Winter Break!

It is finally Winter Break...that means two whole weeks of no work...which means plenty of time to spend with my favorite little girl! Today Kyla and Landen came to grandma-grandma's and we had a L-A-Z-Y Day! (Landen has decided he is too cool for the camera...so only pictures of KyKy today)

Last night I went on a quick shopping spree and got her these darling little pink slippers! I was trying to get her to smile while still capturing the cuteness of her slippers...this was the best it got!

 Also...today we got to have our first little "pony tail"

 



Look at all the hair she is finally growing!!! Sweet little girl...I love you to the moon!

Addition Post #3

Things are starting to take shape around here! Believe it or not these pictures are already out dated...but I had to post them so you could see the process. Today the trusses came and were put on the house...but due to the wonderful Pacific Northwest rain...the guys had to call it a day a bit earlier than normal because it was just too slick. As soon as they are spread out beautifully I will be sure to post a picture.

The picture above is standing in our new room looking toward our new master bathroom. The opening/doorway to the right will be our beautiful door going out to our covered deck! Can't wait!

The walls are going up! There will be another dormer window up there...you will be able to see that better in my next post...once the trusses go up!

The chunk of house coming toward the camera is my WALK IN CLOSET!!! I do have a pretty good sized closet now...but I am excited to have my new one right off the bathroom! Hopefully this winter weather will hold off until the roof is on...!

Pinterest Idea #???

I have lost track of which pinterest project this is...or how many or which ones I have posted....BUT know that I am getting much better at implementing more of my pinterest pins (especially the ones I have pinned for my classroom!...I will try to take some pictures tomorrow at work!)

This one is super fun and easy...Every year I try to think of creative ways to display our Christmas cards...I hate the idea of taping them up. One year I hung each one along our garland all the way up our staircase...while that was cool, it was time consuming each time we got a card! This year I had it all ready to go! Pinterest had this great idea of using a metal ring and simply hole punching each card and adding it to the ring! Of course to make it super cute, you just add a few cute Christmas ribbons and jingle bells, and done! I have it sitting on our sofa table right when you walk in our front door...its a great way to display the pictures of the people we love!

Hope you are all enjoying this Holiday Season!!!

Christmas Program!

It's that time of year my friends...CHRISTMAS! This year my mom was in charge of the Christmas Program at church so we made sure we had a front row seat! (Plus our sweet nephew was in it so we had to watch!)

Ben and I have been trying to be better about taking pictures...especially of us...we are realizing more and more often, that we have very few pictures of us together since we have been married! Whoops! So here is  our attempt (and secretly trying to get a picture for Christmas cards this year).

All the girls...

Kyla in her Christmas dress from Grandma-Grandma! Such a pretty girl...especially with her Paparazzi headband...Thanks cousin Jessica!

 

Landen ready to sing his Christmas songs! He did awesome. I got a great video, but realized later that I was holding the camera the wrong way so the entire video is sideways! Grrr...not blog worthy, but still captured the memory right?!

Uncle Ben and Ky Ky...yep she's crying...it was significantly past bedtime! 

And Nannie came out to watch Landen in his program. Here they are eating their yummy cookies after the program! Too sweet! Such a great night listening to KIDS tell of the reason for the season!

Addition Post #2

Okay here is the update: Ben has been such a little builder this week! It has been so "fun" to have my hubby building our house along side our contractor. I keep reminding him that not many people get to do this kind of thing, and we consider it a HUGE blessing to be working with a contractor that is supportive and encouraging to this type of thing! 

Here are all the forms for the "pillars" for our foundation. Because we live in the flood zone, we have to build our house a little differently...the flood water has to be able to flow under our house. When it's all done, it will look completely normal...and our house is built well above flood level so there will be no concerns of water getting into our house! 

More pictures of the forms...

Ta-Da! Concrete poured, and forms taken off!!! The foundation is done!

Remember when I said it was muddy...? Well now it's REALLY muddy! My sister's boss came back and back filled for us! AMAZING!!! I am so excited to have it "level" back there...now we are all ready for the lumber package (due to arrive on Thursday)...

As promised, here are the before pictures, just for some comparison. This is the front of our house, which really wont change.

And the back, this is already looking different! Look at that beautiful lawn....uhhh now it's MUD! All this progress is exciting, can't wait to see how much changes in the next week!

Golfing with the Big Boys!

I found more pictures!!! I had forgotten about these pictures...a couple months ago, the boys went golfing while us girls went shopping. Landen was SO excited to be going golfing with the "guys". He got to go to Raspberry Ridge with his Daddy, Uncle Ben and Grandpa-Grandpa. Uncle Ben was under strict instructions to TAKE PICTURES!

Daddy and Landen in the golf cart!

 

Stepping up to the tee....

 

SWING...

AND A MISS!

WAIT! Not a miss...His golf club broke! This kiddo hit so hard his golf head broke off! The "guys" didn't notice that the golf heads weren't medal like the rest of the club...whoops!

Let's try this again, with a practice, plastic ball!

NOPE...still a miss!

Regardless of how many times he had to try...he was one determined little golfer! After 9 holes...he decided he wanted to go again! This little trooper golfed 18 holes with the "guys"!

Good Luck hittin' the golf course without taking this little golfer along!

Addition Post #1

Well, week one of our addition...and we are well on our way! I will try to remember to post a "before" picture next time...but I am sure most of you already know what our house looked like. Anyways, after the deck was about half off I remembered to ask Ben to take pictures of this process! This will be our master bedroom in about 2-3 months... 

My sister's boss came with his back hoe and did all our excavation! He is truly amazing! Such a great guy and was a huge blessing to us! Thanks Thor!

Needless to say with all this rain we have been getting...it is a bit of a mud pit! But it will be beautiful soon!!! I can't wait!

 

This is our beautiful view from our current bedroom...haha we keep our blinds closed most of the time now.

But when we do open them...Ace always wants to be out where the workers are! He has been having some serious puppy anxiety with all the changes around here. Hopefully this little guy gets used to the idea of change...because there is a lot more coming his way!

We are definitely still in the early stages of this whole addition thing...but it is getting pretty exciting! Can't wait for the finished product!