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

First trip to the Beach for BOTH kids.

First we went on a bike ride

at the beach.

The whole time Kaylie kept
saying she wanted to take

her shoes off and go in the ocean

So after some cuddle time with Ro

and the chips

She went in the ocean.

After our bike ride
we had a picnic in the sand

awe.....so cute!

She wasn't so sure about the waves

I think afterall she LOVED the beach!

We'll just have to go again when it isn't FREEZING

and Kaylie doesn't have to cuddle Ro the whole time!!!

Trey

6 wonderful, amazing months

ALREADY????

swim lessons 2010

We've made a lot of progress so far

this summer.

swimming to grandma from the steps
swimming back to the steps

She made it!

Hanging out!

games

Our favorite game at the Whitsell home
is hide & Seek.
Kaylie LOVES hiding

She always asks to hide in the basket.
When we look for her she
yells out, "I'm in here!"
oh, to be 2!!

Summer has begun!

Could he get any cutier?

Fire Graduation

This past weekend our friend Ryan graduated
from the Santa Ana Fire Academy.
We enjoyed celebrating him on Saturday with
his family!

Devin, Kyle & Ryan

I had to get a picture of Devin in his uniform,
I don't get to see him in it often enough!
Devin, me, Sara, & Ryan
So proud of you Ryan!