Christmas and Thanksgiving

Our Christmas tree in our new home. We went to Alice's for Christmas morning. What fun to watch the little boys who are so excited. Later in the afternoon we met at our home and Doug and Jessica come up to join us for Christmas dinner. I made Cafe Rio salads. We had a great day.

The boys love Uncle Carl. He knows how to play the games on Wii.

Thanksgiving in at our home in Idaho. We had most of my family for Thanksgiving. It was great. You can see how many people, I think we had 39 people. What fun to get together. We celebrated Christmas and Grandma's famous cookies in the evening. We had tons to eat.

The end of a wonderful day.

Remembering

Today, February 4th is always a day for happy and sad memories. It has been six years since Heidi passed away and I miss her every day. I am so grateful for having been able to be her Mom. She taught me so much. She loved life and making everyone happy. One of her first words she learned when she was a baby was "Happy".

In 2 months this is what has happened with our house.

We want to raise the roof on the front porch and also replace the windows with more original looking windows and remove the wood in the arches above the windows. There was glass in all the front windows above the main windows. I hope to learn how to do stained glass so that we can use in the windows.

You can see the interesting brick work done on the fireplace and the windows. We will paint them with an accent color.
The wall in basement. The below picture is the stairway going down to the basement. It is hard to see but it is almost straight down, about like going down a ladder.

Somebody must have had a good time, "One hundred bottles of beer on the wall, take one down" or in this picture, add one . Those will be going "goodbye".
Lovely pink bathroom with Freddie resting in front of the door. Yep, I get to have Freddie.


I didn't ever think I would be so excited for a washer and dryer but after 2 1/2 years using the public washers in the condo I can say I was very happy to have a washer and dryer again.


I love the look of the windows. Just put in what every size you can. It doesn't matter if they match or not.

Now this is one bold room with the lovely flooring and bold quilt. Makes for a very eye catching room.



It has been two months since we were able to move in. We are working with a architect to help us decide the best design for the house. It has so many small rooms and a weird hallway that takes up a lot of space. We want to open up the entry so you can see the stairway, which will need some updating. It has a door that opens right to the stairs and is a very tight space.
Stay tuned for updates as we begin the remodel.