A completed bathroom!

The shower curtain has been hung in the bathroom with care and the hopes of taking a shower upstairs have happened! We are done with our big bathroom project and are enjoying it so much.

A few fun pictures

Mommy and her smiley little boy.
We got more snow and there was actually enough to play in this time.
Great Grandpa Gordon made this cool marble toy for Ethan and Micah.

Ethan's friend, Nathan, was over to play and all the boys enjoyed storytime.

Snow!

We got snow this past week so decided it was time to buy Ethan snowboots. Mommy got back from the store and Ethan wanted to put them on right away and go outside and try them out. We didn't have much snow but he didn't care. Ethan and Daddy had some fun outside and broke in the new boots.

Carlson family weekend

We spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Rochester with the Carlson clan. It was a very full weekend; Thanksgiving, Stan's birthday and Christmas. We had a very fun time being home with everyone and also meeting Deborah's boyfriend, Joe. We'll share a few pictures of our fun week.

Ethan helping Aunt Deborah play Uno with Joe.

Ethan and Grandma relaxing and watching the crew clean up from Thanksgiving dinner.

Mommy and her boys all bundled up to watch the cutting of the Christmas tree.


Dave cutting the Christmas tree.

Ethan helping Grandpa open his birthday presents.

Micah taking a break from opening presents to hang out in his stocking. Grandma makes BIG stockings.

Ethan enjoyed opening presents a lot this year

More bathroom

We are nearing completion! Dave got the grout on last weekend. We have the big wall left to cheesecloth off, hopefully tonight, and then we'll seal the grout. Dave is hoping to get the faucet installed and the caulk done over the weekend. We may actually get to take a shower upstairs on Monday - YEA! And when all the dirty work is done and cleaned up I can hang the new shower curtain to see if I'm going to like it or not. Very cool!

Bathroom tile

Dave finished the bathroom tile today!! It looks great! We'll hopefully get the grouting done next weekend. It is great to see this project nearing the end. Now we can start other home projects. They seem to never end but it is fun.

Sitting up

Micah is learning to sit up on his own. He really likes it and is doing great at holding his balance without falling over although he does fall some. We have also started giving him some milk in a sippy cup and he is learning that good as well. He is growing up so fast!