Christmas 2012

This year for Christmas, I didn’t really get a whole lot documented in pictures. It seemed like school got done, and the business just took off from there.

Here I am with our lovely tree before it got cut down…

 

I hate to admit, but this tree never got any decorations on it other than the lights!

This year for our neighbor gifts, we made sugar cookies. They turned out so fun, but ended up being a lot more work than I thought. Luckily, my smart, handsome man took over the frosting part, and did such a wonderful job. Brett is so amazing, and I would never get anything done if it weren’t for him.

This year, I was able to join a choir, and for two of our concerts we were privileged to sing at Temple Square in the North Visitors Center, and the Assembly Hall. This was a fantastic experience, and I enjoyed being in a choir again.  I even was able to sing a solo at the Assembly Hall which was so scary, but I loved it!

This pictures is at the Visitors Center performance.

After Temple Square, we headed down to Beaver to spend Christmas with my parents and Melodie, her last Christmas before her mission. It was an enjoyable time, but Brett and my Dad were both sick with a flu bug. I guess one nice thing about this was that we didn’t indulge too much into holiday treats because they weren’t feeling up to it. Even though we didn’t have the healthiest Christmas, it was still just nice to hang out at home!

Remodel

This post has been in the making for quite some time now… I keep promising it, and am finally getting around to it! This summer we were able to remodel a trailer home that we can call home. We started the beginning of May and got finished sometime in June. We are still making updates and repairs, so it is still a working project, but it’s nice and we like to call it home.

I'm going to post the pictures as before, during, and after. I tried to set up pictures as before and after to compare them... but obviously I'm not smart enough!

BEFORE

Front Room

Extra Bedroom

Kitchen

Our Bedroom

Our Bathroom

Now these next pictures show just a little bit during construction.  We had to tear up probably 90% of the subfloor and redo it which was tough work.

DURING

AFTER

Front Room

Extra Bedroom

Kitchen

Our Bedroom (I don't have one of the finished finished product)

Our Bathroom (same with the bathroom)

This project took a lot of time and effort, and moving is always hard work.  Brett snapped this picture during the moving process.  All I can say is moving is tough work!

After about a week of being moved in (for the most part), I really wanted to decorate, so we got all of our decorations out.  This is how we were able to decide what to put where. ;)

In the decorating process, I really wanted to make a special corner for Hailey.  We were able to use the whole top portion of this book shelf and make a Hailey corner!  Love and miss you baby girl!