January 31, 2011

This isn't really a 'picture', but I thought it was fitting for this week.

January 30, 2011

The house with siding 90% complete...looking like a whole new house!!!

January 29, 2011

I think it is funny how hard I try to improve my photography skills, but then a picture like this - totally spur of the moment, totally goofy, totally poor quality can bring such a huge smile to my face. Sorry ladies, but this is the only picture from today even if I didn't take it...lol.

Love you B's!!!

January 28, 2011

OK, can I just say that this made my day today...

After dinner, I was getting grumpy with Katie because it is that time of the day when I am completely exhausted and all I want to do is sit on the couch and relax, but I have a child that still demands my attention for another few hours. Well, just as I feel I am reaching my breaking point, she shows me this on her white board and I just melt. With tears in my eyes, I thank her for making my day. My kid did this all on her own....God, I am SO proud and SO blessed!!!

January 27, 2011

Today, we woke up to another winter wonderland.  This is Mike's car buried in snow...Grafton got 13 inches from this storm and there is now over 2 feet of snow on the ground, with snow piles over 6 feet high....this is getting a little NUTS!!!

When I picked Katie up from school, we grabbed some icicles off of the side of the school.  She insisted that we take them home. So, we put them in a cup and took them where she put them in our freezer :-)

January 26, 2011

Currently, this is how we are storing Katie's clothes...

We have decided to get Katie a new bureau for her new room, but while we are waiting for that room to be finished, her clothes sit in these boxes in the sunroom. Poor kid.

January 25, 2011

This is the scooter that Katie got for Christmas...it is driving Mike & I NUTS!!! Why? You ask? Because Katie is CONSTANTLY leaving it in the way. With all the STUFF, we currently have piled in the sunroom and living room, we only have a very narrow walkway through the house and this scooter is ALWAYS in the that walkway...it is extremely frustrating, and a little cute too :-)

January 24, 2011

Today, we went outside to perform a science experiment....

Question: What would happen to bubbles in below freezing temperatures?

Katie's Hypothesis: The bubbles would freeze in the air and fall to the ground.

My hypothesis: The bubbles wouldn't freeze at all.

Well, we were both wrong. If we caught a bubble, protected it from the wind and stayed really still...the bubble would freeze without popping. Katie was the only one who held a bubble long enough to see the whole thing freeze completely. It was really pretty cool, but BRRR!!!!!! The high temp today was about 10 degrees.

January 23, 2011

Dirty Laundry...

Poor Scrappy - he's always getting harassed and he takes it like a good sport...lol.

January 22, 2011

Katie & I were given tickets to go see Mamma Mia this afternoon. I was apprehensive because I have seen the movie and I wasn't very impressed, but it works much better as a play than it did as a movie. Katie absolutely LOVED the show. She is now completely obsessed with ABBA and wants to see the movie...lol. What's funny is that I can remember dancing around my living room at her age to ABBA songs...but I think they were "new songs" back then...lol.

January 21, 2011

Katie & Scrappy all cozy in Katie's temporary bed :-)

January 20, 2011

I absolutely LOVE that Katie is such a book worm.  This is the scene at bedtime every night and it has been going on for about 6 months now. Although we have always read to her at bedtime, more recently she is "reading" herself to sleep with a few books.  But, even more amazing to me is that she is actually starting to recognize certain words and she is actually starting to read!!!

Some words she is starting to recognize:
Kaitlyn
Katie
I Love You
Mom
Dad
Meme
Papa
Pop
Grammie
Kay
Steve
Kerrie
Sophie
Charlie
Cat
Dog
Ball
Hat

January 19, 2011

Katie really isn't a napper anymore, but every once in a while (if we are in the car for a long drive) she will fall asleep. Even though now that she is in a booster seat, it doesn't look like she can get very comfortable back there...her head is always bobbing all over the place...lol.

January 18, 2011

You never fully realize how important things like heat and walls are until you don't have them in the middle of winter!!  Right now, our front room is completely torn apart and the heat is shut down. But, since there is still water in the pipes, we are trying to run this space heater enough so that the pipes don't freeze up. This is SO frustrating!!! I cannot wait until this addition project is DONE!!!

January 17, 2011

Katie went to sleep in our bed tonight because she no longer has a room of her own. So, she is falling asleep in our bed and then we are moving her to the couch when we go to bed...this should be fun for the next few months...she does look pretty darn cute sleeping in that big bed though :-)

January 16, 2011

Today's picture of the day is actually 2 pictures. Today, we spent the day packing up Katie's bedroom so that the demo on her room can start on Monday.

Mike was in her room taking apart her crib...

 While she was in the living room taking apart her dolly's crib...

It was so cute to see her copying her daddy. She told me that she "didn't want it to get ruined", so she was going to take it apart and pack it away...lol.

January 15, 2001

This is Katie's last night in this bed and in this room :-(

Monday, the demo starts in her room and she won't be moving back into this room. Her new bedroom will be in the addition and she will be getting a big girl bed when we put it back together...goodbye crib...goodbye nursery :-( It feels like we just put this room together for her and now we are tearing it apart!!!

January 14, 2011

Time to clean out the old and make room for the new...I hate the paperwork this time of the year...I will be spending a lot of time scanning, filing and shredding over the next few days...does anyone have a better system???

January 13, 2001

Babi & I are catching up on our reading...even she enjoys my scrapbooking magazines :-)

January 12, 2011

SNOW DAY!

This has been our biggest storm so far this year - we got about 18 inches of snow this round!!! YEAH! SO MUCH FUN!!!



January 11, 2011

This doesn't look good...

The fan on our computer has been running rather loud lately, so I shut the computer down before bed Sunday night. Monday morning when I went to boot it back up, I got a "system fan" error and it wouldn't start up.  Mike has been working very hard trying to fix it, but this really doesn't look good. I am SO, SO happy that I store all of my digital pictures and personal files on an external hard drive. Otherwise, I may be in a corner somewhere rocking back and forth in hopes of a full recovery...lol.

*** UPDATE: My computer is back to life...thank you honey :-) I was starting to have withdrawals!!!

January 10, 2011

Katie on ice skates for the first time!  She did great!!! She amazes me in a new way EVERY day!!!

January 9, 2011

The Potty Chart - Kaitlyn is almost 5 years old and she is STILL refusing to get on the potty when she has to go. There are no physical problems because she can hold it FOREVER, but then it is an emergency by the time she gets to the bathroom if she makes it at all. She is also still in pull-ups at night. We are using this chart as an incentive not only during the day, but also during the night. So far, so good...wish us luck!!!

January 08, 2011

Today was spent emptying out the front bedroom so that our contractor can demo the room on Monday. We were able to use the "attic" space above the addition for a lot of storage, but I absolutely refused to put my scrapbooking stuff anywhere but in the sunroom. I am completely petrified that something is going to happen to it during all this construction. I just hope the sunroom doesn't collapse from all the extra weight!

January 07, 2011

Ever since we have started using the sunroom on a regular basis, our dog, Scrappy, can never get comfortable. So, he usually just ends up back in the old living room, sleeping on the ottoman by himself. Mike bought him a little bed a month ago and now he is as happy as a clam. He loves the thing!!! lol

January 06, 2011

This morning, my workload was pretty light, so I went over to Katie's school to watch her gymnastics lesson.  This kid just impresses me to no end :-)

January 05, 2011

Mike got me the Keurig for Christmas and we are REALLY enjoying it!!! I LOVE MY NEW KEURIG!!!

January 04, 2011

Katie's bed full of pillows & buddies...I have NO IDEA how she fits in her bed with all this stuff, but she loves it this way...she says it's "nice & cozy"...lol.

January 03, 2011

Katie's Art - She is ALWAYS making something for someone and the stuff she wants to keep gets hung up all over the house...she also loves TAPE! UGH...it drives me crazy...lol.



January 02, 2011

Bowling!!!

January 01, 2011

The first picture of the year....

Photo a Day is BACK in 2011!!!

I have decided that taking at least 1 picture a day is a REALLY good way to document every day life...so, I am not making this a big deal like I did last time, it's just a picture a day...a snippet of our lives.


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