Milestones - marking 1 year

Cozied up on my dear friend Christy's couch this morning, watching some lovely big flakes floating down out the window, hoping for the possibility of 12 inches, just maybe.  :)  We set aside some time to do some goal setting, writing, planning, creating.  Happily having enjoyed a cup of cider and doughnuts together - which itself was a little adventure in finding, since the local downtown bakeries were closed up for the day.  I suppose they can have a day off too, since I am pretty thankful for a Monday without work! But it did make things a little trickier to get those much anticipated fresh, fluffy, glazed, rounds of goodness.  Have no fear, the local grocery store bakery pulled through for us, haha!

Looking back at pictures, reminiscing all the fun times and events we've been blessed to host in our new home.  Yesterday marked one year.  Our houseaversary.  Katelyn and I are so grateful for this new adventure in life together!  We've learned and grown a lot in becoming homeowners and being out on our own, handling the scariest of intruders - some adorable little raccoon cubs wrestling on the back porch, haha :)  We'll never forget that night.

Anyway, I was hoping to share some more of those fun times here, collecting these memories on this little space to look back at.  But, I've gotten a little overwhelmed by the sheer volume of pictures I sometimes tend to take ;) so... this simple post will suffice for now.  The memories and pictures remain, they aren't going anywhere.  As for me, I've got more places to go and do and be... so goodbye for now :)

~Eliza

Little Joys of Christmastime

 

When there's fog and ice

and the radio stations and phone calls are saying to stay off the roads...
When plans were made to travel for family Christmas,
but now are delayed...
What do we do?

 

- sing Christmas songs -

- play board games -

- eat Christmas cookies -

- test out the roads and pick up egg nog shakes -
- stoke the fire in the basement -
- watch a Christmas movie -

and wait in anticipation for our Christmas celebration tomorrow! :)




(here's our little board game family... guess who won?  It's no surprise to us - he's undefeatable hint hint)


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Yesterday, our neighbor, Vanessa, came over for cookie and bread baking.
 
Listening to Bing Crosby Christmas music while singing along and dancing in the kitchen definitely stirs up that Christmasy feeling!



 

 

 

 

 

~Eliza

After over 20 years...

...of white walls and the same old grey carpet, it was time for something new!

So, this spring we went to work on it. Here are some pictures of the process (especially for you, Aunt Sharon!).

-Before-

-During-

-After-

Intermission for Current Events

With lots of homework, painting the walls, ripping out carpet, living on beds in the middle of bare bedrooms and out of a closet in the living room (but that's for a later post), and other not-so-ordinary everyday happenings...we've been trying to keep up with the usual spring pace of life!

In the midst of all of this indoor activity, wondrously warm weather and little bits of spring are showing up!

This brave little flower has peeked out through the stones in our flower garden.

How beautiful!

~Eliza

Warm and Toasty...

...on a cold December night

~Eliza

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Bathroom Makeover

During our Christmas break, I decided to repaint our garage bathroom. Mom had painted it back when sponge painting was the "in" style. It was very pretty for a while, but we wanted a change from the Easter colors. I tried the green color from our front entry, but it was incredibly bright in such a little room! So Mom and I painted a cream color over it. I turned out to be like a light gold. Not bad for using leftover paints!

Before

After ~Katelyn