The blurr that was January!

January was filled with lots of trips to the dentist.  Our family is big enough that they won't let us come all at once!  Sooo between check-ups and fillings and cracked teeth and all that 2 crowns entail...we made 5 or 6 trip to the dentist in January!  Good thing they had headphones and a ceiling mounted T.V.  

Russ and Megan had some hunting tags to fill and it started out fairly well.... they did tons of hiking... but with the sickness' that visited our home towards the end of Jan... they didn't fill their tags.  I was trying to take a before and after picture... each time they came home they looked so tired and worn out and sunburned, but I didn't get the after photo taken.

February started out great!  We finally decided on a car and got a new one (after 4 years of looking and waiting till we didn't have a missionary out)  We also went to the Logan temple to do temple work with Meg, Brayden, Morgan and Zack.  We spent a great day in Logan and even had the sister missionaries eat lunch with us!

Gingerbread House 2013

Each year while we were growing up we got to go to Grandma Thomson's house and decorate gingerbread houses.  It was a fun tradition and one I remember fondly.  Well this year our kids decorated one gingerbread house... Grandma used to have one for each of us!  I think they did a great job.

UPDATE>>>THIS is a Pampered Chef gingerbread mold!  I have the train one too!

Christmas 2013

Christmas this year was a great one!  Everyone was happy and healthy... and we had a great time with Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Sandy!

This picture is too funny... but all too true!  It has been over two years since Zack has been home with his serving a LDS mission for our church and then going right up to school.  We have seen him for a weekend here and there, but nothing like these three weeks!  It has been great to have him home!  Brayden has been joined at the hip with him (thus the appropriate picture).  They have played games, built models and watched movies to their hearts content!  I'm afraid that Brayden will be a little lost puppy when Zack heads back to school next week!  

Here is the kids with G & G Steeneck and Aunt Sandy!

What a great Christmas... was are so thankful for so many this this past year!  A healthy family, a new home, a returned missionary, a new daughter in law!  Wow!  WE are truly blessed!

T'was the night before Christmas...

Twas the night before Christmas and everyone was stirring in their new footie PJ's!

Kitchen

Here are a few more picts of the kitchen... I need to take a close up of the backsplash...it's my favorite part!  We used a lantern tile from Homedepot.com and it is one of the first things that I bought for the house!  It wasn't fun to install... but I have access to  a fabulous handyman that comes dirt cheap!  :)

I do need to add more color to the upper cabinets... but I figure that will be a work in progress!

Office & Entry

Here are the Pictures of our office and entry way.  I still love my gray desk... maybe sometime down the road I will paint it another color.  For now though gray it stays.

Side wall in office.

Entry wall... do you think it needs to have the

"...is where our story begins."

below the HOME sign?  That is what I had at the old house... now I don't know...

Entry way picture.

A sneak peak at the office shelves...

Things are starting to come together...

I have been unloading boxes...

  

Morgan has wanted to get out all of the decorations...

  

So we started with the office shelves...

Russ was wonderful and made my vision of a wall full of shelving happen...

It turned out great... hopefully soon I will have things cleaned and everything finished so I can take pictures of the final products!