Renovating over Christmas

Here are some pictures from renovating the front room over Christmas. I don't have a good picture of the finished product yet- it's coming!

Before...
We love this room because it's so sunny and it's so big! But it was definitely in need of a face lift. It was just a cream color with this one coffee-ish color wall.


Matt, the handyman, had to replace a part of our ceiling that had leaked a while ago. He did a great job!


The hardest part of that job was the sanding. Poor Matt!


The painting begins....

Be watching for the completed pictures to come in the next couple of days!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Here are some pictures from our Christmas and New Years!

Christmas Eve in Millerton



Over the New Year's weekend we had a few visitors. My mom and dad came to spend the weekend with us and we also got to dog-sit "Bubbles"! She is a chinese pug that was having her very first time away from home with us. She was so well-behaved and cuddly.

When I was growing up, we had a Chinese pug with us and this was a typical scene at our house.

We got to celebrate Christmas with my mom and dad that weekend too. We surprised my dad with an old chair that we had refinished for him. It used to sit in his mom's house and was in need of a facelift!

Some favorite presents -I'm holding a roasting pan and Matt's holding an Old Testament Commentary -can you see him drooling? :)

Making breakfast New Year's Day -what a good looking chef!

Pre-Christmas

Before I post all of our pictures from Christmas and New Year's, I wanted to make sure that I got these pictures in -Christmas pictures are on their way soon!

These were 2 more pictures that my mom just gave me on the weekend of Matt and I after the dedication service at church for Operation Christmas Child.

This one is from P.E.I. Matt had to go over for a day for business and I got to tag along. Matt had never been across the Confederation bridge (Over 13 km...approx 8 miles long) -an engineer's dream!