Grandma

Grandma stayed a few extra days after Thanksgiving while everyone else had to get home.  It was so nice having her stay and visit with us.  Mason and Lily especially loved it because she would read books, color and play with them galore!

I am so grateful I have such and awesome mother in law :)  Thanks for hanging out with us Denise, and for all the much needed help around the house! 

Oh Christmas Tree :)

I like to put up the Christmas tree the day or the weekend after Thanksgiving!  A happily we got a new tree this year (bought on clearance last year) because our other fake tree was TOO big for our little house.  This one was perfect and so much easier to put together.  Mason and Lily loved seeing all the lights and then decorating it the next day!  Mason was being so silly and kept asking me to take pictures of him by the tree.

Phone

"I play game on your phone, K mom"

Her favorites are the matching games and talking Carl.  It is amazing to me how well she navigates the phone for only being 2 years old geesh!  Now Apple needs to come up with a harder way for apps to be deleted because she also does that a lot accidentally :)

Kitchen Remodel Part 2

After Kristi left from her first little visit the beginning of October (kitchen remodel part 1), Danny and I kept working on the kitchen so we could get some of it put back together.  We finished priming all the cupboards and got them all painted white, put the doors put back on with new hinges and painted the rest of the walls (sea salt on top, white on the bottom).  All in preparation for the free labor to arrive over Thanksgiving :). Jon, Kent and Danny did a great job of putting in a new floor, yay, and building an awesome pantry so I could get some of the stuff off the top of the cupboards and off the counters.  Here are some pictures of their labors :)

White trim, and white cupboards (bad lighting) the wall is primed but the final color is the pretty sea salt (a light bluish, grey, green)

Here you can see the color on the walls and the old microwave cabinet, soon to be replaced by the pantry.  Also the boxes of the new floor on top of the old floor.

New floor left, old floor right.

The boys building the pantry, luckily for them it was a beautiful weekend in NY!

Oh Jon, he is so funny and super patient.  I had to plug my ears every time Danny and his dad started getting technical about the pantry, and Jon patiently hung around them almost the whole time :)

Mason liked playing in the saw dust, until he realized it stuck to his gloves :)

Mason and Lily liked to help and watch the men work!

Yay getting closer :)  eeeep!

Stay tuned for part 3 and the finished product!!!