This Past Little While

Just me and my dad

Chinese New Year's Resolution

So apparently we weren't very good at kicking off our New Year's Resolutions this year so we have decided to pretend that we celebrate Chinese New Year's and start our resolutions in February this year.

I, Erin, will take a picture and a video of each of my kids every day for the next 30 days.  My biggest difficulty is that every picture ends up being the same...if you have any ideas of creative new pictures to try, please let me know. :)

"Daddy is way more into this than I am. " - Ellie

Pliers can be used for many activities, including making the perfect, pointy nose (flashbacks from Little Women)

Buddy and Lulu

It's been too long!!  Enjoy!

Contemplating life with a new hat! 

Sharkie!!!

In Spokane this summer

Run, Forest, Run!

Fascinated by the camera

Last day at the Lake

DOW Imagery Photography

DOW Imagery Photography

The Flood - A Blessing in Disguise!

We had a flood in the basement suite this Spring.  It was scary at the time but the updates make it all worthwhile.  Chris ended up laying all the floor so that we could improve the quality of flooring.  It meant long days for him as he had just started a new job.  Also, Isabelle had just been born when it came time to lay the floor and put up the casings and baseboards so I was relegated to "single mom" status for awhile.  It was a bit overwhelming but it is so wonderful to have our tenant back in this month and have the extra work come to an end.  We still need to paint a bunch of the trim, the various doors and we would love to re-paint the yellow kitchen and its cabinets but that can wait until the Fall.  

I'm posting this for family members who have seen our suite before and may want to see how the new floor turned out. :)

BEFORE Standing in Kitchen looking at Living Room 

BEFORE - Suite Bathroom

BEFORE - Dining Area

AFTER Dining Room

AFTER Bathroom - just needs the window area painted white.

AFTER Kitchen looking into our Laundry 

AFTER Standing in Kitchen looking at Living Room  

AFTER - Suite Hallway 

AFTER - Suite Living Room

Hooray for Tax Season!

Goodbye old stove, fridge and dishwasher... hello shiny, new stainless steel appliances.  How I love you tax rebate :)

Scrubby Dishwasher

Old and ugly

New, shiny, spacious

This one shows the excellent dishwasher