A New Year… Bring It On!

We started off the New Year with a gray house and have since upgraded to tan! Yes, we FINALLY painted our house! Our neighbor is the sweetest little old man who paints houses for a living. He said that if we bought all the stuff and taped it off, he’d paint it for free. Cool! Then he started bringing over leftover primer from jobs he had done and we thought, cool! Then when we had enough primer, he told us that he and his son had decided that since we were putting our extra money aside for adoption, they were going to pay for our finishing paint as their contribution! COOL! It was a 4-day process that at one point found me (Tiffany, not Clint) up on the roof, hanging on for dear life, leaning over to paint the trim on the peaks… we only have one story but still! Our other neighbor asked us what color we were doing and I told him tan with light brown trim. "Dang it!" he says, "That’s what we wanted to do! I guess we’ll have to paint ours pink!" Guess what color our primer ended up being… you guessed it – PINK!! We had some good laughs over that one. I said we should just leave it and paint hearts all along the trim, call it the "Love Shack"! When Clint got home that day he shook his head and said, "I go to work for ONE day and you paint the house PINK!" We had someone come over and I totally played it like that was the color and you should have seen him try so hard to be polite! Even after I told him it was just the primer he was still saying how nice it looked. Too funny!
So anyway, if you’re looking for the gray stucco house at the end of the road, you won’t find it! Ha ha! Yay for paint! We LOVE it!
There are also some pictures of our car (which is officially ours, YEEHAW!). When I was at the MVD, Madison looked over at this guy sitting next to us. He was kind of scruffy looking, you know, beard, mustache, hair down to his shoulders… I said hi and sat down but Madison wouldn’t stop looking at him. Finally she says, "Hi! Are you Jesus?" He laughed and told her no but it sparked a great conversation with this guy who I probably wouldn’t have talked to otherwise (that makes me sound SO bad!). When he left, Madi yells, "Bye, Jesus! Mom, Jesus just left!" What a testimony to me how innocent and pure little children are and why we have been counseled to be more like them.

Madison started her big girl dance class with Beckie and Brittlee last Wednesday. She was SO excited for it all day, she even wanted to wear her tights and a skirt instead of pants and socks because "I’m going to dance class today!" She was so sweet in her little outfit, and I felt really bad that I had to wake her up from her nap to take her, because she was kind of cranky. She actually burst into tears when I tried to take a picture of her and Brittlee, I think a mixture of being tired and excited… she went in fine, she was just balling! We asked her what she learned and all she would say was "That Ise Madison". There is another Maddie in her class so she has to be Madison at dance class. At least she learned something, eh?!
Her dance instructor Ashley made the girls little tutus that are adorable! Madison wouldn’t take hers off all night! What fun my little princess is! That night she and I made cookies in our matching aprons that I made us for Christmas, and she insisted on keeping her tutu on so it poofed out the back and almost made her look like a chicken! Man alive I love being a mom!