Redecorating Central

Finally took some pictures of the newly decorated bedrooms and bathroom.  Almost completely done - a few more details, but relieved to have it put back together - Whew!

Brooke's new room.  "It's Pinkalicious"

Macy's newly decorated room

Don't mind the blue painters tape - doing some line straightening. 

Morgan's new room - still need a rug and valances are backordered.

Bathroom before...

Bathroom during...

After

Packers, Snow Storms and Beaches..Oh my!

Hi sisters.  Long-time-no-post.  If you haven't heard, I've been busy redecorating ALL 3 of the girls bedrooms - because I have nothing better to do - lol.  (More of that to come, with pictures of course, on my next post) Here are a few pics from the last 3 weeks.  

Go Green & Gold!

Morgan doing the "Raji" in her cheese-head hat

I'll huff, I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down

Matt used Jahnke's bucket-loader to build a sledding hill right in our back yard!

And I got to escape it all for a few days!

Before and After (and some other things)

BEFORE

AFTER

During

Doug and Evelyn get us started on sheet rocking

Fritz and Ashley work on the floor

Ashley and Fritz cut the tile

We're finally pretty much finished with our little kitchen project! We took out the wall between the kitchen and the breakfast nook (getting rid of some pretty ugly wood paneling), replaced the floor between the rooms, painted, new fixtures, etc. We still need a table for the nook, but its pretty much done! So glad to have the kitchen clean and the fridge in the spot where it belongs. Couldn't have done it without Doug and Evelyn and Fritz and Susanne : )

And randomly, Ashley groomed Carmen today to make her pretty for Dad's upcoming visit :) I just thought it was a cute picture. She's so patient!

AND LASTLY, GO PACKERS! What a game! Wish I was there to watch it with you all and celebrate! Have a great week. XO

Bits and pieces of January @ Deb's house

Cheering on the Badgers New Years Day

Fast asleep after a late night partying new years eve with his favorites - Cooper, legos and mythbusters on tv.

Practicing his speech on Abraham Lincoln

Jacob Wilkes Booth waits in the shadows to pelt Mr. Lincoln with the nerf gun.

St. Johns Green vs. St. Johns White...thanks goodness we won!

Emily comes prepared to games.

Pinewood Derby





New office

This picture was taken this morning from the balcony of the new office we move into in a couple weeks. It was super foggy and the two towers you see poking out of the fog on the left are the top of the really tall bridge I bike across over the river everyday. When biking across this bridge this morning., I couldn't see two feet in front of me (normally you can see all of downtown, the river, etc.). Just thought it was a cool picture :)

Lucky loggers and Go Packers!

So that really old, huge azalea I was so excited about blooming and posted a picture of in my last post is now in the plant hospital... Ashley and I finished pruning our three out of control plum trees in the front yard this weekend. There was a HUGE branch in the middle of the third one, and the tree is surrounded by power lines, phone lines, a street busy with people and bikes, ours and our neighbor’s houses, etc. We definitely had an audience of neighbors with noses pressed against their windows. This is what our conversation probably looked like to them: “Um, Ashley, are you sure this is a good idea? That branch is HUGE.” “Yep, its fine. Just pull that rope really hard when it starts to fall.” “But then won’t it fall the wrong way?” "Nope, it'll be fine." "I'm not so sure about this....." At this point, three men walk by. “Whoa, you’re not going to.... Wow, we gotta see this.”

Ashley saws at the branch for ages, it finally cracks, I stop directing traffic to pull the rope, the branches catch the phone line to the house, it hangs there for a bit but doesn't pull it down. But, it lands on the 70 year old azalea with a huge CRACK. It broke off some good branches, and a big one is cracked. As you can see in the picture, Ashley constructed a bandage and sling. We’re hoping for a full recovery. : ) One of the three guys says, “Wow, that took some serious balls” before they keep walking down the sidewalk.

That night we had a neighborhood potluck across the street and everyone who was watching us got to tell us about their similar “lucky logging” incidents as they called them. So at least they hopefully don't think we are entirely crazy for trying to get the branch down ourselves. Hopefully the azalea still blooms this spring! Now we just have a ton of branches to cut up and take to the yard waste place. If only we actually had a yard to burn or just let the branches be...

Hopefully it makes it! Its looking pretty rough...

We also made it on Saturday to a Packer bar just a few blocks from our house to watch the game. It was packed with fans. Ashley got a laugh out of how hard core the Packer fans were - still cheering like crazy for a field goal at the end of the game when they were 20+ points ahead. We got (another) not so good picture with the phone at the bar. :)

Go Packers!

We got the kitchen painted and finalized this weekend too... Pictures to come. Can't wait!

Go Packers!

Hi sisters.  Here is an update from our week.  A pretty ordinary week at the price household - other than Powderhorn burning down and not having a bathroom!  I wanted to post a picture of the fire but haven't downloaded an pics yet from the internet.  I'll wait to post the pics of the bathroom until it's all done.  Everyone was pretty excited about the Packer win last night - Super Bowl Bound??

Morgan's Packer-themed birthday party.
 Don't you love the G and B sausage and cheese platter?!

While it looks like an empty bathroom vanity box on the outside...

It's the perfect picnic spot for Saturday lunch.
Remember those days when a cardboard box could entertain you for a whole day?

I love this picture for a couple reasons:
First, the lighting makes me happy - a little bright sunshine during the gray days of winter.
Second, some quality sister time - in the nude:) 

Macy's new favorite book - Curious George.
 She falls asleep reading every it every nap and bedtime.