Sunday, December 21, 2008

Home Improvement Day

Every so often we have Home Improvement Day. I Love Home Improvement Day.
The latest HID began with homemade cinnamon bread (incredibly domestic, I know!), and ended with a face-lift for our bathroom.

Bryan changed out the medicine cabinet and lights, while I shopped for a new shower curtain and towels. Before:
During:
After:
Even small changes can make a big difference I think!

North Pole?

This is the weather we woke up to this morning:


Maybe we live at the North Pole.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

great news

Great news- the blogging bug has finally spread to the other side of the family.

My lovely sister-in-law Kristin Scheffers joined the blogging world today, I'm so excited! She has lots of wonderful things to say- go check her out at: http://iftherewerewordstosay.blogspot.com/

Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween

We don't typically get a lot of trick-or-treaters at our house for some reason, which I always find disappointing. And then the ones we do get are often too old to be cute, just wearing some ugly mask for a costume, and holding out plastic bags begging for candy. Bleh.

But tonight Ashlee and Naomi brough Hannah and Sophia over to trick-or-treat, and they came dressed as twin bumblebees. They were by far the cutest costumes we saw all night.



Here Hannah shares her bee-antenna with Uncle Bryan. Awww :)

Welcome Abigail Grace Flinn!

Abigail Grace Flinn finally made her appearance yesterday morning, weighing in at 8.2 pounds. Quite a lot of progress for one who gave her parents such a scare at less than one pound! We got to go visit her last night- what a precious little girl! Congratulations Flinn Family!

Morning Routine

In honor of Amber's recent post (Hot Sheets) about her husband, Ryan, I thought I would share one of Bryan's newest quirks. Lately he has gotten very into having a morning routine. Now, Bryan has always been a creature of habit- he ate a bowl of Frosted Flakes every single morning for the first two years of our marriage (I once bought 15 boxes of Frosted Flakes at the grocery store because they were half off and I knew he would eat them all), followed by a long phase of Great Grains, then a slightly shorter phase of Wheaties, and currently his breakfast is oatmeal. Every single day. Oatmeal. He never switches it up, never is there the question of "hmmmm, what do I feel like for breakfast today?", if he makes a change it is a permanent change and he rarely looks back. The only problem this creates for me, is that any changes he makes are often without warning, and we might be left with 4 boxes of cereal in the cabinet that will no longer be eaten.

Anyways, the oatmeal breakfast is significantly more involved than a simple bowl of cereal, so Bryan has begun setting up his morning routine the night before. He puts the pot on the stove, the oats and raisins on the counter, and lays out the measuring cups next to his bowl and spoon. The coffeemaker is also prepped at this point.



Why this all needs to be laid out in such a perfect order the night before is beyond me. What a funny boy!