Saturday, December 31, 2011

Looking back at 2011

Happy New Year!

New Years is always a good time to sit back and reflect on what has been accomplished over the past year. It's also time to think about goals for the coming year. More on that tomorrow.

Here is a look back at some of the house projects that we completed in 2011

Made a matching (to our dining room table) shelf for the console table.


We travelled to Detroit in the winter to get the only remaining Kulla Lights from Ikea.


We picked up the Solair chairs for our front porch.


Installed a custom floating desk in the office and painted one wall with chalk board paint.


We painted the interior of our front door yellow.


We planted some Annabelle Hydrangeas in the back yard.


We painted the alley side of our garage to match our updates from last year.


The top half of our house had all the missing trim added and the painting done.


We worked in the garden, tried to improve our lawn and planted some vines on the chain link fence.


We found some great second hand bar stools which we refinished.


We refinished the outdoor lounges that we inherited with the house.


We installed new Eavestroughs on our front porch.


And our big reno for the year was the bathroom update and new shower.





And of course we revealed our most life altering project yet. It's still a work in progress. Completion expected April 2012.


See you in 2012!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

A very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone from us. I hope you all enjoy some time off work with family and friends.



We are relaxing together on our last Christmas Eve just the two of us. Tomorrow the whirlwind family tour starts. This year I really can't wait to sit down to a big feast. Bring it on!

Here are a few scenes from around the house this Christmas.








My baby bump at 22 weeks. Still feeling really good.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Sympathy Bump & Baby Bump

So we have some news to share.

I'll tell you the same way we told our family & friends. With our custom t-shirts that we had made.




In case you can't read them they say:

Sympathy Bump
and
Baby Bump.

So there you have it folks, our little secret is out. These photo's were taken at 17 weeks and I am currently 21 weeks. The baby is due at the end of April. So far the pregnancy has gone really well, minus the major nausea and food aversions in the first trimester.

We had such fun watching reactions as people caught on to our t-shirts. It was a great way to share the news.

We are super excited as this has been a long time coming for us. We can't wait to meet the baby in the spring. We don't know if it is a boy or a girl as the baby wouldn't reveal the goods in the last ultrasound. We're taking that as a sign to leave it as a surprise for the birth day.