Ahhh.... Spring!

Yesterday was such a beautiful day.We were able to take a little bit of time to enjoy it at the park. Today... it was cold. Oh well.

Keeping Busy

Lately I have been busy with a bunch of little things. One of the bigger little things is the church cookbook. Finally, it is at the printers and now all I have to do is wait for it's arrival. I have also been busy making a quilt for Katie's bed. I actually started and almost finished it in December, but I waited until I went home to tie it . So here is the finished project. Katie is happy and so am I. Now on to the next thing. I found 4 chairs someone was throwing away and I have decided to paint and reupholster them. I will keep you posted.

Luke's First Birthday

I can hardly believe it, but on Sunday Luke turned 1. We had a smallish party, but lots of fun. Here is the small recap of the day.

Yum! Potato Bread

Each year at St. Patrick's Day, my Mom's side of the family draws up it Irish side and we all get together for a potato bread bake. This year I was at home for the gathering. We had stew, salads, potato bread of course, pies, and green homemade ice cream! Potato bread is very easy to make. Take mashed potatoes and add enough flour to make a nice dough, roll it out, slice it and fry it on a griddle. Serve with butter and a little salt. Enjoy!

Can we use your bathroom?

About 6 months ago, our ensuite shower stall began to leak... into our basement. Being the procrastinators we are, we chose to leave it until we had more money and we moved next door and began to use the main bath shower. About 3 weeks later, we had a much larger leak into the laundry room in the basement. Fortunatly we have a third bathroom in the basement. We meant to get at it sooner, but life continued, and Christmas came closer and we said, we will take care of them after Christmas. As you know it is now that time, so we have torn apart both showers and are now going to redo both with new cement board, plumbing and tile. So every day, I get to look at these two beautiful scenes. I do not do well with mess and scenes like this. I really hope this moves along quickly. I will post the after pictures very soon I hope.

Fancy Nancy... I mean Katie!

I don't know how many of you have heard of the Fancy Nancy books, but we have a Fancy Katie. The books tell of a little girl who is always dressing up fancy. This is what we see Katie doing every day! Most often Katie is dressing up as a bride which is what is pictured here. She comes up with many different wedding outfits, with no help from us. Please don't ask us why she is so focused on being a bride. We just blame my brother and sister in law. Katie thinks that was the most beautiful day!

Crawling

A little over a week ago, Luke began to officially crawl. Although he had been doing an army crawl (very slowly) for a while, he only just figured out the faster way to move. He also discovered in the last week, that he can not only crawl, but that he can pull himself to standing. I thought this would take longer to learn since the crawling was slower in coming. O well. This just means that I now have to remember that just having items off the floor is not enough anymore. I don't remember Katie being into so many things....ever! Is this just a boy thing?