As most people know we moved back in October. The move was done during both of my surgeries and the fact we had to live with contractors. So..... The past few months have just been getting the house
livable. We are now on the move to fine tune each room. I will try and post as many rooms as I can that we have done with before and after pictures. This is
only the inside. The outside and
ALLLLL its yard is another story.
These are 2 pictures of their play room before. The wood pieces are an
incomplete wet bar.
Now we have the complete job. I just finished the curtains so those pics will go up tomorrow
sometime.
Below is the wet bar. Of course because the children own the house and allow us to live here, it is there TV/VCR stand along with all of their movies. The front of it was painted with magnetic paint. The use it for all of the letters to spell with and for their magnetic dress up dolls
This area holds all of
their craft supplies/ books and puzzles.
My favorite part of this room is the 6' long by 4 1/2' high window. It faces east and gets all the morning sun. Very cheerful. This summer we will put up the bird feeders outside the window. under the window area is where the pond will go.
Before and after pictures of the foyer. Not allot changed. Mostly fresh paint and elbow grease for a little cleanliness. The brown bench is one of the VERY BEST investments I've ever made. The girls and all of their activities makes for allot of backpacks and bags this holds them all. Mandarin class, Dance Class, School, they all fit.
These are 2 pictures of their play room before. The wood pieces are an incomplete wet bar. 
Below is the wet bar. Of course because the children own the house and allow us to live here, it is there TV/VCR stand along with all of their movies. The front of it was painted with magnetic paint. The use it for all of the letters to spell with and for their magnetic dress up dolls
This area holds all of their craft supplies/ books and puzzles. 
The girls are totally engrossed in High School Musical 3 right now. They saved their allowance together for the past month to buy it. We were told by a friend the movies wasn't that good, but so far we are loving it. We never made it to the show to see it. But I'm very glad the girls bought it.
Genevieve made Red Envelopes in her Classroom one day and came home and put money in it. I really didn't think a whole lot of it. When her friend O came over after school. She gave it to her. She said that's what friends do. Give friends red envelopes. How Sweet.
We had SEVERAL Chinese New Years parties and Celebrations this year. We had our usual get together at New China with their friends and family. The girls performed for 2 programs and did an awesome job. Their performance consisted of traditional Chinese Dance and a song. This year they did the Thunder Dragon Dance and then sang Mama Hao. I don't have those pics in here yet. They also both had parties at school. Genevieve missed hers due to a high fever. Abigail would have missed hers too but it has been postponed until Tuesday. She is now ill with the fever and it's settling in her chest. On goes the machine.
