December 2016/Christmas 2016

Falalalala! Such a fun Christmas this year with 2 kiddos...

 Nana came for a visit!

They love driving these carts

I finally got my diploma!

Painting "ormaments"

Someone spends 60% of naps perfecting his handstand skills.

We had some nice weather...

Making our Christmas plates!

We went to see a live nativity one night. It was cold but really cool..they had donkeys and all kinds of animals and acted out the Christmas story.

We went to the Mt. P parade with our neighbors...the boys loved it!

Special treats and park day :)

Baking Christmas "tookies"

Playing in the "snow"

Took B to ride the train at town center...he loved it, of course!

Santa pancakes...a desperate attempt to get my child to eat SOMETHING. Pretty sure he just licked the whipped cream off his fork

Got in a Dec boat day!

celebrated Brynlee's birthday

Movie date with Walker

So much fun at Granny's house for Christmas this year!

Brooks helping daddy get ready to use his new smoker!

He actually took a nap with me for the first time in years <3

Christmas program at school

Telling the Christmas story <3

Hello Hobcaw Creek!

**found this in my drafts, for some reason I never posted it, I'm going to post it now even though it chronologically makes no sense and I never finished it because I want to have these photos from the listing to go back to.


Well it finally happened...we moved into the house we had been trying to buy since October.  We finally closed on 3/31.  It was the most dramatic and unreal real estate transaction of all time according to everyone involved.  I just reread that sentence and it sounds like I am being dramatic but I promise I'm not.  I'm going to share some pics of the house as it was when we bought it and then show a little bit of what we have done so far because we have already been hard at work.

Dining room..look closely, those are monkeys swinging from palm trees.

Worlds largest great room with worlds smallest coffee table. and Ugliest everything.

umm...im speechless

Master bedroom

Powder room

Those are the photos that were online from the listing...as you can see, lots and lots of wallpaper.

So far, we have done a bunch of behind the scenes stuff like changing the locks and fixing a bunch of leaks etc.  We also had hardwood floors installed in the great room, upstairs hallway, and master and had all the floors refinished.  We pulled down the wallpaper in the powder room, dining room, foyer and upstairs hallway and have done some painting.  Here are a few more pics...

Poor Todd, he came home from work one night to find that I had just started ripping off the wallpaper in the hallway. Which meant he had to bust out the 30 ft ladder and do the scary parts. We used warm water and as long as you soak it well it came off in long strips for the most part. We had to mop up TONS of water and used about 50 towels but other than that it wasn't too awful (although I wasn't the one on the ladder)

Painted the dining room

Those bushes though...TBC