Basement Progress

Just a peak of what the basement looks like with carpet. More pictures to come..

Snowman

Not as much snow as we had hoped for this Christmas, but fun none the less.

Merry Christmas 2009

Wishing you and your family a very merry CHRISTmas!! We are blessed to have Dan's parents here with us to celebrate and enjoy the piles of snow here. May we all take time out of the busy holiday schedule to remember the real reason we celebrate!!!

Merry Christmas

Elf spotting

Check out the elves on the bottom of the web page!

Hope this helps put you in the Christmas mood!!

Merry Christmas

Mexico

As much as Dan and I enjoy the MN weather... we decided it was time to get away. We had 7 wonderful days in Mexico soaking up the sun!! Here are a few pictures. There will be more to come. We just wanted to rub it in a little before I had more time to post.

Views from our room

Ocean Views

Main Pool

3rd Annual Christmas Tree Hunt

One of our favorite things to do together...

go and find and cut down our Christmas tree!!!

Now off to bed because WE have to work all weekend.

The vacation was nice while it lasted!!

Basement update

Lots was done while we were gone....

Going down stairs

Bedroom

Family Room

Office

Looking good.. lots to get done this coming week!!

P.S. Please pray for one of my Dad's guys ( "C" ). He is having some heart issues and would be great if we all lifted him up in prayer. Thanks!

Christmas Preview

Just a little Christmas. I LOVE this time of year and am so grateful for a husband who also does!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends!!

Dan really wanted some deer for our yard. So last year we bought them on super clearance!!! I think they make a nice addition to the yard!

Basement Progress

Have not updated much lately regarding our basements progress. Happy to report all the sheet rock and ceilings will be finished tomorrow afternoon. We picked out our paint colors for the wall. We already have the tile for bathroom and will order carpet tomorrow after work. These next two weeks will be busy. We are having the entire basement painted, bathroom finished, fireplace finishes done, along with all trim work. Then the following week carpet and plumbing final touches and then finally moving down there!! We are so excited for this to be all done and have it to enjoy. Will post more pictures as it progresses. We are excited to say it will be all finished by Christmas!! We could not have done it with out my Dad and his crew this includes my older brother! Thanks so much for all your help and hard work!!! At Christmas Carmen and Steve will be our first guests down there. They will be happy to be able to control the heat down there. We always seem to freeze them when they come to visit. :)

part of the office

some of the bathroom

glimpse into the bedroom

family room area

New fireplace

Kitchen Makeover

The past few weeks I have really been pushing Dan to work with me on the kitchen and put up a backsplash and new lighting under the cabinets. Our schedules have not allowed it until this weekend. So, why not on a beautiful weekend that we have off tackle the kitchen. This is what I love about my husband. He always goes along with my crazy projects as long as I "act" like I know what I am doing. Act is the key word. I have done some work with mosaics in the past. Thanks to my husband breaking a few wedding gifts. We now have a beautiful table to attribute to that. However, this time he didn't break anything. We picked out the tile and last night after being at church till 7:15pm came home ready to tackle this project. OK, I didn't' know it was going to take as long as it did or imagine a few snags we would encounter, but we trudged on. We were up till 1:30am just doing the first step. See picture below.

the tile was all on the wall ready for grout

Today we tacked the rest of the beast. Thankfully our neighbor who happens to be an electrician stopped by to say hello and helped us out with a few handy ideas to finish up. We got the grout on and wiped off before a bonfire with some neighbors tonight (we had to enjoy some of the beautiful weather). We just finished up cleaning and could not be happier with how it looks... it was a big project but two days later it was worth it! Whats next for tomorrow??

BEST GAME EVER!!!

Last night Dan and I were able to go to the Wild hockey game. It was amazing!!! First off, the seats were breath taking! We could see the sweat of the players, hear them talking to one another, and see everything up close and personal (sometimes a little too much).

The Wild's record (1-6) this year is nothing to brag about, in-fact it's embarrassing. However, the game last night was AMAZING!!!!! They are now 2-6 and beat Colorado who is now 6-1 thanks to the MN Wild. The game was full of excitement. We saw a full out fight (my personal favorite), hockey pucks flying, glass shattering and over time going to a shoot out with Wild getting a "W" at games end. It was the best game I have seen.

This is not on zoom... we were this close!

What's hockey without a fight?

Boogaard really let this guy have it!!

tooth knocked out!

with less than 5 seconds in the game.... they had to take a 5 minute time out to fix the glass!!

(picture credit: www.wild.nhl.com)

Shoot out!!

Victory!!

However, throughout the night I could not help but think of the special person I met who allowed me to be there. This family is close to my heart and forever in my prayers.