Bonfire!

Saturday was absolutely beautiful here and we were out enjoying it. Cory was burning brush all afternoon from the trees they cut down last fall. So we had a last minute bonfire/grilling party with the family. It was really fun and some of us were out until after 11pm enjoying the nice weather, the warm fire, the full moon and No Bugs!!
Not for long though, those bugs will find us, they always do.
We are definitely enjoying our new location and our backyard. Come over and enjoy a bonfire with us sometime.

Work Weekend at G & G Reinertson's

We were down visiting G & G Reinertson a few weeks ago. Cory worked on the Garage and Noah was not far behind. He loves to be with his daddy and he also loves to take things out of his tool pouch. He was busy handing Cory nail after nail after nail!

All Smiles at the Minnesota Zoo!

Cory had to be in the Twin Cities on Monday for some classes so we all went down on Sunday and spent the afternoon at the Minnesota Zoo.

Noah gives us this big cheesy grin every time
the camera comes out. He shuts his eyes and shows us his teeth!

My two cheesy smiling Boys!

Cheesy Mom had to show her smile too!

Easter with the Reinertson's!

We were at Grandma & Grandpa Reinertson's for Easter.
Noah loved being the center of attention!

Noah was all spiffed up for Church.
He looks happy about it, right?



The Grand kids, minus 2.
We missed you Amelia & Torunn!

Noah loved playing with his big cousin Ashley.

I have finally taken the time to upload pictures to our blog.
It once again has been awhile. So you will have to
browse through the new
entries. Noah continues to keep us
busy and on our toes.

Last Saturday Cory worked, so Noah and I went out
to the lake and did some sledding.
It was finally a warm enough day to be outside.

Noah seemed to like being pulled on the sled.

We even got my parents dog "Karly" to pull the sled.
It didn't last long though.

Here are the Veum boys. We were at the Pizza Ranch.

Most of the pictures I try to capture end up looking like this.
No one likes to sit still long enough.

Here is our big boy learning to color. He loves sitting in the big chair. He mostly just plays with the crayons and eats them on occasion. But you have to learn somehow, right?

Great Grandma Bev was over and Noah had the pleasure of reading stories with her. Grandma Bev is a wonderful story teller. She had Noah just giggling from the noises she was making. She is a very animated story teller. I could still sit and listen to a story read by Grandma Bev. She just has a way of captivating you as she tells the story. Thanks Grandma Bev!

Kitchen Before Pictures

This is the wall we took out and moved the fridge to the other wall.

This is the wall now with the opening and fridge.

We took out the small window and put in a patio door.
A deck will come some day!

Kitchen After

This is where the fridge was. It opened the whole room up by taking down the cupboards and moving the fridge.

This is our new hardwood flooring. Much improved from the old ones.



We have not finished this side. There will be a desk area under the opening and a pantry/broom closet where the boxes are sitting.


Cory cut this hole in the kitchen wall. This is looking in from the living area.

This is looking at the kitchen from the dining room.
We pretty much gutted the whole kitchen and this is the end result!

The Many Faces of Noah!

Laughter!

This was too funny not to catch on camera.

More Noah pictures!

Noah found these and put them on
all by himself. He loves to imitate his
daddy!

Noah and Bodin peaking out the window.
I thought this was too cute!

"Front row seat" ! Noah loves
to watch out the patio door and
he must have decided he needed a
good place to sit.

First Black eye. He fell in the tub last night and
hit the corner of his eye.

Working Hard. We often find him under his tool bench
fixing with his toy screw gun.

This one is for you Keisha!

For those of you have been wondering if we had fallen off the face of the earth, well we have not.
Keisha was about to remove me from her links list so I thought I had better get to it.
We have certainly been busy. We have officially moved as of (sometime before Christmas, I can not recall a specific date right at the moment). For those who did not know, we bought our new home in September and have had to do a few minor "things" to the house. Such as removing everything except the walls, and we even took out one of those. We have been busy and have had a wonderful crew of help. ( I will post pics of the house soon)
Noah is now 18 months, can you believe it!? He is such a character and has been a great source of entertainment for us. He is talking more everyday. Some of his favorite words are "Whoaw", he calls me "Ma ma", and has learned that his Daddy's name is "Cory" and now likes to refer to him as "Cory". (Kinda funny but we are not encouraging this.) He knows how to say "Noah" and he is often heard calling for himself as we would be calling for him.
He says cracker, all done, Amen, up, please, thank you, bub bye, love you, bum pa for Grandpa.
I heard him copy me say "What are you doing" which came out more like "what you duin".
He likes to walk around with the phone and we often hear him say "Hi" and jib jabber away.
Anyway, I could brag all day long about my little man!
Added some random pics from the past month. The first picture is the view from our front door the first morning after we had moved in. It was a sunny winter day with all the trees covered with ice and snow. I thought it was pretty and enjoyed the beautiful view God placed in front of me that very morning.



Noah is always trying to be in on the action and
likes to bring his toy tools over and help.

Just one of the many silly things he does!

Admiring our Christmas tree and testing his limits.

Christmas Eve at my G & G Albertson's.

Hard to move with all those layers.
It was a warm day so we went outside
to play in the snow.

Catching up on the news!

Taking a break and relaxing with G&G Komestakes.