November 2010
I'm incredibly grateful for the home we live in, but it's in need of some MAJOR updating! And since we rent, we can't exactly choose to do things. Here are some BEFORE pictures.
AFTER: Notice the windows. The windows before were super old, and only single paned. Some of the windows would get ice on the inside when it was very cold outside.
After they got the windows installed they started on the siding, and it is a HUGE difference! The inside needs a lot of updating as well, but we'll take what we can get! I keep hoping that we'll buy something of our own, but just when my husband gets my hopes up, they get shot down! So until then, I'm going to be grateful for what I have now, despite the small living quarters. (It is a 2-story home, but the basement is totally unfinished, so it's used for storage only!)
Bailey is a little stinker. She's been in Whitney and Marissa's room and has gotten a bottle of their perfume (some of my old Sunflowers that they use when dressing up). She walked into where I was with the biggest grin on her face and giggled. She was waiting for me to tell her, "No." She does this all the time. She gets into things she's knows she's not supposed to and comes right to me. Before I can even say anything, she gets a big grin, and just giggles, cause she knows what I'm going to tell her.
Grandma Dawn sent some hats and flowers. We were playing dress up, but they didn't stay on very long.
Again, in the girls' room. I think she's trying to open their lip gloss. She LOVES lip gloss, chapstick, anything that goes on the lips that tastes good. I tell the girls to shut their door before leaving for school because they get mad when she goes in there and gets into things and makes a mess and then they have to clean it. They might learn one of these days.
I love her dimples!
So the girls' teacher had some puppies dropped off at her house they were trying to get rid of, and the girls kept begging to let them get one. I told them we'd go look at them. They begged and begged to let them get one. I kept telling them dad wouldn't approve. Well, we came home with both of them, and I was right. Dad didn't approve. So, I listed them on craigslist and they were gone the next day. They were super cute though and the kids were very sad they couldn't keep them! I would have kept the golden one--
He's scratching his ear!
First picture I would let my family take of me for the past year (somewhat willingly). Being on Prednisone (steroid medication) for a year, makes you gain a ton of weight (in my case at least 20 pounds), and makes your face look as round as the moon! It was incredibly difficult to even go in public, but when it's the only thing that helps to get a disease somewhat stabilized, you're willing to do whatever! The unfortunate thing is that the weight, and moon face, don't just come off when you stop the medicine. This was 3 months of being off it, and my cheekbones were somewhat starting to appear again!
I have a tub of sugar and flour that rolls out of my cabinet and she had gotten the cup and helped herself to the sugar. She's a smart one!
Our new dog Callie! We gave Brian's hunting dog, Tucker, back to it's original owner and found a 3-year-old pure golden lab for free on Craigslist. She's much more mellow than Tucker. We're able to keep her out of a kennel and she doesn't run for miles, without knowing where she's at. The kids love her!
First piggies with curlers in!
Woke up to a mist of snow. It looked pretty to have everything frosted with a lite layer. The view out our new windows. Before it was usually foggy on the inside of our window, if I was ever running the hot water, or cooking over my stove top, when it was cold out. Now I don't have that problem EVER! It's wonderful to actually see out my windows!
Not a lot of snow, but enough to go sledding on Thanksgiving Day! It was SO COLD too!
Brian, Carson, Hunter
Marissa, Whitney, Kenzie, Kaden
The girls taking turns holding baby Ellie!
Bailey is attracted to babies! If there's a baby around, that's all she wants. Grandma was holding Ellie, and Bailey spotted her and needed on grandma's lap also, to give Ellie loves!
She was not happy when grandma thought she'd had enough hugs! She was devastated!
Now it's all better that grandma is giving her another turn.
But every time grandma pulled her away, it resulted in more tears. So grandma set Ellie next to her. She was looking at me, making sure I was seeing that she was holding her! She's so much help!
Home after a fun, long Thanksgiving Day at Grandpa and Grandma Salisbury's.
These blisters are the reason for her bandage in the previous photos. Thanksgiving we'd gone to my parents house and I'd dropped off all the kids and food, but had forgotten something at home, so I ran home to get it. Well, my parents had just started their pellet stove for the winter and Bailey wasn't aware that it's hot and you don't touch it. I came back over and she was screaming, while my mom was trying to keep her hand in ice water. She had touched the glass window on the door of it! A good majority of her right hand was burned and blistered, even her little fingertips. It was nap time and after crying for at least an hour, I kept holding her and singing to her, trying to get her to fall asleep. I thought for sure the pain relief would have kicked in, but as she was falling asleep she kept crying out! I felt horrible, as did my mom! I've burned myself before (nothing like this), and I knew just a small burn is extremely painful. But I felt more horrible when I looked at her other hand that evening and saw that each of the finger tips on her left hand were blistered as well. We thought she'd just touched it with the right, because that's the one she kept grabbing and we could really see the marks. So sad to see your kids hurting in pain!
Even more snow the next day! The kids were excited to get to wear their boots!
