Pictures at the park

I've been taking a ton of pictures lately for my photography class. The girls now cringe when they see me take the camera out. So I decided to bribe them with a trip to the park if they let me take some pictures of them while we were there.

Last weekend (Easter weekend) we took the girls bikes with us to Pittsburgh and let them ride in the park by Grandma and Papa's house. We took Brooke's 2 wheeler in hopes to get some practice in. Brooke was amazing on her bike. After just a few laps around the park she was riding on her own! No training wheels! I love this picture because you can just see on her face how proud she is :) 

Kitchen remodel

What started out to be just new countertops, has now become a semi-major kitchen remodel! The first thing to change is the range and microwave. Here's the old ones:

New range and microwave:

The next thing in will be a new sink and faucet. Here's the old one:

Here's the new one (still in box):

The counters won't be installed for about 3 more weeks. But they will eventually be Quartz in this Bamboo color shown here:

Braces

Paige has had several orthodontist appointments this year and finally yesterday they put braces on! She just has 4 on the top front teeth. They were also going to put in the palette expander yesterday, but she was quite skittish just getting the braces on so they decided to give her a few weeks to adjust and relax before taking the next step. They want this to be a fairly positive experience for her, even if it takes some extra time getting things going!

Before:

During:

After:

She was like a rockstar once she got to school with her braces. All the kids were coming up to her throughout the day to see her braces. She's either the first or second in her class to have them, but lots more will be starting the process soon as well. The orthodontist lets them pick out the color of the bands. She picked blue this week, but is already thinking of what color she'll change to at our next appointment in 3 weeks!