Someone will be crawling soon....

It looks like it won't be long before Audrey's crawling. I looked over at her today to find her up on her hands and knees rocking back and forth. Time to start blocking off the house. She seems to be excited that she'll soon be getting where she wants on her own.

Watch these and enjoy!

Winter Wonderland - Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.



Amazing Grace Techno - Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.


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A new hat!

Here's a before Christmas preview of one of the projects I've been working on. We are getting closer to the time when I can share with you all that I have done that you have yet to see, I wouldn't want to spoil any Christmas surprises!

I made a cute little hat for a friends' little girl, that was white with a blue snowflake. I had made an extra snowflake in white and my friend suggested making Audrey a matching hat. I thought that was a great idea, so I did! Hopefully I'll be able to get the two girls together one of these days and take a picture with both of them and their hats.

Some Holiday fun...

As soon as we were done with Thanksgiving...and let the food settle, it was time to get out the Christmas tree! We got a new pre-lit one after Christmas this year and were very excited to get it out.
Here's a picture of Nathan "helping" Chris with the tree :)Nathan decided that he needed to wear our Christmas stockings. They ARE sock! (And yes he is just wearing his diaper, he's at the age that he'd rather run around without his pants on then with, he was also yelling "Argh" at us in his best pirate voice when I took the picture. ).Audrey just loves the Christmas tree and all the lights. She's always rolling underneath it to take a peek from below. The finished product! For some reason the star on top has fallen, gonna have to fix that.

Busy, busy, busy...

We have been SUPER busy the last couple of weeks. I decided that I had to have the living room painted before Thanksgiving so that afterwards I could put up my Christmas decorations in a fresh new living room. We had purchased the paint a couple months before we had Audrey, but never got it done. Well we did it! Yay! After almost 2 1/2 years it's been painted.

We then started the process of doing a re-fi on the house and decided the other rooms needing some freshing too. So last Tuesday we started to paint and fix up some things in the main bathroom, kitchen, the master bedroom and the master bath. (The kids rooms have already been done). Oh, and we did finish our entryway above the door. It had been in the process of being completed since we got new siding a year and a half ago. Well we got that we wanted to get completed done...almost. Still need to do a little bit of touch up painting in the kitchen, and some trim work, but it'll hopefully be done before this week is over!

Here are some before pictures (I didn't get as many as I'd planned)....
And the after...
We are so happy with the results! We feel like we are living in a whole new house! It's so nice!! There are somethings that we aren't able to get done right now, so we are still a work in progress, but it's been such an improvement! Now I get to decorate!