Youngest Grandma Ever

Yesterday I became a 29 year old grandma or so my dad tells me. So that would make him a very young great grandpa. Our cat had her kittens yesterday. She had 5 all white babies. Maybe someone out there with really good eyes can help me tell the kittens apart. As of right now they all look the exact same.

I can't imagine nursing more than one baby at a time. Poor mommy! She just lays there as she gets mauled. They climb all over her!

It is funny to watch the kittens just climb all over, under and around each other, completely oblivious to everything around them.

I took a picture of one next to my phone to show how small/big they are. And here is the proud Papa. He has been doing so good. I am very impressed with how he has been through all of this.

Baby season

No, we are not announcing anything. :) I love springtime and all of the cute little baby animals. We went to the duck park for FHE this week to feed the geese and ducks. It is so much fun this time of year because of all the little babies. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate very well (Ryan says I need to plan things better---like actually check the weather and stuff like that). It was poring rain and cold but it was still fun to see the babies.

First Reupholstering Job

My grandparents had this little couch and chair in their house for as long as I remember. They were a bright red velvet type material. When my grandparents were moving out of their home and getting rid of a lot of stuff, this couch and chair were going to go to the DI. I decided to recover them and put them in my house. My original idea was to pay someone to reupholster these but after almost a year of not being able to find someone (I didn't try very hard :) ) I decided to try to do it myself ( well with A LOT of help from my mom). This project ended up being very frustrating, very time consuming and needless to say probably my first and last attempt to reupholster something. The first part of the process was taking off all of the old fabric and padding as well as the thousands of staples there were there. Yikes!!

Alyse even jumped into the fun and "helped" pull out some padding and stuff.

Maybe the project wouldn't have been so overwhelming if we just did one of the pieces instead of both of them!?!

It is a good thing that my mom is good at projects and stuff otherwise if I had been doing this by myself I would have just given up and put them on the curb for the garbage men to take. My mom gave up quite many days to cover over to my house and help me with this project.

Here are the finished projects! Thank you Mom for all of your help!! Even though it was a nightmare project it was fun to do together!