Our Last Party of 2007

We had our last Christmas Party yesterday. It was a pretty fun time.

This is kinda a random picture, but I know at least Amy will enjoy it...

This is Spencer, my aunt's dog. He and Elsie and Presley had a pretty good time. He and Elsie have the same coloring, so it is funny to see them together, Elsie is like Spencer's mini-me. I tried to get a picture of them together, but obviously that didn't work out.

Addie made a couple friends at the Christmas party! My cousin Abby's daughter Jane, thought Addie was so much fun... at first Addie wasn't sure about her though.

Seconds before that picture Addie was laughing! Addie is a known nose-biter, and Jane thought this was hilarious!
Here is another try at getting their picture taken together... can you tell how exhausted Addie was? Poor thing.

And when Ella sees the camera out, she has to get in on the action!

Addie made yet another friend! We all got to meet my other cousin Maggie's new baby Holland! Maggie lives in Pennsylvania, so we don't see her often. Holland is almost 2 months old! And we think only 2 lbs less than Addie... I think someone needs to put some more weight on!!! Addie will be 9 months in a week and a half!
Addie is turning into quite the bully.

All she wanted to do is give her hugs and kisses :(

Addie must be very frightening!!!

Addie also got to visit with her Great Grandma. We had to make sure to get a picture because last time we visited we forgot the camera!!! No smiles from Addie though :( Maybe next time!

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Before I forget! I want to quick post the before and afters of our kitchen!

Here it is!

I don't know why it turned out so small... but oh well! I like it a lot better so far, it is much less dingy looking! We still have to do the rest of the woodwark in the dining area, but the cabinets were the biggest task, so I am happy to be done with that! I think we need a new dishwasher now, because I think the black looks bad, but it still works, so Joel says no :(

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I hope everyone has a great New Year!!! I am off to make sock animals until Joel gets home!

"You are .5 years old today!"

Well, Addie is! Joel said that to her today at dinner, I thought it was clever... I never think of clever things to say... oh well.

Here are a couple pics from the day! Ella was playing in a box, because who needs toys, right? I thought it would be fun to plop Addie in too. You can tell Addie is mine, right, because I always cut the top of the head off of the other kid in the picture!!! I don't even realize I am doing it either! I just always try to get her to smile, and don't look at the camera because I don't want to miss it! Poor Ella!

Doesn't Addie's sweater make her look like a little vampire, I think it every time I put it on her. It is from when I was a baby. I always try to push that collar down, but it never ceases to pop up in a vampire-esque way! I guess the collar up is in style now, right? Addie is just more hip than I am.

In honor of the .5 years old I wanted to post a couple pics from her birthday (April 10) well, these actually are from the day after her actual birthday, since I couldn't see her that day:

Here is one of our first family pictures, we took one the day she was born, but I look horrible, so I am not going to post that one! So this one was the first family picture we took the day after she was born the first time I got to see her again!!!!

Addie is growing like quite the weed, I measured her 4 weeks ago (scientifically by laying her on pieces of paper lined up, then measuring the paper) and she was 24.5" long, and I measured her again today, because I swear she is getting SO big, and she was 26"!!!! That is an inch and a half in 3 weeks! Yikes! We will see her official height at the doctor when we go next week!

And this one is our little baby burrito! Doesn't she look cute? This is from the first time we saw her with her eyes open

In other Addie news.... she is really getting the hang of sitting up! She doesn't faceplant quite so quickly anymore, so that is nice! Here she is the other day when we were practicing:

She seems to be enjoying it right? Elsie loves it when Addie is sitting on the floor because she is just the right height to lick her face! It is hard to try to keep Elsie away and keep Addie from a carpet burned face all at once!!!

We also got a new kitchen table today, it is SO nice, now we just have to get rid of our old one. I put it on Craigslist, but no bites yet :( Hopefully soon though! I will have to take a picture of it for next time.

That is all the news lately, I just have one more picture to share, this is from when we went up north, Jenn took a family pic of us... turned out pretty good, too bad Addie didn't smile, but we got a lot of other good smile pictures from her, so I am not going to complain!

Addie has her 6 month pictures on Friday, wish up luck!!!! She was super crabby for her 3 month shoot.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Kitchen before and afters...

Here are the before and after pics of the kitchen with the new countertops. Now we just have to paint the cabinets and put on the new hardware. And also get some light switch and outlet covers, I am not sure what kind I should get now.

I think it looks better in person, you can't really see the nice backsplash, and it looks kinda washed out, but you get the idea! We also got can lights which you can't really see, and undercabinet lights, it is such an improvement, it is amazing how much better lighting helps!

Hope everyone has a great day!

Painting

I don't have a ton to report, but I thought I should do some sort of update since it has been a month. I had a pretty good weekend, I got a few things done that I have been wanting to do. We bought a mirror to go over the mantle, and I painted the kitchen. I guess it looks better, it doesn't clash so much with the countertops. I also painted the door in the kitchen, I am not sure if I like it yet, my mom thinks I should repaint it cream or something like that. I don't know. I hope I have the amition this summer to sand and restain all the wood in my kitchen... we'll see.