The significant moments of our year in pictures...
January 6
A dumpster and port-a-potty in front of our house...let the demo begin
January 8
It doesn't take long to gut a house...too bad rebuilding isn't so fast
January 25
Checking out progress on the house on a nice day led to some time on the trampoline
February 15
My mom, the little girl, and I took a shopping trip to Ikea to get ideas for the new house
March 29
Bathroom tile is in
April 8
Kitchen cabinets are in...
...and the pantry is built and ready to be installed
April 30
Paint...
...doors...
...and a sunroom ceiling!!!
May 1
Kitchen drawers (I LOVE my corner drawers!!!)
May 7
Disaster #2
A paint fume explosion in the kitchen
Blew out the back window...
...and a hole in the dining room ceiling
(It also cracked some rafters and did some other damage.)
May 10
We rescued a turtle off a busy street. The girls named her Sparkle Betty and we set her free where she could roam without getting in the street.
June 29
We took a roadtrip of a lifetime with my parents
Big girl got to check off a bucket list item
We saw this too
And this
And Old Faithful, checking off one of my bucket list items
Dinosaur National Monument was almost the end of our road trip sight-seeing
July 12
We moved in!!!
July 14
The first artwork was hung
July 19
Thrilled to have been reunited with our sweet Izzy, who stayed with a friend during the rebuild (we also had my grandmother's dog, Molly, but we lost her in May)
September 6
This sweet little boy joined our family and made himself right at home on my bed.
His name is Romeo and he lives up to his name as a heart stealer.
October 26
Great Pumpkin Sunday...the big girl in costume
November 30
We decorated for Christmas. Romeo still chews, hence no ornaments on the lower part of the tree.
December 22
The big girl's gingerbread house (an annual tradition with Nana)
December 25
The big girl folded the napkins for dinner...
...and the little girl demolished her gingerbread house to eat the candy
There were other good moments that would have been included if I had pictures that didn't include the girls' faces.
All in all, it was not a terrible year. It wasn't a great one. It had some of the hardest moments I've been through, although not the hardest and it could have been much worse. Nonetheless, I'm glad to close the door on a year dominated by the fallout of fire. Here's hoping for a much calmer and smoother 2015. So far, we're starting off right.
