Wordless Wednesday

This post will have just a few words (Few Words Wednesday does not have as nice of a ring as Wordless Wednesday).

Wednesday July 28th, 2009 10:15am. Mall of Georgia Carousel.

Don't worry the ride got better for them. They were smiling by the end!

Random

I was taking the random pictures off my camera last night and I thought "hmmmm, some of these are really cute. Random, but cute." So here they are -- there is no theme or topic for this post. Well, expect that all the pictures were taken in July!

One evening, it was cloudy and cooler then it had been, so we had a dinner picnic on the porch. The boys loved it, until the flies came!

Brian caught Ethan being a ham. He loves to smile for the camera. We are thrilled that he is finally getting more teeth -- he is so behind, but catching up now!

After our Sunday picnic in the park, we had to play at the park. Ethan discovered this see-through tunnel.

Benjamin is all dressed and ready to hit the pool. See, he is showing off his muscles -- he works out with me!

Benjamin wanted to help me clean off the porch -- it was 8:30 am and we had just gotten dressed. He ended up soaked -- all the way down to his big boy underwear.....yep, you read it right, but more on that when it is not a random post!

Happy Birthday Papaw

Last weekend, we celebrated Papaw's birthday. But first, Brian, the boys and I had a picnic at the "big park." The boys loved eating outside on a blanket and they always love the bumpy slide (seen here).

Ethan enjoying the shade while dining on a gourmet lunch of peanut butter and jelly!

Benjamin trying to decide which slide to go down next!

Later in the day, we met up with Papaw and Uncle Evan. I never pass up a chance to get great pictures of the boys in their snazzy clothes!

Now, if everyone would look at the camera at the same time!

Hope everyone is have a great weekend. We have been busy laying some ground work for great things for the boys (stay tuned for more info.) and we are looking forward to playing at the pool a little later today.

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Yes, I realize that I am again behind on my posting. Better late than never! We are having a great summer and enjoying the recent cool front (lows in the low 60s and no humidity!). Weekend before last, we took the boys to a place that both Brian and I grew up going -- The Yellow River Game Ranch. They have all kinds of animals that are roaming free. The deer and goats love to be fed and petted. We also got to see black bears and a bob cat. Benjamin was not so excited. I think Ethan would have played with all the animals has we let him out of the stroller!

This is as close to the animals as Benjamin got!

Now that we have returned you to the regularly scheduled program of Wilcox Boys, there will be several more posts in the near future to catch you all up.

The BIG Reveal

Now that the paint has dried, the red chalk lines are gone, and the front rooms of our home longer look like a danger zone, I wanted to show you what we have been working on. This all started back in the beginning of April. My time line for finished kept getting pushed forward.....things always take far longer then you think. My final goal was to finish by July 3rd and that we did.

Here is the paneling and chair rail molding in the dining room. We also had wide base boards put in.

Here is the finished dining room. You can see the paneling done as well as the chair rail and crown molding. On the right side of the picture, you will also see the fluting that we had done on the entry way to the family room.


The paneling in the foyer. You can see the fluting around the office door as well.

We had one entire wall of the foyer paneled. We also had crown molding in the foyer.

The foyer after. I love how bright it is in there!


This was the living room that we turned in to Brian's office (he works from home now) by "simply" putting up a wall. I say "simply" because this "simple" wall is where all the rest of these pieces of the project came from. To save money on making this room, we contracted all of the work out our selves and then caulked, puttied, primed and painted all the trim and wood work our selves. (I say we did it all ourselves, but there was my mother's day gift -- someone to caulk and putty for 8 hours. Yes, I asked for this as a gift and was thrilled to see progress and not have caulk under my nails.)

The finished product. This picture does not do it justice.

We had a flat coffered ceiling put in the office. I sure am glad that is done -- I have never had to paint or caulk on a ceiling -- it was a real challenge.

The crown molding and paneling in the office.

Here are the built in bookcases we had done in the office. We have so much space for books now.

And, so we finished on the 3rd of July. With that big project behinds us and a long 4th of July weekend ahead of us, I could not think of a better way to celebrate then a pitcher of homemade Sangria. It was tasty.

In fact, we may just celebrate again this weekend with another pitcher of Sangria!

(I now return you to your regularly scheduled programing of the Wilcox Boys....)

Happy 4th of July

Our neighborhood has a parade on the 4th of July. Benjamin and I decorated the golf cart earlier in the week. He has been looking forward to the parade all week -- though you can not tell from this picture! He was tired of decorating.

We had great weather this morning -- still a little cool and a nice breeze. Here is the 4 of us on the 4th!

The boys checking out all the other decorated golf carts.

Ethan loved waving his flags and later learned how to wave hello. He enjoys his front-row seat.

We were at the tail-end of the parade and got to see all the other golf carts ahead of us.

We hope everyone has a Happy and Safe 4th of July. We are going to the pool later today and then grilling out at home. There will be no fireworks for us this year -- the boys go to bed waaaay too early for that. They are asleep by 7:30pm.

It's been a while

I know, I am way behind in posting. These are pictures from Father's Day at Papaw's house. Brian got a much deserved few house of quiet time at home. (He says he watched golf, but I think he took a long nap!) Speak of naps.....both the boys were so worn out from playing with Papaw and Uncle Evan that these were in my rear-view mirror on the way home.

Sleepy but too enthralled by Little Einsteins DVD to sleep.

Benjamin playing with Uncle Evan.

Ethan does not usually stay still long enough for pictures....this was a special day!

Lately, our days and night have been consumed with paint, caulk, new teeth, getting rid of a certain someone's paci, mulch and pinestraw. The extreme home make-over is complete. Stay tuned for pictures of it all. We are so glad to be done with the most labor intensive home improvement project to date.