We now just have finishing touches to be made, and the countertop (which is hopefully coming on wednesday!!) and we are done. yay for having a kitchen!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

lawson giving you the bird!

redesign?

How did we do? we are trying to make our house less cluttered. if you know how our living room was before, let us know what you think of it now. we still have some finishing touches (like lights that match), but overall, how is it?



if nothing else, little man likes it!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

we have enlisted the whole family

well, the kitchen construction continues. i can not believe it is going as well at it is so far. we do need to send out a special thanks to the family, because they have been a huge help. by the way, we did have everyone around to help us paint!! it was great.




and then there is adam...

eric did such a great job on the hall. if you did not know that there used to be a door there, you would never know it.

finally, we have paint!


we are so close to being done, it is great. i hate living out of boxes. after a few more finishing touches, we have have under two weeks (unless they come early) to wait for the cabinets, then it is done. the fun of being able to put all the dishes away, and have plenty of space for them all!! it will be great.

little man

lawson, just being lawson

almost a kitchen?

well, the remodeling continues. it is going fast, but also very slow. it still seems like forever before our cabinets will get here. i am already planning out where i want all the dishes to go. although, anywhere is better than where they are now (in boxes in the living room). eric has been doing such a great job. i wish there was more i could do to help, but taking care of "little man" is a full time job all in itself.

elephant check in

it is now into month 3 that our little offspring has been with us. he has grown so much, and the time is just flying by. it really takes me back when i see how much bigger he is then is elephant (our measuring tape).

remodeling is so much fun :(

kitchens, kitchens, and more kitchens!
apparently, when you want new cabinets, you first have to get rid of all the old ones.

what a trip!

what can i even say about our trip to Utah. it was so, so, so great to be home and with family, even though the trip did not start out all that great.

what should have been a two hour plane ride to get into salt lake, turned into an almost 12 hour day. once our plane got over the salt lake airport, we had to circle a couple of times. we finally heard our landing gear come down, and we thought "wow, we finally get to land." then the pilot came over the intercom and said that they had just closed the airport and we were being diverted to Twin Falls, Idaho. after an hour of being in Idaho, they finally decided to let everyone off the plane to get some food. Eric and I would have done that, but they also said you had to take all your bags with you. well, eric and i had four bags and lawson to carry with us through the snow storm to get into the airport. well, we didn't want to do that, so i just sent eric inside to eat. a couple of hours went by, and no one who got off the plane had come back. then, all of a sudden, one gentleman came back on the plane with some food for his wife and kids. i thought "great, eric should be back soon." well, it turned out that this guy had walked through a door that said RESTRICTED. TSA flipped out and decided that everyone and every bag had to come off the plane and get rechecked. so now i am on the plane with lawson, four bags and i have to carry it all through the snow storm to get into the airport. after the sent every other plane out, they let us get back on our plane and we finally got to leave. we got the Colorado Springs airport at 10:30 in the morning and finally got to leave the salt lake airport at 10:00 in the evening. all we could do was laugh.

going to wyoming was wonderful. it was a snowy winterland in which we got to sit by the fire, play cards, shovel snow and had a white christmas. every chance we had, we played cards. it was so much fun to not have anything to do so we could watch football, play cards, and relax. eric has been working so hard lately, i know that he really needed this trip. however, we did have to take lawson over to my aunt and uncles to get a picture with a christmas tree.

i cannot explain enough how much i love all of my family. i cannot wait until i can be there more. lawson misses his Grandma Laurie and Grandpa Mike so much also. we hope that everyone had as amazing holidays as we did.

now, just a few of our gazillion pictures.