Tyler turns twelve

Tyler had a small, but nice little birthday party last night.  He invited three friends (all J names) to a sleep over.  We ordered Valentino's pizza for dinner and then I took the four kids across town to the Cooper YMCA for swimming.  It was good cheap fun!  They were able to swim for three hours and I was able to read my new favorite book....Twilight!  We left the Y around 10:00 to come home to eating junk food, playing the Wii and watching movies.  I have no clue how much sleep anyone got, but they were all up by 7:00 for Andy's egg and bacon biscuit dish.  Which I should post because it's very easy and very tasty!  The Broekers are all done with birthdays for a while, now on to Christmas!  

Before and After

Madison's bedroom is finally done!  Hooray!  After many months of deliberation on paints and patterns, we have a finished room.  Madison got the cutest bedding for her birthday in September from Pottery Barn (on clearance, love that!) and we knew that her cute, little girl, pink butterfly room, just wouldn't do.  It was time for a change and the need for a more sophisticated looking bedroom.  I first wanted to paint stripes at the bottom, but I knew I didn't have the patience or the time for all the taping and paint changes it took.  So, three weeks ago I settled on plain, white walls. I figured it would make the room look clean, which it didn't.  It made everything else in the room look dirty (especially the ceiling) and quite boring.  Andy was less than thrilled to help me paint the room all over again, which took all of last weekend and this weekend.  We used a lime green paint for the top and turquoise for the bottom with a white chair rail in between.  Wow!  What a fun looking bedroom!  Hope you like it, Miss Maddy!    

Forty by Forty

This is officially my first blog......the first thing I can say that I've done on my new list of "Forty by Forty".  It sounds like a carpenter word (40" x 40"), but I am trying to come up with forty things that I've never done and will do by the age of forty.  I now have 23 months to do it all in, but I think I can do it.  Okay...I know I can do it!  All for the sake of scrapbooking, right?!  I think the next maybe text messaging.  I am so "old school", huh?  I will have to post my other 39 things over the next two years.  Maybe you can give me some ideas too. I think donating blood will be on the list.  I hope I survive that one because getting my finger poked for an iron test is a huge deal for me....yikes!