Christmas coming...but for now: Clara and the cat!

Oh how she loves this kitty

Doesn't Rapunzel look thrilled to be a part of this love triangle?

One happy animal...look how she's pushing off of Chris. Chris has decided that my poor kitties only exist for the amusement of the children, and specifically Clara. They are good sports.

Christmas report coming soon!

Flashback Friday

Back in the days when I could wear a bikini and make people smile :)

Flashback Friday

Last week was my ELEVENTH wedding anniversary, so I thought this was fitting.
I pretty much hated all of my bridal pictures, but this one was okay. However, don't you love the bra strap that is showing? Yeah, classy. Which brings me back to...I pretty much hate ALL of my bridal pictures.



We never really celebrate our wedding anniversary because I have ZERO fond memories of the day. Those of you who know me are well aware of this fact :) In fact once, Chris and I were arguing about when our anniversary was. I SWORE it was November 28 and he was certain it was November 30. I was irritated. He was frustrated. When we got home we looked it up and started CRACKING UP. We were both wrong...it was November 29 :) That pretty much sums up what our anniversary means to us!

That being said, I adore my husband. He is my very best friend. Our personalities were made for eachother.
I should just say thank goodness we have both changed since our wedding day!

Flashback Friday

Bah-Humbug



This is Christmas Eve with my cousins (and Wesley) and I was SO MAD that they wouldn't just GO HOME so we could get to bed. Dangit, Santa was on his way!

And a side-thought...take away those sweet bangs and don't I look like my little Eli?

Daily Occurance

Every day when we get home from picking the kids up from school, Abram goes to the computer room and curls up around the warm heating vent

He lays there and plays cars or talks to himself or just rolls back and forth

Then quite often he falls fast asleep all toasty warm on the vent

Music

Other than family and church and family again...and all of those other obvious things...not much makes me happier then the band the Killers. I love them and could listen to their music all the live long day. Their new album is EXCELLENT. It puts a spring in my step and just plain makes me jolly.

My top five bands/singers:

1. The Killers


2. Pearl Jam/Eddie Vedder


3. The The


4. Tom Petty


5. Charlotte Martin


So do any of you have any music you absolutely love?

Hallelujah! This project is OVER!

Our Relief Society does a HUGE Christmas Dinner and guess who's house it's at this year?! MINE. Which I think will be fun, but I figured we should probably have some new kitchen cabinets for this shin-dig. It only makes sense. The party is on Tuesday, so we have spent the last week working our little tails off transforming our kitchen into something presentable. We got rid of that awful light box and installed can lights and some pendants. Then we painted all of the cabinets. And if I do say so myself, I LOVE IT. See what a little time crunch can do?


BEFORE... ugly. ugly. ugly.

Soooo many cabinets. Taken off, primed, two coats of paint, glazed, hung back up, new hardware installed. Holy crap, what did we get ourselves into?!

And more cabinets. Uuugh.

Oh, and let's not forget the mess. I guess this is what you get when you basically ignore children, laundry, dishes, personal hygiene, and pretty much everything else for nearly an entire week.

Oh, but all that was most certainly worth it...this is my beautiful new kitchen.

I LOVE it! If I can't have the dark glazed wood cabinets that I want someday, this is a wonderful second choice.

This is a close-up of the cabinets. New hardware and tobacco glaze. Wa-La.

A HUGE, HUGE, HUGE thank you to my great friends:

1. Kevin Bouck for helping Chris put in all of those can lights and getting rid of that blasted light box! What an awesome transformation that was in-and-of itself. Such a difference!!

2. Kristi Williams for spending SIX HOURS painting with me!!! I feel like I am eternally indebted to you. The thought of having to do another six hours of painting makes me want to throw up. This was a tremendous help!

3. Joy Bouck who is helping me make the house lovely for this Christmas party. She's got the eye.

Whatever would I do without my amazing posse?! Thank you again!