Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2012! I spent last night ushering in the new year at PJ's. Michelle and I went out to supper with her parents (Chris was deciding to be non social), and we stayed hoping to win one of 6 trips to Vegas.


Miranda, Nick, and her sister Heather also showed up at PJ's.

And then she convinced Cindy to stop by too.

Got a lot accomplished this past year:

- Complete rehab from my knee surgery

- Roxy (cat) made a complete recovery from her eyelid surgery

- Five (cat) made a complete recovery from a broken leg

- Removed the boiler from the basement (in pieces)

- Got the house on new supports

- Shingled the house

- Removed the carpet from the pool table room, also removed the ceiling & the closet

- Complete demo of the new laundry room

- Finished the duct work to all the upstairs rooms (yay! we have heat!)

- Rewired the whole upstairs

- Painted the entryway

- Touched up the woodwork in the entryway/stairs (had paint all over the edges)

- Patched & painted the guest bedroom

- Filled in the old air conditioner hole, insulated and sheet rocked the whole wall in the living room

- Insulated the attic (can't wait for our heat bill to drop & our upstairs is already more comfortable)

- Rearranged the stuff in the basement so our stuff could also fit down there

- Got my first layout published in a magazine
- Celebrated 5 years of marriage!

- Applied to be on American Pickers, but didn't quite make the final cut

- Chris started playing farmer boy - baling alfalfa and hay

- Got the corvette done

- Hiked Harney Peak (and made it to the top!)

- Stood by and helped 2 amazing people get married (Jen & Jason)

- Started doing Zumba (and stuck with it for almost half the year, and still going strong)

- Had a successful Christmas at our house (although the flu struck both Chris and Gary)

Things to look forward to/to do in 2012:

- Finish the laundry room project

- Remodel the bathroom

- Finish the pool table room project

- Annual snowmobile trip in February

- Finish the upstairs hallway project

- Continue with my Zumba classes twice weekly and hope to stick with the Bar Method as well
- Participate and complete Photo a Day for all of 2012

- Also start doing Project Life (for scrapbooking) for 2012

- I already have 4 layouts out for publication in 2012!

- Africa! with Amy in April