new house

two weeks without a post! i'm surprised i haven't been getting hate mail!!! things have been super crazy here. between career work, house work, and trying to get some sleep, we have been so busy!! but the house is finally starting to look fantastic...so i thought i would share a few pictures with you.
this is the upstairs guest/thalia bathroom. thanks to papou for painting!
chris working hard in our new office. after i took this picture, he set up a drum set in here...its a bit more crowded

this is the master bath...thanks to gampa for painting the vaulted ceilings!

this is the "little" bathroom on the first floor
here is our living room...probably my favorite room in the house - mostly due to the fact that our sweet bar gets to be on display!
this is our kitchen. yes, it is yellow...we haven't repainted it yet. the previous owners updated it...we have hardwoods throughout the first floor.

this is our dining room. pretty close to the old one. but the chandelier is black...not sure why it looks gold in this pic.
and this is the front! now that most of the stress is done, we are really happy with it. more pics to come as more rooms get finished (or have enough lighting for a good picture)

off to dinner with uncle frank and aunt laura and baby greyson! more thalia pics to come this weekend...new year's resolution ;o)

much love and some sleep,

c, c, and t

fun with yiayia and papou

my how time flies! i will say from the get that this has been a much better week. i was getting really tired of feeling junky and stressed and blah. but this week has been slightly calmer and chris has been doing a fantastic job putting things away...and over the past few days he has hung most of our pictures, which is really helping this place feel more like our own.

last weekend, yiayia and papou came to help us. what a joy! we moved the wall bar and got almost all the painting done! (i say "we" but mostly what i did was leave and go to work) i'm really starting to feel very good about living here. so many funny things happened while yiayia and papou were here...i'll have to try to remember all of them.
this is us having lunch at sam's club...fancy, i know! thalia is wearing a new outfit from her favorite gigi...with her ugg boots from yiayia. i think its adorable! while we were here, thalia showed yiayia her soda game. basically if i ask thalia if she would like some soda, she says "no! pop!" but if chris asks her is she would like some pop, she'll say "no! soda!" it's hi-larious!!
thalia also got to open an early christmas present from yiayia - real john deere boots! they are the cutest things. so this is thalia showing them off. how awesome are they?! i guess this is our second official house picture. this is our new playset. the weather was somewhat warm so yiayia took thalia out and they swung on the swing. thalia is getting much better about swinging. she likes the bumpy slide too. i think we need to replace the roof...but we can wait til spring.

i just realized i don't have many pictures of papou and thalia! we'll have to work on that in january when everyone comes back down here.

after quite the rough week last week with thalia's fevers and sleeping with us almost every night, we are heading into day 3 of sleeping through the night without even a peep! actually, we are still working on a better night routine. right now she still wants to stay up and play with daddy. but the nice thing is that i have been able to get ready for work and leave without having to worry about waking thalia up and getting her ready. i think chris has taken her to school every day this week. what a huge difference that has made! mornings are so much easier with chris here. thanks babe! love you!

alright, its already late and i need to go get my car inspected tomorrow. totally lame...but we are saving over $1000 a year in car insurance! so i guess it evens out.

much much love and much much sleep,

c, c, and t

our trip to the doctor

i'm not sure if i mentioned this the other day, but thalia had been having some really high fevers. so after being sent home from school for the second time, we decided to take her to the doc. chris was painting so i went...and of course her temp was normal and after we got home she was running around. so apparently, all you need to do when your kid can't break a fever is mention going to the doctor, and everything goes away!

anyway, the doctor (well, nurse practitioner) decided to run a flu test - just to be sure since she couldn't find anything else wrong. while we waited for the results (15 min) i was trying to keep thalia entertained. then the madness began!

everything started out fine...

papou showed her how to trace his hand once...now she just touches the pen in between fingers and says "all done"

mommy mistakenly turned her back to text everyone that the NP couldn't find anything. while my back was turned, thalia knocked the picture off the wall. you may be thinking, 'no big deal!' except all the paintings in this office are hand-painted on unfinished canvases. so when it dropped...

the wood frame bent. this is the best i could do...pretty obvious considering the mat is painted on the wall. although, probably the funniest part of this picture is little's face! totally on her own!

sigh...such was our trip to doc. she still isn't quite herself but her fevers are gone. we think she is working on at least her two top eye teeth, so i think that's part of it. she also missed her nap yesterday, went to bed late, was up at 630 this morning, cried until 830 when i dropped her off at school - late just because that is my life these days, she technically missed breakfast but her teacher saved her a bowl. what an angel!

needless to say, it has still been a rough week. but we are making progress...thanks for your prayers and support!

much love and a bit more sleep (after 4 nights in bed with us, thalia spent the whole night in her own bed!)

c, c, and t

Pictures Galore!

helping daddy make pudding for our trifle

new sassy leopard print pants

two ponies, and she loves vernors (that's my girl!)

on our way to the hockey game!!

people mover heading to the bakery

thalia found her crown in her toy box at the new house. she hasn't been into having her picture taken as you can see.

i also finally got around to taking and adding thalia's 21 month hippo picture. as you can see we converted her crib to a big girl toddler bed! she was doing pretty well in it, but the fast few days she has had a high fever (103.5) and has slept in our bed. good thing chris convinced me to get a king bed! she felt much cooler today, so hopefully she has fought off whatever bug she had.

gamma and grampa headed back to michigan on sunday. we were very sad to see them go. they did so much help on the house, and we really truly appreciate and love them. as soon as we can get stuff put away, i'll start posting pictures of the new place. its finally starting to come along and i think its going to be really great.

off to another day of listening to phone interviews. wish me luck tomorrow...i'm talking to some folks about a full-time job. and even though i am guaranteed my current role for 2 years, it would be nice to have something firm.

much love and not a lot of sleep (thalia is starting to talk in her sleep...AND she kicks)

c, c, and t