November 2012

Alright, I know. It has been almost an entire year since I last blogged. Sorry. But here I am, finally with everything I need to get blogging. So get ready for a years worth of blogging, right here, right now. :)

November was a great month! My favorite month actually. We spent a lot of time at my parent's house helping them redo their upstairs. They knocked a hole in the wall of the living room to open up the upstairs in time for Thanksgiving (my favorite!). Then they built a wall by the stairs rather than having a wobbly railing still. They also replaced the linoleum with tile looking linoleum and we painted the kitchen, hall, and living room. And they got new carpet on the stairs and in the hallway. Oh yeah, we also took out the tile in the entry way (THAT TOOK FOREVER) and added chair rails and replaced the baseboards. It was a lot of fun helping out so much and it looks AMAZING! I didn't take before pictures unfortunately, and our old camera was super crappy, so please excuse the poor image quality and blurry pictures.

Paxton got his 1 year vaccinations. He ended up having a mild reaction with a fever about a week later-during our construction project below. It helped because he took long naps, but it was hard because he wanted to be held all the time instead of just watching us. Poor guy.

Paxton playing while we painted and broke tile.

We had to smash the tile up with a hammer and then under the tile was this black plastic mesh that we had to pull out (it was nailed down REALLY well) and then we had to pull all of the staples out that were holding down some nasty old paper crap under it all. This part took like 5 hours. It took forever! My hands KILLED from pounding with the hammer and from tediously pulling out little staples with pliers. 

Hot-tie!

The black mesh crap

One of my piles of staples and long nails I had pulled up. All of us (mom, dad, Trev, me, Emily, and Dallin) did this for almost 2 hours.

Paxton learning to eat with a spoon

Cute Willy reading to Paxton. Paxton loves Willy. In fact, I think all of the little kids do. Willy always goes out of his way to help with the little kids and to make them happy. He's so cute.

The night before Thanksgiving of the finished project. It was completely finished and put back together the night before thanksgiving. :) Here are pictures of all of it from different angles. :)

My mom didn't put books back until the little kids were gone after Thanksgiving.

Mom got a little fancy...

The new picture wall. They are magnet boards and everyone has their own square to put pictures of their family in.

Basically, it looks so great! And it worked well for Thanksgiving with our huge family that keeps on growing. Thanksgiving was so much fun with everyone there but Derek (In Sweden on his LDS mission) and Lizzy (living in Michigan) and her family (who we missed LOTS).