Dress Fitting

Well, this was just a rush fitting job to size up the crinoline situation (which seems fine). We have Kenna's flower girl dress for Lauryn's wedding, and it will probably need some alterations...but maybe not. It's a size 2 and she is mostly all in 24 months already, so hopefully it will be exactly the right size come March. It's very pretty though, and she looks so cute in it. The flowers at the waist are removable, and I am thinking of adding a few pale brown ones (very pale and shimmery...basically a darker ivory) to it and see how that looks, just to give it some dimension, and tie in the wedding colours. Can always take them off if it doesn't look good. She even has little heels on her shoes, which she seems to have no trouble tromping around in, even though they are about a 1/2 size too big.

Blast from the past

Wow, this pic was taken in Chicago in the winter of 1998/99. Crazy eh! I still had bangs back then...pictured with two of my friends, Julie and Audra.

And can you spot Brian...he looks so different with the short hair...not to mention younger (and thinner, if that were possible). Not sure when this one was taken, likely in 1999 sometime.

Merry Christmas!

Well I don't have tons of pics from yesterday, because we were taking video. I will have to get some clips on here soon, I did take these at 'lunch'...we got up and opened gifts, then had a big brunch with Lauren & Crystal...and I wasn't hungry 'til the evening, but the kids needed an afternoon snack. Kenna got some big girl pony tail holders and so we put her hair back quickly. The front part is still not quite long enough to reach to the back, but it really made her look a lot older even still. Fun side note - we were done opening all our gifts and about to start breakfast when there was a knock at the door. The postman!! With a package from Alberta...it arrived literally in the knick of time. I was astonished "you deliver on Christmas?!" I said. He said yes, this is the second year they have done this. Wow. So we got to open more presents!

Big girl hair do. She is eating from her stocking stuffer...Christmas dishes! (well these are Brooks', hers are green)

Brooks stuffing his face with Cheerios!

Chillin' with Mom

Brian is working today, and Kenna is napping...so Brooks and I are hanging out. I am watching one of my fave shows, Jon & Kate Plus Eight, and feeding him his carrots and blueberries (yucky combo, I know:-) Anyway, I stood him up on is little walker/car thingy, and he loved it. Standing is his new thing, but he can't always get up, but if you help him, he's a pro. Me thinks we might have another early walker!

And then there was LIGHT!

It has literally been around a year since we have had light in the den. We tore out the old fixture to replace it, and discovered nothing in that room was grounded...etc, etc, etc, you know how everything goes wrong. And when your husband works on building other peoples houses, sometimes your own gets put on the bottom of the list. Well as of tonight, we have 4 very bright pot lights all working! As well as 10 almost working ones in the livingroom! Hallelujah. It was a really big project, but I'm so glad it's almost done!

There is no more door connecting the den to the kitchen! This room was plagued with problems...main entry door from livingroom, door to kitchen, door to closet, door to outside and a built in bookshelf! By eliminating 1 door and the bookshelf, we have made the room much more practical, and now it could be considered a real bedroom, as it does not attach to the kitchen...but it still goes outside:-)

Our house was built in 1954 I think, and there has obviously been some settling...as you notice the ceiling is a bit bowed!

All the faces

Kenna woke up from her nap and was cuddling me on the couch. I haven't taken a picture of her in a week at least, so I thought I would try to capture a few cute faces. I was asking her to smile, and show me her teeth...basically that's what I got, a good tooth shot...

...then I said, no! smile big!...she's a real ham!

Do Not Send Cash

I just thought it was pretty funny that my destroyed mail arrived today in a bag...we care. We care that we ruined your Christmas card, oops, sorry. You didn't want to see them anyway, right? I guess that's why they say don't send cash!