Celebrating Lauren

NOVEMBER 2014
I love that every year, we drop everything and spend the day together as a family celebrating our sweet Lauren.  This year, we headed towards New Haven to explore the Yale Peabody Museum and bum Ikea.  We hit a bakery in true Daddy fashion and enjoyed sampling lots of sweets.

The Peabody was a great way to spend a good part of the day.  The museum has a wonderful collection of dinosaur bones, ancient Native America treasures, and even had a diorama of The Kaibab complete with a white-tailed squirrel!  What are the chances!

House Progress

OCTOBER 2014

Salvaged brick to fill in the space under a "new" window.  This space used to be a door that went out in to the sunroom.  Brick demoed from the 2nd floor near the chimney, and the window used to be the West-facing window in Aubrey's bedroom.

I loved, and will always love, this corner hutch.

Kitchen demo.  Looking a little spooky!

And.... totally creepy.  That's the plaster ceiling all over the floor, tar-painted brick, and zero insulation you see!

This Sweet Girl Turned 4!

OCTOBER 2014

This sweet, vivacious girl turned 4 today! I knew she was meant to come to our family, didn't know how big her personality would be! Love you Stinkbug!

Party at the Lutz Museum with her good friend Michael Murphy!  We invited the whole preschool class, they played and had tons of fun!  They got to meet a hedgehog, have a science lesson on nocturnal animals, make an owl mask, and have pizza and cake!  A fun time all around.

Demo has Finally Begun

SEPTEMBER 2014
It was supposed to happen in April.  Then May.  We postponed summer trips thinking it might happen in June, July, or August.

Nope.

But, now, in September, it's begun.

Watching big tractors dig and scoop and cement trucks dump loads of wet cement is just plain cool.