Pictures

Just a few pictures of things we have done this year.  Valentine's Day was fun with Laura and family.  We made some sugar cookies and dipped pretzels.   I have made bread and played with grandkids.  Our current project is redoing our living room.  I have book club here in March, so a living room redo was a must! More to come on that later.

Valentine Cookies!

Dipped Pretzels.. they were yummy!

Our pretty Cookies... 

Make a Snowman with Austen and Dirk

Here is our Snowman!  

Holding hands with our Snowman

In keeping with my goal to make bread, I made French Bread in February.  It turned out very yummy!

The key is to let it rise in the oven with hot water... it gives it a crusty crust and a moist center. 

My attempt at Pumpernickel bread.  

My first attempt wasn't so great, so I called my Mom and asked her what I did wrong and she gave me some good advise and then I tried again.  Second batch turned out so much better.  Thanks Mom. 

I adjusted the recipe and let the yeast work better for t he second batch. 

Bathroom Before and After

Some BEFORE pictures of our downstairs powder room bathroom. It needed a makeover in a big way.  We decided we could do the work ourselves, so we found an inspiration picture and began the demo!

We took down the mirror and shelves that were in the bathroom.

We ripped out this sink, it was cracked and falling apart.

AFTER

We found our paint at Home Depot.  It was OOPS paint so we bought it for $7.00.  SCORE!
Here we are putting in the crown molding.

New sink from COSTCO.  

Finished bathroom!  We love the way it turned out!

Finished crown molding.

Center molding and floor molding... David was getting sick of molding, but it turned out nice.

Once again,  Here is our inspiration bathroom

Here is our bathroom!

We loved the way it turned out!