Summer's first Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving this year in Fergus Falls with the Tommerdahl crew.  It was a blast! Tucker had a GREAT time running around with his doggie cousins, Annie and Bode.  Here are some of the other  highlights:

Summer's first time making Lefse

The dessert table--YUM!

Summer's "twin"!  Jackson was born the exact same day as Summer and is Summer's 2nd cousin twice removed (or something like that!)  They both are at the stage where they are reaching and grabbing, so it was really cute when they found eachother's hands!

 Summer's first time sledding

Summer enjoyed nap time with Grandma

The Tommerdahl Fam at Stavanger Lutheran Church

Summer Updates

Summer is growing up!  I just packed away her newborn size onesies and sleepers yesterday and I can't believe she ever fit in them!  She goes in for her four month appointment next week.  I am curious to see how much she weighs!  Summer has been doing lots of new things.  She has starting laughing now!  It is my favorite!!!!  She is sooo cute!  I don't have it captured on video yet, but I will try :).  She also rolled over for the first time from front to back.  She surprised herself, and us!   She is "sort of" able to sit, but her face slowly gets closer and closer to the floor!  She is reaching and grabbing and holding things quite a bit now.  Here is a cute video showing how much she really loves to observe and reach for things as well as some other cute pictures.

"Sitting"

She loves looking in the mirror!

Remodeling Updates

I should update you on our little home project that turned out to be a very big home project!  I left you hanging last time with the news that we were tearing up the subfloor...

Tearing up the old Subfloor

Paul worked piece by piece tearing up the old subfloor and putting down the new subfloor so he had something to stand on.  There were still many times, however, where my palms sweated as he balanced on the floor joists many feet above our concrete basement floor while holding huge, heavy piece of the new subfloor.  Good thing he isn't afraid of heights!

Paul used our garage as his workshop as he cut pieces to fit.  This picture also shows the "old" door from our kitchen to our garage.  Our inspector told us when we bought the house that we needed to replace it with a fireproof door to bring the house up to code.  There is a picture of our new door later on.

Tucker supervising.

The subfloor is done!  Paul did such a thorough job with it, building "cripples" to support the floor where it was weak.  Now our floor doesn't squeak at all when you walk on it!  (It really used to squeak a LOT!)

Paul's parents were here for Summer's dedication and they worked on laying the laminate together.  They "signed" under one piece just for fun!

Laminate is done!

Baseboards are installed.  We still need to stain them.

Here is our new door with the first coat of red paint.  Paul did a super job of installing it.  It is a LOT harder than it looks to screw the hinges on so that the door swings straight and fits perfectly in the doorway.