Our Christmas House!

Sorry for the sideways pics!

Merry Christmas!

Santa came!

He could've cared less about his other presents from Santa.

He just wanted to pull his wagon around.

Jackson joining in the fun!

Anthony loves his new workbench!



I have been very behind on my usual updates, but hopefully in 2009 I can get back on track! We had a very busy holiday as usual, but a lot of fun! I hosted Christmas brunch for my side of the family complete with baked French Toast, filet mignon, mamosas, etc. It was great! Jackson was not feeling like himself, but still tried to be his happy go luck self! I didn't get many pictures but here is a few...

Updated house pictures!

I took some updated photos of the house! Please note it is still a "work in progress" and there is much more to do! Also, some of the colors didn't photograph true to color. There were too many to post so here is the link! Enjoy!

http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=265148543/a=28059791/t_=28059791

Thanksgiving 2008

Cheering on Mommy at the Road Race (Pardon my appearance this was about a 1/2 mile from the finish of the 5 mile race).
The whole gang at my brother-in-laws...

The card game tradition continued...

My sister-in law's Sister, my niece and my sister-in-law

Pepere the card shark...

Sleepy baby and hungry daddy...

Catching Up

I am so behind! Here are some pics from the last few weeks! I will get back on track soon!

Sitting up like a big boy!

Helping Daddy sand the walls to prepare for paint!

Helping Daddy rake leaves!

Fun at Home depot

Peek-A-Boo!

Breakfast and the newspaper...

Our crawler!

Being silly!

Check out the curly hair!

Anthony's 2 Year Stats!

I can't believe Anthony is 2! He has turned into such a little boy and his stats show it! He is 28.4 pounds and 34 and 1/4 inches. 50% and 75% repectively! Time sure does fly!

Our New Home!

As of Friday we closed on our new home! As many of you know we own a multi-family investment property which David and I have lived in for 5 years (2 of the 3 apartments). It has been a great way to save money, yet with 2 growing boys the walls seemed to be getting smaller and smaller. (We are keeping the property and will now rent out the 3BR apt we lived in). After a few big disappointments, we found a beautiful home and are currently working hard to put our stamp on it. We are finding that to do so with two young babies requires a huge amount of organization, creativity and patience! We are getting there and hopefully I will have the "after" pictures soon! So without further ado, here are the pics before we had a chance to do anything. There are some minor cosmetics, like stains on carpeting and scuffed walls, but we'll fix that in no time and then it will be perfect!
On a side note the pics uploaded out of order, and part of the picture was cut off--I am too tired to fix it!

Beautiful window in open foyer. One of my all-time favorite things about this house is all the big windows and how bright and sunny it is in every room!

Dining room into kitchen!
Exterior. I have already painted the green front door black. We want to get black shutters and new white square pillars in the spring.
foyer
living room
living room into keeping room.
breakfast nook

Gas fireplace. I already have purchased a mantle for around it!

Kepping room into kitchen. We ordered stainless appliances. They come Thursday! You can see the door to the 1/2 bath off the kitchen on the left.

Playroom

Master Bedroom

Master bath

View down into foyer

Boys room

Boys/Guest bath (laundry closet inside)

back of house

Unfinished bonus room over garage. We will finish it in time.

Backyard

Side yard