Christmas Day Videos

These are our singing Christmas hats that Santa left with our stockings.

A little video clip of our singing hats



Greg wrestling with Jayce and Hudson

And in this one, Greg is "shocking" Hudson - it's too cute!

Christmas 2009

This year, our first Christmas together was spent in Washington
with the Rose side of the family. Although I missed being with my family in Idaho,
it was so much fun to join in all the fun and traditions with Greg's family.
I still can't believe how early we woke up when the youngest in the
house being in high school. It was about 7:45am when Kayleb came
bouncing in saying "It's Christmas!!"
And so the festivities began...

I was so lucky to get in on one of the
best things about the Rose Christmas -
the stocking
As you can see, they take stockings pretty seriously.
Santa packed ours with all sorts of goodies, games, and fun!

Greg trying to keep Zoe out of all our stocking stuff

Kristy just opened her iTouch that Kayleb gave her

First Christmas together!

Once the presents were opened, we moved into the kitchen for a great breakfast.
It's mostly prepared by the guys, but the girls helped out to get things moving.
We had all worked up quite the appetite.
After eggs, hash browns, sausage, bacon, cinnamon rolls, and orange julius'
we were all pretty stuffed and ready for a little nap!

We were joined early afternoon by the rest of the family!
More presents, food and games!

Dan, Stacey, and Hudson

Zoe being protective of the gifts

Kayleb was VERY excited about his new PS3

Dan and Gary loving their new ear warmers!

Megs looking adorable in her super cute head wrap

And Hudson working on his shooting skills!

After all the gifts were exchanged, we all moved into the kitchen again
to get going on the Christmas dinner.
After stuffing ourselves on some delicious food,
we ended the evening playing some games.

We had such a wonderful Christmas
and hope you all did as well!

Girls Night Out

Wednesday night, all the sister's got together
to celebrate Leslie's birthday
(which was earlier this month)
and the night started off great with
Kristy breaking here Pedi chair!
Ok, she didn't actually break it, but after she tried to
adjust the water temperature, it started leaking all over.

The leaking eventually stopped and the pedicures went on.

Our photographer there, Megs, decided to capture an adorable pic of herself :)

She did get a couple of great shots of all the girls!

Stacey, Kristy, me, Leslie, and Megan
(such gorgeous sis-in-laws!)

Our pretty toes
We did lose Kristy for awhile,
only to get her back at the end of dinner
and lose Megs.

Our dinner at the Olive Garden was delicious,
and the movie was ok,
but it was a great night out with the ladies!!

Our Condo

After about 2 long months, we are finally done

and have moved into our condo!

It was quite the process but totally worth it.

Be prepared for picture overload :)
I tried to put everything in order but I'm sure you

all know how uncooperative blogger can be with pictures.

And yes, I used an 80's effect with all the before pictures!

Greg tore off all of the doors and the frames

And we put a fresh coat of white paint on

our sweet popcorn ceiling!

Painting.....

My orange room

We decided to tile the floor in the bathroom


Greg found out as he was tearing up the linolium

that there were 3 different layers

He doesn't ever look at our blog anyway,

so I knew I could get away with posting some

behind pics!

Cutting the tile...

This next pic is way out of place. One of the last things we did

was put all the wall plates back on. If you look close,

you can see that every screw is the same direction.

And you can bet that every other plate looks the exact same.

If you know Greg, this won't surprise you.

I even caught him with his level,

making sure they were all perfectly straight!

So, the place we bought our carpet actually ended up selling

it a little before we went to pick it up.

(We bought our carpet pretty much at the beginning)

We weren't too happy when we found this out,

especially because we matched everything based on the carpet colors,

and we had to order it in.

But because of their screw up, we actually got a

free upgrade in carpet. Not exactly the color we wanted,

but definatley nicer and softer.

The day before we were to have our furniture delivered,

Greg went paint shopping to find a darker brown to match

the carpet a little better. He found a color, and after painting an

accent wall he said

"hey, do you want to paint stripes on our big wall?"

so we did....

and it turned out pretty sweet!

Our new bathroom sink faucets

the old one

Please excuse the mess that is in some of these pics.

We are still doing a little more unpacking.

Our Christmas present to each other -

our big tv :)

As you can tell (all the doors against the wall)

we still have some things to do. The doors need to be painted

and our new kitchen sink needs to be put in.

We are so excited to finally be in our new place and

are eagerly awaiting any visitors that might want to travel

(near or far!) to come and check out our new place!

Oh, and see us too :)