Merry Christmas

Given the fact that we stayed here in Columbus this year for christmas, we decided to get all decked out in the christmas decor!

We even got a real tree! As you can see by the devious look in our little Rusty's eyes, he finds the tree irresistable. He literally cannot keep his wet little nose out of the tree!

Even our couch is decked out! These are the many homemade gifts we have received over the years from Brett's parents!

We never got around to buying a star... poor little starless tree!

However the decorations Brett got me totally made up for it, Aren't they cute!

These are our stockings hung form the chimney with care.... (a little cheesy, but I couldn't resist!)

We even have a have a dying poinsettia!

Look at all of the christmas cards we received this year! Just one of the benefits of living out of state.

Merry Christmas everyone! There will be more pictures to come.

The Fire Place is done... Almost

After many hours of hard work by LOTS of people, The mantel is DONE (well it is 99 percent done, we still have to glue on the decal.) This post is a little recap on how it became BEAUTIFUL!

This is what we started with when we bought the house...

Here are the bones...
The design is my dad's Brain child, we would have never come up with something so pretty, cool and awesome on our own! Here is what we have, after going to 4 lumbar stores, and then back to some again, and again... cutting, and recutting, caulking, filling nail holes, screwing, measuring, and MORE SANDING!

Here is Brett painting his little heart out, Brett would describe it as the "worst thing he has ever done." (he must have a really easy life) but it was really tedious! here was the process...

Sand, caulk, prime, sand, prime, paint, paint,caulk and touch up. Thats 283 dental teeth, 13 different layers of crown molding! But it was worth it, not to mention the great deals we got on the main pieces of molding, only ten dollars for the two main pieces, which saved us about 200 dollars!

Heere is the finished product, and it looks absolutely PERFECT!!

Thanks mom, dad and Brett!!!

burr....summer please come back....

It is absolutely FREEZING cold here in the great state of OHIO, and what do we get in return....NOTHING (but freezing rain,) and to be honest, it is really starting to make me mad! (a toned down version of how I really feel) In my opinion "The COLD" is good for one thing and one thing only, and that is MAKING SNOW, but not only are there no mountains, let alone hills here to ski on, we have gotten all but three snow flakes. So friends, to sum things up


If I can't be doing this.........

I would rather be doing this..............

but instead we are doing this.......

AND IT IS REALLY MAKING ME MAD!!!

No Thanks

Brett and the boys toughed it out at the OSU Mich. game in the freezing cold weather. I sold my ticket, took my earnings and bought curtains at the Pottery Barn outlet while brett was at the game. Go Bucks!

I LoVe my HuBBie

Brett and I have Officially been married for 40 months this week.... so I thought I would post 40 things I LOVE about my Brett (in no particular order) 1. He is an awesome husband

2. he knows how to have fun!

3. his sense of humor and ability to make me laugh

4.his ability to resolve problems and forget about it

5. the way he smells, (most of the time)

6. His curly dark hair

7.handsome

8. Loves Golf

9.smiles alot

10.he is a worthy priesthood holder

11. His teeth

12. his laugh

13. how competitive he is with everyone except me, he always lets me win

14. Hard worker

15. his smile is contagious

16. His pinky finger, (it is really short and cute)

17.Smart

18. always willing to do dishes after I cook

19.Dedicated

20. His long legs, and I hope our girls get his legs (not mine)!

21. treats me like a queen

22. I love that he loves dogs, especially Indy, Riley and Rusty

23.VERY helpful around the house

24. comes from a good family

25.Ambitious

26. likes what ever I cook no matter how wierd

27. Outgoing

28. cuddley

29. loves his siblings

30. I love that he wants to take care of me and protect me.

31. Tall, and can reach everything in all of my kitchen cupboards

32. Respects and honors his parents

33.loves kids (and can't wait to have some of our own)

34.great friend

35. He can open any Jar, no matter how hard I might think it is

36. friendly to everyone

37. Has a strong testimony of the gosple

38. brave

39. serves others

40. knows how to relax

Brett I LOVE you so much!! Happy 40 month anniversary. I am truley blessed to be you wife!

I was Tagged for the first time by my friend Whitney....

Four random things about my husband:

1. He has abnormally long legs and arms
2. He eats gram crackers almost every night with a BOWL (not glass) of milk, he says it is a better shape for dipping
3. He doesn't really love desserts (sick and wrong right?) he would rather just eat more meat and potatoes
4. He loves shoes and has alot of them

Four Movies I could watch more than once.
1. P.S. I love You
2. Finding Nemo
3.Crash
4.The Godfather part one

Four TV shows that I watch:
1.Lipstick Jungle
2.The Office
3.House
4. Kath and Kim (a new favorite)

Four of my favorite foods.
1. pasta
2. chocolate
3. sweet potatoes
4. apple sauce

Four things I am excited about before this year is over:
1. Thanksgiving
2.Christmas
3. Brett having a SHORT but much needed WINTER BREAK
4. Finishing up some projects around the house

Four people who are tagged
AMELIA HANSEN
KARA HAGBERG
SARAH DEEM
JAMI ANDERTON

Our fun trip that I never blogged about....

We Took areally fun trip with some friends this summer that I never Posted about, so here it is... The Hagberga and the Andertons took a road trip to Palmyra NY and to Niagra Falls It was quite the adventure I even slept in a tent! (with an air mattress of course!)

This is us in the sacred grove. We loved walking around in the grove, It is such a sacres special place.

This is the gang spelling O H I O at Niagra.that is Brett anderton Kara me and Brett N.
This is the "Strip" at niagra on the Canadian side.
What a FUN TRIP!!!

Go Bucks!

Brett and I went to the Buckeye game this weekend, and the WON! Go BUCKS!! oh and I got my hair cut... I Chopped about 7 or 8 inches off... I'm still not sure about it.....

Rusty's New Friend

Ian and Taunya brought their new dog Lewis over to play with Rusty. They had so much fun together, Rusty LOVED Lewis. They ended up wresteling and playing tug a war with each other and it was SO cute and funny.
What fun friends!!!

Visitors!!!!!!

This weekend my parents came out to Columbus to visit Brett and I on Brett's summer break. we are so glad to have them here to visit us. While they were her Brett and my dad decided to tackle out ugly fireplace, and build a mantle. This is the before
Here is my mom trying to keep Rusty out of the saw dust, not an easy task!

This is the beginnings of the Project.
Workin hard? or hardley workin?

Brett learned to be quite the handy man.
We made use of every last scrap of wood, making various shelves and other small things.

Here is the final master piece. Now we just need to paint!! THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!!