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

Happy Halloween!

I am a few days late with this, but I hope everyone had a happy halloween! I love seeing all the kids all dressed up in their gear, it is so cute. We had a Halloween party on Wednesday which is when the boys officially celebrated Halloween. Our closing for our new home was Friday and logistically it was tough to get much Halloween fun done Friday. Fortunately the boys are too little to really care, and Anthony who might care, is not a fan of costumes, even beautiful ones his Nana so loving made for him. Anthony is so hard to get pictures of nowadays so the way I got him to stay in his costume and sit for pictures is to take them when he was strapped in his carseat! :) His puppy costume was modeled after his beloved pup-pup that he carries everywhere with him. Jackson happily took on the role of the lil stinker without a complaint!

Food is a great bribe when you desperately want your child to keep their ears on longer than a 1/2 a second!
Who can resist a face like this?

He had a little "A" dog tag which didn't last....The collar still looking cute though...

One tired little skunk from all the party fun!