Give 'Em Cheese

This is Hazel's cheesy smile that she's been doing lately. You can tell that it's not her real smile because she does it when she knows we're smiling at her and she'll got from this face right back to a serious face. I love this little girl.

Some updates! Let's see...I am about to begin working on my first fiction manuscript once I finish this last book on editing that my boss wanted me to read. David is still doing a great job at NAI and is absolutely loving it. We got some work done on our house this weekend. David scraped and painted the hallway into our bathroom that had some old chipping paint on it and I started painting the frames for our new cabinets! David made us new cabinet doors for my birthday and so I'm removing the old yucky ones, painting the frames a bright clean white, and then I will start on painting the doors he made. Lots of work, but just one thing at a time...

I am so reluctant to share pictures until our house is totally done! but i know that's no fun, so give me just a little longer and I'll share our progress with all of you. boy, this house has turned out to be such a challenge, but it really has taught me so much. It's fun to start to know your house and its quirks, especially these older houses. I know that I have to unplug our space heater in the living room when I want to vacuum our rug because I'll pop the circuit breaker; in the mornings you can always hear this light tapping in the kitchen and I finally figured out that it's the birds getting their breakfast from our roof; we have two light switches for our bedroom and sometimes one of them decides not to work, but you can always count on the other one to pull through when that happens; and the one that used to freak me out the most--sometimes the wind will cause our door to make this sudden creak like someone is trying to force it open. I used to run to the door and see who was there, but nope, it was just our old door. Our old door that never closes all the way unless you lift the handle just slightly to help it get into place. I love our house.