Thursday, December 16, 2010

Fireplace!!!

JJ and Josh working out the puzzle.....


Tim painting the ceiling...looks like fun!



My opinion is that this is a masterpiece, I LOVE IT!! Thanks for the hard work guys, it's gorgeous! They have to grout it and then it will be hooked up on Monday so we can enjoy it completely!

Slowly, but surely the basement is coming together, the end is in sight!

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Snowmageddon 2010

Gretta in the super cute hat from Seth and Kim.

She must have had a feeling that THIS would be coming.....


If she had actually walked out into the yard, pretty sure the snow might have went over her head!


This might be our car.....somewhere under there.

At least someone enjoyed the snow!

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Naps, NapKINS and the basement

The basement is coming along nicely! Mudding and taping is practically done...what a difference it makes!


We are that much closer to painting, therefore choices had to be made!

So with Maggie and Gretta napping away...


and the massive amount of snow we recieved....

Well, it got me in the (crafty) Christmas spirit! Cloth napkins turned into....

festive pillow covers! (reversible, of course, for whatever mood suits you)The season has begun!

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Thanksgiving and 3 Months!!

Maggie's first Thanksgiving.....really didn't take many pictures, oops!

Wearing Great-Grandma Glady's hat.


Gretta got to enjoy and enjoy and ENJOY Christmas cookie baking!

Maggie turns 3 months!

She has definitely been showing more personality lately with LOTS of smiles, coos and such.

Yay!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Ode to an Icy Sunday

When it looks like this on the car and you hear on the news about a 30+ car pile up on the freeway....hm....sounds like we won't be leaving the house today.

Maggie says "For sure mom, no go!"

Instead we'll practice tummy time.....

Color some pictures and read books, most of which are memorized by all of us now.

Build "mountains" and

"Garages" our favorite things to build right now.

Change our clothes 5 times and get more creative with each outfit....

Make some white chili....YUM! 

Thoroughly enjoy my favorite beverage.....doesn't the winter snowflake design make it even dreamier?!

Also, drywall is completely up in the basement, including the ceiling! Mudding and taping is next up, so we had to get out and start looking at the fun stuff! Here are some carpet and stone (for the fireplace) choices, which will hopefully help bring us to a paint color decision.....


And finally, somewhere during the day there will be smiles!

Thanks to a quiet and wonderful naptime by both young ladies, I was able to update today!!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Comparisons

Ready or not, I think winter's here! Gretta got to make her first snowman this past weekend, but I wasn't here to document and now it's melted, but Josh did get his first ski jump of the season documented....yes its off our roof.







Baby Gretta


Maggie


Gretta around 11 weeks


Maggie 11 weeks




Take away Maggie's hair and I think the girls look pretty similar!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Hunting weekend

Most importantly.....Josh got a big deer!

Gretta continues to express her creative fashion sense.....

She also tried on Josh's hat and wanted to go hunting!


Maggie was her usual (mostly) quiet self.