Pics from December

So, we got a new camera last month, and I just now downloaded the pics, I have noticed little 'spots' on some of the pictures :( I cleaned the lens today, and I am hoping that will solve the problem and that it's not something else.....

Pics from Christmas







I may delete this one soon, never to be seen (or heard) again!!



These are from my birthday, we went over to Universal for the day and had a good time.



(btw, that is not the sun behind her, that's her halo......NOT.

What Slackers Are We?

So we've been horrible about posting, even family members with new a new baby have been better posters than we have...... oh well.

We have been busy painting and building. We mixed several 'left-over' paints to paint our upstairs hallway and came up with what we have come to call "elephant". I think I will contact Behr and see if they will buy my formula!!

When I was painting the wall I told Nate that a red would look really good up against it.

I was told emphatically that:

"We are not painting the walls red."

So they are painted "Terra-Cotta" (wink wink).

Nate has been wanting to build floor to ceiling book shelves since we moved in 3 1/2 years ago (.....hard to believe we have been in one place for so long!!) and he finally got down to business and got them done.

They turned out fantastic (of course).

Although, our book purchases have greatly reduced since Santa brought me my e-book a year ago; it's nice to have all the extra shelves.

The yellow is also a 'leftover' paint from our last house - I think Larry referred to it as
"school bus yellow".

We have now used it to paint the entry way. It's bright and cheery, and uses up some paint we've had in the garage for years.

This picture doesn't really look as it does in person, the green and yellow don't really "compete" like they do here. We didn't "hate" it (Hannah did tho), so we figured we see how reactions went over the next several weeks before decided to paint over it or not.