Friday, February 13, 2009

What We've Been Up To . . .

Nick has been building new cabinets for our kitchen, with the help of Brant, his brother. I knew at some point we would have to tear the old one's out, but I had no idea how big of a job it would be. We started last night after we got the girls in bed at about eight and worked until two in the morning! Once we got going we couldn't stop because it was such an enormous mess! Wow. We tore out the cabinets, along with several layers of other stuff. All I know is those plaster walls sure make a HUGE mess. We also pulled up the lovely carpet we had in the kitchen too -- I really don't want to know how long it has been there. I'm not sad at all to see that go. It will be wonderful when we get it all put back together, hopefully sooner than later. But I do know that these projects sometimes take longer than you think. So I am off to Oregon with the girls for a week, in hopes that I can walk into a brand new kitchen when I come home!! Yay! I can't wait, can you tell? Stay tuned for some before and after pics shortly! Here's a few pictures for your enjoyment . . . it was not fun.

Just getting started

Bottom cabinets out, on to the top . . .

Don't think Nick did it all just because he's the only one in the pics, I was covered in plaster too!

Getting the last bit of plaster stuff off . . . then it was on to clean up! Kelly, I'm sure that you can appreciate this post.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Baby Shower

My friend, Julie, is having a baby shower on her blog. She has TONS of giveaways and all to benefit two little babies who have spent months in NICU's. Click on this button to check it out!

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

She's Lookin' Good!

Here she is! Lucy's glasses finally came in and we picked them up today. We are so excited and hope that these little glasses will help her out. She's doing pretty good with them and looks super cute!
Happy Sisters!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

It's Been Confirmed


After 3 eye doctors, it's been decided that Lucy definitely needs glasses. We picked out frames for her last week and hopefully they will be in this week. All she asked is that they be pink. She is so excited. Let's hope that excitement continues when we try to keep them on her from the minute she wakes up . . . until she goes to sleep. She has what they call strabismic amblyopia. In other words, her eyes are straining so hard to see that one eye (or sometimes both) will cross inward. When this happens her brain will shut off that eye and only use the other to see . . . NOT GOOD! Hopefully she will notice a huge difference with her glasses on and will like to wear them.

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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Check Her Out!

Anyone up for an adorable GIVEAWAY?!? This girl's got talent . . . she has great ideas and awesome tutorials to make fun stuff . . . so go check her out!

makeitandloveit

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Dashing Through the Snow . . .

Nick has been wanting to get the sleigh out for some time now. Yesterday, when Janelle was up for the weekend, we went for a lovely sleigh ride. Nathan & Alisa came with us too. It was lots of fun to get all bundled up and get out!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

I'M SO BEHIND . . .

Well, here's what we've been up to the last few weeks, very briefly. We spent Christmas in Oregon with most of the Bailey family. It was a great time and Lucy couldn't get enough of playing with the cousins. (They are actually my cousins, but several of them are very close to her age and some even younger! Crazy, I know.) It was great to spend Christmas at my family in Klamath- it's been years, probably ten!

Right after Christmas on the 27th, Nathan and Alisa were married. It was a great day. The temple was beautiful and there were lots of friends and family that were able to be there for them. Then they had a lovely reception in Klamath with dinner and dancing! We are so excited that Nathan and Alisa will be living close to us while they are finishing up school.

The rest of the break we enjoyed some tubing and sledding, a little ice skating, and a few OIT basketball games. It was Lucy's first time tubing and skating and she loved it!! The tubing hill was fairly steep, but that didn't stop her, she just wanted more. As she would go down she would let out this high pitched squeal til she reached the bottom. It was hilarious! And I don't know how she enjoyed the skating because she was just drug around and around the rink with one person holding each hand. But by the end she could kind of scoot around on her own!

We had a great Christmas and look forward to the new year ahead of us! Here's a couple of slideshows of Christmas and the wedding! It looks like they may have a hard time loading, so you can just click on 'view all images' and it will take you to photobucket where you can see them.

Christmas 2008

Nathan & Alisa's Wedding