Cooking with the Leonards!

And by that I mean Aaron! It's that time of year again, Christmas cookies!!! On the menu this year, my favorite; Peanutbutter Balls, Russian Tea Cakes, Wreath cookies and of course the Gingerbread Houses! Now that we have a kitchen where we can actually walk around it's much more relaxed!
We're going to attempt 8-10 houses that my family will come up and decorate in a few weeks. I'm having a hard time with the peanutbutter balls because he left the dough out and I keep walking by stealing bites here and there, if I keep this up we'll have to start all over, Sad Day!
The best part is the family room is just off the kitchen and we can see the TV from the counter so we're watching all the classic Christmas Movies while we bake.

1st day of Fall or Winter??

We've headed up to Frisco, CO for a few days. Little did we know we'd be in a Winter Storm Warning! That's why we love Colorado. We're having way too much fun up here with mom and dad. They brought up bicycles and I'm thinking we should have brought the snow shoes instead! The best part is seeing the colors that are starting to change with snow on the ground. It's just beautiful. Well off to play in the mountains some more today!

Wow

So I'm such a slacker, June has been way busy. I amd going to try and update this soon... Weekend camping trips, Fathers Day on the Lake, Crazy Weather and Tomorrow Aaron's sister and our neice comes to our house. You can bet there will be pictures to add!!! Hope to have a spare minute to update this

SPRING BLIZZARD!!!!!

So we woke up this morning to quite a blizzard. We've gotten about 11" of snow so far. It's 3:36 pm. Aaron made it to work 26 miles North in Ft. Collins. I haven't left the house!! I've been busy making brownies, hot chocloate. Have a fire going in the fireplace. Oh ya cleaned the house and laundry. We're supposed to have our open house this Sunday. The storm is supposed to clear out tomorrow am and be in the 50's Saturday and Sunday. So I just have to scrape the deiveway and sidewalk. Should be fun in the wind!! The crazy thing is... I love it! I got out my snowshoes so if the wind dropps off, I may go for a "walk" around the neighborhood!

Hanging out with the family

This week my Sister-in-law had to be admitted to the hospital for some abdominal pains. Come to find out there is an issue with her pancerias. The good news is I got to hang out with my nephew and nieces for the day. They moved to Colorado from LA last summer and moved in not to far away from Dad's firestation. So they got a 1 on 3 personal tour of the Fire House. They loved it!! Even the 2 year old thought it was "pretty". Here was our day...

Life finally back to normal

Whew, moving is hard work and I never want to do it again! We finally got the last box moved and all the extra trash to the dump. You don't realize how much unnecessary stuff you actually have till you pick it up piece by piece and put it in a box to go back to the basement. I was very proud of myself and got rid of a bunch of stuff. It's still in the basement, but it's in a garage sale pile.


The fun part is now we can decorate and make this house ours. I'll take some pictures when the random clutter is put away. Still have hammers and screwdrivers in random places. My dad hung a book case for me only it didn't match. Well I found left over paint from the owners and painted that sucker purple!!! It matches the walls now and looks like a Barbie Book case. No mom, you can't store your 50 some Barbies...it's MINE!!!

And now the work begins

So now that we're proud home owners, the work begins, while testing all the pipes we discovered that the outside sprinkler valve cracked as well at the master shower. The only good thing is that the back of our shower is our vanity with easy access. New patch of drywall, some texture and paint and it's brand new.
My grandparents came up this past Monday to "see the house" well they saw it all right, ever square inch. Grandma set her self to cleaning baseboards, closets, behind toilets, and windows. Grandpa started taking down the blinds in the kitchen so we could start ripping that down. Today we primed the kitchen and tomorrow while Aaron and myself are at work, Dad and Brian are going to come up and texture so we can paint and hopefully get moving in soon. While grandpa and I tackled the kitchen Aaron and Dad set to some demo work, the section above the fireplace had a TV cut out, but not one that will fit our flatscreen so they set to tear out the old and build in new. That too needs texture tomorrow and paint and then we'll be set there. In 3 days we've moved almost everything. Just the stuff we need to live is still at the old house and hopefully as soon as we get a fridge we can move on over!!!! I can't wait, I'm tired of living on chip and warm pop. We'll off to bed so I can go to work and rest!!!!

It's finally ours!!!

Paise God! We finally have official word the house is ours. All we need to do is close. Which is set Jan 27. We'll get the carpets cleaned, get new appliances, take down the wallpaper in the kitchen and do a little remodel job above the fireplace so Aaron's TV will fit. We're aiming to move in the 2nd week of February. I'm giddy I'm so excited, this has been a long 22 weeks.

Happy 2009!

Well hopefully this year brings a house, and a full time job in Northern Colorado for me, we'll see what God's plans for the Leonards' are...

Aaron and I "rung" in the new year with our best (colorado) friends. We played Monopoly on Aaron's new Xbox until 11:57. Then we watched New Years with Carson. Very exciting I have to tell you. We took these "New Years" pictures, then we kicked out our friends and went to bed!