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 The first clips are her walking, though they are a little out of date...she is more of a "pro" now.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.