Home Sweet Home

When you live in a 60+year old house it probably goes without saying that there are alot of projects to be done. Here are a few pics of some what I like to call "restoration" jobs.
It started with the front door on memorial day. Peeling old bad paint, no problem right? Just strip and repaint right? Well the front of the door had 4 stubborn layers while the inside had 3. 5 applications of paint remover, a belt sander, and many months later, a beautiful front door. At least on the outside, inside still to be repainted.
Next, since I already had the remover, I decided to strip the gold spray paint off 2 great milkglass pendants. No before shot, sorry.
Finally, in my lets deep clean the kitchen, I decided to see if the cabinet handles really were supposed to be blackish. Its kind of gross what 60 years of greasy grime can do to shiny copper. 3 days of work and 20 handles later. Im still deciding on how to clean the 40 hinges.

Home

Grandma is Great!

Who wouldn't love going to Grandma and Grandpa's house when you've got ones like this! Eating nuggets and playing with playdough were just one of the little highlights of our day. Thanks Mom and Dad for always being there and being GREAT!!

Photo day

So I spent a good part of my day today taking photographs of my jewelry. I think I took somewhere like 158 shots! AHH! Maybe someday soon Ill have some posted on my store. Cross your fingers.

Snow Day

For the past two days it has snowed like crazy! I finally ventured out and measured the back yard snow to be 14" deep. Its been years since we've had snow drifts like this!

Michigan Christmas!

This year we spent Christmas in Michigan with Brice's family. We made it through 2 long and not so fun plane rides, 9 degree weather with a couple feet of snow and ice to 5o degree weather with rain and no more snow (slight basement flooding) all in the space of 8 days. The kids had a blast playing with their cousin Maya, 2nd cousin John Michael, all their uncles and aunt, bunny, and of course Grandma. A fun time was had by all! (But don't expect any more airplane rides for a while! All I can say is Torture!)

Hairy much?!

I decided to start the New Year off with new haircut's for the kids! As you can see in the previous post, Ben was in great need of a trim and Hannah's hair was 1/2 way down her back so out came the scissors and with Daddy's help and "Horton hears a who" we were able to get it all done without too much trouble. I cut 4 inches off Hannah's hair and with it all her "baby curls". It kind of makes me a little sad. I loved her little ringlets and now all semblances of "my baby girl" are gone and I am left with a very sassy almost 3 year old. The funny thing is, the more times I cut Ben's the curlier the bottom gets where Hannah's gets straight. Go figure? I do have to share one funny story. Last night for New Years Eve we went to my brother Travis's house. While we were there I put Ben's hair up so he could see better. Later that night, my 3 year old nephew came up to his mom and said," Why his hair like that?" After we explained why he said," I don't want my hair like that?" Priceless!

Christmas? New years!

Due to our wonderful Christmas Michigan trip I got a little behind in my posts so I will start with today and work my way back a little.
Today we had Christmas Day on New Years!! Since we were in Michigan we decided to celebrate our family christmas today. It was so fun to see the kids go to their presents and we just played and hanged out together all day! Ben got mostly car related toys and Hannah got some doll things. Your probably saying, "What's up with Ben's hair?" Brice likes to say it is his "samurai" style, but I think he looks more like a Dr. Seuss "Who".