New Washer and Dryer

I don't know if anyone else's house is like this but I feel like everything is broken in our house. And it's only seven years old. Our carpet is gross, our dishwasher leaks, our refrigerator has broken twice - most recently last month, our bathtubs have holes and leak through the ceiling and are patched with some sort of high grade something or other, our toilets constantly run and it's connected to our faucets somehow, our washer just broke, our dryer almost burned down our house in the spring. Seriously, it's just ridiculous.

Sunday was the day our washer broke so we went out to check out new high efficiency models. It was at that point that we realized that our washer and dryer were the $275 models you see placed out at the very end of the store displays. Can we say ghetto??? How have we been using such awful appliances for the past seven years? It didn't even pay to try to get it fixed. We said "screw it" and decided to just get a new washer and dryer set.

Our laundry closet doesn't accomodate front loading machines so that helped with figuring out which one to get. We settled on a LG set with a high efficiency washer and a steam dryer. And Greg was even able to cash in on the cash for appliances deal they opened up again a few days ago and we will be getting $200 in exchange for purchasing a high efficiency washer.

Be jealous. Very jealous.

Look at this nice big wash basin WITH NO AGITATOR!

And check out this huge dryer drum!

Little Girls and Tutus

That's it, I'm getting Meredith 3 more tutus. They are just so darn cute. Have I mentioned that I just adore shopping for a little girl????

And I just want to add that this cute little girl gives the best hugs ever. We have our low days but when she is in a good mood she is just the sweetest, snuggly, and huggy little girl ever.

November Snow!

I don't know if we were quite ready for such a November snowstorm but it came, and we took advantage of it. Over the past couple of weeks, we've been talking to a dad of a little boy in Meredith's skating class. They just moved up here from Arkansas. I thought for sure they wouldn't make it to class that morning but low and behold, they were there! I guess they are embracing the culture up here.

We just kept her snow pants on from skating and headed outside as soon as we got home. I'm not much of an outdoorsy person when it comes to winter so I grabbed the camera, snapped some pictures and headed inside. This may be it for the outdoor pictures this winter.

Meredith had a blast playing in the snow. I remember being a little girl and getting to the point of giddiness when it came to the first snow of the year. She was really excited.