Oh, and cabinets too!

Our cabinets came today. They unpacked them, but haven't set them yet. I was giddy with anticipation, so I already started taking pictures. Here is our bathroom.

And Kaylee's bathroom.

Our kitchen island, with a hole for where the dishwasher will be.

One side of the kitchen, with an opening for the stove.
The other side of the kitchen, with the above cabinets where the fridge will be.

And my laundry room.

No matter what you say, I love my cabinets. Even more when they finish them. Sigh.

Merry to Christmas to all, and to all good luck cleaning up Christmas. . .

Here is the pile 'o snow that we had in our driveway. This is after it has melted for the past few days.


Here are the small glass tile that Clayton laid in our shower.

Here are the tile on our bathroom floor.

The tile that Clayton's brother, Bill laid in Kaylee's shower.

The entry from the garage and the kitchen in its tiled and grouted perfection.


Our Merry Christmas tree and our family room with a new fan and working lights.

Our entry and front door with the cool pattern that Clayton made up.


The dining room and light fixture.

Kaylee with her cousins in front of the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.

Here is Kaylee opening up her gifts with Clayton's family.

Hope you enjoy.

Pass the Scrunchy-Face Smiles around

I will leave an addendum to the previous post. Clayton is a great first-time builder, but we had high expectations of him tiling our entire house in his spare time in just a few weeks. So, we are on a more realistic time schedule and will hopefully be done the 2nd week of January. I decided to post some pictures of Kaylee. We were at Lonestar Steakhouse for the Full/Ton Masonry Christmas party. And this is her new thing the past few weeks. When she really smiles, it is a scrunchy-face smile, as we call it. So, here are some scrunchy faces smiles for you.

P.S. And a picture of Kaylee eating steak. She is actually starting to get an appetite.

We get a step closer each day, but not close enough. It looks like Clayton isn't a good enough builder because he won't have it done for his family by Christmas, but we will be in soon enough.

A Christmas Miracle

On Friday we went to Scoffield to cut down Christmas trees with Clayton's family. It was a lot of fun, we just wished there would have been more snow. The one on top of my truck was about 22 feet long, that was for Clayton's dad.

Be Thankful

So, on Sunday, my primary class was in charge of sharing time. We are in Junior Primary (tons of cute little kids) and we talked about things we are thankful for. All the 8-year olds in my class got up and gave a short couple-minute talk on the things they were grateful for and why (we put a big emphasis on why to eliminate the long list). I was very impressed by them. It made me think about how blessed I am. I am one of those people that looks at what is right in front of me, that little speck of something, and doesn't look around to see everything else.

So, I am writing them down cause it feels better to let it out.

1. I am grateful for my beautiful daughter. She just loves me, no matter what. She giggles at me, always wants me near her, and really NEEDS me. There aren't too many people or things in life like that.

2. I am so thankful for my husband. I can be a bum sometimes, but he is always there to love me enough to let me know so I can be better. He really believes in me. And right now, he loves me enough to stay over at our house until all hours of the night and all Friday and Saturday so that he can give my my dream of getting in by Christmas.

3. I am grateful for in-laws who let us live in their basement and eat some of their food. And give free labor for the house. And take care of Kaylee so I can help out with the house.

4. I'm grateful for all my friends and family and how you love and support us. I think about how much you all do for us. THANKS!

There was my thank-a-mony. But I just felt so blessed to be around and acquainted with so many wonderful people.