More pics and paint help please.

So I should be cleaning the floors so they're ready for the furniture that will be coming soon, but since I'm currently kid free and a bit giddy...I thought I'd blog instead...lucky you!


Here is our first morning...








I know this is a waste of paper...but it was either he play with paper towels or screws. Sometimes a mom must just pick her battles.






And here is Lita, coming to save the kids from the big empty house so I can get some work done...or blogging.



*I swear Mommy, this only took a few minutes and then I went right back to work!!!*
Yes, I still call my mom "Mommy" and I'm darn proud, thankyouverymuch.


Now for the help. We have the kitchen and a bathroom left to paint. We are at the bottom of our move in budget so would like to try and get one color/gallon of paint for both. I think. Maybe.

Here is the kitchen, please excuse the mess...







As you can see, it won't need much. Just a bit of color on top and around the cabinets & window. I was thinking a yellow, but I'm not loving that little paint card I got there in the last shot. We've already used blue in the other bathrooms, a mellow green in one bedroom, burnt orange & chocolate brown in the master and this crazy green in another bedroom...



So all I can think of is some kind of yellow...but what kind? Would a yellow work in a bathroom too? If not, what other color? Or any other color ideas? Help me!!!!

first night

Here we are...finally! The first night at our new place...

The reason I went back to work...

We closed on Tuesday and we have lots of work to do this next week, but hopefully we'll be able to move in the week after Christmas and before I have to come back to work.

This isn't the best picture, but I will have plenty more coming so you all can see our progress on fixing things up. We of course want it to be super kid friendly but at the same time want it to look open, modern and keep it looking like adults actually live here. All while on a very tight budget...so things will come together slowly which is totally fine with me!

There are so many things I am looking forward to...some obviously more luxurious than others...

• more than 6 drawers to store all of my kid's clothes
• closets, we don't have a single closet for the kids right now...we will soon have one for each!
• an area to put an actual dining table so we can actually sit and actually eat...in one place...in adult sized chairs
• more than three kitchen cabinets
• kitchen counters!
• room to put beds for the kids
• bathrooms!
• a garage to store all of our crap and our cars
• a yard for a garden
• a yard for Bella
• a yard for the kids
• a pool!
• a porch
• trees
• a master bedroom big enough for a king sized bed
• no more helicopters
• no more witnessing crimes when looking out my back door
• no more tagging on my retaining walls
• being near our parents
• no more traffic jams between just two adults in the kitchen, bathroom, living room etc.
• a family room
• more that 760 sq ft for a family of four and a 100lb dog
• a drive way
• no more playing musical cars on street sweeping days
• no more street sweeping parking tickets
• most importantly, a home, a home where we can live and grow and enjoy...

This is why I can't stop smiling lately, even while at work...I seriously can't wipe this silly grin off my face.

More pictures coming soon!

Two weeks (and a handful of days)

Two weeks...that was going to be the title of my post when I planned to write this post like 4 days ago. It had been two weeks since my last update. Not only was it my last update, it was also the last time I took pictures of my children! Shame on me...slap my wrists...I'm a bad blogger.

So here are the pictures I meant to show you all from this weekend.





Seriously. The cuteness. I can't get over it.

Just so you know, I'm writing this post as I pump at work and these pictures are my inpsiration to get the milk flowin'. That first one is my computer desktop wall paper.

In the past almost 3 weeks now, their love for each other has become so much more obvioius. Yeah, we're still prying Joaquin off of Isela when is expression of love gets a little too spazzy, but for the most part we're letting them hug and cuddle a lot more. They seem to both need it and love it. Isela is head over heels for her big brother. You can already tell that she looks up to him like no other. It's freaking awesome to see them love each other so much.

Dan is taking care of them right now and rocking it. Yesterday, my friend Sara told me how her son, Rowan was playing "Dan and Isela" the other night. He was pretending to be Dan and feeding his baby doll from a bottle because he saw Dan feeding Isela at swim class the other day. How aweseome is that? Goes to show that Daddies can be just as valuable at home with the kids as Mommies.

I know you are all wondering why I went back to work. Why this sudden change in our game plan. Well ladies and gents, I know the suspence is killing you and I would tell you now...but I don't have a picture on this work computer so I can't do the annoucement justice.

My pumping time is just about over so back to work I go...I'll be back soon with the new good news...I promise. Like tomorrow. I hope.

xoxo!

Lita's and Grandpa Robert's house

Since I'm going back to work tomorrow I decided to relax and enjoy a few hours at my parent's house. Dan got to watch football with my dad and I got to hang out with my mom and the kids outside in the just-after-a-rain fresh air.











Send me all the positive vibes you got for tomorrow...I'm determined to stay positive and enjoy my time at work as best I can. There's no point to being miserable if I can help it!

*happy*thoughts*happy*thoughts*happy*thoughts*

today my baby boy turned three

I can't believe I am now a mother to a three year old.

Then...


and now...


I love you Joaquin...you are one awesome kid. Happy Birthday to my baby boy!

ohemgee

I've been avoiding this blog lately. It's not because I don't love you dear blog, it's because there are so many things going on right now, many of which I don't feel comfortable discussing just yet.

There are many things very much in the air and I would rather wait until they came down onto solid ground before I start spilling any deets. But I will tell you this dear blog...I am going back to work the Monday after Thanksgiving. Yes, it kind of sucks, but it's for a hopefully very good reason. And if this reason sticks around like it better, then that means we will be moving very soon. Crazy stuff right?

I will hopefully have some solid good news in a couple of weeks. Until then my mind is elsewhere and blogging is the last on my list of all the things I should be doing.

Again, I still *heart* you and to prove it, I will leave you with this lovely shot of classic Isela.

What would you do?

Let's play a little game with a hypothetical situation, and see...What would you do?

Let's say there are two parents in a given house. Parent A is in the shower with two small children. Let's say one is an infant in a water sling and the other is a few years old playing in the tub. Let's say you, as Parent B, hear the older child freak out so you come in to investigate to find that the infant had pooped while in the sling, the bath water is bright orange and the older child is squealing in disgust. What would you do next?

A. Laugh and walk away to let Parent A figure it out on their own.

B. Maybe laugh but then ask what you can do to help.

C. Immediately start helping because obviously this is not a one person operation.

D. Other, please explain.

So, what would you do in this oh-so-obvious hypothetical situation? Please explain your answer and thanks for playing!

Visit from The Great Pumpkin

Joaquin went to bed wayyyy too late last night and woke up wayyyy too early. At 6:30, the new time, Joaquin shot right up and asked "Did Great Pumpkin take my candy?" He then frantically jumped out of bed and to the front door. In my half asleep stupor I still managed to grab the camera as I followed.





Oh, and he's only asked for candy like three times, so good thing we have the firetruck to distract him.

Not Great Pumpkin related, but you seriously have to see this picture. This is what happens to sweet little Isela when I leave the two of them in the room to get my make-up on. I thought it was mischievously quiet for too long, and when I took a peek this is what I found...



Luckily she thought it was a fabulous time. It seems like Joaquin can already do no wrong in her eyes...she totally gets giddy every time he's around. It's pretty awesome.

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Seriously. What a fabulous evening. Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. Before kids it was always about making an amazing costume for myself...some years were sluttier than others, but either way they were usually pretty great. Now I don't even care about dressing up, it's all about dressing up the kids and reliving the holiday through their eyes...so much better than through beer goggles. Seriously.

This year I went pretty simple, but I still think they came out pretty darn cute. Here is my Pirate Boy and his Parrot Girl...







The cuteness is kind of ridiculous isn't it.

It gets better. We went to a friend's house and went Trick or Treating tonight with some of Joaquin's buddies...the cuteness was straight up overwhelming.














We ended the night setting our loot outside as an offering to The Great Pumpkin who will whisk our candy away and leave us some fabulous toy! Don't worry, he got a piece or two...we won't deprive him completely!





Can't wait to wake up and see what he left us! Happy Halloween!

A trip to the pumpkin patch again!

So we went back to Oma's Pumpkin Patch today with Dan. We all had a blast...not much to say, but lots more pics!



























Tomorrow we will be dressing up at playgroup...I can't wait to take a million pictures of my little pirate and his parrot!