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Before & After

I forgot that I guess I never took video of our house AFTER we had done everything. I know I had posted the BEFORE video before, but I figured I would at least take the AFTER video (I thought maybe we could show it to the grandmas when we go back for Christmas, etc). We love our home, here is a little sneak peek for you :) [Sorry about the colors changing often, it is hard for my camera to not auto correct for the light coming in the windows - although it isn't sun... it's RAINING]

Before:



After:



Hope you liked the home tour :) It was great being your (silent) tour guide.

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New Layout

I know it isn't very holiday festive, but I updated it because I wanted to my Google AdSense. (Maybe it is just another scam type thing, but at least Google is more reputable :) ).

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I do like the dandelions (I just have to figure out a better format of my title so that it doesn't hide the words.

Christmas Tree

Our Christmas tree is UP! Hopefully it is up to stay. We had a slight issue of the base breaking while we slept Monday night and the tree falling down. We ended up having to buy a base that you normally use for live trees, taped the base with wood (so that the screws had something to grip into) and about a full roll of tape. I think we finalized most of our decor tonight :) You can check out the rest of the pictures here (but you may have to be one of my Facebook friends).





When are you putting up your decorations?!

I Won :)

I seem to be awfully lucky lately :) Today I was told by a friend that I won a book from her blog. I am quest excited for it to arrive. The original blog contest is located here.

The book is Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way [Hardcover]. Here is the write up on Amazon -

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Niequist (Cold Tangerines) returns with an often humorous and always contemplative series of personal essays on bittersweet experiences, illustrating through her own life that "rejoicing is no less rich even when it contains a splinter of sadness." Spiritually, the book bravely sets out to decipher the paradoxically co-dependent nature of happiness and grief. But Niequist's title should not be seen as simply a convenient theological metaphor; i t is also a literary device. Impressively, many of Niequist's perfectly concocted chapters weave in culinary themes, evoking the sensory, physical experience of the bittersweet along with the spiritual sense of it. When writing of deep friendship and the loss that sometimes accompanies it, her narrative often revolves around a dinner table, a cooking club, or a farmer's market. Niequist's ability to describe the sensation of eating a peppery arugula salad punctuated with sweet blueberries is just as evocative as her ability to express the intricacies of love, loss, hope, and doubt. Readers of all faiths will find this book courageous, sincere, poetic, and profound. There's nothing bitter in this sweet treat of a spiritual memoir.

YAY GINGER! Thanks for the awesome contest!

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