Christmas Morning

My favorite picture from our family faux Christmas. So much expression in this exchange of brothers. We had a very Merry Christmas.

Christmas Time

Our Christmas decor is beautiful. I love Christmas time. I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.

TV Stand

Our new tv stand I love it. We did an altered version of Ana White's Apothecary Cabinet. I like a taller stand so we added height and than reduced the width to fit our wall. 'We' is used because we design together.. but the building is all Ryan.

The insides.. currently the drawer has the diapers and wipes in it but hopefully it will be empty in a few months.. :) We need to add lower shelves but so far it has been nice to have the TV downstairs. No more sneaking up to Mom and Dad's room to watch whatever, whenever.

We turn the power off if we aren't using the tv-trying to reduce our vampire power usage. Ryan made this door to open alone so that Carter could turn the power on and off without opening the entire cabinet.

Thanksgiving Break

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Ryan took a whole week off work. Thursday he laid the wood floor in the laundry room. Friday we had our Thanksgiving dinner (Tommy had to work all day Thursday). It was delicious. We managed to get a lot of work done and a lot of fun while Ryan was free to enjoy the days with us.

We went to Palouse Falls trip number 3 for us but we wanted Tommy to see it. I blogged about it once before. It was so nice to have warm weather! We got lucky to have lots of sunny days while Ryan had vacation time.

We did not manage to get a great family picture. We did try to duplicate the one we took last year with our dog and kids.. Carter was in trouble for running off when we asked him to come.

and here is a picture to prove that Tommy did come. This is the part right above the falls so if the wind blows too hard.. it would be really bad for Tommy...

We also went fishing-if you can call it that. It was what Carter chose to do with his dad and he was excited to do so. Even if it only lasted 5 mins. :) It was a great week. I am excited for Christmas time when we get Dad for a week again!