tour of our house!!

So here it is at last! We finally finished painting the family room today, it used to be white and really scuffed and scribbled on all over. Keep in mind that we are going to paint the kitchen and probably above the chair rail in the living room. So we haven't hung much in those areas, or in the rest of the house for that matter! Oh and I forgot to showcase our barstools which we love. And the pantry. And the garage. Well, enjoy!

keeping a promise

Well, I'm finally doing it. Starting a blog! Thanks to everyone who set the example and urged me (Kristi) to do it, here we are. My first exciting post is going to be a video of our house for everyone to see, but I want to wait and see if I can talk Eric into buying paint this weekend so we can paint a couple of rooms first.

So for this post I'll just describe something Katelyn said to me yesterday. I was eating breakfast and she was doing something, and she came up to me and said "ah-moh?" meaning "almost", and I said "yes, I'm almost done" and she nodded and walked away satisfied. I think that qualifies as our first real conversation! I have no idea why she decided a few days ago to learn how to say "almost", but she usually just copies things we say when we say them, not out of the blue. So to have her come up to me and ask me a question, wow! that was cool. And such is the life of a mother, excited about small things :)

The new words she tried to say today were open and closed. She doesn't have them down yet, but she's pretty good with "op-ah".

Well, Katelyn's waking up soon probably, so I'd better finish while I can.

Oh, and the picture is Katelyn "helping" me make dinner aka eating all the broccoli- like I was going to stop her from eating a vegetable to her heart's content!