Saturday, October 15, 2011

Before and After

Ok, last post for the evening and we'll finally be caught up! Lance did an awful lot of work on the house over the summer, but perhaps what we are most proud of so far are the doors. When we moved in, the only interior doors that were finished and hung were the bathroom and furnace room doors. All the exterior doors were still unpainted. It took Lance several weeks to prime, paint, and hang all the interior doors, but the exterior doors were a nightmare. Since of course, they were already framed and hung, we had to take them off the hinges and then put tape and plastic over the whole house. We were actually without doors on the house for about a week. We were very blessed that no one broke in!

I didn't get pictures of all the doors (I'm sure it would bore you anyway), which we painted dark green on the outside and a lighter green color for the inside, but here is the best of them all.

Before:
After:
Ooooh! Aahhhh! It really is a great improvement and I am very thankful for and proud of my sweet husband who has worked so hard to make our house a home.

In other news, Lance told me a few weeks ago that the time had come to cut Andy's hair. I have been putting it off. There is just something about that fluffy, curly baby hair that is just so sweet I couldn't bring myself to do it. I knew he would look so much older without it! However, Andy has started to carry my headbands around as toys and when he manages to put them on his head I realized how long his hair had really gotten and I gave Lance the green light.

Before:


...during...

After:
The day after we cut it we realized that we had left the top too long, so it was back to the bathtub with our little boy for an extra trim. I didn't take another "after" picture, so this snapshot will have to do:

Andy has figured out how to push around the stepstool to get to what he wants (although he has an amazingly long reach even without it). Here he is turning off the digital box, which hooked up to the TV so we could watch General Conference, for the millionth time during the Sunday Afternoon session (I'm afraid I didn't catch too much of Conference this year).

With a new haircut and some new clothes (thanks to his most recent growth spurt), our baby is really starting to look like a big boy! I can't believe his first birthday is almost here. Sometimes I miss the inert little bundle that would nap in my arms, but it has been an amazing journey so far to see him grow into the wonderful, wiggly little--or big-- boy that he is now.

4 comments:

  1. i love the during photo when he is looking at the camera. "seriously, mom?"

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  2. Thank you for all 3 new posts, looking at those pictures really did cheer me up so much I feel a lot better today.
    That little boy sure is cute. I can see why you were reluctant to clip his sweet, curly locks. With all the curls gone he doesn't quite have that angelic that makes you forget how much trouble he can be.
    Great job, Lance those front doors look awesome. We need new front doors also how about living with us next summer :)

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  3. Well, finally! I had almost given up on checking your blog for anything new.

    I love the green door. The color looks sooo good. And that little boy of yours ls pretty cute too. Yesterday Emily was looking through the pictures Grandma took over the summer and lamenting over the fact that that cute little Andy will be so big when we finally get to see him next summer.

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  4. Yay! Something alive now.. Lance, I loved how you did the door! It looked beautiful! :D Well, little Andy looked so cute even he wasn't when he bites. :D

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