Happy Easter!!

I'm still not doing all that well at taking pictures. Hopefully, I get back into the swing of things soon! We had a fun Easter at the Fish house. Brian spent most of the day working on the kitchen and got quite a bit accomplished, too. He got the base cabinet built and temporarily installed among other things.


Emilia and I hung out with him outside while he worked, and she had a blast running around the yard. She thinks it's hysterical to throw the ball for LJ and watch him chase it!


For Easter Emilia got a new wagon. It has seats that fold up complete with seatbelts! She thinks it's the best and LOVES riding in it around the neighborhood.

She also got some other fun stuff in her Easter basket including bathtub markers, a new toy for the fridge, two new pairs of shoes (one from LuLu), and a great big box of sidewalk chalk.

It's been crazy hot here for about the past week so we've been busy finding some stuff to do. We've been playing outside in the morning before it gets too hot. Once Mother Nature remembers what season it is we may get back to the playground, but for the time being we've been going to storytime and finding some other indoor activities to keep us busy. We certainly are not complaining...I'll take this weather over cold and snow any day! We're going to a Rocknoceros concert at the mall tomorrow which Emilia will love!

it's been a while

I have not been very good at keeping everything updated lately...shame on me! We're moving forward on the kitchen but have run into some road blocks (the tile that we need was discontinued 2 years ago and we cannot find it anywhere). Here are a couple of pictures of Emilia playing at the park a couple of weeks ago. I haven't taken many pictures lately, which I just realized as I was looking through the folder for this post. I'll take some this weekend since it's Easter but these will have to do for now.
Here is one of Emilia enjoying some leisurely reading using LJ as her pillow. She LOVES him!
These are from a while ago when we went to look at some property. Emilia will go absolutely anywhere in that backpack. It's so comfy and she thinks that she's the "bees' knees" in it!

Kitchen Renovation

Yes, Brian and I have undertaken yet another household project. We are expanding the kitchen (into existing space)! Here is what it looked like before.

We started a couple of weekends ago by moving the upper cabinets to a new bulkhead and taking out the old bulkhead. We added some recessed lighting to the new bulkhead which looks amazing and adds so much extra light to the kitchen.



Then last night we moved the lower cabinets and counter out to their new position under the cabinets.


This weekend Brian will build new upper and lower cabinets and a new butcher block countertop in the new space next to the stove!

Emilia's first "official" hair cut

Emilia went to the salon to get her hair cut for the first time on Tuesday. I brought her to my stylist. She sat on the booster and got very excited when the put the colorful cape around her shoulders. She sat so still and nicely and even let Neshe blow-dry her hair. It looks so very cute!!




Then when she was all done at the salon we went and played at Legacy with Levi!! What a great day for Emilia!!

Snow Daze!

Well, we've gotten a butt-load of snow!! This is ridiculous in VA if you ask me! All told between these last two storms we got about 40". It's annoying to get that amount of snow anywhere, but it's downright debilitating in this area. They have no idea how to clear it and nowhere to put it. We saw a plow on our street only once since the beginning of the snow last Friday night! The good news is that Brian got two snow days out of the deal. They closed the job on Wednesday, and he couldn't get out of the driveway on Thursday so he stayed home again. The bad news is that he's scheduled to work all weekend.

LJ is wondering where is backyard went. He can barely get around because the snow is taller than he is. Brian trampled a narrow path through the backyard so that he can at least get more than two feet from the steps.


We're all getting cabin fever so we've been braving the cold, wind, and snow to take some short walks. Emilia doesn't really know what to think about all of it. These pictures were taken after the first snowstorm. I haven't taken any pictures of her outside since the second storm came through...just too cold and windy. As you can see the snow is nearly as tall as she is.


She decided to taste snow just to see what it was like...I guess now is the time to teach her about the dangers of "yellow snow". She was surprised by how cold it was, but ate quite a bit more before I cut her off. Silly lady!!

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Here is the video(s) that belongs with the last post. I had to split it into two so that it would upload.