We started the week out with Erik’s 9-month pictures with Tim Putt on Sunday morning. I mentioned it on last week’s post in regards to Erik’s first big owie that he suffered during the photo shoot. After the photo shoot, we went to a surprise birthday party for a very special lady, Loretta Hauck. The party was beautiful and actually was a surprise to Loretta! The party planners had used decorating ideas from Loretta’s own Pinterest website, so everyone was joking that Loretta planned & decorated her own surprise party. On Monday, Kent flew out to Kansas City for an overnight business trip, so Kelli was a single mom for 2 days. I may have said it before, but I have no idea how single parents do it. There is never enough time to everything done!
We had some more visitors this week - Tom & Lauron Henkel flew down on Wednesday from Maryland to see Erik for the first time! We hadn’t seen Tom & Lauron for a year when they came down last June for my baby shower. It was so wonderful to see them again; I had been anxious for Auntie Lauron to see my little guy. While they were here, we also had Rosalie & David Oliver up for the day on Sabbath to visit with them. The 3 Musketeers from Southern (um, that would be Lauron, Rosalie & Kelli) were together again! Lauron & Tom also helped us celebrate my first Mother’s Day on Sunday; we went out to a breakfast restaurant called “keke’s” which we had never tried before. The food was delicious and we saw several of our friends there as well.
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| Erik with his "Auntie" Lauron |
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| All the Moms at breakfast on Mother's Day |
Kent & I were also curious to see what Lauron & Tom thought of our new house. When they were here last year, we were still in the closing process on the house. We were able to give them a quick tour last June, but they hadn’t seen any of our changes, of course. What changes have we made, you ask? Well, let me give you just a little recap:
- Put on a new roof
- Redid the pool surface
- Changed the pool tile & replaced the pool equipment
- Tore out & redid the pool patio deck
- Took out about 9 trees
- Resodded sections of the lawn
- Fixed drainage issues on the pool patio and in the backyard
- Bought over 150 plants and planted them as most of the plant beds had been stripped prior to the house being sold or that Kent cleaned out himself (this project is still ongoing)
- Had wallpaper removed from one of the hall baths
- Had the walls textured in the 2 hall baths, the dining room and the kitchen
- Repainted almost the entire interior of the house - the only rooms that were repainted were the 2 guest bedrooms and the greatroom (or “old” master)
- Had the beams in our hallway and our kitchen repainted to look like wood - it is amazing how much like wood the beams actually appear. Some of our guests have been certain they were wood!
- Replaced the chandelier in the dining room
- Bought some furniture for the office, guest room, living room and dining room
- Bought carpet/rugs for 3 rooms
- Bought artwork for 4 rooms
- We could think of more, but I’m getting exhausted just thinking of everything that we’ve done in the past 9 months since we’ve moved in!
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