House pics =)

We bought a house in December and we finally have all the work done in it.  We moved in right before Christmas and I have been a slacker and haven't gotten pictures up yet.  I thought I had take some before pictures but I didn't.  Pretty much all the walls were a dark brown, even the ceiling, so we had to repaint everything.  It was a chore!!!  I am not painting for a long, long, long time!

Here is my living room.  Don't mind the mess....that's what happens with kids =)  I love my new couches!  They are a dark brown leather with microfiber cushions.  I will never have anything other than microfiber with kids.  Our other couch (it's downstairs now) is microfiber and Ian had colored on it with pen many times and I have gotten the pen out with just a wet rag.  I also love having a big window in the living room.  It lets in so much light!

This is my blue accent wall.  I have our family pics on it.  I may add shelves on the side, but not sure yet.  We also did all our trim throughout the house in this color.

Here is my kitchen.  I am not quite done with the cupboards.  My sister is going to help me stain them to give them teh antique look.

Another shot of the kitchen.  It's not the biggest, but I have lots of cupboard space.  In each of the corners on top and bottom I have lazy susans. Plus, all the appliances are fairly new.  I really love having the water and ice in the fridge door =)

Here is my dining room.  The yellow is brighter than I had originally planned.  It was supposed to be a dark gold color, but it's growing on me =)  My next thing that I want to get is a new dining room table, but that won't be for awhile.

Here is part of our room.  WE combined the two upstairs rooms to make a big master room.  This was preetty much the size of one room.....barely fit our bed.

Here is the other half.  We then built a walk-in closet since the wall we took out had the closets in it.

Here is part of the closet.

Sorry I forgot to flip the pic, so just turn your head =)  The other half looks just like this, but with Jason's stuff.  It has two shelves and closet rods on each wall.

This is the downstairs bathroom.  Once again, you might have to turn your head.

Bathroom

Bathroom.  I like my downstairs bathroom better than the upstairs, but that is because it is newer. 

This is our family room downstairs.  This is our old couch.  This is where the kids get to watch movies and play.  We have the game systems hooked up down here.

The letters on Ian's door that I painted.

Ian's room

Can you tell who Ian is obsessed with?  I sure hope he likes Buzz for a long time because we're not redoing it anytime soon.

The cute letters o Brenna's door that I painted.

I also made her rack that her robes are hanging on.

Guess what her favorite color is?

Tilt your head again =)

Don't mind the mess, but what do you expect of a 5-year old?

I love having my own house!  It is so nice to not have to worry about being too loud and bugging neighbors.  If I want to do something to the house, I can.   This is the first house we have bought.  Since we've been married we've either had an apartment or lived with my dad.  It's just nice having our own space.  We have a decent sized backyard that is already fenced in.  So now the kids can play outside and I don't have to worry. Plus, if we have kids that aren't being nice,  I can tell them to leave our yard and not get the cops called on me or worry about other parents yelling at my kids for playing on grass.  And we were able to get our cute little puppy, Sasha.  She's a sweetie, but a stinker.  I guess she fits right into our family.    I think we're going to have an open house probably the first week in February, but we'll see. If anyone wants to come visit, let me know =)

Merry Christmas!!!!

Life has been pretty hectic the past few weeks so I'm a little late posting our Christmas stuff.  I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas.  Ours was great to be able to spend it in our own home!!!  Granted, tehre werre still boxes everywhere, but we were moved in =)

Brenna's school did a Christmas program and she got to sing some songs.  Here she is sitting by her best friend, Ellie.  These 2 girls strike the same pose for every picture I ever take of them.   

Since my dad wasn't going to be in town for Christas, we celebrated with him the week before.  The kdis loved opeing their presents from Papa. 

Brenna loves to make jewelry so she got her own bead set.

The thing she was most excited for is her Ninetedo DS.  She has been wanting one for forever so of course she got spoiled by Papa and he got her one, along with a baby game and a Dora game

Ian loved his Cars fold out chair.  He wouldn't let anyone else come near it. 

He even took a nap after the festivities were done. =) 

"Creep Crawlies!!"  My dad got Ian a remote control spider that even climbs on walls and the ceiling. (I know you'll love this, Nana)

He loves this thing!! 

 Now on to our Christmas =)

Sasha even had some fun with presents.  We didn't get her any, just let her play with the paper =)

Ian loved his little cars.  That is his favorite thing, to push cars around the floor and make them go "VROOM!"

He also got a Buzz Lightyear nerf/laser gun.  He had fun shooting mommy with it =)

Brenna got a game for her didj.  I'm kind of miffed with the leapfrog company.  They came out with this new game system, the Leapfrog Didj, and then less than a year after they released it, the quite producing it and you can't find games for it.  It's a good thing when I got the game system it was for 1/3 the original price.  It's a good system that helps kids learn math and spelling while playing games.  They should have kept it up.  Oh well, that's what ebay is for huh?

Ian is always trying to help daddy "fix" stuff so he got his own tools.  Now whenever we get stuff out to hang things or fix things, he runs to get his tools to help.  Love it!

Brenna got a princess lounge chair.  She loves it!  

She also got this cute bed tent, but not even 5 minutes after we put it up, the pockets where the poles go ripped so we took it back.  Boo!!!

Jason got his Back to the Future blue-rays.  He's been wanting these movies for a while.  

All the fun tuckered our poor puppy out.

Ian trying to "fix" things.

He also got a guitar to jam out with.  Yet another thing to make lots of noise =)

We had a pretty fun Christmas.  I was glad that Santa found us at our new house.  We are all moved into our place.  Now we're jsut doing hte finishing touches.  We have our closet in our room and a doorway that needs to be finished still and then we'll be done!  As soon as everything is finished I will post pictures of our new diggs.

Our family is expanding and lives are changing!

Life is great right now!  I am so excited for the next few weeks.  We closed on a house yesterday and get the keys today.  We are doing some work on it before we move in.  We are combing 2 of the bedrooms for a big master bedroom and building a walk-in closet.  We should be moving in by the end of next week, as soon as we get all the painting done.  I will post pics of the new house as soon as I get the keys =)  

Along with a new house we have a new family member!  Her name is Sasha.  She is the cutest little thing!  Ever since we had to get rid of our dog, Harley, we have really wanted a dog.  The apartments we are living in don't allow dogs, so that's why we had to give Harley away.  He was such a sweet dog but I'm glad he has a nice family that took him.  Well, now that we are moving into our own house we got a new dog.  She is a husky mix.  She has one blue eye and one dark eye.  She is such a little cuddle bug, especially loves cuddling at your neck.  She is only 5 weeks old right now.  Her mom was hit by a car and killed when she was only a week old

 She is already saying who's the boss =)  Her favorite chew toys are ears and noses.

 This was only hours after we had her.  Jason took a nap with her. It was so cute.  He is definatley in love with this little puppy.  When he gets home he picks her up and cuddle sher before even giving me a kiss or a hi.

 Ian is still trying to figure out what to do with a puppy.  He loves dogs, but the dogs he's been around have all been big dogs like german shepherds.  He's not used to puppy nibles yet so when she tries to nibble he stands up and says "done!"  He sure loves her though.  

 I have a hard time keeping Brenna from holding her all the time.  I have a feeling that these tow are going to be best friends and Sasha will end up sleeping with Brenna a lot =)

 Ian loves to cuddle her, as long as she doesn't try to climb on him or nibble his nose.

She is such a cutie!  Her personality is starting to come out a little and I have a feeling she's going to be a spunky little thing!  I can't wait until we move in and she can play outside with the kids and we won't have to worry about keeping her quiet.  Right now, we're keeping her in the apartment even though we're not supposed to have a dog.  What's the worst they can do?  Kick us out?  

Picture time!!

I got the kid's pictures taken the other day.  For the most part they turned out cute.  I can't complain since I only had to pay $4.  Last year when we went to get pictures we had to wait over a hour and then reschedule so I complained and they sent me a voucher for 6 free sheets, plus when I went in I had a coupon for a free 8x10 and $3.99 sheets so I only bought one sheet.  Not too bad.  But our photographer was a bit of a disappointment.  She was doing good at coming up with some cute poses, but when the kids were standing she wouldn't have her camera ready.  Wouldn't you think that if you are taking pictures of kids you should let the parents make them smile and be ready to fire away with shots, hoping to catch some good ones?  If she would have had her camera ready we would have got some awesome ones.  Oh well, these turned out cute.  Don't mind the quality, I don't have a scanner so I took a picture with my camera and then loaded them on.  There is nothing on their copyright statement about taking a picture of the picture =)

 Ian was getting antsy by the time we were taking pictures of them together so we weren't able to get very many shots, but I guess these work.

 I don't think Brenna knows how to take a bad picture.  Every single one of her was so cute!!!

 We got this one while he was squealing from throwing a football.

I love my cute munchkins!!!!  It's a good thing they're so cute.  They are growing up way too fast!!!!