Bunkbeds

This weekend the kids were excited to see their bunkbeds being assembled.  A lady in our church gave them to us last year, but we were just using them as single beds until we felt the kids were old enough to sleep on the top safely.  They've now slept in them several times and they seem to enjoy being up high.  I took a couple pictures and have to laugh at Garrison because his face looks totally the opposite of Saturday when he got to climb up the first time. The girls room is bigger than the boys, but seems smaller with the new addition, due to the fact that there is still a crib and big dresser in the room.  We'll be doing some more projects in there and sometime after Christmas Kiersten will probably make the switch to the bottom bunk, which allows us to put away the crib for now.  I really do hope that she's not the last one to use the crib, but that is up to the Lord.  The other night I heard Garrison praying for a baby brother.  When Elyssia heard that she got a little upset.  Her plan was to start praying for another baby in June.  She told me this last month and I told her that was probably a good time.  Garrison obviously has other plans:)  Anyway, I'll post some pictures of the rooms now and then sometime in the future when we finish the rest of the projects.

Garrison is looking super excited:)))).

Elyssia puts her on, but she can get off all by herself!

Kiersten's is high because it's a box spring and foam.  We'll put a single mattress on later.

Elyssia and Garrison on Caleb's bunk.  Caleb made his bunk all by himself:).

 

   We had a bit of difficulty yesterday at church.  The furnace wasn't working when we arrived and it was 51 degrees inside the church.  We had Sunday School downstairs and the repairman arrived in the middle of it.  He came back and fixed the rest of it during the main service.  There were a lot of people absent, due to previous engagements, funerals, family visits, etc..., but the morning went okay.  We were so exhausted that we all took a nap in the afternoon.  Garrison didn't want to wake up from his.  All the family visits have caused a sleep problem for the kids.  I'm hoping that we can catch up this week and be feeling back to normal soon.  The kids have been acting really cranky with each other because of the lack of sleep and it's wearing me down a bit too.  Looking forward to a nap after school time today:).  The evening service was a bit sparse, but we had a couple attend that had also come last Sunday night.  She had just gotten home from a quilting retreat and he had just gotten off work.  It was a huge encouragement to see them there.  We already have a guy coming over for supper on Friday night, but we'll have to try to have them over next week sometime.  I really enjoy talking to her and the kids are warming up to her really fast.  It's great to have so many grandmothers in the church. 
  I took Elyssia to a bridal Shower on Saturday afternoon.  It was for the daughter of a friend.  I knew that her little granddaughter would be there, so figured it was a good chance for Elyssia to have a special time with me and get to play with another little girl her age.  Unfortunately she was playing Wii with her brother(a year older than Elyssia).  They really didn't play with toys because of that and it made me a little sad for them.  The fact that children are so drawn to the electronic world that they don't play with the baby dolls, etc, as much anymore.  Maybe a lesson to us older folks who tend to spend more time than we should on the computer, eh?  I know it spoke to me and although I don't let Elyssia around the computer much and they see very little for movies, I need to set more strict time limits on my own computer use.  I love to read and we do a lot of that.  We also color, play Legos, etc...  With Schoolwork and housework, there's always something to do, I just tend to end up on longer than planned while checking e-mail, blogs and news.  I will definitely be trying to spend less time , so as to be a better example to the children of living in the place that God has sent us to.  Spending time with those that God has blessed us with.  There is so much to do on a daily basis that we often give up time that is needed for other things, in order to spend time on the computer.  That said, I should be off to start homeschooling for the day...