What a Cute Table

Megan moved out - found herself a cute basement apartment - so Jake wanted to make something just for her. He made her a cute kitchen table. He customized the size so it would fit perfectly in the space. He wanted to personalize it for her so he painted it purple (her favorite color) and painted some cute flowers and swirls in the corners. He then sanded it down to make it look antique. It turned out super cute. I think Megan likes it a lot. I still haven't seen it in her kitchen yet - but I hear it looks great!

My Auntie Does My Hair

Megan got Sierra this cute new shirt. It says " My Auntie does my hair". For those of you who don't know, Megan is a cosmetologist. Sierra loves her new shirt. She was so excited to wear it today. Thanks Auntie Megan!

Just a cute pic of the girls

Halloween

The holidays keep getting more and more fun as the girls get older. Sierra and Maddie had so much fun Trick-or-Treating. Sierra was a cute little Care Bear and Maddie was a cute little Pumpkin. My mom made both of these costumes when I was little. She has pictures of me wearing the pumpkin costume when I was about Maddie's age - and I'm pretty sure I was the same Care Bear at some point too. It was fun to dress the girls in costumes that I wore.
Jake and Megan had the cutest "couple" costume. Jake was a hunter and Megan was a deer. Very clever on Megan's part - she came up with the whole thing. We spent the first part of the night Trick-or-Treating at the mall (the thing to do with little kids), but it was boring. It was an unusually warm Halloween night so we decided to take advantage of it. We found a nice neighborhood and did some real Trick-or-Treating.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Sierra is 3!

Sierra had so much fun opening her presents. She was so excited to see what was inside. She had a beautiful Cinderella castle cake and almost blew out all the candles in one breath. It was fun to watch her have so much excitement. I can already tell this is going to be a fun Christmas.

Festive

I decided to be festive this year. I saw these cute pumpkin shirts in the Family Fun magazine and knew I just had to make them. I figured that I already know how to tie dye and I already have the dye - so why not? I cut the pumpkin faces out of felt and ironed them on. I think the shirts turned out so cute. I dressed the girls up and took them outside for a few festive pics.

Bee Sting

Poor little Maddie got stung by a bee yesterday. It got her on the inside of her lip ( I guess she was trying to eat it) . She came running over to me crying with the stinger still in her lip. It was pretty swollen. It happened sometime yesterday evening, and this morning her lip was still a little swollen -but it's all better now.

gone

My beloved Bozeman Hot Springs is gone. It caught on fire yesterday,and a good chunk of it is destroyed. What wasn't burnt was severely damaged from the smoke. I am pretty bummed about the whole thing. I worked there for over 2 years. Long enough to become the supervisor for the night crew. I met most of my good friends from working there. Now they have to tear part of it down, if not the whole thing. I really hope they rebuild someday.
It was a pretty exciting day yesterday - I was on the phone all day talking to person after person about the whole situation. I had 52 phone calls and 20 texts in about an 8 hour period. That is a ton for me! I guess it is good because now I can go to bed at a decent hour (I usually worked until about 1-2 am).
Here is link to the newspaper article in the local paper if anybody is interested in reading it. I am trying to find video footage from the news station. I had heard that they had some really good footage of the building in flames. If I find it, I will post it.

Same

I had never realized how much Sierra and Maddie look alike until I took this picture. I have always thought they look so different, but you can definitely tell they are sisters.

Furniture Galore

Jake has been busy making more furniture. He made this new table top this last weekend. He kept the table legs from our old table and just made a new top. It only cost about $30 to make! It looks so great in our kitchen. Our old table was mostly white, so this dark table really adds a lot to the space. He made the bench too. He made that a while ago when Megan first moved here when we needed more seats around the table. It really works out great. He stained the table top to match the bench. They are a great pair.



Next we have a little end table (or night stand). It was made using leftover tiles from his work. It is so cute. This is one of my favorite things that Jake has made. Everytime I look at it I just think "Wow, that really looks nice."


After Jake made our new bed, we needed a new thing for our TV to go on. We needed something tall since our bed is so tall now. Jake just whipped this up real fast. It is exactly what we needed. I love having custom furniture made. Can't get any better than that! Now if he could make us a new couch...