Sunday, January 29, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Decorating the house
So, after taking down my Christmas decorations I noticed how bare my house looked. So, I started putting things up and decorating it. My sister wanted to see what I had done so here are a bunch of pictures!
I have learned a lot from her over the years!!
Traded my next door neighbor my hanging wall sconces for this coat and hat wall hanging.
The hooks were originally gold...just traded them out for oil rubbed bronze.
A friend gave me that brown decorative wall hanging that now
sits on an easel and I just got the red vase at Rod Works...Love that Store!
This is where I had my tree up. It was so bare when I took the tree down.
Now it's pretty again!
Those thingys above my bed used to be silver...spray paint..gotta love it!
Bedroom opposite my bed.
Love my bathroom!
One of my favorite places to look at in my home! I've been wanting this picture for years and this year my family got it for me for Christmas! The microphones?...Mike and the kids
decided they needed to be ready in a minute to perform...LOL!
My fireplace mantle!
The little rod iron hanging above my door to the garage used to be white.
It's amazing what you can do with a can of spray paint!
We don't have all our blinds up yet but we have these and our bedroom. I decided that I would like to close off that direct view from time to time into our house from Mom and Dad's;)
Can't wait for dinner:)
I love my laundry/mud/pantry room!
Still lots more to finish in the house and to decorate, but I am lovin' it!
Monday, December 26, 2011
The 12 days of Christmas 2011
On the First day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
1 can of hot cocoa mix.
On the Second day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
2 Marie Calendars Pies
On the Third day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
3 Chocolate Oranges
On the Fourth day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
4 Yummy Snacks to share
On the Fifth day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
5 pairs of Gloves
On the Sixth day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
6 bags of Candy Kisses
On the Seventh day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
7 Clemintines!
On the Eighth day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
8 AA Batteries....but the kids took them and used them right away!
On the Ninth day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
9 Beef Sticks
On the Tenth day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
5 Pairs (10 socks) of Socks
On the Eleventh day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
11 Bags for a Poppin good time.
On the Twelveth day of Christmas our True Friends gave to us
A FEAST!
with a very sweet note from our Secret Santas who were
found out to be a couple of friends of Bryce's
We were very blessed with lots of love this Christmas!
Friday, December 16, 2011
Tis the Season!
I know, I know this post has been a long time coming. So much has happened in the past few weeks since we moved into our new home. We are still getting settled in slowly since I have been working fulltime and it's all I can do to come home and just try and unpack a few more boxes here and there. There are still several things to finish in the house, but it is beautiful and we love it already!
Christmas has just really crept up on us. It's been so hard to finally get myself in the Christmas spirit because of the move and working, and on and on. The biggest thing that happened though, happened this past week. Mike was laid off....again. Yep, that's right, 2 weeks before Christmas. So, he's been working for Miller Construction for one year. Unfortunately they just couldn't keep enough work coming in to keep Mike busy. Funny how just as we began to build he got a job and just as we finished he was laif off. So, here we go again. I feel hopeful however, because the Lord always seems to take care of us and things seem to always work out.
I was a bit stressed there for a couple of days, but then all of a sudden I caught the Christmas spirit and now I'm excited! I am thankful I still have my job, (which I love) and I guess we are lucky for someone to be working at this point. I feel very blessed even though Mike and I worry a bit about how it's all going to work out.
So, for now I will leave you with some Christmas cheer from the Nelson home to yours! Enjoy!
Christmas has just really crept up on us. It's been so hard to finally get myself in the Christmas spirit because of the move and working, and on and on. The biggest thing that happened though, happened this past week. Mike was laid off....again. Yep, that's right, 2 weeks before Christmas. So, he's been working for Miller Construction for one year. Unfortunately they just couldn't keep enough work coming in to keep Mike busy. Funny how just as we began to build he got a job and just as we finished he was laif off. So, here we go again. I feel hopeful however, because the Lord always seems to take care of us and things seem to always work out.
I was a bit stressed there for a couple of days, but then all of a sudden I caught the Christmas spirit and now I'm excited! I am thankful I still have my job, (which I love) and I guess we are lucky for someone to be working at this point. I feel very blessed even though Mike and I worry a bit about how it's all going to work out.
So, for now I will leave you with some Christmas cheer from the Nelson home to yours! Enjoy!
A view down into the basement.
A touch of Christmas!
Mike in his favorite place...watching movies on his laptop in bed:)
This year I decided to do something different with my tree. I usually put up all the many ornaments I have collected over the years. This year I decided to go with something a little more color themed. So, now I need another tree downstairs next year, so I can put up all the rest of my ornaments. I invited my kids to have their friends over to help put up the tree and decorate. The girls did a great job!
Now I'm excited for Christmas!
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Feeling Thankful
With one week til thanksgiving I think it is a good time to talk about how thankful I am for my wonderful, difficult, crazy, unpredictable life! I think I can pretty much safely say that we will probably be in our new home by the first week of December! It has been over a year since we began to tear down the little house on this peice of property and we began the building of our home. At that time Mike had not found a job yet and he was so looking forward to helping his Dad build. Well, about a month later he landed a job which was good news but bad news. That meant that Dad(82 years old) would pretty much be building our house himself with some help here and there. It has been a very long journey with lots and lots of ups and downs. Tears of sadness here and there and tears of joy too. There have been many sacrafices made to get to where we are today.
How blessed we are to be surrounded by such hard working dedicated men in our family. Building homes is what Dad knows best. It is his life's work to build and in this way he expresses who he is. Lucky for us we will benefit from his love, his talent and his hard work. I will be so happy the day that my kids really really get how blessed they are to be part of this family. I think we all often take these things for granted. We are not wealthy people, not by a long shot. We have all struggled to have just the bare minimum at times. To eat, to clothe our children, to go to school, to take a vacation or to make it to an important family event. We haven't been able to do everything we would have liked to have done. But, we are together, we have made it through some very tough times and we have learned so much along the way.
Most of all we have the Gospel in our lives and we have eachother. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is really the glue that keeps us together and going strong. Without it I think so many of us would have given up so many years and so many trials ago. But with our Faith and with hard work, we have all made it through.
For most of us life usually turns out to be so very different than we think it will be, but for me it is better than I ever dreamed. Hard times and all! So, today I am thankful to the Nelson Family for being who they are, as imperfect as we all are....we are so very blessed!
How blessed we are to be surrounded by such hard working dedicated men in our family. Building homes is what Dad knows best. It is his life's work to build and in this way he expresses who he is. Lucky for us we will benefit from his love, his talent and his hard work. I will be so happy the day that my kids really really get how blessed they are to be part of this family. I think we all often take these things for granted. We are not wealthy people, not by a long shot. We have all struggled to have just the bare minimum at times. To eat, to clothe our children, to go to school, to take a vacation or to make it to an important family event. We haven't been able to do everything we would have liked to have done. But, we are together, we have made it through some very tough times and we have learned so much along the way.
Most of all we have the Gospel in our lives and we have eachother. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is really the glue that keeps us together and going strong. Without it I think so many of us would have given up so many years and so many trials ago. But with our Faith and with hard work, we have all made it through.
For most of us life usually turns out to be so very different than we think it will be, but for me it is better than I ever dreamed. Hard times and all! So, today I am thankful to the Nelson Family for being who they are, as imperfect as we all are....we are so very blessed!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Cabinet Doors
Well things are looking up again. We were able to get back to putting the finishing touches on the house now that the flood put us behind about 2 weeks or so. Not good, I know.
But just look at my beautiful cabinet doors that are being installed.
I seriously have drawers coming out of my ears in my kitchen. The shows just one small area of drawers.
In my opinion you just cant have enough drawers and cabinets!
I especially love my built in cabinets in the master closet.
So, when you walk in the closet, this is what you see:)
All the cabinets are made of hickory wood. Mike stained a finished them and I love them!
So, for now it's all the finishing touches. A lot of the downstairs is having to be redone so I will have to wait to show you the finished product in a few weeks. But for now it's fun to see it all coming together.
We will be very happy when we are finally in and celebrating Christmas!
(It will probably be close to then when we are finally in!)
Last but not least, here are our hanging pendent lights along the side bar.
We will also have another side bar to eat at on the other side of that collum.
There should be room for about 7 or 8 people total to eat along the counter tops.
We do that alot. We will also have the kitchen table area but this way we will have lots of room
for visitors and friends to come and eat with us!
Mike says this looks like a Party HOuse....I say...Bring IT ON!!
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