Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

What a Christmas this was! We stayed busy the whole time.

I had to work part of the day on Thursday, but I made the most of my time. I got all the laundry done and made the house "Christmas clean". Matt worked on house projects most of Thursday. I went to Aunt Rosie's in the evening for dinner and some laughs. We had a good crowd. Came home around nine, Matt and I snuggled in for the night and watched a movie. Friday morning we got up waaaay too early. We hurried in our pjs and went to the in-laws for Christmas morning and Christmas breakfast. We made monkey bread and an egg casserole. Then we got to dive into our presents! I was so excited when I opened my gift...drum roll...A new kitchenaid stand mixer! Hooray! I am so thrilled to make and bake new things. Matt's grandparents got me a cover for it and a pasta attachment. My brain has been turning as to what my first project will be. We came home around noon time, to get cleaned up and loaf around the house. We went back to the in-laws for dinner and games. Great dinner and a nice game of hide-and-go-seek in the dark. I always win. I have the best hiding spots.

Went home late.
Finally, we got to sleep in on Saturday. We did some running around, the stores we went to were empty. Everyone must have still been sleeping :) Then we got started on the real work. Matt replaced our red brick fireplace with real stones. It looks amazing. I attempted to paint some doors and some trim. That got old real fast. I ended up helping Matt with what I could. We were so excited when it was done, we decided to hang the TV so we could watch a movie. Finally at 12:30am we started watching our movie. We put our camp chairs in the living room and relaxed. Sunday we went to Jenny and Seth's house for another Christmas lunch. Mom and Craig were there to celebrate the day! Kole loved all of his presents and we had a great time! We came home and walked the dog, then invited Tony and Sarah and Dave and Linnae over for a movie. So we got out MORE camp chairs and Tony did have to sit on the floor, but we had a good time. Finally, Christmas is over. Enjoy the pictures!

Fun at Aunt Rosie's

My precious new mixer

The fireplace, cement covering the red brick

The fireplace and TV...Not quite finished yet

Jenny, Craig, and Mom opening gifts

Let Us Feast!

Happy Thanksgiving! What a good day.

We ate like kings.

I made a homemade dinner for the two of us.

I made salad, rolls, brown rice, green bean casserole, bleu cheese crusted rib-eye steaks, drunken crab legs and homemade pumpkin pie for the dessert!

Here I am with the pie!

We went last night to see Fantastic Mr. Fox. Super cute movie. We thought it would be fun to look at all the people waiting in line for sales. We drove around until 1 am! It was great!

We had a ton of fun and and a great Thanksgiving!

We got some good Black Friday deals today.

Well, here it goes. An attempt at a blog.

Here it goes!

So, where do I start? Hmmm.

I want to update everyone on pictures and whatever else is going on with us!

Matt and I like to go fishing, camping, and house remodeling.

We have a dog and two cats. We are attempting to make the family a little larger, if there's a will, there's a way. :)

We are in the process of a major remodel on the main level to the house. It has been a huge undertaking so far. We have demolished our bathroom, painted the bedroom and living room. We are looking forward to CARPET this winter. Planning for a new fireplace and furniture.

Matt works second shift for Gentex, we only have time together on the weekends, which mainly is us remodeling the house. We are planning to lay low for Thanksgiving this year. I am making a dinner for us. Matt wants steak and crab legs, since it's just us, we can do what we want! We want to be selfish this year. We hardly get time together, so we want to make the holidays special with each other.

Our progress for our new main level is slow, but we are getting through!

Here are some pictures.

This is the living room. We painted it yellow when we moved in, now we are covering up the yellow with the color on the top left.

This is the main bedroom, painted. The color in here was awful. It was a pinkish, maroon, horrible reddish color. Ugh. Much better.

This is the extra bedroom. We painted this green a few years ago. It's a nice soothing color, so we are leaving it the same. We will put different carpet down.

Our fireplace, in progress. There was a terrible red tile down in front of the fireplace and an awful brass enclosure. GONE

Our bathroom in the process of getting a sub-floor. I guess in the 1950's no one heard of sub-floors and insulation on outer walls. What a job this has turned into.

When Matt brought the sink outside for trash, he thought it would be funny to be "those" people who have various items in their front yards. The sink is actually stuck in the grass, it also left a big hole in the ground where the pipe was. :)

PS that is the house next door for sale, not ours.

We have a lot more of work to do. There will be more posts to follow relating to our wonderful remodel!