1st Birthday

70 of Trey's closest most personal friends

came over to our house to celebrate his 1st birthday.....

try to fit that many people in our old condo!

Ka-Chigga, What!

I made tortilla soup, quesadillas

and 7-layer bean dip

Yum...Yum....and Yummy!!!

cutie pie Elijah driving the car

friends playing store

baby Kate was the hit of the party

everyone wanted to hold her,

lucky Jen.....

love birds

Auntie M got stuck in the kitchen making

quesadillas ALL night....

Seriously, she never left that stove

birthday boy in the bounce house

he loved it!

birthday dinner

He LOVES it!

Cupcake.....

now thats a different story

he HATED it...

and wanted NO part of it

it took FOREVER to

convince him he would like it

FOREVER

he finally decided he liked it

he really liked it!!!

Trey had lots of help opening his gifts

Ka-Chigga Ka-Chigga!

Found the best Christmas ornament idea here:

http://www.littlebitfunky.com/2010/12/make-these-now-handprint-snowman.html

.....she always has great ideas!

So yesterday Jen and I did the kiddos handprints

on the bulbs

and today I put Devin to work on the

snowmen part.....

I thought the first one came out cute-

Until he did the second one....

SERIOUSLY CUTE!

Santa Visit

Every year Santa visits my parent's neighborhood.

It is one of my favorite Christmas traditions.

With the help of his elves, Santa brings a gift

for every kid!

They get to sit on Santa's lap

and open it. Kaylie was in heaven

She LOVED Santa.

"Santa, Santa, Santa!!!!!"

Kaylie got Curious George!

Trey got a Fire Truck with blocks

SO fun, can't wait for next year!

Christmas number 1

Auntie M gave Kaylie a babydoll

that looks just like what her future cousins

will look like .

Kaylie LOVES her.... isn't she cute!!!

Auntie Cake and Uncle Justin with the kids & their gifts

And the hula skirt Kaylie had to wear! haha

Opening their first gifts of the season.

So thankful for family that love my children

Thanks cousins we love you too!

Boat Parade

Odds and Ends

Bare with the randomness of this post.....

It's been awhile.....

We are settling into our new house nicely and

things are slowly coming together

and starting to feel like home.

We have the most amazing friends and neighbors

who have been so generous to us.

We have baseboard up now, it is so pretty.

We have window coverings on

most of the windows & sliders.

Devin will paint starting this week

which is very exciting...

I am looking forward to no more blue

and painting the wood in the wood room!

Our neighbors bought us a Christmas Tree

a REAL one!!!

Not only is it beautiful....

but it smells AMAZING!

As soon as the wood room is painted, we hope to start

to use it! Can I get a Woot Woot!

Kaylie is becoming one little snuggle bug....

it may or may not involve bribes of ice-cream!

Someone asked me the other day what the

biggest difference between having a girl

and having a boy was....

My answer, their closets.

The playroom got a shelf.

I LOVE THIS SHELF!

I want one in every room, but Devin said no!

This handsome little guy is almost ONE....

how did that happen?!!!

You Who!

Look who can feed himself!

House

Well, here is the house.

It was built in 1958 & we bought it from the original owner.

Not much changed from when they bought it & when we did,

seriously!

Some BEFORE pictures, a few during pictures.

It will be awhile before I have any after pictures, but we will get there!

Kaylie playing in the backyard.

She loves being out there....

there is so much space she doesn't know what to do!

What we are living with- boxes......

I hate boxes!

We had the floors refinished....

the above picture is the after- beautiful.

This was the first time since they were installed in 1958

that they were refinished.

The floors during the refinishing process.

The dark is the old, the light is after being sanded.

YUCK! 50 years of yuck!

Our family room windows

Entry way floor.

It was a hard decision, but we changed the floor!

Another family room picture

Kitchen

please notice the floors

we changed those already too!

amazing mural on the kitchen wall

its still here, but hopefully not for long!

more kitchen

all electric stove from 1958

wood room

Currently this room is full of boxes

but one day it will be our family room

and I couldn't be more excited about the fire place!

Stay tuned for during and after pictures soon. We are working hard, well Devin is!

Hey There

It has been awhile to say the least! We've been moving and I've been busy! These are the best of the we've moved pictures we took.... At least the pictures are cute, the move....well, we will get there.

On a different note, Kaylie is her mother's daughter & I'm sure I will get my payback one day! She keeps us laughing and on our toes daily. She is doing some of the same things I did when I was 2 going on 12! Her current thing is she goes to her room in the morning and picks out her clothes for the day, brings them to me, says "this is SO cute" and gets dressed. Then a few hours later says she needs to change and does it all over again!

Vacation

As a family we spent a week at Mount Hermon Family Camp in Santa Cruz.

We went with my parents & a brother.

We had a great week together.......can't wait for next