Little known fact

I have my dad's chin! :)

Posted by Alli at Feb 1, 2010 3 comments  

Too cold in our house?


Not sure, but this seems to be Linus' new favorite spot. Maybe we keep it too cold, hehe. :)

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We just had an appraiser come to our house and it went pretty well! He said we've taken 10 years off the age of the house with the changes we've done, so yay! Hopefully we'll get the amount we need to refinance!!

Posted by Alli at Jan 26, 2010 2 comments  

Sorry it's been a while, but it's quite hard to write about stuff when there's nothing to write about! I have the backing and binding fabric for Donnie's quilt and now just need to figure out how I want to quilt it...it's hard to start when you're afraid of ruining it! :)

Posted by Alli at Jan 25, 2010 1 comments  

Donald Robert Falconer



At 4:57 this morning after 4 hours of labor, our new nephew was born!! His name is Donald Robert Falconer or "Donnie". He is named after Alex and my grandfather Donald and Erica's dad Robert.

Posted by Alli at Dec 15, 2009 0 comments  

October snow and fall colors

These photos were taken back in october and then maybe a week or so after the snowfall, it's definitely been an interesting fall, no?



Our Rock sporting a frosty grass toupee
The sun shining through our neighbor's trees, definitely enhances the fall color!


Posted by Alli at Dec 4, 2009 1 comments  

yay for privacy!

I received the blinds for our front bay window today!! I'm so excited because now we can have a little more privacy in our kitchen! Plus the floors have already been bleached out a bit by the sun near the windows, so hopefully this will help stop it a bit.

I had wanted roman shades, but had a hard time finding any that weren't way expensive (plus I wanted top down bottom up, which adds some cost). Finally I went to BlindsChalet and found that they had some woven bamboo shades, so I looked at it and they were fairly affordable, in comparison to fabric ones anyway. so I ordered some and I'm so happy! I have to put another one up over the kitchen sink, but first I have to figure out how to take the old one down.....

Before (don't mind the messy counters please) ;)

After!

Close Up
We chose the black ones to go with the counters and the stools we have in the kitchen. Very pleased with the result!

Posted by Alli at 2 comments  

Photo Updates

Here are the pictures I owe:

The frame Austin made for the print I gave him for our anniversary. It's print of a painting we saw at the Honolulu Art Academy "Torchlight Fishermen".

He made it out of some inexpensive cherry wood we got at the Winona ReStore. That's turning out to be a great place!! :)
A photo of the finished $5 headboard from the ReStore. I'd put up a before, but I can't find the cord for my camera and accidentally took it when there was no card in the camera.

A few photos we took of each other at the last home Iowa State game. Thankfully they won!

Posted by Alli at Nov 30, 2009 3 comments  

Thanksgiving and a funny kitty

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving today at mom and dad's house getting to see the grandparents and Laura and Emma, Judy and Charlie, and all the Pladsons!
A wonderful meal was had and getting to see Elsie and Emma together was quite cute, they're both getting so big!!

When we got home from the feast and relaxed a bit we got to see this...
How we love this kitty, he always manages to make us smile. We have your "dino-kitty" pose in which he folds his front arms under and then extends his neck out fully and then there is this pose, currently unnamed in which he has his head buried face down into the chair. :) Oh how he entertains us so!

Posted by Alli at Nov 26, 2009 1 comments  

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