Just keep swimming

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One night after Ben’s bath, Andy abducted the cats and this was the result.

Poor Colby, but he smelled like baby shampoo afterwards!

Jack looks thrilled.

Don’t let the evil eye fool you, he loves water!

However he does not like being dressed up. Babushka Jack :)

Happenings

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A bunch of images that didn’t really fit except in a random post together…

I made cookie mix in a jar as Christmas presents for our neighbors and the girls who do babysitting at the Y. The recipe came from here.

Ben helped Andy fix the vacuum a few weeks ago. Don’t worry, it wasn’t on. Although Ben loves it and waddles around after me when I’m vacuuming.

Andy taught me how to sell things on ebay this weekend. Ben wanted in on the action.

After church today Andy made us grilled cheese and tomato soup. Like anything he does though, he brought a level of excellence to it. He pulled out the extra virgin olive oil, spices and special cheeses. The soup had garlic and shredded cheddar cheese in it. I’m sure if we had homemade bread our sandwiches would have been made with it too. Yummy!

I bought curtains for the kitchen windows. I made the valances last year but have just felt like I was in a fish bowl in the kitchen at nighttime. The curtains look like they were meant to be there and really help with privacy at night. Andy even trusted me to install the tieback rods by myself too. You don’t understand, me and math and making permanent holes in his newly finished walls is just a combination for disaster :)

We had friends that live down the road over for dinner last week. The next day their 4 year old daughter Bella drew this picture for us. She did a great job, I even have bangs! I think it’s funny Andy has hair and I have a dress though. When have you ever seen me wear a dress?

New look

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I’ve been wanting to update the design of my blog for a while, for no real reason, just got bored with it. So things might be rearranged and weird for a few days but hopefully I’ll have a new, workable design soon :)

House Update: The Office

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Amidst holiday traveling we’ve done a bunch of “little” house things. It’s always the details at the end of projects that seem to take the longest, but I love our house and am very thankful for it! The office is 90% complete I’d say, we just need to put trim around windows, doors and the ledge. Of course that’s as simple as measuring, buying pine board and trim, cutting, priming, painting, painting 2nd coat, nailing into place, filling nail holes with wood filler, setting any nails that didn’t go in thoroughly, painting over the wood filler and caulking seams. Easy, right :)

I moved my computer down into the office. It’s still an explosion of stuff though.

Andy’s going to build me a bookshelf in the cubby on the left.

The kitties love sitting in the window sills.

Everything was in the center of the room so Andy could install baseboard trim.

Looking into the family room downstairs. It’s kind of ground zero for projects.

It usually looks something like this. I’ve been painting trim the past few nights when Ben goes to bed.

Andy nailed it down in the office. So pretty! It’s never going to be this white, clean and shiny ever again! I think this is the truest representation of the green walls too.

He also installed the door separating the office from the storage room. Still needs to be stained and polyurethaned but it’s definitely a beauty!

Hard to believe the office used to look like this. Home to a moldy hot tub, mice, a leaky roof, river running through it when it poured and no heat. I always saw the vision of what it could look like, I just had no idea how we’d get there. Good thing we have Handy Andy (and family and friends who love us enough to help). Or pity us and our living conditions :) You guys must have thought we were crazy when we bought the house! Well, maybe we were a little crazy :)