The Phillips Family

zoo,cedar point,1st tractor pull of season

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tons of pics...

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It has been too long....

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Wow so much has gone on in the last few months. The kids are keeping me busy with their activites. Darren is in learn to play hockey on Wed and Sat. Cassie is in dance on Mon and Daisy scouts once a month. I have a lot of picture to post.

Preschool fieldtrip to Erie Orchards

2009-10-16T08:45:00.001-07:00

Today we went to Darren's preschool fieldtrip. We went to Erie Orchards and Cider Mill in Erie,MI. We got to pick 3 apples from the trees and got to see them make cider. Then we got eat a yummy homemade doughnut and drink some cider too. On the way out we got a little pumpkin as well. Fun was had by all. Here is Darren and his friend Henry on the hayride.
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Darren being silly.

Hockey player..

2009-10-08T18:39:00.000-07:00

Now has come the time to start the kids in some type of sports. Cassie is in dance and Darren started hockey this past Saturday. Saturday was his first day and for never being on the ice before I thought he did pretty good but Wednesday came around and he could not stand up. He will continue with practice Sat and Wed and hopefully will get the hang of it but he is so stinking cute in his uniform.

Darren is in the middle of the picture facing me with the blue uniform on.

Cleveland weekend....

2009-09-22T18:35:00.000-07:00

Cassie's 6th birthday

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August 2009

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Bucyrus,Oh tractor pull July 19,2009

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Here a few picture from the Crawford County Fair in Bucyrus,Oh.

Waffle Farms Campground

2009-07-31T11:53:00.000-07:00

July 17th we all had the day off and went to Coldwater,MI to Waffle Farms campground to visit Brian's uncle and aunt who were camping. It was a very cool and dreary day for July. The kids both went on their first boat ride and both of them caught fish too.

Lake Erie-Gem Beach

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Cassie,me,Darren,Devin,Mandi and Aleyse in the lake.

Lake Erie-Gem Beach

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Having fun at Lake Erie.

Aleyse loving the beach too.

4th of July

2009-07-16T12:49:00.000-07:00

This was in Bucyrus watching the fireworks on July 3rd.

Zoo pic--Wolf

2009-07-16T12:38:00.001-07:00

Had to post this cute picture of one of the wolves at the zoo.

Wilmington,Oh-first pull of the season

2009-06-23T07:04:00.000-07:00

Deven,Cassie,Aleyse and Darren waiting for the pull.

Darren waiting patiently for Uncle Dave, GO GREEN!

Renegade Deere getting ready.

Renegade Deere FULL PULL,will have to settle for 2nd this time.

Cedar Point

2009-06-08T12:54:00.000-07:00

The kids,my in laws and me went to Cedar Point yesterday and had fun as you can tell.

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Waterslide..

2009-06-08T12:44:00.000-07:00

A couple weeks ago we got Darren's new waterslide out he got for his birthday and here a few pics of the kids enjoying.

Lake Erie-Headlands Beach State Park

2009-05-21T06:33:00.000-07:00

My sister isn't very far from Headlands Beach State park, which is the largest natural sand beach in Ohio. We didn't stay long since it was cool but the kids had fun throwing rocks in the lake and it was beautiful there.

All aboard...

2009-05-21T06:26:00.001-07:00

Last weekend my sisters,mom,my kids, and my sister's kids went to Thomas Day out in Peninsula. We had a good time but it was a little bit rainy but that didn't stop the kids. After our train ride we drove up to Mentor where my youngest sister lives and spent the night and went to the beach on Sunday.

Thomas the train weekend

2009-05-21T06:09:00.001-07:00

Cassie,Aleyse,Devin and Darren ready for our Thomas the train adventure.

Devin,Darren, and Aunt Chelsea playing with the train set.

Darren,Cassie and Devin riding on the train.

3 Birthday cakes...

2009-05-12T06:21:00.000-07:00

Darren's 1st cake on his birthday May 7th.

Darren's 2nd cake on Saturday at Grandma Phillips.

Darren's 3rd cake at my sister's house for him and Aunt Chelsea's birthday.

Darren's 4th birthday

2009-05-12T06:00:00.000-07:00

Here are few pictures of Darren with some of his gifts from his 3 parties.

Darren's 4 yr old pics

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Kids Spring Pictures

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Jones Beach, Long Island,NY

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Brian walking the beach.

Cassie and Darren building a sand castle.

Jones Beach,Long Island,NY

NYC

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Statue of Liberty

Ground Zero

NYC

Tessa Shelley's baptism

2009-04-28T12:34:00.000-07:00

Tessa getting baptized.

The Phillips family

Cassie,Darren and Tessa

April 25-26

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Cassie ready for her tractor ride with Uncle Dave, she did not want to get out when they were done.

Aleyse eating her cake, we celebrated her 1st birthday this past weekend.

Easter 2009

2009-04-15T04:48:00.000-07:00

Our best family picture, Darren didn't not want his picture taken.

Aleyse,Cassie,Devin and Darren

Weekend visitors

2009-04-05T18:34:00.000-07:00

The Sieferts came up this weekend for a visit and the kids had fun like always here a few pics a I captured of them.

Update on toybox/bed

2009-03-25T12:23:00.001-07:00

So Darren actually slept in there for about 3 hours, or so Brian told me. I would of love to seen that but by the time Darren finally went to sleep I was off in lala land dreaming away. Thought I would tell you all.

Toybox/Bed

2009-03-24T18:35:00.000-07:00

Darren must of been tired from cleaning out his toybox that he thought it was a bed too.

Misc pictures

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A pretty sunset during a rain storm.

Cassie,Darren and Devin in a rather large gift bag.

2009 Hiler reunion

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Cousin Scott and the kids playing with tractors and trucks.

Aunt Chelsea and Cassie.

Some of the grandkids/great grandkids.

Dress up

2009-03-04T13:01:00.000-08:00

I always make Cassie change clothes when she gets home from school and this is what I caught her wearing, beautiful isn't it!!

No news...

2009-03-02T12:14:00.002-08:00

Sorry for the lack of blogs but nothing new happening here really. We are excited to be going home this weekend to visit family at a family reunion, will post pictures next week. We did add a few new fish tanks but they are not complete with fish yet so will post pics of them at a later time. We are so ready for spring so we can go out but I think if you ask anyone right now they would say the same thing.

Creative little man!!

2009-01-26T12:28:00.000-08:00

So I found Darren on his John Deere and asked him what he was doing and he told me "plowing". How cute!! He even found the tape and taped it onto his tractor.

Homemade rocks

2009-01-26T12:20:00.001-08:00

A year ago christmas I bought the kids these homemade glow in the dark stones and we finally did them one weekend, what a mess but they had fun.

Few misc pics

2009-01-06T15:44:00.000-08:00

Wow all and all we had a great christmas and hope everyone else did too. Make sure you scroll down to see all the christmas pictures. Here a few of Cassie and Darren in their new robes from Santa and the Phillips grandkids with Grandma and Poppy Phillips.

5th and final christmas

2009-01-06T15:11:00.000-08:00

Wow christmas was really long this year as it is ususally. We had our final party Sunday following christmas at my parents house. The kids did well like they usually do every year but we were exhausted after all the parties. Now to find room for all their stuff they got.Cassie with her new baby stroller.

Can you tell Darren is excited for his new coat?

Mom opening her wish pearl from us. This ended up being a really cool gift, Brian found them at Bass Pro Shop. It was an unopened oyster with a pearl inside and them you put it inside your necklace that it came with.

3 Sisters:Me,Chelsea and Amanda

4th Christmas

2009-01-06T14:54:00.000-08:00

Our 4th christmas was with Brian's parents and we finally got to meet Tessa. The kids with Tessa, she is 2 months already next time we see her she will be 6 months.

Darren opening his new workbench with a motor he can wrench on.

Cassie opening her new babydoll.

2nd and 3rd Christmas

2009-01-06T14:39:00.000-08:00

Well our 2nd christmas party was with Brian's grandparents but I didn't take any pictures. The kids both got a few things and we have an adult exchange which I ended up with $20 bill and Brian got lottery tickets and a chocolate bar. The 3rd christmas was at my Grandma's Saturday after Christmas. Here is a picture of us Snay grandkids minus my younger sister who missed out. (from left to right: Dane,Mandi,Kraine,Loren and me)

Everyone ready for the big exchange we do every year.

The great grandkids, Darren,Cassie,Aleyse and Devin.

1st Christmas 2008

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These are few pictures from our house. Here is Cassie with her puppet stage, she must of been a good girl.

Here is a nice picture of a messy house,thanks Santa where are all these going to go?

Here is a picture of Darren with his "Mote Trol" as he calls his remote control truck from Santa.

Very creative

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After I figured out what Cassie was making I thought how creative. She has been asking for a puppet stage for christmas a while now. We'll see christmas morning if she gets one or not, don't tell her.

Better be good...

2008-12-18T13:28:00.001-08:00

You never know when you will get a card from santa saying he is watching you.

Snow

2008-12-09T19:13:00.001-08:00

Here is the first snow of the winter the kids got to play in. Have you seen anyone mowing the snow before?

Cassie making snow angels.

Cassie little miss cheerleader

2008-12-09T18:51:00.000-08:00

For the past 8 weeks Cassie has been going to a mini cheerleader camp every Monday and she has a good time. Last night was their last night so it was Parent's night and both Grandma's,mommy,daddy and Darren went to cheer her on. She did really well.

Christmas pictures

2008-12-02T13:45:00.000-08:00

To keep up with tradition here is a sneek peak of our christmas pictures of my kids and my sister's too.

Lights at the Zoo

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Cassie and some of her Daisy scout troop.

Darren on Santa's lap at the zoo.

Some of the lights at the zoo.

Cassie and her Daisy scout troop.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN--TRICK OR TREAT!!

2008-10-31T17:38:00.000-07:00

The kids did really well this year and kept wanting more!!

Welcome our new niece TESSA!!

2008-10-28T17:48:00.000-07:00

Here is our new niece Tessa Louise Shelley. She was born Monday October 27th (uncle Brian's bday also). She weighed 8lb and 14oz and was 20 1/2" long. All is doing well and Brian's parents are traveling this week to NY to visit her, pray for safe travels.

Preview of Halloween costumes

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Ballerina witch

Skeleton pirate

Don't forget to look at there cool pumpkins too!

Do you believe in Ghosts?

2008-10-13T18:46:00.000-07:00

So out of curiosity my friends and I went ghost hunting to a nearby bridge not far from work Saturday night. After reading stories about this bridge being haunted we thought why not see for ourselves. After arriving Saturday right at dusk it didn't seem scary as we thought. After while a few teenagers showed up too but we never did hear anything or really see anything except in our cameras. What a fun adventure and eerie at the same time. You can see some of the orbs I caught on my pictures but my one friend got some really cool pictures. Do you believe in ghosts?

Pumpkins

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You can tell it is Fall when mom is making these beautiful pumpkin decorations.

Cassie's Kindergarten class

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Fun with cousin Devin

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We got to go down home and visit with family again and we got some cute pictures.

This one is the kids dancing and being goofy.

Cousins

2008-10-01T14:27:00.000-07:00

Darren,Devin and Cassie enjoying their wagon ride @ Poppy Hiler's

Harvest Time!!

2008-09-30T19:50:00.001-07:00

Both kids got to enjoy their first combine ride this past weekend. Both of them were asking for more.

9th wedding anniversary getaway!!

2008-09-30T16:59:00.000-07:00

Brian and I got away this past weekend to a fun and relaxing weekend in Holmes County,Oh aka Amish Country.

Here is a picture of our beautiful cottage that I would highly recommend to people. The name is Premier Carriage House Cottages www.berlincabins.com

Here is a view of the jacuzzi tub,fireplace and living area.

Here is a view of the brand new custom built king sleigh bed with the dining area, the kitchen was behind when I took the picture. The cottage was fulling equipped even with a grill of the back. There was even a nice pool area and hot tub outside.

These are various pictures of some of the animals we saw @ Rolling Ridge Ranch just outside of Berlin.

All in all Brian and I loved our trip and are already talking about going back again. Next time the kids will go and enjoy all the sights we seen. We even did an Amish home tour which was cool cause you even learned some history of the Amish.

Cassie's picture day

2008-09-30T16:53:00.000-07:00

Cassie had her school pictures taken this past Friday and here she is in her pretty new outfit with Mommy's anniversary flowers from Daddy. Yep we celebrated 9 years!!

Fun at the park!!

2008-09-20T19:17:00.000-07:00

Today we went to Wildwood park for their pack the parks day. They had entertainment and fun activites for the kids. Obviously from the pictures you can tell they had a great time and were very easy to put to bed tonight. Actually Darren fell asleep on the floor it was the cutest thing.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition hits TOLEDO,OH!!

2008-09-10T15:32:00.000-07:00

Well me and the kids did it. We waited only 30 mins in line for the bus and then made our way down the street to see the new house being built for the Frisch family here in Toledo,OH. Here is the kids on the bus excited to see the house.

The house just framed in a couple hours and the second floor was being framed as we were leaving. There were so many workers around and the house is suppose to ready to furnish by 4pm Saturday. The project manager said they are about 3 hours behind at this point, so we will have to wait and see the final result in November when it is to air on TV.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition hits TOLEDO,OH!!

2008-09-09T12:21:00.000-07:00

How exciting to have them in town. The kids and I are going to make it down to the taping this week. The kids have been talking about it all week: MOVE THAT BUS!! The town has been buzzing ever since talk about this. The family must be very excited. They are truely blessed. Check out more footage and pictures @ http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=resources/traffic&id=6370425

Cassie's 1st day of Kindergarten

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Bowling Green,OH Aug 16,2008

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more bday pics

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Cassie opening up her presents.

Family having fun.

One of Cassie's 5th birthday party's

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Cassie's princess cake.

Some of Cassie's presents.

More pics @ the Lake.

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Fun in the lake.

Darren,Devin and Lee building sand castles.

Darren having fun in the lake.

Fun at Lake Erie

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Aleyse all happy she's at the lake.

Grammy and the kids on the golf cart on Kelley's Island.

Devin and Darren standing on Gem Beach @ Lake Erie.

Wedding July19th

2008-07-29T12:55:00.000-07:00

Brian's cousin got married July 19th so the kids and me went with his family. Here are the newly married couple Tim and Katie Taylor.

Cassie and Tommy

Darren and Jasmine dancing.

Kite flying

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Another zoo trip

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4th of July weekend

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Darren,Cassie and Devin ready for fireworks July 4th @ Willard,OH.

Daddy and Darren enjoying a ride on the Poppy Phillips new lawnmower.

Cassie and Darren standing on a firetruck in Ashland,Oh @ the Hot Air Balloon Fest,July 5th

The Siefert family @ Aleyse's baptism, July 6th.

Visitors!!

2008-06-30T13:10:00.000-07:00

Well this past weekend was a very busy one with lots of visitors. Friday I took off to start my garage sale, then that evening Mandi,David,Devin,Aleyse and Loren came to spend the night and visit. Then later in the evening my youngest sister,Chelsea and her fiance,Dan came too. Wow it sure was a house full but a good time was had by all. Satuday we just hang out and did my garage sale some more. Saturday afternoon the Sieferts and Loren left, then Chels,Dan,me and the kids went to the botanical gardens for the Art Festival. It was a steamy night but nice.

Cassie making Aunt Chelsea beautiful.

My attempt to get a good picture of the 4 Hiler cousins, didn't work very well, thanks Darren.

Can you tell Cassie loves her cousin?

Garage Sale Time !!

2008-06-27T13:05:00.000-07:00

For the first day of my garage sale I didn't do to bad, I managed making $55.00. Hopefully I can just as good tomorrow.

Storms/Rainbow

2008-06-27T12:43:00.001-07:00

The other night we had a really bad storm and this was the result afterwards.

Tractor Pulling time again!!

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Cassie and Devin talking about who is going to win.

Darren having fun pushing the stroller around.

Renegade Deere's first run of the year.

Too Cute!!

2008-06-23T11:52:00.000-07:00

I couldn't resist this cute picture of a squirrel laying in our tree. If I remember right it was a really hot day out too.

Our Garden

2008-06-09T13:52:00.001-07:00

Brian added more to our garden this year so we can grow banana peppers,jalepenos,green beans, and peas. That is all in addition to the sweet corn,tomatoes,carrots,cabbages,kohlarabi and onions. Hopefully I can make alot of salsa now.

Front flower bed

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AFTER:

Cassie's preschool graduation

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Tuesday was Cassie's preschool graduation, here she is walking down the aisle after receiving her diploma and carnation.

Here she is with her graduation class.

Here is the little graduate with mommy,daddy,and Darren.

Is summer here ?!?

2008-06-02T15:08:00.000-07:00

We had a great weather this past weekend and really enjoyed it outside. Here is Darren enjoying his daddy's pedal tractor.

Cassie fishing for the first time.

Darren trying his hand at fishing too.

Memorial Day

2008-05-27T13:27:00.001-07:00

We had a great memorial day. We really didn't do much, the kids swam, Brian finished up his garden and I made some yummy Holiday food. Otherwise it was a great relaxing 3 day weekend and what beautiful weather we had too, the kids and me got some much needed sun. WE WANT MORE NOW!!

Fun day with a friend

2008-05-27T13:12:00.000-07:00

Rachael a girl I work with invited us over on Sunday for a cookout and to let the kids run and play. It was so beautiful, she even got the sprinkler out for the kids to run in. Cassie,Darren and Justin had a great time.

Darren's 3rd birthday pics

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New Pics of the kiddos

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Here are just a few new pictures taken last week at JC Penney's.

Birthday parties!!

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Darren getting ready for his big day.

Darren and Chelsea's cake Sunday afternoon.

Darren blowing out candles on a little cake from Grandma Phillips friday night.

Darren's cake Sunday later in the day from the Phillips side.

Darren's 3rd birthday

2008-05-08T06:24:00.000-07:00

Wednesday was Darren's birthday so we gave him his gifts and this sunday we are having a couple parties with the families. We are going to have a very busy day on Sunday cause first we are having a party at my mom's house for Darren,Chelsea (my youngest sister)birthday and college graduation and mother's day too. Then we will be going to Brian's parents house later in the afternoon to celebrate with them too.

New baby niece--Aleyse Lynn

2008-04-29T14:49:00.000-07:00

My sister delivered her baby on Friday,April 25, 2008. She weighed in at 6lb and 8oz and was 19" Everything went well and she wasn't in labor very long, she is lucky!

Cassie and Darren with baby Aleyse.

Cassie holding baby Aleyse. Big brother,Devin,to baby Aleyse next to her and Cousin Darren to the left.

Zoo time again!!

2008-04-03T13:28:00.000-07:00

The kids and me went to the zoo on Monday since it was so nice and boy was is great too, no lines and all the animals were out too!!

Pretty Blue bathroom

2008-03-27T16:28:00.001-07:00

We are getting ready for another open house again. This time I had mom come up and help me paint the bathroom, THANKS MOM!! I love it, it was pink before but now is blue. What a big inprovement.

Egg Hunt

2008-03-24T15:28:00.000-07:00

The kids and cousin Devin decided to brave the bitterly cold weater and hunt for some eggs. Boy did they do good too, both boys got a gold dollar coin and cassie found 3 eggs with gold dollar coins on them. They did good and didn't complain at all, both of my kids even sat with the easter bunny too.

Fun dying eggs

2008-03-24T11:35:00.000-07:00

The kids got to be involved dying eggs this year. Grandma phillips had 2 dozen eggs ready to dye and the kids had a blast.

Fun with family

2008-03-04T13:25:00.000-08:00

The kids and I went down home for weekend on February 22nd. We went down cause we hadn't been down there since the end of last year. (that was weird to type) My aunt ended up keeping Darren for me so I could do some serious cleaning cause we had an open house this past sunday. Wow was it great getting all the cleaning done without Darren being around but the house was really quite without him. While he was gone Brian ended up with a bad case of the flu so he was home all week. Now Cassie has the flu, hopefully it will pass me and Darren (fingers crossed).

The kids pile up on Aunt Chelsea.

Poppy and Aunt Chelsea playing with kids.

Fun in the tub!!

2008-02-27T16:18:00.000-08:00

Boy kids sure can have fun with shaving cream, they used the whole can.

John Deere Bed

2008-02-25T18:43:00.000-08:00

Darren had received this awesome John Deere bed in a bag from my mom. Now is room really is a John Deere room!!

WALLS!!

2008-02-19T13:55:00.000-08:00

We finally have walls again after a year without them. I am so glad to have walls again, now the kids can't jump on the couch from the steps and walk through the walls. I will update with new pictures when the walls are finally finished.

SNOW!!

2008-02-05T14:31:00.000-08:00

Monday night was rather warm, so we took advantage of building a snowman.

Misc Pictures

2008-02-01T17:34:00.000-08:00

Cassie posing in front of the mirror before her first birthday party for her friend @ preschool. It was a dress up party. She had alot of fun and there was even a clown there too.

Just a cute picture of the kids.

I'm a big boy now!!

2008-01-22T11:42:00.000-08:00

Well we finally broke Darren from bottles and his crib. He went from a toddler bed to a twin bed in 1 week.

This is Cassie laying in Darren's new bed.

Darren's room with a twin bed now.