Summer 2013

Well, it's amazing that I'm even trying to update my blog at this point.  But I did make the update barely before a year!

We are doing great, A LOT has happened in a year.  Just a few of the highlights:

1.  The girls went to their first year of preschool last year, loved it, have really improved in their speech and are pretty close to caught up at this point.  They start 4 year old preschool in about a month and hopefully it will prep them for kindergarten.  Can't believe they are that old!

2.  Mckenna had eye surgery (traditional this time) in the spring to straighten out her crossing (the Botox didn't work).  It went well.  But now she's a little too out with her eyes!  So she is having surgery again in a couple weeks right before school so it won't interfere with that.  Crazy girl!

3.  We sold our yellow house!  It was fast and furious when it happened.  They wanted to move in in two weeks instead of the normal month so we had to pack up and move our life in just a few weeks!  But at that point we had already started to break ground on the new house so it was a blessing and we were willing to do whatever so we could move into our new house.

4.  We built a new house over 4-5 months.  I know people say it's stressful and there were stressful times here and there but I LOVED IT!  I'm ready to build again... well maybe not for awhile.  I thought it was fascinating and I was one of those annoying people that was at the house multiple times a week to see the progress.  I love house stuff in general anyway so it was enjoyable for me.  We lived in a teeny tiny apartment while we built so it helped us appreciate even more being able to have a new home.  We feel very blessed.

5.  I bought and painted a lot of new furniture for my new house and I have pics of the house below but will do another post on the before and afters of all the furniture.  Since we moved in in later January, I've pretty much just painted, decorated and put up a lot of curtains so I feel like its finally looking more finished now.

6.  Kyle started a new job in the last couple months.  He's excited about it but it's definitely been more stressful for him.  He really loved working at his last job but he's looking forward to the new job as well.

7.  I stayed with my parents again this spring for a little bit and helped my mom revamp a few more things in her home.  When she has time she'll send me pictures and I can share them here.

So that's about it.... Just been a really crazy busy year!

Now for the part that everyone really cares about (what am I talking about, no one reads this, I'm just mainly talking to myself now!) the pictures!

L to R: Mckenna, Carly, Madison

F to B: Mckenna, Carly, Madison

The New House: Main Room

Master

Office (Kyle's Man Cave- with little help from me)

Living Room

Kitchen/Dining

Laundry (love my check floor!)

Bathroom

Guest Bedroom

Bathroom (looks who's taking a pic of herself in the mirror)

Girls Bedroom

Craft/Bedroom

Upstairs... it's boring and not decorated yet, aka. toy graveyard

My Summer Mantle

Summer Entry

We love all the trim work feel so spoiled

Exterior

Sorry it's blurry, front door painted yellow

I was trying to go Cape Cod style with traditional mix on the house.  But I love me some French and a little bit of country too so that's mixed in as well.  We are loving it and love living in Kuna where it's a little bit quieter....

Summer 2012

So, what have we been up to this summer?  More home projects on my Mom's (and Dad's) house!  And, of course, we took on more than we probably should have.  I went over and stayed with my parents for a little over a months worth of time and we completely overhauled the 5 bedrooms (minus their master).  Out of the five we didn't have to repaint two of the rooms and I didn't keep track of furniture and fixtures painted but it was around seven or so including two beds.  Oh, and we flip flopped two whole sets of bedroom furniture from one side of the house to the other.  I was pretty sure I threw out my back after that experience.  But we think they turned out so great!  So here's some pictures!

French Garden Room

Granny's Attic

Granny's Attic

Seaside Room

Seaside Room

Tommy Bahama Room

Tommy Bahama Room

Tommy Bahama Room

Vintage Yellowstone Room

Vintage Yellowstone Room

 We also decided to revamp the play closet as well so that the grand kids will actually want to play in there (it was a little bit of a cave before).

Kid's Play Closet

 Oh, and I also hosted (with the help of a few friends) one of our good friend's baby shower this past weekend.  She's having their first boy after three girls so we did a little man shower for her.  I think it turned out well.  Our backyard has such great big trees that it's ideal for entertaining.

We even made little mustaches for everyone... as you can see, the girls loved them.

Carly (left), Madison (right)

So, how are the girls?  I feel like they just are growing up so fast.  I decided (with the persuading of my mom) to cut ALL the girls bangs.  I think they look adorable but I am quite biased.  These aren't the best pics of them but I admit I have been bad at taking pictures this summer.  And I can see from the pictures that the bangs need to be trimmed again.  They are starting preschool in a couple weeks and they are so excited to ride the bus!  I think they are more excited about the bus than anything else!

Madison

Carly

Mckenna

And then, just because that wasn't all enough, we put our house on the market to sell this summer.  We have had quite a few showings but just waiting for the offer.  We started looking at houses to buy and due to the low availability of houses available here in Meridian, we decided to build in Kuna (just south of Meridian).  I never thought I would be building this early in life but sometimes, that's just how things work out.  Hopefully we sell our house, the new house is all contingent on this house selling.  So, we are rolling right along and excited for fall!

Oh, and in other news, Mckenna is starting to walk!!! We are so excited and it makes it so much easier for me to be just a little bit more mobile.  Hopefully she just keeps on going!