Friday, April 10, 2009

House. Hair. Happy Endings

Our house is really starting to come along. We have Sheetrock and are working on trim and other finishes. This is a picture of one of the fireplaces-- yes, we are going to paint the walls a different color besides white
The tin ceiling. A local entrepreneur was remodeling a building downtown-- it had these beautiful ceiling tiles in it from the early 1900's . They were unable to use them because many were badly damaged, so Jason got permission and went and tore them down-- it took him forever--like 18 hours or something. He worked all afternoon and util 3:00 in the morning. That was a couple months ago. Recently Jason rehung them in our new house, in the kitchen-- this took even longer--like every night for an entire week and all day Saturday, but they are beautiful. I think we are going to spray them with a heavy primer and then paint them their original bronze color. I think they are so neat and will give the house so much character-- yes, I am married to an amazing man who likes to make beautiful things!!
Garage doors-- this picture is for my sister who really wanted to see our new garage doors. They are kind of like the carriage style, but more simple and much cheaper!! I think they turned out cute-oh, and no our house is not going to be beige and gray-- that's primer :0)!!
Karson got a haircut the other day and they put yellow gel in it and spiked it into a fohawk. He looked so cute!!

Happy Endings--- and for the happy endings!! I finished my masters defense last Tuesday and it went really well-- it's was a huge emotional rollercoaster that I am so glad is over and to make it even better it ended well. My entire committe wants me to pursue publication and my study was just presented at the AAPPHERD conference (it's a big thing for health professionals) in Tampa, FL and was really well received-- yeah!! The other happy thing is I only have 4 more weeks of my online class and then I'm totally done with my masters!! Yeah again!!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Testing, Testing

So, it didn't work on my computer so I am trying again on my in-laws....

Let's see if this works...

So, most of my friends and family have blog lists that update when their friends/family update their blogs-- I am a slacker and have yet to do this, but that's another story... Well for some reason my blog is not showing up on anyone's lists even though I have updated it now 3 times. I guess I'll see if this works.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

First Food

Karson and Kate were so excited for me to come home from Florida because I promised them that we could start feeding Claire rice cereal. My mom bought her this super cute bib!! She was so cute... I'm not sure she really ate much-- mostly just spit it back at me. It's been about a week since this first attempt and she actually ate some tonight!!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Florida, Five Months, Friends!!

Claire and I went to Florida to meet my new little niece Tessa Rose. She is so beautiful!! We had a blast hanging out in the 80 degree weather!! We went to the beach, an orange stand, and picked strawberries!! So yummy and fun!! I had so much fun hanging out with my mom and sister shopping and relaxing!! I think I want to go back every year for spring break-- it was so nice to escape from the cold for a little while.


Tessa looked so beautiful!! My mom made her blessing dress-- it turned out so cute, especially for Florida!!
Karson and Clarie are best friends!! They have so much fun playing together!! I think they look so much a like!!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

4 months old!!

Claire was 4 months old on Valentines Day!! She is getting to be so much fun. She rolls over, lauughs, and is just the sweetest thing ever. The only time she cries is when she is really hungry or really tierd. We feel so blessed to have her in our home-- she brings so much joy to our lives!
4 month stats: Clarie went to the Dr. Today. She is by far my most petite baby. She is only 13 pounds and is 24 inches long.
This is Clarie and my friend Adele's baby, Beckett. They were so cute. Before we got the camera out they were even holding hands. Beckett is 2 months younger than Claire, but I wouldn't be suprised if he's bigger.


Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Princess Kate!!

Our little princess Kate is 3!!! Her birthday was yesterday. She had a princess party with her little friends. Kate is such a funny little thing. I swear she is 3 going on 16.

Sisters!! Kate loves her little Claire so much and Claire is strating to warm up to Kate more and more all the time.
Kate with her cute little friends!!



We also had a party for Kate with Grandma and Grandpa Jones on Sunday.