Our 6th Anniversary

This is a busy time of year for us! Ruby's birthday is a little over a week before our anniversary, and all that sandwiched between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is a lot of fun.

Anyway, we had planned for months to go to Ashland, OR for my cousin's wedding, but with the storms that came our way this month, it was really unlikely that was going to happen. We got tuned into another plan and it was hard to shift gears when at the last minute the freeway opened up and travel south was possible. Anyway, we stayed home and our kids went up to stay with Opa and Oma for two days.

Oddly, our romantic weekend away turned into a project weekend at home. This was a mutual decision with specific groundrules:

1. No garage projects

2. Built in naps and sleeping in

3. Breakfast out

We decided to paint Alice's room, which has been a literal eyesore for the whole year we've lived in this house. It was a lot of fun! We worked all day Friday with a short break to our ward Christmas party. It was after 1AM when we finished up and I didn't even feel tired.

On Saturday, we had breakfast at a nice little restaurant and then worked the rest of the day and made it to the last "worship" session at the place where we were married six years ago, the LDS Seattle Temple (really in Bellevue). We had a late dinner at a yummy wok and since we were halfway to my parents' house, we went the rest of the way there to sleep so we could take the girls back home first thing in the morning.

It was really nice of my dad to let us do this, because my mom ended up leaving a day late for the wedding and he had a full day with both kids and no carseats. It sounds like they had fun, and we are really grateful to have such a hands-on Opa.

Here are the before and afters of Alice's desk, which was the greatest change...

Here is a before shot...

Here is an after shot. I hate to post it because it looks like the paint is flourescent...and it isn't! It is actually really mild and not lemony at all. I love the color...but as much as I try to edit it to the right color, it is not working. It looks good in Photoshop, but not on blogger. It looks more like the real color in the desk picture.

We painted the room as a beginning of Alice's transition into her new big girl room, so this hodge podge of her baby furniture and bedding (what's left of it) is on the way out. We are excited about an Alice in Wonderland theme, and I'll post pictures in the future. I AM HATING THE YELLOW IN THESE PICTURES.