Many Faces

These pictures were just too cute to pass up!

Christmas Train

We were so blessed to have our Mom's come and visit us for Thanksgiving! Our first family members to visit us in Oklahoma! My Mom came the week before to help me with kid's night (we made the cutest little turkeys) and flew out on Friday to visit the granddaughters in Denver. Larry's mom flew in on Thanksgiving and will stay through the weekend. We wanted to share Christmas Train with them, our church's version of the Christmas story. It was amazing! It was an old western town redone with different stores and restaurants. We had to go 2 separate times to accommodate both Moms, but we didn't mind seeing it twice! We ate BBQ with both mom's because it was so good. We did some shopping and ended the night riding the train. It told the Christmas story in beautifully painted murals and some live scenes. It really was a good time! Very well done!

Seeing Stripes

This has been my favorite project so far! My Mom was visiting for Thanksgiving so I took advantage of her help! I have always wanted to do a stripe wall and this was my chance! YEAH!! We picked out a color and made sure we had it before Thanksgiving day so we could paint while Larry was fixing the meal. We started by painting the wall all one color with flat paint. The next day we taped off all of our stripes. This was much easier than I had expected. We used a plum line and chalked the line, then followed the line with blue painters tape. The hardest part was keeping track of which ones to paint the gloss color, thank goodness for pencil X's! We painted all the X'ed stripes with the gloss color and peeled the tape off and "TA DA" we had stripes and the look so cool! They are amazing! Thanks Mom! OH YEAH... Jaxson had to get in on the fun! He was checking out the wall and found the paint lid. He stepped on it! Thank goodness Larry was standing right there to scoop him up before we had a real problem! Such a little helper! We could have had puppy paws all over the house!

Sweet Girl!

This is our baby girl, Piper. She loves this blanket my Mom made for me. She was all snuggled up and so content. Don't you just love that face!

Snuggle Pups

They are all so snugly and sweet! This is where they end up after a morning of fun!

Construction Zone

We are constructing! So much has been happening! It's all coming together! While I was in Phoenix for my week of work, Larry and our friend, Jonathon tiled the kitchen and laundry room. It's beautiful! I challenged them to lay the tile diagonally. They weren't very happy with me, but they got over themselves as they realized it wasn't as hard. This was Larry's first time tiling, he put his perfectionism into action and it looks awesome! So, when I got home we had wood floors to lay before my Mom arrived on Sunday. That gave us 2 days to get it done. We started Friday night and worked hard all day Saturday. We got into a groove and worked really well as a team. Yeah for the Schmidt's! I wanted the power tools. So, while Larry laid one row, I would measure the last piece, make the cut and snap it in place. It was smooth sailing and so much fun! Larry was very good at the intricate cuts and tricky closets, I like to make the end cuts and bust out the rows! Finally at midnight we hopped in the shower and fell into bed! Everything was hurting, even my toes! I don't think we moved the entire night! The floors look beautiful and we are so excited to say we did it! We will finish the floors up with some base boards and move onto the next project! We have a house and it's our very own!!!

Picasa

Many of you have asked how I collage my pictures on here. Well here it is, it's so easy! Go to www.picasa.com and download the FREE version (I have Picasa 3, the newest version). Picasa will search your computer for any and every picture you have. It will then organize them by year. They are all in one place, YEAH!! You can make collages right there, it's that easy! There is also a "blog this" button that will take you right to your blog spot so you can make a new post! I love when people make life easier! Enjoy this fun feature!