Christmas {round 2}

Christmas Morning was quite exciting around here. We did the four gifts again this year for the boys.  Something you want, something you need, something you share and something to read. We have found that it simplifies the shopping. Sterling got his first big boy bike. He has already gone on a bike ride with Justin and is quite the daredevil. He has even told me that he thinks he needs knee and elbow pads. Probably a good idea. :) Their sharing present was Jon and Bradley's (my brothers) old remote control car that my mom put away in her attic. They think it's the neatest thing ever. 

Look at this little fuzzy head!

One of Sterling's favorite gifts this year was a shaving kit from my mom. Cousin drew or "uncle Drew" to my
boys shaved with Sterling - totally made his day! Sterling shaves now everyday just like dad. I have even heard him look in the mirror and say "whoa. I've got work to do," and gets his kit out. What a kid!

Christmas dinner with the whole gang. Good food and good company!

Lots of flannel showed up unintentionally. Love it.

Cheers!

 Santa showed up and handed out some gifts! (Thanks Gordy!)

 Lots of super heroes were running around Christmas evening. Be scared.

And there you have it. A glimpse of our Christmas. I'm not sure how it came and went so quickly and now that we are into January the countdown to baby girls arrival begins! Only 2 1/2 more months and we will get to meet our daughter. I'm already liking the way 2013 is looking! A Happy New Year to you all!

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Christmas {round 1}

We had A LOT of family this year for Christmas and it was wonderful. My mom's entire side of the family all traveled here this year. Her siblings, their spouses and their kids plus my siblings, their spouses and kids plus grandparents and my little family made for 26 Muri's, Burns, Kelpman's and Officer's. It was a ton of fun (and plenty loud) having my cousins, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, niece, nephew and grandparents and my family all under one roof. My sister and I made an itinerary for the family that scheduled some events so there was plenty to do with no excuses of boredom. We had ultimate frisbee, a crock pot soup night, a game night, Christmas Eve church service, Christmas dinners and coffee dates. Here is the first 2 nights of fun in picture form:

Crock Pot soup night at our house!

 Heidi and Bradley (my sister in-law and younger brother)

 My niece Makenna and cousin Sam

 My cousin Molly and Joe

 My wonderful siblings! ...youngest to oldest (L to R)

 ...and my sister and I are pregnant together again! :) Babes due in June and March.

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Master Bedroom makeover

I wanted to paint our room and make it more airy and light. I ran the idea by Justin thinking he would say no way do we have the time for that after making over the boys' room and the nursery (plus an entry way closet makeover...I'll be showing you that soon) but he said sure! When I am given the green light I am not slow to get started! :) I was inspired by The Lettered Cottage blog where they painted their sun room Benjamin Moore Cloud Nine. Like they said "it was the exact grey-to-white-to-warm ratio." I went to Lowe's and had them do a color match with their ValSpar signature paint so we now have our own version of cloud nine which was way more white than I thought it would be but love it so much. The room feels so much bigger, cleaner and happy. I really can't wait to get some creations on the walls! I did a few hours of rolling and Justin did a few hours of edging over a span of two days and voila! We had to sleep in the guest bedroom one night but my hips hurt so bad the next morning (this is pregnancy related) that we finished our room ASAP so I could sleep on our softer mattress with all of my pillows. I'm such high maintenance when I'm growing little humans! :) Here is a sneak peek of our new room (and we now have a King bed!) but first the old room:

and the new room painted in cloud nine...

Whadda ya think!? 

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Our first snowfall in the PNW

We have SNOW! It's only an inch and super wet but we will take whatever we can get! The boys crawled into bed with me at 6 am having no idea that there was snow on the ground. I told them immediately to look outside and they were ready to put on snow gear. I wasn't going to traumatize my most likely sleeping neighbors with happy squealing kids that early so I did my best and held them off till about 7:45 and then released them into the snow. They did some snow angels, attempted sledding, threw snowballs (of course had a timeout or two...trying to be real here) and then came inside to get warmed up. We went on a coffee/hot chocolate date to Starbucks where we colored for an hour (and ate a doughnut or two) and then went to the library to play on the computers and somehow checked out 17 items. Let's hope I can remember to return all of those because I am notorious for paying late fees. My boys are all snug in their beds taking naps while I upload pics, blog a bit and rest. I love winter days like this! Rumor on the street is that there may be some more snow tonight. Oh how I hope so!

 I just love being backed up to a forest. The trees are beautiful dusted in snow.

Here is a horrible attempt of a belly pic using a self timer. I have had some belly pic requests so here you go! It's the best I can do for now.

 Boots lined up for round two after naps.

Watching the snow fall with my snugly child.

 Enjoy the snow if you have any!


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