She's so Noodley.

It's really cute. Until it happens repeatedly at 3am.

Living Room Progress

Our next project after the painting was to update our fireplace.  This is a photo of what it looked like when we started.  A cherry mantle that didn't match anything in the house and an old screen cover that didn't do very well at keeping the cat out of it.  We sanded down the mantle and gave it a new coat of paint to match the other furniture that's in the house and we put in new glass doors that we got for our birthdays   (Thank you Mark and Janice!)  Such small things make such a huge difference!

Before

During

After

Next up, getting to shop for new accessories to put on our new fireplace!

Noodle Time

Meet Noodle Petersen!  

We got little Noodle two weeks ago and she has settled into our family right away. No hiding under the bed for this little Noodle.  From the moment she came home with us we put her into the office and hung out with her trying to make her comfortable with us.  And all she wanted was out of the office!  So Lindsay's mom "accidentally" let her out of the office on day two and she then had free reign of the house.

After sniffing every corner, she was just fine and not scared at all.  She loves to play and has endless amount of energy.  After her first day free in the house when we got into bed she snuggled in right between us like she had been doing it every night.

It seems so funny to welcome this little creature into your home and have it instantly love you enough to sleep with you and lick your face.  I need a little more time to adjust to sharing my pillow with someone....

As we get used to the considerable amount of cat hair that is appearing everywhere and the welcome meows that last about 20 minutes when you arrive home I'm sure the love will be reciprocated  Check back with us in a week.  We'll probably be obsessed by then.  We of course already have lots of pictures but she's not so into posing...so this is all we have so far that are good.