DECEMBER through pictures

Christmas time is one of my favorite times of the year because it is a month full of wonderful times with family and friends. I love the warm homes, the lights and all the yummy food. This year was especially different because of Cooper. Even though he is still young and really didn't know what was going we enjoyed every bit of this season. We are also very blessed because he is such an amazing baby. We went to quite a few gatherings and he was a champ.

Probably one of my favorite moments from this Christmas was the Xmas eve service. We went to the 930 service after one of our many family Christmas gathering thinking Coop would be asleep. But we were wrong. As we sat in the church crying room that overlooked the whole congregation Cooper sat & listened to all the music and never once made a noise, just stared out. When it was time for us all to light our candles Coopers face lite up and my heart melted. As we sang those special words...

"Silent night, holy night

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon Virgin Mother & Child

Holy Infant so tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace

Sleep in heavenly peace"

I felt so blessed to be standing in a packed room full of believers, holding my son & standing next to my husband on the eve of our Lord's birth. It was a feeling I don't know if I can express into words but I will remember it forever.

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and Have a Happy New Year!!!

8.5 months and it begins...

Just some fun pictures of us playing on the floor with Cooper.

Today marks the beginning of going non-stop.

We will be running around after our little monkey as he will start to get into everything!!!

Fall is already here and gone...

Fall Time is by far my favorite holiday and its already been here and gone..But I am really starting to love Christmas time and everything that comes with it. This past weekend we worked hard on finishing the outside of the front of our house {we put new siding and shingles up} as well as started to decorate for Christmas. Cooper is already loving the lights on the garlands & I cant wait for him to see the tree.


I wanted to catch you all up on just how fast Cooper has been changing and is still my constant entertainment all day long {I catch myself cracking up just by the faces he makes}

• He is now 8 months {I cant believe it}
• Loves eating..Everything
• Has started making these funny grunting noises when he gets mad {it is pretty hilarious}
• Very ticklish
• One tooth is cutting through
• Started to wave goodbye
• is almost crawling...he is getting so frustrated when he is on the ground
• Still loves to cuddle {hoping that doesnt go away..well at least for a few years}
• he gets very excited when he sees people he knows

All in all he is a very happy,good, loveable little guy and we are so very blessed to be his parents
Here are some most recent photo's

All grown up in his big boy car seat {still facing backwards }

Has a hard time focusing when others are around

Loves the Camera

So close to crawling...then I think were in trouble

LOVES his Johnny Jump up

Future Husky..GO DAWGS

Our little monkey on Halloween

Loves to put everything in his mouth...even pumpkins

One of his many funny faces

Love soccer just like his Dad

NEW Fall PICTURES

PRECIOUS

Auntie Annie was so nice to come help us with the picture

OUR LITTLE MONKEY

A glimpse of what we did this whole summer...

As many of you know we purchased a home in Redmond this past June and worked the entire summer during the weeks and some weekends transforming it into our home. We moved in beginning of September and its taken time to unload/organize and decorate {and were not done yet}. We cant thank my dad enough for all the hard work and creativity he put into this house for us and we feel so blessed to even call this place our home.

To give you a little idea of what we had to work with I have put some before/after pictures for you to see. Of course it looks better in person and we hope to one day have some open houses but for now I hope pictures will do. {The little old lady we bought it from took care of this house and kept it in pristine condition, it just was a bit dated}

{the veiw from the front door BEFORE}{AFTER}

{This is what the kitchen looked like before}

{Another view from the front door-we took down that wall and took out the bedroom}

{Our new dining room}{Before}{After}{Before- I used that wall divider as our headboard-pictures to come}
{AFTER- from a closet to our little bar area}

{Hall Way BEFORE-DARK}

{AFTER-All Bright}{Hall Bathrom BEFORE}{AFTER}{Coopers Bedroom Before-Luckily this was the only room with wallpaper}{AFTER-its not all done yet}{View BEFORE}

{AFTER}{BEFORE-in the deal I asked for those chairs}

{AFTER-made the closet into my little office/craft area and then the area for Cooper to play}

{We took out those walls and changed the kitchen just a bit}

{AFTER}