Our "Tropical" One Night Getaway!

We went to a hotel in GR for one night last weekend (as a late Christmas present to ourselves), and had a blast!  It had a big pool, which Lydia loved more than the kiddie area I think, and a hot tub with bubbles, which Lydia also had fun with, and a big slide for me and Joel!!  Makayla hung out as well, and enjoyed the water.  It was a cozy 86*! 

Go figure, another beautiful smile from this little girl! :)

Popcorn and a movie before bed!

Updates!

Hi everyone! Just thought I would post an update. We now have all the walls of the kitchen painted, the cabnet pulls are now on, Joel has finished the dining room floors, and hopefully we will put up some floor boards today. The kitchen still needs countertops, sink, floors, and a banister around the stairs to be completed...getting closer! :)

Happy Weekend!

Kitchen is 90% done!

I am a very happy girl after this busy weekend!  Joel did an amazing job (as usual) installing our kitchen cabinets.  We have temporary countertops until we can decide what we want, but we have a functioning dishwasher (best. day. ever.), fridge, and range.  We have the cabinet pulls and will put those on sometime soon, and floors will come in a little bit too.  Getting so much closer to being done, but for now, I am thrilled to finally be living much more normally!

I absolutely LOVE our new range!

Looking from dining room through kitchen

 to back family room.

(the color is not quite as orangy as it looks in the picture!)

Christmas #5 (finally, the finale to Christmases!)

Yay! My new kitchen! Thank goodness it's pretend food

because I have "eaten" so many yummy meals

prepared by Lydia! :)

It only took 5 Christmases for Makayla to figure out

it is fun ripping presents open!

Uncle Dougie and Moira meeting Makayla finally!

Uncle Steve loves her too! ;-)

Christmas #4

On New Year's Eve the girls and I celebrated Christmas with my dad, sisters, nephews (Logan, 13 & Joey, 8), and niece (Ellie, 6).  And once again, the girls got spoiled by big cousins! This is definately the advantage to having the younger ones! 

Lydia really loves Logan, she just doesn't want to let you know it! :)

Teaching Lydia how to play games on Aunt Corrie's iPhone!

So sweet! :)