December Daily: Catch up till Dec 11...

I'm behind on blogging. I was behind on putting my pages together, but at least I had the photos...or at least all but one day! Here are the catch up photos.

Dec 7:

 Dec 8:

 Dec 9:

 Dec 10:

 Dec 11:

December Daily: Dec 5 and 6

I'm keeping up so far...and it's been a week. That's very exciting to me! I just hope I can keep it up!

Dec 5: SNOW DAY for the kids-no school! We decided on popcorn and movies all day! We had tortilla soup for lunch. It was a great day to relax in front of the fire!





















Dec 6: Today I went with Hunter and his 5th grade class to the Little Theatre to see "A Christmas Story." It was a great play and got both of us excited to watch the movie on Christmas Day like always!

December Daily: Dec 3 and 4

I got both of my pages done already today! I'm on my way to a party and don't have time to sum up the journaling, but at least they are finished in my album!

December Daily: Dec 2

Here is yesterday's page!
Journaling:
Today was a day full of work and trying to keep warm! We also spent the day waiting for it to snow! While at dinner with the Ashcrafts, it FINALLY began to snow!

December Daily: Dec 1

So, here is my page for Day1!!! I'm going to do my best to keep up with posting these here!
Inside cover with our tree and stockings...which is the first sign of Christmas at our house every year.

Dec 1:
{journaling} The Elf on the Shelf made his appearance today. He is new to us, so the kids got to name him! "Scout" even surprised M by changing positions while she was at school! She can wait to look for him tomorrow!

(I've decided to take pictures of each day's spread with my "hipstamatic" app on my phone. Then I THINK I might make a digi page of all the pictures!)

December Daily!

I have given in...I'm doing December Daily! Ali Edwards does this every year. I tried last year and made it about 10 days in...but with no pre-made album. It didn't work for me. I've been debating this for a month and REALLY wanting to for the past week. I've talked myself out of it every day b/c I'm too busy...until today. Ali totally gave me some awesome encouragement, and I was avoiding work. So, I took about 2 hours to make my album!

I used 7gypsies 6x6 book board and cosmo crickets' christmas paper...I had a 6x6 pad of paper! I also used some page protectors cut up for the photos. Here is what I have so far!

Cover

Inside Cover

Day 1

Bathroom Remodel!

I'm slow on blogging in general, but the bathroom remodel is finished!!! YAY!!!

Here are a couple of awful photos before the remodel! I have some others from when we moved in, but I think they were lost when my EHD crashed last year.

And the before of the walls in my bedroom!

How much do you just love that black and pink swirled granite tiles! I didn't realize how DARK this made the bathroom...oh and how lovely is the carpet in the bathroom!

So, we kept the exact same layout as before to save money and because the layout was good and worked for us. (We did have a budget b/c of the insurance pay out.)

Here is what we did do.....hope you like!

The new vanity area...we replaced the vanity, sinks, etc. Everything but the mirror is new! 

And the new cabinet in the wc...

New tub area...we replaced the tub, all the faucets and tile.

And the shower...we replaced tile and put in a niche for our shampoo, etc. Also replaced the faucents...Heath loves his new sprayers. I went a bit more simple!

Look how cool our tile is! So much better than that carpet!

And finally, my favorite thing we did...the DOOR!!! Remember when I talked about it here. Well, I STILL love it, probably always will. I will say, Emma (our black lab) has learned how to open the door with her nose so she can drink out of the toilet...yes, she totally does that! Doesn't your dog?

See that outlet that isn't finished on the wall? We had a niche there, but had it filled in and am currently looking for a cool sconce to go in the space over my picture.  You can't tell here, but we had our bedroom painted too. This boring color is one shade darker than the bath...it's not nearly as pink as the original color. (Plus our back wall was this sponge painted burgundy color...not my style at all!)

Well, that's it! I'm so excited that it's finally finished and I LOVE it!