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

As usual, nothing too exciting happening lately with us. I enjoyed putting up my Christmas decorations...which I maybe put up the Monday before Thanksgiving...but I was too excited to wait! This year I finally have my wood floor and our house looks so nice without the pink carpet and flowered kitchen walls!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I really enjoyed my two extra days off! This week is our birthdays, how in the world am I going to be 24 already?? Anyway, I love this time of year...Christmas decorations, Christmas music, yummy food...

Since it hasn't snowed yet here, I thought I'd post a webcam picture from my favorite place!

It's been a while....

...since I've posted on my blog. I can't believe it's almost November already! October was filled with gorgeous weather, but sadly I couldn't enjoy too much of it since I'm stuck inside most days.

This past Saturday I made applesauce with my mom. We made quite a bit more than usual, 52 pints! It rained on Saturday morning for the first time in quite a few weeks and the pine trees next to their house smelled wonderful! After we finished our applesauce, Mike and I went for a walk in their woods. It made me realize just how much I miss living there. Here's a few pics I took. I took them from my phone... *gasp*...I know, quite rare for me because the quality isn't great, but that's all I had with me.

Glacier National Park, Montana

Vacation!

Wow! I haven't updated the blog for a long time! Mike and I are leaving on vacation to Montana this Friday though, so I will be sure to post pictures when we get back. We are excited since it's been two years since we've been there and this time will be a little different since we are going later in the season. Here's a recent webcam image from the park's website; isn't it gorgeous!

Spring!

Mike and I have been keeping busy working in our yard the last couple weeks. Mike cut down three trees because two of them were not very healthy looking and the other one was hanging over our driveway. He made me quite nervous when he was up in the tree! He would stand on a branch and hold onto another branch with one hand. The chainsaw would be in the other hand as he cut the branches off. I'm very thankful he didn't hurt himself, although we still have at least one more to cut down.

We also had a lot of work to do with trimming bushes, cleaning out flowerbeds, ect. It's been fun seeing what comes up in our flowerbeds and what our bushes look like when they bloom since this is our first spring at our house. I'm also hoping to plant a few vegetables in one section of our flowerbed.

All this yard work unfortunately has put the inside of our house on the back burner. We still have another coat or two of paint to put on the kitchen. Also the hardwood and tile still have yet to be installed.

Marco Island, Florida

As I mentioned in my previous post, Mike and I went to Marco Island, Florida, with my parents, my sister, and her two girls. We drove, so we didn't actually get to spend too much time in Florida. We got to Orlando on Friday night and went to SeaWorld on Saturday. We all had a lot of fun at SeaWorld and it was a gorgeous day! Sunday morning we drove to Sarasota for church and then after church we drove the rest of the way to Marco. We spent our three days at Marco on the beach and swimming in the pool. Here are a few pics!

Vacation!

We are leaving for Florida today after I get off work! I'm pretty excited! Everyone keeps saying how cold it is there, but as long as it's above 55 degrees it will feel warm to us. We are going with my Dad, Mom, Michelle, Abbie, and Emily. Unfortunately it's going to be a lot of driving, but oh well.

We are very ready to leave our house for a week! Mike has been working long hours on it the last two weeks. Lloyd, Martha, and Dad have been helping a lot too. Every room on the main floor has been painted. It took a lot of prep time because of the paste and glue that the wallpaper left behind. I will post pictures when we get back in a week!

Quick Update

So here's a quick update of what's been going on with our house....

Today our new carpet is being installed in all three bedrooms! I'm so excited! We will finally be able to move into the largest bedroom and actually assemble our bed and dresser. When we moved in we put our bed in one of the smaller bedrooms because we knew we would be painting the master bedroom. We also didn't put our bed together (head and foot board) or put our mirror on our dresser because we would just have to take it apart to move it anyway. Anyway, it will be so nice to have everything put together! I'm also excited about the new carpet smell! :)

When Mike removed all the carpet the other night and we were quite surprised to find hardwood in two of the bedrooms. Obviously the carpet was already on it's way, so we couldn't cancel the order. Oh well, it wasn't really pretty hardwood anyway and it's very different from the hardwood we purchased for the other rooms, so it wouldn't have matched. It also would have taken a lot of work to fill all the holes and we would have probably had to stain it again.

That's it for now...hopefully in the next week or two Mike and my dad can start installing the hardwood floor...

Only 6 more months...

...until our vacation! I'm so excited because yesterday I booked our Montana vacation for the end of July!! It's going to be a loooong six months!

We weren't going to go on vacation this year, but the thought of not getting to spend our one week out of the year together sounded so sad! The picture below is from the webcam in the national park from a few minutes ago. Hopefully we'll be standing at this very place when we go on our vacation. Although it depends on if I can make it the 4 strenuous miles... ;)

Snow!