I love Daddy..

Another page - sorry for those of you who are bored by these.. But it deserved a post all on it's own because the story is just so cute.. (and it's more fun to look at than just the text, right?)

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Just for fun...

... here are a few pages I've scrapped this month.. THREE!  Can you believe it?!  (I've also designed an alpha pack, template set, and created 1.5 fonts.. that's crazy-talk!)  You'll also note this is my THIRD post THIS MONTH!  Who am I, and what did I do with the other me??!

 

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Ethan's NEW Room!

This is basically the only room in the house that's "finished" .. even though there are still a few little things here and there to do.. But we're SUPER excited with how it turned out..

BEFORE:

 no window coverings

 boring white walls (oh, and see that beautiful cantaloupe colored door - that's what the ENTIRE rest of the house was painted)

DURING:

 He really liked painting at first, but after 2 consecutive weekends, it was the LAST thing he wanted to do.. {Thanks to my parents for keeping him after Thanksgiving so we could come finish up a bit.}

AFTER:

Big boy bed with NEW bedding, lamp that will need to be traded out once baby comes so it can be in the nursery, re-painted nightstand from Heber, desk that used to be in the office (no office in the new house), hanging wire for art - he LOVES this!  I'm also planning on getting some of his art framed to put above the bed to help break up that huge red wall.

Special Ethan-sized hooks to hang his things on - so far it's been very effective at keeping his coat off my living room floor.

 Pillow I made for his birthday last year, rocking chair from when I was wee, spice racks from IKEA made into bookshelves (thank you Pinterest), old wire racks from my dorm days for toy storage.

 More of the same wire racks - we need to come up with a better storage solution, but this was free so we're working with it.. It also wasn't until all his toys were unpacked on the shelves that he decided he liked this house, so that's always a good thing.. :)  Also a new roller shade to help with light control.. I have a sheet set I plan on making into curtains, just haven't made it that far, yet.  We're also going to do white chalkboard paint on the closet doors so he can have even MORE space to be artistic.

Like I said, we're super thrilled with it.. You walk into the room and you're instantly happy.. Alec and I frequently have the discussion that when we were kids our rooms weren't this fun - not because our parents didn't let us or want them to be - that's just not what you did back then.. Bedrooms were for sleeping in, and if you were really lucky, you got an "awesome" quilt with matching wallpaper border or something... And I think we got a lot of bang for our buck, too - including the paint we used, by re-purposing a lot of things we already had, the total came in at just under $150 for the whole thing... Yay new house!  :)

2012 Week ONE

As with everyone else we know, the last few months have been a bit busy for us.. to quickly recap before I get to the meat of the post.. 

• Nov. 15 - closed on house
• Nov. 16 - had to put Sasha down because she had lukemia  :(
• Nov. 24-25 - spent Thanksgiving in Heber
• Nov. 26 - Dec 3 - finally got to spend some time painting the house... Ethan managed to be sick every weekend since we closed, so that slowed things down more than we had hoped.  Alec also put in 110+ hours at work for the two weeks previous (yes, that's including Thanksgiving week where he didn't work Wed-Sat.)
• Dec. 10 - moved "into" new house - still had lots of things at the apartment, but the basics were here
• Dec. 11-16 - another super busy week at work, also spent every extra moment clearing out and cleaning the apartment - new house was still a box-filled disaster area. {Sometimes I feel like a huge slacker when I think that it took a month for us to move, but then I remember how busy work was - remember those 110+ hours for Alec? - and that we really only have the time after 6:00 at night when I get home, then Ethan goes to bed 2 hours later.. Doesn't leave a lot of time for running between houses painting, cleaning, prepping, etc.. Then again, maybe that's just me justifying to make myself feel better...}
• Dec. 17-23 - Christmas in Heber - maybe I'll post pics later
• Dec. 24 - 30 - Christmas in Phoenix - again with the pictures
• Dec. 31 - I was sicker than a dog from the travel, but we insisted on getting back home - we were all vacationed out... I think I was in bed by 8:00.. Happy new year, all!  ;)

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Now - without even realizing I was doing it, I've somehow managed to take a picture every day this year except Jan. 1 because I was still sick.. I'm not going to pretend to do Project 365 or 52 or Project Life or anything like that, but I figure since I have them I might as well post them.. :)

January 2 - got our amazing pantry mostly organized.. There's still a lot of labeling and sorting I'd like to do, but we're totally in love with the rotating food storage shelves (big thanks to my mom for dumping her extra food storage on us..)

January 3 - Ethan went back to day care and Alec and I had one more day before going back to work so we got a lot done around the house, including putting shelves in the shed so we could get the Christmas and camping stuff out of our living room.  It was also warm enough that we were working outside comfortably in short sleeves... in Logan... in January... weird!  {We also did a lot in Ethan's room, but that will be a post all on its own..}

January 4 - Omelets for dinner.. Even though he's had them before, Ethan realized in Phoenix that he really does like them!  (Don't mind the painter's tape falling all over the place in the background.. We're still a work in progress..)

January 5 - more work on the pantry - why show the same pic twice?

January 6 - Working on Ethan's All About Me poster for day care.. We're not sure when his special day is, but they did the first one with another girl that day and he was very excited to make one just like hers.

January 7 - spent a lot of time playing games with the bug.. Alec also worked on some plumbing in the laundry room with the help of one of our friends.  Oh, and it finally snowed - yay!  :)

 

And there you have it.. Since I'm here, I'm also going to schedule a few other posts for later in the week - why bombard you all at once, right?  And for those of you who have been asking, I promise there are pics of the house to come.. We're still working on getting it all situated.. ;)