Christmas 2009

Decorating the tree at our house. Look at how much he is starting to look like a little boy and not as much like a toddler!! I can hardly believe it....Putting the star on top
Picture with Mommy (You can see all the white walls we still have to paint! Since this picture was taken we have painted the dining room, which you can see in the background, and gotten our china unpacked.)

We took Logan to a train exhibit benefiting the Ronald McDonald house that was at a mall here in Dallas. He LOVED it!

They had sections for many major cities including Dallas, Washington DC and NYC. The little people moved and all the trains passed each other. It was amazing!
SNOW!! This is the snow falling in our backyard on Christmas Eve.

Luckily, the roads didn't get too bad, so we headed to the Children's service at church and then to my parents for our Christmas Eve celebration. Here's a cute picture of Logan and my Dad.
Uncle Marty and Aunt Jill gave Logan this dump truck and he LOVES it! He's been loading up blocks and all sorts of stuff and "delivering" them all over the house.

Christmas Eve Night-back at home getting cookies and milk ready for Santa!

Christmas Morning! Santa brought Logan this t-ball set, Rocky Robot, a fire truck and a helicopter (or heptacopter as he says!)



This is the kitty timer that Logan gave me for Christmas. I had to get this funny picture of Sebastian with it! Ha! (Also, this is Sebastian's favorite place to sleep in our new house--on the stairs!)

Kitty hugs

Shane's parents came over for breakfast Christmas morning. It was so great to be able to spend some time with them. Logan loved showing them all of his new presents.
Snow ball fight Christmas morning!


me trying to get Shane while he was taking the picture
Are they going to throw that HUGE snowball at ME???
Sweet boy just had sooooooo much fun in the snow



Later Christmas day we headed back over to my parents house to have lunch and see our cousins. Here's Logan playing with my cousin Spencer and his little boy Brody who is only a few months older then Logan.
The boys playing


Posted in: on Monday, December 28, 2009 at at 8:12 AM 3 comments  

Gingerbread house

First Candycane of the season! Working on a gingerbread house
Helping put up Christmas Lights outside the new house



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A few house pictures

We've been working steadily on the house since we moved in two weeks ago. We managed to squeeze in a little Christmas decorating too! These are a few pictures of our family room. It's not "done" yet since we still have laminate floors ready to install and pictures to hang on the walls, but you sort of get the idea.

(A little note....yes....there are 4 stockings hanging on our mantle. When Shane and I bought these stockings it was Shane, me, Booker (our older lab) and Sebastian (our kitty.) Since then, our family has grown and changed but the stockings on the mantle have stayed the same. We use stockings that Shane's mother made us for Santa to fill on Christmas Eve night. Shane and I also have keepsake stockings that my Mom did for us using family heirlooms. The ones we hang up just look pretty. I tried to talk Shane into only hanging 3 this year but he said it didn't make sense with our N-O-E-L stocking hangers. Maybe next year we'll change them out to something more personal, who knows!?!)




Posted in: on Sunday, December 27, 2009 at at 8:05 PM 1 comments  

Recent Logan Pictures

Here are a few recent pictures so you can see what the little man has been up to lately! We joined a new playgroup here that we are really enjoying! Even though nothing will ever replace my AR mommies (HUGS! I miss you all SO much!) we're really enjoying meeting new people and getting out and about here.


This is Logan right before we left for the playgroup Christmas party. Isn't he handsome?!?

At the party doing a craft. He did eat about as much popcorn as he glued on
his star ornament, but hey-it turned out cute!
Playing with some new friends
Playing the drums in our new house


Posted in: on Thursday, December 17, 2009 at at 7:00 PM 1 comments  

We bought a house!!

We officially closed on our house last Thursday and WHEW! What a week it has been!! You probably remember me mentioning that the heat wasn't working and that it was a minor repair, right? Well, we started to get nervous the week of our closing because the temperatures were soooooooo cold and the house had no heat. We called the seller and asked them if we could fix the heat before our close date just as a precaution. They were so nice and offered to pay to have the heat fixed! (They were no longer living in the house and did not realize that it was broken.) Which was great because, as repairs usually go, it wound up costing three times as much as we were expecting. The Monday and Tuesday before our closing, poor Shane and Debra (our realtor) froze their butts off in the house waiting on the heater guy to get it fixed. They literally had the oven on to keep them warm! Wednesday, we waited for our HUD to be done so that I could get to the bank before 4pm to have the money wired over. I made it there at 3:55pm!! Nothing like cutting it close! We headed over to the new house to do our final walk through and everything looked good. Late that night, I got a call from our mortgage officer with great news--They were lowering our interest rate! Woo hoo! But, this meant re-doing all of the closing paperwork for our 9am closing. They got it all done just in time and we signed that morning. Here's Shane and I right after we got done signing:


After we got the keys (YEAH!) we brought the whole family to the house. I'm sure all the neighbors thought we were nuts with the three of us and 2 labradors running circles in the backyard. Here's the family going in for the first time with the keys:

Since then, it's just been a whirlwind. We hired painters to paint the main living room because it was 2 stories high. They then spilled a half a bucket of paint all over our brand new carpet....They spent 2 days trying to get the stain out with no success. Good news is that the paint looks great! The carpet, not so much. Saturday, was major repair day and our new appliances arrived! My brother taught be how to use a tile saw and we successfully tiled the laundry room. It turned out pretty darn good if I do say so myself! We had WONDERFUL friends and family that helped us move everything we own into the house on Sunday. What a HUGE blessing not to have to hire movers! Now, we're working on unpacking millions and millions of boxes and attempting to figure out where in the world we're going to put all of our stuff. This in addition to many smallish (and some mediumish) projects we have going on. Overall, the house is good. There is good space and all of our furniture fits. However, we're definitely breaking it in and learning that it has it's quirks! (Including our neighbors! Don't park on the opposite side of the street from our house or a tiny old lady will yell at you.)

Oh--and we're technologically in the dark! We have no TV or internet yet. Shane set up our flatscreen with a paperclip in the back, so we can watch a little TV and DVD's. It is soooo strange for me to be without the internet but I think this is good for me. I usually spend way too much time on the computer. I have learned that I miss nothing on FB from being gone for a week (no offense everyone! I love you but I'd much rather catch up in person or on the phone!)

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Thanksgiving

Gobble Gobble!! We had a great Thanksgiving weekend with the families. We spent Thanksgiving day at my parents house and had dinner on Friday with Shane's parents. We also went out to Shane's grandparents today to celebrate with them and the rest of his family.


Here's a few pics from Thanksgiving Day. I haven't gotten the rest of this weekend ones edited yet. But, soon!!

Logan with his Aunt Jill
Sweet boy.....
His new "camera face"
Me and my Mom

My brother and I carving the turkey that he fried. (It was YUMMY!!!) And, please don't laugh at my Mom's crazy apron that I'm wearing...


Logan and one of his favorite toys ever on my parents front porch.
I'll put another entry on soon with the pictures from today with Shane's family. I don't have the energy to edit out all the red eye right now!

Okay, let's see....what else?!? Well, we bought our appliances for our new house on black friday. We got great deals on them and they are going to be delivered after we close on the house which worked out great. We're ticking off the days until the house is officially ours, but also really enjoying this extra time with family. There is something special about waking up in your pajamas in the same house you grew up in that is especially comforting....My parents have been so great in letting us essentially take over their house.

We're trying to get settled in and find good places just to DO everything. Logan needs a haircut but I'm afraid to take him anywhere in fears that they'll give him a super short boy cut. Booker needs to go to the vet for shots, so we're going to try a new one that was recommended to us. I'm still searching out for the fabric store that will match up to the one in AR that I found only a month or two before I moved. Maybe I'll find something that will compare?? Just the typical things that come with moving and getting settled in a new(ish) city.

Okay, time to sleep!! More updates soon...



Posted in: on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at at 10:27 PM 2 comments  

House Pictures

I think we're moving right along on the house! We had the heater checked out today and it seems to need only minor repair. We're so excited! I can't believe that in just a few short weeks it will be ours.

I haven't taken a ton of pictures, but here are a few...

View from the street

Inside view from entryway looking towards the top of the stairs. The room to the right is a formal living room. However, we plan to put in french doors here so that it can be a playroom. The formal dining room is to the left and has a pass through to the kitchen.
Looking from upstairs into the family room and kitchen. There are three bedrooms upstairs and the master is to the right of the family room downstairs.

Posted in: on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at at 3:41 PM 3 comments  

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