December 3

Merry Christmas 2011

December 1

The cabin is finally ours. It recorded yesterday. Here are some fun pictures I thought I'd share.
Mike is going up their tomorrow to start the roof. He ordered everything for it today and it will be delivered in the morning. He also has the phone and electric guys scheduled to be there sometime tomorrow too. The garage you see to the left, well, it will either be converted to a playroom and attached to the house or a complete separate cabin. We can't decide. It's a lot of space 20x28, about 560 s.f. of unused space.

This is the tarp that he put on a couple weeks ago when a storm came through. When we were still in escrow.
We haven't decided on window styles yet, but we had to make a decision on the exterior color( Mike picked green) when we ordered the roofing shingles. I think it will look great in all the pine trees.

This is the back. We(um..Mike) have lots of work to do. How fun!!

The best part.........the whole back of the property.........Isn't this the best?

This is a nice cleared, flat area.

I am about 3/4 of the way down to the property line. I turned around and was looking up to the cabin. It's there, really. :)

Exploring time.

We cannot wait until the snow comes.

Why is this the only picture I took of the inside??? I have no idea. But it really doesn't matter. It's changing. Don't worry there will be lots of before and after photos.

And the best photo of all. The best guy ever. Thank you Mikey for making it all happen. And for ALL the work I know your going to do. (He still can't believe the "Hey honey, let's buy a cabin today" statement. He still laughs about that.

November 28

Cabin Update:
We sign escrow papers at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
We are so excited. We are going to take a drive up there after. The kids want to go again.
Now the work will begin. Mike is putting a new roof on and then remodeling the bathroom.
Thank goodness the cabin is small. It should be easy. I said, "Should Be". :)

November 27 Part 2

So guess what Mike's been doing? Shopping. He's feeling quite the jolly spirit.

I do love the yard though...

And Kylene decorated the top of the school shelves. Looks good. Kate loves nutcrackers. She has

a good size collection going.

November 27

Mike got up early this morning said, "I'm going to town. I'll be right back!".
So this is what he brought home. Breakfast for a crowd. Oh, wait. Just us.

12 dozen eggs
6 lbs. of bacon
6 lbs. of sausage
60 hash browns
4 gallons of milk

OK......maybe it will make a more than one mornings breakfast. But he was so cute bringing it in.

November 26

My first try at sewing a patchwork tree skirt. I am very proud. It's reversible.

Starting to look a lot like Christmas.

The tree is almost done. Good job guys!

Outside lights....

More.....

And more.....

Mike bought 2400 lights yesterday and went and bought another 3600 lights tonight. He even bought 2- 4 ft. lighted potted topiary tree's for the porch. I'm sure he'll be doing more. We've got to make a game plan for next year. How to put lights on the house without doing damage to the house. Anyways that's what we've been up to.

November 24

My cooking helper...

Our Christmas decorations going up in the yard

Smile boys!

Mike took some pictures tonight. I'll take more this weekend. It was wet and rainy tonight. We still have more decorations to put out.

We had such a fun day. Good food and decorating for Christmas. Keegan asked to go to town to see if others had put up Christmas lights. We drove to town, but it was a bummer. No lights. So we told the kids we'd go back this weekend and see if anyone had put up lights. Every holiday season we do a nightly Christmas light tour.

We hope our family, friends, and blog followers had a wonderful Thanksgiving.