Christmas #1 (Emily's Mom's)

We had a nice time Christmas Eve at my mom's house.  Gary's daughter, her boyfriend, and their 2 girls (Ava 6, and Lucy 14m) were visiting from Colorado.  Lydia and Ava had a blast together, and Lydia thought Lucy was great as well!

Great Grandpa with Makayla!

Ava, Lucy, Lydia & Makayla

Lydia finally got another tiara!

If anyone is watching......

Hi All,

We recently found time to work on our kitchen, and that means the drywall is almost done and ready to be primed (which also means I need to pick a paint color), and the wood plank ceiling is half way done, and we are so much closer to having a kitchen!  We are very excited.  I think getting my dishwasher may rival the day my kids were born as my favorite day ever!!!!!

Pictures will come when we are closer to being to done :)

Drywall is hung

Future Bathroom

Entrance from garage and stairs going to basement

If you can see the amazing taping (of the seams) job, 

and mudding of the screw holes,

that would be my amazing skills....

Joel, of course, did all the hard part of hanging the drywall!

He does such incredible work!!!!

View from the family room towards the kitchen

(and on the other side of the plastic the dining room!)

Getting closer!

And the plumbing is done too! Saturday we start the drywalling! Woohoo!  Anyone want to babysit the girls so I can actually have time to help Joel too! :)

Joel now has the unfinished part of our house wired and insulated. Pretty soon he can do the minor plumbing adjustments that need to be done, drywall, and put our kitchen together! Hopefully by Thanksgiving we can at least hook up our range so we can cook the turkey and green bean casserole!

These pics have nothing to do with our kitchen project...

but they sure are cute, huh?!

SISTERS

Cuddles, complete with halloween chocolate on the chin! haha

Whoa...that scared mom a little!

Pretty sure at this point she turned her attention to

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!

Halloween 2011

I absolutely melt when I see this smile.

Words just don't describe it!

Pretty happy with my big cousin, Katie!

Big cousin Emily snuggling my girls!

There's that smile again!  My heart is a puddle! :)

Now there is a couple of cute witches!

Lydia, Katie, Sarah, Emily

We are very thankful for great cousins!

And my little ladybug snuggled in the stroller while the

big girls trick-or-treated! She was such a trooper!