Curtains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Before: Boring!!!!!!!!

After!! (there was dust in the air or something. The pics are spotty) I love it! I can't stop telling Joe that our house finally looks like a home now! (and the couch looks less green in person, which you know. You've seen them)

Bedroom

The bedroom with the new curtains hung. Joe thinks the window in the middle needs something to cover it..... I wish we could fill that window in!

Christmas presents

The Ornaments
Tara Snowman

Silver Snowman - doesn't look that great in the picture. Much cuter in person.


M&M


Joe Snowman



The stuff we got at Pier 1
Red Vase that will eventually get flowers


"Live" wire word. Haven't decided where to put this yet


Dream sign

Metal and wood Sail Boat and Welcome to our home sign

house the way it was

It's getting there!

The living room before picture. With the just moved in and haven't unpacked sparse look. (yes our screen door is leaning up against the glass door. Dang thing doesn't stay on it's track. It's a pain in the ass - need a new one bad)



And now with the shelves hung! Can't wait to see what it looks like with the curtains!

We hung the medium shelf and small shelf on the wall behind the couch. We decided on just the 2 smaller shelves because with the long one it was too much on that small wall. Because I like the balanced look, I ordered another small shelf and plan to hang that on the couch behind the wall - actually I plan to have Joe hang it :) And will add pics of that once the shelf arrives.



The long shelf found a perfect home above the doors to the media room/workout room. Now we just need some things to put up on the sweet new shelves!



Santa and his elf helper - that we got for a steal. Love the after Christmas decoration shopping!

The Tree

Our new tree! Clear lights and all. Some day, maybe next year, I'll replace all 600 ligts with multi colored lights. The clear lights just don't do it for me. I think the ornaments get lost in all the clear light.

Before Ornaments


After Ornaments - hard to see them hu?

Holiday Party

Kim, Bonnie's Friend, Bonnie, Heather S, and Me


Back Row - HS Husband, HS, Bonnie, Bonnie's Friend
Front Row - Cathy's Husband, Cathy, Kim, Me


Kim, Heather and I. We won an award for "Gross Profit at Percentage" for the Western Region. It was pretty cool!


Then they threw the most obscene holiday party I've ever seen. We had a Canadian Idol finalist play piano and sing during dinner. Then part of the wall moved and this whole Winter Wonderland room opened up. The pictures didn't turn out very well cause there was a fog machine going and it was all super dimly lit.