Thursday, December 27, 2012

Merry Christmas!

Christmas sure is fun with little kids.  Connor had a great time and loves his new toys.  Jared loves Connors new toys too :)

Sierra was pretty excited Christmas morning
Connor's new remote control fire truck
He thinks Mr. Potato head is pretty great
We had one happy boy Christmas morning
He loves loves loves his dump truck puzzle

I'm not sure who's had more fun with these, Connor or Jared
still excited about Christmas

Friday, December 21, 2012

Time

Where the time goes everyday I'm not quite sure.  I'm just sure I'm doing things all day long and yet nothing seems to get done.  It's been this way the last four weeks or so.  Weird.  Due to this lack of time, picture posting has been quite neglected.  But not to worry, picture taking has not been put on the back burner.

We loved having Grandma Jean Jean out!
 
somebody's tired
just studying the directions for our new tv stand
my two cute kids
who doesn't love a good baby yawn?
tis the season


how cute is that profile?
Connor's first gingerbread house

Monday, December 3, 2012

Sierra Jean

Our baby girl is here!!!  She decided she was ready to see the world and came a couple weeks early.  It was fine by me.
Our first meeting.  She had the cord wrapped around her neck so she came out a little blue.
Done!!!
Jared had a cough so he was sporting this lovely mask
the official weigh in
my sweet baby girl
the first meeting
what a happy dad
look at those eyes
again...I love her eyes
Connor's handling his new sister like a champ
the nalgene comparison
look how big my little boy looks

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

And...I still think my little boy is really cute





just try to convince me they don't have the same look right here

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Big News!!!

The shelves are done!  The shelves are done!!!  These shelves that have over taken our weekends and nights the past two months are finally done!  Before I begin into the shelf story, I have to preface this with the fact that I absolutely love our shelves and am so excited about all our new storage space.  And so the shelf story begins... 

When Jared talked about doing some custom shelves in our wonderfully large hall way closet I was thrilled at the idea.  Little did I know what we were getting into.  I should have known.  But I didn't.  I had envisioned in my mind a quick weekend project, maybe two at the most.  Don't I know my husband at all?  When Jared does something, he does it right.  He's a planner and he needs to know all the details before he starts something.  After a couple weeks of planning (there went my quick weekend project.  But in Jared's defense, we do have steel studs instead of wood which makes things trickier) we finally got the wood.
I have to admit that we did during this project become a little envious of anyone who has a garage.  The wood needs to be cut somewhere and when there's no garage the front room because the wood shop.  I've done a lot of dusting and vacuuming lately.

After another few weeks, thank you Jared's travel schedule, things were ready to be put on the walls.

This is my contribution to the project, besides encouraging words of course.  Somehow I became the official glosser.  I've spend many a morning and afternoon on the deck doing this.  Just in case you were wondering, each board needs two coats of gloss and it takes at least six hours to dry when you do this in October and November.  We had a lot of boards and yes, this took forever. 
More progress.  I like what I'm seeing.  Can this really be done before baby girl bench gets here? 

Jared did have a pretty great helper during the whole project.

Aren't they wonderful?  I wish I would have taken a picture of what it was like before.  Just imagine one sagging shelf with a clothes rod beneath it.  Would you just look at all these shelves?  The best part about them is they're completely adjustable.  They may have taken forever to make (maybe I'm being a bit dramatic) but how can you not smile when you look at all those shelves?  Job well done Jared. 

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Happy October!

Another busy month has come and gone.  Jared's been gone most of it but he's finally home for good.  At least until baby girl comes.  Some highlights of the month include...

The fire station open house


Anyone I talk to frequently knows what's going on here.  Shelves.  These built in shelves have over taken our lives.  Lucky for Jared he has a little helper on the project. 

We got a dog.  A pretty cute dog if you ask me. 



And baby girl (no, we're not keeping her name a secret, we just don't have one) is almost here.  As I write this I'm 36.5 weeks.  But who's counting?