Our Little Christmas Joy!

The Getter family is really looking forward to Christmas. My side (Susan) of the family is going to come up to Tulsa since Ben has to work Christmas night. We wanted to share some Christmas pictures we took of Anara. Minnie is being so patient with Anara in this first picture. Anara was being really cute and wanted to give Minnie hugs and kisses. Minnie is saying SAVE ME!


We took Anara to see Santa Claus and there was a little play area for kids. She had fun climbing into the plane.


Looking back at her daddy and giving him a smile!
Anara was so excited about seeing Santa. She really doesn't know who he is and what he does but she can say Santa and she is into talking to strangers so it was a great combination. While we were standing in line she kept saying hi Santa and waving at him. She also kept trying to cut in line and tried walking up to Santa before it was our time. Of course when it was her time, she was scared to death! The picture we paid for is actually pretty good but this one you can see her true feelings. : )

New Video

A little video of Anara and her daddy "dog pile", and some new tricks Anara has learned from her mommy.

Dog Pile and more... from Ben Getter on Vimeo.

Hands to the Face

I have posted about Anara's crazy sleeping habits before but I just have to do another one. She once again was sleeping on her stomach up on her knees with her butt in the air. We managed to get a picture.


The funny thing though was once she woke up we realized that she must have been sleeping on her hand because she had perfect fingerprint marks on her cheek. They are so perfect in fact that you can make out her fingernails! Kind of creepy actually! I wish the picture was a little better but you can still make out the markings.

Another room bites the dust!

The living room is now finished!!! Most of the work was done back in the summer but there was still a 2nd coat of paint on a few things that had to be finished.


To get a true feel for how far the room has come, you need to look at the before picture. Yucky wood paneling walls, fireplace with no mantle, spindles on the stair opening, yuck, yuck, yuck!


I textured over the paneling so the lines are gone. I then painted the walls and used a stain over that where I made the texture stand out. In the picture it just looks like funny lines but in person it is accentuating the texture.



Another before picture. This house has awesome storage but the built in bookcase just looked terrible!


Here is a picture looking toward the kitchen area and you can see that the bookcase now stands out. It also amazed me the difference that was made when we added the mantle.


Now we are moving on to the bathrooms! This weekend we are going to tile over the floor in the hall bathroom. This house has four bathrooms which is great but they are all SCARY! Here are a few before pictures so you can get an idea of what I am dealing with. I will make sure and post the after pictures as soon as each one is finished!

Here is the hall bath that we are doing first. Ben and I actually use this the most because it is larger than the master bath.


This is the master bath.



This is the bathroom off of the laundry room. I need to take a better picture of the worst bathroom which is the upstairs guest bath. Just think baby blue tile..... everywhere!

Family Fun!

Grace's (our niece) birthday party was this weekend! What a fabulous party! Sarah did a great job and Anara and Grace certainly had a wonderful time.

Anara had a blast climbing up the stairs and sliding down!

Grace had to get in on the fun!

We also put the girls in their Halloween costumes so we could take pictures and then we took Anara to our old Church's Trunk or Treats. Aren't they cute!!!

I know I am biased but I just think Anara makes the cutest Scarecrow!

My funny girl!

My daughter certainly entertains me! First off, she is the funniest sleeper. She likes to sleep on her tummy up on her knees. Basically with her booty straight up in the air. We managed to get a picture and I just had to share it!


The next thing....her hair. Or lack there of. Her hair is at that stage where she has some, but not a lot. Basically, she looks like a boy. I decided to try to make a little pony tail on her head to see if that would help her look more like a girl. Ummmm.....NO! It was really funny looking.

So then after leaving it in for a little bit, I finally decided to take it out. Then she had this really cool mohawk thing going on! Ben and I had fun laughing at her!


I am not too sure that she liked us laughing at her!

Our Baby Pumpkin

The weather was cold, wet and nasty so the Getter family decides it is the perfect time to go to a pumpkin patch out in the mud!!! Anara had a lot of fun and was very interested in the animals and was an excellent sport about posing for pictures. She is actually wearing her Halloween costume. She is going to be a scarecrow and we thought it was a perfect outfit for her to wear in a pumpkin patch. She only fell in the mud (getting mud everywhere!) once. :)

Her daddy is so good at getting a professional looking picture.
He just saw the barrel sitting on the ground and decided it would make a great prop!

Anara has learned how to stick out her tongue and she thinks it is sooo much fun to do!

I can't begin to tell you how many times I put the hat on her head.
She kept wanting to take it off and play with it!

Such a little farmer!!

The really funny part was when the goat tried to eat her hat!



Now for some video! The first clips are her walking, though they are a little out of date...she is more of a "pro" now. Be sure to watch the "dancing" at the end.

Anara walking and dancing from Ben Getter on Vimeo.

It is complete!!!

Finally! After weeks and weeks (going into months and months) of living with a war zone kitchen, the kitchen is complete! It was definitely well worth the wait. I have included the before and after pictures so you can truly get a feel for what it looked like when we bought it. Scary! My family and I did all of the work (except install the granite) and I have to give a big thanks to my Dad, Mom, Uncle Robert and Aunt Julie for helping!!!!

The completed kitchen!!!

This is the before picture of the bar area that looks out into the
living room. The living room is almost complete and I will post
pictures soon when it is finished!

You can get a glimpse of the changes to the living room in this picture.

The before picture of the refrigerator area. Take a nice
long look at that yucky floor!

We had to take out the cabinets over the refrigerator
because we were worried that our refrigerator wouldn't fit!

Those drapes were so disgusting to take down! The house is 50 years
old and I bet those drapes were 50 years old!

This is the war zone environment that we were living in.
I thought I was going to go crazy!

Ahhhh....so much better!

Yuck!!!

Yay!!!

The cook top used to be on the island and it had cabinets
above that really blocked the room and made it feel smaller.

Again a picture of our warzone. This was during the demolition phase!

You can see that we removed the cabinets and put pendant lights
as well as moved the cook top over to the rt. I now have the worlds best island!

We took out the cabinets that were above where we moved the cook top
to and added a stainless steel vent. A waste of space but it sure is pretty!

If we were going to be staying here longer than three years I would have liked to have had the cabinet doors replaced. Since we are basically trying to flip this house for a profit, that wasn't really in the budget. So my solution was to paint them. They are so old and beat up though that you could still see all of the dents. I then used a glaze over the paint and that really seemed to hide all of the imperfections in the cabinets.

Football Lovin'

Football season is here! Ben had to make sure that Anara could say football prior to the season starting. She loves the word now but calls any ball she sees a football. We went to a University of Oklahoma football watching party (yes, we now live in Oklahoma so that is what we have to do!) but we couldn't go without bringing a little of our Aggie spirit. Anara was our representative for the evening and looked so cute we just had to take some pictures!

"Gig 'Em Aggies!"

I just love her blue eyes in this picture. Just like her daddy!

Anara was helping me get ready. She grabbed a blush brush and
was imitating me. It was so cute until she decided it was more fun
to eat it. Then she didn't like it as much!

A little afternoon fun with her daddy!