Watch Out...

 ...If you are in our house right now, there is a good chance that you might get cleaned, organized, or thrown away.  Craig calls it nesting.  I call it...it just needs to be done!

My project for Saturday:  organize. the. office! 

This is about halfway through.  It always looks worse before it gets better!  The closet, which is the length of the room, also got organized.  

All the paper in the box on the left needs to be shredded.  I'm not sure why I kept all our bill invoices all the way back from 2009.  The stack on the right is magazines and papers that need recycled.  The 3 huge stacks of papers that were on the desk in the "to be filed" piles have been filed away!

Here is the office the next day.  In total it took about 12 hours!  It feels much better!

Monday also proved to be a productive day.  After meeting our pediatrician, we got some breakfast and went shopping.  We have a three story antique mall here in Bloomington and found this great cabinet.

We packed our wedding china in boxes 3 1/2 years ago when we moved down to Bloomington.  We haven't had a great place to put it until now!  

January Catch-up!

My friend Kelly and I worked on our first little crafty project for the nursery!  

Craig and I met some friends to paint pottery after Christmas!

Tree in the backyard

We had dinner with friends at the Melting Pot!  Our chocolate fondue was on fire!  So yummy!

Icicles off our garage

Craig and Dave played in the snow!  Brrrr!

We went to the Wizard of Oz with some family!  Very good play with a very well trained Toto!

We have a crib!  It barely fit in the car and Craig had to load it by himself, but WE HAVE A CRIB!  It is still in the box, but at least we are making progress!

I got to spend some time playing cars with Grayson!  He is so cute, smart, and funny!

December 26th:  We had a blizzard!  Somewhere around a foot of snow came down at our house!

Craig pulled into the driveway and shoveled a path for me to get out and into the house!

Our front trees were covered!

The snow really drifted against our back doors!

Thanksgiving pottery tradition

This year Grayson got to participate in the painting instead of sleeping through it!

Mom and Abby are professionals!

Abby painting her snowman

Craig painted a spoon holder

Eric painted a coffee mug

Still working on his project...

Here is my ornament for the year!

Sarah getting some help from Abby

Panoramic view of the pottery place

Cheese!  Ready to go get some lunch!

Goofy boy waiting patiently on lunch!

West Baden

Last weekend Craig and I drove a little over an hour south to spend the night at West Baden Springs hotel.  It was a relaxing weekend with a lot to celebrate.  We celebrated Craig's birthday, that I finished my 3 classes with all As, that Craig got a new management position, and that we have a baby girl on the way!

The hotel definitely put us in the Christmas mood!  The tree was as tall as the 6 floors of hotel rooms.  It was amazing.  We did a lot of people watching and it was so neat to see people's reaction to the tree.  They also have a polar express train ride for kids to enjoy in their pajamas, so that was really cute to see too with the kids all walking around with their Christmas bells.

The part at the top above the tree changed colors, almost like a kaleidoscope.

Outside front entrance.

View the next morning with the sun shining in!

Close-up of the huge ornaments

There were even Christmas carolers!

Panoramic view of the atrium

Overwhelming!

Couldn't get enough of the beautiful tree and hotel!

Fun weekend with Grayson

Grayson discovered he liked our sprinkler and he liked to carry it around!

He pruned our mums!

It was such a beautiful day that we all went to the park.

This time he decided the back yard needed some landscaping.

Just the necessities - iphone, sippy cup, and cuddle time!

Our neighborhood cat provided some entertainment!

Uncle Craig makes a pretty good jungle gym!