once upon a December...

Now that it's been, what, over 2 months since Christmas, (yikes!) I've finally put all the pics on the computer. So, here are just a few things that we did during that wonderful, fast, crazy month, and the first week of January.

Ryan and I had a great Christmas spending a lot of time with our terrific families and each other. Ryan's brother Karl came and helped him put in a pull-down ladder on the attic entrance which helped the next projects he did be a lot easier. My dad came over a few days in a row to help Ryan with some electrical projects. They put an exhaust fan in our bathroom (love that!), and now that room and the garage now have their own gfci switches. They also put in an outlet on the front porch, another light in the hall and Ryan put some lights on the house on either side of the garage and installed a new kitchen sink!





















On December 29th our niece Bethany turned 8! I was fresh out of high school when she was born. I can hardly believe she's that old. I was able to finish the quilt for her baptism just the day before. It's the first time I've made a rag quilt and it was so much easier than I thought it would be. I was able to make it faster than any other smaller sized quilt I've done. It might just be my new favorite quilt style!








That's all I can think of that I took pictures of. Hopefully I'll have some pictures of the Allium bulbs I planted in bloom soon. They look like they'll blossom anytime now, thanks to all the Spring rain!