Vintage Airplane Nursery!

Well I haven't posted anything in a while because I've been hard at work on my latest project. Christina and Ben's nursery! I hope I made it everything they wanted it to be.

It all started with this wonderful vintage airplane picture she wanted as part of the wall mural.

Then it developed into adding this Cherry chair rail with the distressed wainscoting boards all around the room.

I can't wait for baby Luke to see it!

Historical Day for our Country

Even thought I voted Republican you can't help but be in awe over this historical event! It was pretty amazing to watch. What I love is that there is a whole lot more children that have proof that they can truly be anything they want to be when they grow up. Now we just need to have a women president and nobody is left out of their dreams
Obama's inauguration: Record crowd gathers on Mall to celebrate 'achievement for the nation'

I've been tagged!

Carol tagged Teresa Chris Christina and me! This mean's when your tagged you have to post your 4th picture of your 4th file in your pictures folders. So here it is! My daughter Emily having a great time on Christmas morning 2008 Sledding on a hill at the nearest golf course in over a foot of snow and the snow just kept coming! Great memories!

Go to their Blogs in my list of favorites off to the side to see what pictures they posted! (Johnsons Jots, Gramma's house, Ben & Christina and The Kaatz family)

It's a Girl

Well it's official! We have now added a girl to our family! Cricket is her name and we were lucky enough to get this sweet thing from our friend Alison who breeds Yorkshire Terriers. Isn't she a doll! Such a great temperment. She is like a dream. Here is a picture of Emily holding her!

Here are the two of them! Cricket on the left and Oliver right! They are so happy together! Alison husband once told us that they are like potatoes chips you just can't have one! So I guess he was right! Thanks Steve!! Cricket's mom is Roxy and grandmother Gypsy. Olivers mom is Niki, Grandmother Britt. You can go on Alison website by just clicking on the picture to the side or go to http://www.allyorkie.com/

The Great Melt Down

The Big Melt down.....

Well the New Year has begun! We have had the big melt down of ice and snow. Our last patch of snow melted away just a couple of days ago. And I have to say that it is nice to be back to normal Washington weather again. Although no weather has been normal of late, with wind and rain we have been getting, it has been like turning on the fire hose and pelting us with non-stop rain.

I find that I really don't mind it though, I have to say I like the excitement of all, the storms with rain or snow or wind. I'm a true North Westerner and love the change in seasons we experience and the beauty in it all. It adds a element of surprise and excitement. I look forward to the stormy nights and the uncertainty of it all. You find everyone bonds together to help each other instead of just going on with their typical daily routines. Besides it makes my fireplace, candles and my leather chair real inviting to sit in and read a book and snuggle with Oliver or Carle.

I feel such compassion for those right now dealing with the floods. Some areas of Washington have gotten as much as 7 inches of rain. That is just incredible.

So I've kept my self busy with taking the decorations down and I am sorting and purging through all dark corners of our house! Huge job but it's time! Twenty years of marriage and four kids you accumulate so much stuff. Half of which I wouldn't miss! So I'm trying not to feel like this character after the melt down with all my possessions and treasures.

So Yesterday I took a break from purging and I had a fun day with my girlfriends. We spent the whole day yesterday together and went up to Bellevue to watch the movie "Benjamin Buttons", got to love that Brad Pitt!~ Then we had lunch and then to the CONTAINER STORE!!

Going to the Container Store is one part in the process to help me to have any hope in organizing my home with everything that I don't pitch.

This week I have gone to my deepest insecure depths of emotional attachment to stuff and really challenged myself! It's a little scary but equally emotionally freeing. So if I was to say what my "New Years Resolution" is, it would have to be to purge all the unnecessary things emotional or otherwise and to put everything else in its place. And if I have ever shared my deepest darkest corners of my house with you, then you would know this was a necessary task! Oh but I hate to throw and pitch useful things away! The lotions and potions the half used pens and pencils and so on! I hate it. But I will come out victoriously after it is all over and I will be FREE!! LOL

Our year is starting out busy with Emily's Fastpitch season quickly nearing she is spending as much as four hours a day on conditioning getting ready for her tournaments. Jared is starting basketball and Jonathan is practicing for his upcoming piano recital. And Nathan has really done exceptional academically! Carle enjoys updating his Salt water fish tank with the newest technology and I'm starting full swing into my busy season of painting.

In between all this the kids (Emily included) are into Lego's and Nerf guns wars that are the really big hit in our family!

Hope everyone is enjoying the New Year! Let us know what your New Years Resolution is???

Happy New Year!!!

The Rust family brought in the New Year with a BANG.... With very good friends and Family!

Happy New Year Everyone! So quickly we start another year!

If you can believe this, we are starting off 2009 with patches of snow every where that continues to stubbornly hang around! But everyone is so glad the Ice and Snow is officially off the roads and everything is back to normal to start the New Year. Our BIG Celebration with the neighbors and kids started at the stroke of 10:30 pm and then after the confetti wars were over we began our very competitive game of "Cash Cab". We needed something fresh and new to play besides our usually game of "Apples to Apples". It always amazes me that the stroke of Midnight comes so quickly always interfering with the fun grand finally of our game. Seems like we always have to hurry to finish before we miss the Actual New Years Celebrations!

Good Cheer with Great Friends!

Thank you all for coming by and visiting our Blog. We are so grateful to our Family and friends and love you all! May God richly bless your family friends in this New Year!

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