Basement finishes

The "rumpus" room, where by definition kids can play and party.

Guest room

Family room

M is for Maggie! G is for Gretta!

Stripey pants.....Gretta is very into matching either Maggie, myself or even Josh on occasion.....

Gretta's first dilly bar, had a day with Daddy which included sledding "one time......."

and then hiking!

Randomness

Well, here are some more pictures! They say pictures are worth a thousand words, right? So I shouldn't really have to come up with witty things to say.....! Here is a little video as well of the girls laughing, Maggie just started laughing when she gets tickled and its hilarious. Maybe in the next post I'll get to the basement and post a final look at that!

On our way to Christmas at Josh's parents wearing her red coat.

New puppy slippers!

An easel from Grandma and Grandpa, she LOVES it!

The grandparents at Maggie's baptism.

Godparents Auntie Angelie and Uncle Jeff and cousin Petra

Sleeping with her shades on driving to my Aunt and Uncle's.

Swimming at my Aunt and Uncle's for Christmas on my dad's side.

Some of the Great-Grandkids

More fun outfits from our in-house fashion designer. She's talking on the phone to Papa, (one of the Grandpa's) she wouldn't specify which one, telling him about her outfit and that she's sitting in the window.

Maggie fell asleep like this one afternoon.

Gretta doing my hair....isn't it so pretty?

Four Months and a Happy New Year!

One other time when I got a little behind on blogging a wise friend told me to just slap up some pictures and with all that has happened in the last month, I think that is probably the best advice right now!

Maggie turned 4 months old, she had her first Christmas, got baptized, rung in a new year, throw in finishing the basement and the holidays in general and that is one BUSY month!!

Can you get any cuter than reindeer feet pajamas??

Merry Christmas!

We had a fun and very busy Christmas weekend and the weeks leading up to it as well. We (mostly Josh and his friends) got our basement finished, we hosted Christmas for my family and had Maggie's baptism. More pictures to come!

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!

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!

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!