the size of a golf ball! i really thought it was gonna blow up! she ran to me crying and said "i can't go to school tomorrow, everyone will think i look ugly!!!!" not once did she say that it hurt! that child was so concerned that she kept that ice pack on her face for like 24 hours! i let her stay home for a day and when it was time to go back to school i did the only thing i knew how to do..... makeup.... not to cover the black eye just to 'match' the other eye... i know she's in Kindergarten but i didn't know what else to do! i sent a note to the teacher explaining myself, i just prayed they wouldn't send her home for wearing makeup to school....

"sleeping arrangments"

So, my girls love each other so much that they decided to sleep in the same bed... a twin bed is a little small for two people (even two little people) so we put the beds together to make a 'king-ish' size bed so they would have more room.... didn't make much of a difference to them.... ENJOY!

Doesn't this look sooooo cozy??

Dirty feet.... so cute...gross, but cute...

i just love these pics, although not recent, they remind me that the grass is green somewhere under all that damn snow.... i am having a rough winter, i think i need one of those sun lamps or stronger drugs...new shoes? ok now i'm more depressed because even if i found fabulous shoes i couldn't even wear them!!!!!!!!

"baking" cookies...

So, like a good mommie i told the girls we could bake Christmas cookies.... (and by "bake" i mean buy the sheets of dough and let the girls cut them out) So after they cooled off we start frosting them and adding gobs of sprinkles (canned frosting , of course) suddenly Cora accidentally broke a piece of her cookie off and say's "oh DAMN IT" she doesn't even look up from what she's doing! Cory and I looked at each other with our eyes bugged out of our heads and said to her "what did you say?" and she says "i said oh damn it" like what are you deaf... after Cory and i stop laughing we ask her where she heard that word (i was prepared to be busted) and she said "Syd" (check out syd's blog "forever young") at this point Cory and i were dying we were laughing so hard! Syd, you were totally busted, although we both know thats not the first place she heard that

Sydney and Edward

My friend Syd told me she has been not been able to keep Edward out of her mind.  She is so obsessed with him, all she ever talks about is how she dreams of Edward biting her!  I think she is taking this story way to far...what do you think?

12:01 AM -Need I say more?