Fixin' stuff

Ian has been doing so good at sleeping in his bed lately. When it is bed time, we take him downstairs, tuck him in, and he goes to sleep all by himself.  Since he is doing so good at this, I figured it's time to make his bed a big boy bed!  (I love having a convertible bed that I can do this with and not have to buy a new bed!)  Of course once he saw daddy get his tools, Ian had to get his tools out and "fix" it too.

He was concentrating so hard.

I love his little look here.  Doesn't he look so pleased with himself?

Here is my big boy sitting in his bed.  I just hope this means he won't get up in the middle of the night and crawl in our room.  He's growing up so much!!!

Happy Birthday Ian!!!!!!

I can't believe my little guy is already 2!!  Where has the time gone?  He loves Buzz Lightyear so we threw him a Buzz party.  

 My cake didn't turn out quite like i wanted. It was supposed to be gray, but somehow when I mixed black food coloring with white frosting, it made purple.  Then I went to smooth the frosting and put craters to make it look kind of like a moon, and the frosting didn't cooperate and look like craters.  Oh well.  It still had Buzz on it so he was happy.

The cupcakes turned out pretty cute though =)

We had lots of family and friends come celebrate with us.  There were lots of kids playing.  I had a few games for the kids to play, but they were more occupied with playing with each other and playing outside.   I was a slacker ad forgot to take pictures of everyone playing, but I did snap some shots of him opening presents.

He got very spoiled from everyone!  He got lots of Buzz stuff, coloring stuff, puzzles, clothes, and toys.  Lucky boy!!

"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!"

This is the shot I got of him when I wouldn't let him grab his cake before we sang to him.  He actually blew the candle out himself too!  After he was done, he tried to shove his own face into the cake.  I caught him before he could....I didn't want to clean up that mess.

It was a fun day  to spend with everyone!  My little guy is growing so much!  He is definitely our little character.  He pulls the craziest of faces when he gets excited over something.  He is such a goofy little guy. I can't wait to see how much he changes this next year.  It's a good thing Jason works at the hospital, just in case have to make trips there since he has no fear!  He is doing so good at talking now.  We can understand most of what he says and he's talking in sentences now.  Except when he gets really excited, then his voice gets high and squeaky and gibberish comes out.  So cute.  His favorite things right now are typical boy things: Cars, tools, Buzz Lightyear, coloring, books, movies, and dinosaurs.  His favorite foods are cheese, fruit snacks, hot dogs, and pizza.  He loves to follow his sister around and do everything she does.  He loves playing outside.  He loves to play with Sasha, at least until she tries to get his "bobo" (his blanket).  We are getting ready to start his potty training soon.  He's gone #2 on the potty a few times, so now we need to get him to go #1.  He loves to sit on the potty, but doesn't really do anything yet.  Now that life is settling down I can really start working with him on it.

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.