Lauren's Ice Cream Parlour Party

For Lauren's 6th Birthday we found a great inspirational idea for a party here. We decided to go all out with ice cream and toppings. The girls had fun playing a couple of games and creating their very own ice cream masterpieces. Happy Birthday Lauren- we love you!

Christmas 2010

We were fortunate to stay home for Christmas. My parents came to us and we had a great time with them. They picked up Alison first and flew to Nebraska where my sister Amy and her family just moved to and went to our nephew's baptism. Alison loved traveling and had a great time. Thanks mom and dad! This picture shows just how popular grandparents are when they have an Ipad.

Alison with her doll Ruthie and her new outfit.

The twins loved Christmas day with wearing princess shoes and painting.

We went over to my cousin David's house for Christmas Eve where we all had a great time together and celebrated cousin Heather's engagement to Pat and their upcoming summer wedding.

Lauren was so excited to get a harp from Santa. She loves to play it.

The Chair

O.k folks I know I have been absent for some time now from blog land and I am sorry. To make it up I thought I would send out a crazy amount of pictures of our life and all the Laverty happenings. So here we go-

This is the before shot of my $20 chair. I bought it knowing it needed to be reupholstered and updated. Steve helped me tremendously with strengthening the chair and upholstering.
After shot- I painted it a creamy white and found a grayish fabric for the chair. We love it! Not too bad for our first reupholstering job.
Here it is next to our Christmas tree.