Our Lady of the Snow

These posts are all out of order, but such is life.

Meet our snow lady.

Yes, she has mums for buttons.  

 We made her during Lilly's first snow on Nov 18th.

Good thing; it's pretty much the most snow we've had all winter.

 

Lilly Meets Santa

Lilly meet Santa.  

Santa meet Lilly.

No Tears here.

They are the best of friends.

We had a baby. We named her Lilly.

Lilly Mickelsen.

7 pounds 7 ounces.

20.5 inches. 

Perfect as the day is long.

 

Lilly's Nursery

Lilly's nursery is coming together. We just finished the mobile and now it seems almost complete.

The Crib

From the get go, I knew I had to replicate a yellow crib I had seen online. So when we found a blue linden crib on sale it was ours! When we told the sales lady that we we're going to paint it yellow, I'm pretty sure she didn't want to sell it to us anymore. At any rate, it was ours and we picked out paint chips, observed them in all lights of the day against the wall color and finally settled on the perfect yellow. We took the crib down to the shop and sprayed it and it didn't quite seem like the yellow was perfect anymore. We decided it was probably poor light and to let it dry and bring it home. So that's what we did and it was worse! The paint was practically glowing! So Jeff tried stripping it, which turned into a mess and a lot of sanding, we finally got it ready for try number two. We picked an off the shelf spray paint this go around and it turned out pretty great!

Bedding

Thank goodness for people with skills, because "hey, let's make baby bedding, even if you don't know how to sew." I found the floral sheet set and new I wanted baby bedding made out of it. Aunt Louise and Melissa we're down right before the Fourth of July and helped pick out coordinating fabric.

Bird Mobile

Another example of seeing something, but lacking in skills. I found the pattern, sewed 1 1/2 birds and mom sewed the rest - but hey, someone had to stuff them while she sewed. Jeff, Lilly and I picked the sticks up from the backyard. We hot glued those babies on, and Jeff did the hard part of making sure everything balanced and hanging them!

Letters

Jeff cut the letters out and I mod-podged some scrap book paper on them. Funny story - we started handing them right before Lilly's blessing, but didn't quite get it finished before Sunday. We had started in the middle to make sure everything was centered and evenly spaced (ok, Jeff did), we got three letters hung before we quit...I-L-L. We love you baby girl.

She had to have this...

Her mom said so. It's only right she have somewhere to put her dirty clothes.

Safety Is Our #1 Priority

It's all about safety at the Mickelsen household. To shield ourselves while surfing the internet we've started wearing our helments. What!? You mean to tell me you aren't protected?

Our House

For those of you who haven't heard yet, we are officially new home owners. Long story short, Steph saw a house listed on Craigslist, we called, looked at it, and bought it. As we have never done this before, we have nothing to judge it by, but it seemed like a fairly simple process. We had previously talked to the bank (First Federal) to find out what our monthly payments would be and our price range, so basically we were pre-approved. We made the owners an offer, they countered and we settled on that counter offer. We feel like we got a good deal on the house, I know we got a killer interest rate on our mortgage, and we LOVE the house.
Not a real good picture of the house, but we'll get some better ones. Red brick, red bar tile roof, mature landscaping including a small pond in the back yard. YEAH US!

This is a view from the front door looking into the living room. Kinda messy, I know, but we just moved in and are still unpacking and placing.

Catching Up

So, we haven't updated for a while, so I think it's about time. Back in February, for Valentines Day, we went to Sun Valley. We had a great time, and we stayed in a little bed-n-breakfast. The next morning, we go out to the car to leave...
yup, that's a fox - we managed to get a picture of him as he stopped to look at us one more time before over the snow bank. This was in the MIDDLE OF TOWN!! I guess it's not really uncommon up there, but I don't ever remember seeing one that close unless I was driving and it was running by.


So, skipping forward to about three weeks ago, Steph and I were driving along by the old K-Mart (for those of you who know where that is) and this is what we saw at the new Maverick.

The Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile!! We couldn't resist taking a picture of it!