New Paint!!!

Coleen and Rick left our house more beautiful than they found it - with new paint in the living room, and a gorgeous custom-framed family picture on the wall. Coleen and Spencer were incredible and fast painters, and the color really warmed up the feeling in the room. After they left, Tyler painted our kitchen area with the leftover paint (as part of his Family Life Merit Badge for scouting). I am very happy with how everything turned out! Pictures don't totally capture it, but here are a few angles of the room - so you can see the walls, the family picture, and my cute new frames along the wall in our kitchen, too. We have three new lamps in there, too, that are gorgeous and really light things up. Thank you so much Rick and Coleen! As you can see, we are in the Christmas Spirit here in Minnesota! We love our tree and nutcrackers and nativities....but we don't love the freezing temperatures. It was 2 degrees when we woke up this morning!

New glasses

Amanda got new glasses this month! Doesn't she look so cute?! She is not really near or far sighted, but she has a "focusing insufficiency" that she will hopefully grow out of in the next few years. They help her as she looks from far to near throughout the day. She forgets to wear them a lot, but I think she looks great in them. Spencer also got new glasses, with a kind of invisible lower rim. No, Tyler does not wear glasses - he is wearing Grams' glasses in this picture.

We had lots of fun with Grams and Gramps when they were here before Thanksgiving. We played lots of games, and had movie nights with popcorn!