Wednesday, February 14, 2007
any excuse for chocolate...

PS. Cole is currently singing, "Happy Valentine's birthday to you...Happy Valentine's birthday to you..."

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posted by Joanna Bolick @ 12:30 AM   7 comments
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Harper vs. the snow

This one is much more pragmatic about the snow. It's cold. My feet are wet. I'm ready to go inside, Mommy. Can't you just see it all in this look?

It snowed more yesterday afternoon while the kids were napping. There was still snow on the ground this morning, so we even went out and bought a sled...now that we have a little hill in the side yard that's perfect for it...

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posted by Joanna Bolick @ 11:56 AM   14 comments
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
finally, some house photos
So basically, we moved in right before Christmas, and promptly decorated the house for the holidays in addition to installing appliances and setting up furniture. Probably not the greatest time in the world to move, but it was what it was. Here's the view from our front porch on one of our first nights...


The second photo was taken in our living room on Christmas Eve after Santa had been by to visit.


Here's a glimpse at our lovely new dining room table made by my brother-in-law, Paul. As you can tell, we don't have quite enough matching chairs yet for the table, but we'll work on that later.



Here's the crowd that was at our house for dinner on Christmas Day - Mark's parents, my parents, my brother Mark, my sister Kristina and her husband (and table maker) Paul, and Paul's mom, Margaret. Oh yes, and two uncooperative children... At this point we'd just finished pulling apart our crackers, which is a tradition that Paul and his mom (who are from South Africa) shared with us. Each cracker tube has a prize in the middle of it, which Cole quite enjoyed.


So then, the day AFTER Christmas, the work began. We took all the furniture down from the 3 bedrooms which make up the top level of the house and pulled up the carpets in each. The carpet wasn't bad, necessarily, but the previous owners had a cat and we have allergies and it just wasn't a good mix. This is what each of the rooms looked like when we moved in:


Then Mark and his dad put in unfinished hardwoods which were sanded and painted white. Yes, painted white. While they were doing this my mom, brother, and I painted the walls in each of the 3 rooms, and my Dad did other odd jobs, like put up the new mailbox, hang curtain rods, fetch tools, paint rollers, paint, etc.

So here's what Cole's room looks like now:


As well as "princess" Harper's:


I'd show you our room, too, but alas, the platform bed we ordered did not come with hardware so it's still a work in progress. But I will tell you that the whole room design was based on a swatch of fabric I found a few weeks ago...and thankfully, Mark just let me do whatever I wanted. heh!

So anyway, that's it for now, but I do have to say a big THANK YOU to all of our wonderful helpers! They thought they were just being invited for Christmas and it turned into a whole lot more work. Thank you, everyone!

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posted by Joanna Bolick @ 9:15 AM   26 comments
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
vacation
Harper and I returned yesterday from our trip to Minnesota (and it was warm there! Like unseasonably warm!) I'll share more of a recap later (when I've caught up on my sleep), but I thought I'd start with these 2 photos. One of my favorite things about rural Minnesota is the unobstructed views of the horizon, so here's a sunrise photo taken at my parents' farm, and a sunset photo taken overlooking Clear Lake.






Anyhoo, I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! I helped Mom decorate the house for Christmas, which will have to give me my Christmas "fix" for a few more weeks until after we move BECAUSE WE SOLD OUR HOUSE! Sorry Brandy, I should have given you more warning... So whohooo for that, and safe travels, and good times with family, and the celebration of Advent which is almost upon us...

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posted by Joanna Bolick @ 10:57 AM   17 comments
Monday, November 20, 2006
snow, snow, snow
Fallin' on our faces...

Oh my word, it's snowing! I believe I said that outloud when I happened to look out our front door this morning. Good thing we just bought new hats for winter!





Obviously we have not purchased mittens yet...

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posted by Joanna Bolick @ 9:53 AM   12 comments
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      Hi! I'm Joanna, author of this journal. My husband Mark and I are photographers in Asheville, North Carolina. Most recently we collaborated on a 12 week beginner photography course, the contents of which you can find
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