Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Thanksgiving 2011
It was a weird Thanksgiving for us...we were right in the middle of our move, the house was a little crazy to say the least.
The Jayster living it up on his first Thanksgiving.
The girlies being cute.
Mommy's picture.
Daddy's picture.
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
Blog Much?
Hey there friends and family that might actually still read this blog...get ready for a ton of updating:
Where to start? How about that we moved! (did you hear the choir of angels singing? i did.)
It all happened really fast and it's been really crazy, exciting and awesome.
So here's the story:
Jeremy's grandma lives in an old folks home and this woman she knows there has been trying to sell her house...Jeremy's grandma has been asking us if we wanted to buy it for over a month or so...we kept telling her that we weren't ready to buy yet.
Well, the first week in November Jeremy's grandma informed us that the lady would be willing to let us rent the house or do a rent-to-own because she just wanted someone in the house.
So we decided it wouldn't hurt to go look.
Turns out, it was too good to pass up...yes it was straight out of the 80's, yes it was moving across town away from all of our friends and out of our awesome ward, yes it had a backyard, yes it had amazing potential and yes it truly was too good to be true.
By November 7th I was giving our notice at Camas Commons and we were in our new house on December 1st!
Here is a picture by picture "walk through" of our new home:
When you first walk in to the left is the family room...yes, that is bad wallpaper and cobalt blue walls!
the coat closet across the front door entrance
A view from the other side of the room, looking towards the front door.
Looking into the kitchen
kitchen...yes, it's as huge as it looks...it's amazingly awesome.
JJ's room- it's no longer red/pink
Girls room
Guest bathroom/girls bathroom
with a skylight!
Dining room
in the dining room, the door to the left is into the master bedroom, the door to the right is the laundry room which leads into the two car garage.
In the master bedroom, door to the left is the on suite, the door to the right is the walk-in closet.
I have to admit, I almost moved in solely because of the master bedroom...and the backyard...and the kitchen.
master bathroom
walk-in closet
master bedroom
laundry room, there are three doors to the left that are full of shelves...for all the laundry and for food storage...awesome.
All right, that is the grand tour! Whew! We have a couple before and afters, one being JJ's room and one being the girls' "new" bedroom. I'll get those up soon too.
Where to start? How about that we moved! (did you hear the choir of angels singing? i did.)
It all happened really fast and it's been really crazy, exciting and awesome.
So here's the story:
Jeremy's grandma lives in an old folks home and this woman she knows there has been trying to sell her house...Jeremy's grandma has been asking us if we wanted to buy it for over a month or so...we kept telling her that we weren't ready to buy yet.
Well, the first week in November Jeremy's grandma informed us that the lady would be willing to let us rent the house or do a rent-to-own because she just wanted someone in the house.
So we decided it wouldn't hurt to go look.
Turns out, it was too good to pass up...yes it was straight out of the 80's, yes it was moving across town away from all of our friends and out of our awesome ward, yes it had a backyard, yes it had amazing potential and yes it truly was too good to be true.
By November 7th I was giving our notice at Camas Commons and we were in our new house on December 1st!
Here is a picture by picture "walk through" of our new home:
When you first walk in to the left is the family room...yes, that is bad wallpaper and cobalt blue walls!
A view from the other side of the room, looking towards the front door.
Looking into the kitchen
kitchen...yes, it's as huge as it looks...it's amazingly awesome.
JJ's room- it's no longer red/pink
Guest bathroom/girls bathroom
in the dining room, the door to the left is into the master bedroom, the door to the right is the laundry room which leads into the two car garage.
I have to admit, I almost moved in solely because of the master bedroom...and the backyard...and the kitchen.
master bathroom
All right, that is the grand tour! Whew! We have a couple before and afters, one being JJ's room and one being the girls' "new" bedroom. I'll get those up soon too.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Octoberfest
This will be the month of October in a nut shell.
1. I turned 29. Yay. Jeremy gave me by far the most awesome birthday card ever. Aaaaand he stayed home from work so I could go shopping all day...it was so much fun!
2. JJ had his 6 month check up. 24.7lbs 28inches, healthy, strong and cute as a button!
3. I started a baby class with JJ though the local community college- it's a class I took with the girls too, just a fun way to have some one on one time with the little man.
4. Eva's Jog-a-Thon! Elle ran 2 laps with Eva and would have done more but I made her stop, she had crocs on for crying out loud! Eva did 8 laps this year...she could have done more but I kept having her take water breaks...rookie mistake, she did 10 laps last year when daddy was coaching her, oops. She wanted to do 12 laps and was a little disappointed that she didn't but she still had a lot of fun and I'm so proud of how athletic she is and strives to be healthy.
4. Pumpkin patch family trip.
5. Carving of said pumpkins
6. Tried out some new crock pot recipes via pinterest, they were all so good and a few will become some new staples.
Onto the pictures!
1. I turned 29. Yay. Jeremy gave me by far the most awesome birthday card ever. Aaaaand he stayed home from work so I could go shopping all day...it was so much fun!
2. JJ had his 6 month check up. 24.7lbs 28inches, healthy, strong and cute as a button!
3. I started a baby class with JJ though the local community college- it's a class I took with the girls too, just a fun way to have some one on one time with the little man.
4. Eva's Jog-a-Thon! Elle ran 2 laps with Eva and would have done more but I made her stop, she had crocs on for crying out loud! Eva did 8 laps this year...she could have done more but I kept having her take water breaks...rookie mistake, she did 10 laps last year when daddy was coaching her, oops. She wanted to do 12 laps and was a little disappointed that she didn't but she still had a lot of fun and I'm so proud of how athletic she is and strives to be healthy.
4. Pumpkin patch family trip.
5. Carving of said pumpkins
6. Tried out some new crock pot recipes via pinterest, they were all so good and a few will become some new staples.
Onto the pictures!
Baked Potato Soup- it was so easy!
Bacon, Chicken, Ranch Mac
JJ got a new toy!
Our Three Little Piggies
JJ hanging out in the corn box.
I was experimenting with sun flare after I read a little tutorial on it, what do you think?
I tried to get Jeremy to take a picture of me with the same effect.
Eva getting ready for her jog-a-thon.
And they're off!
Eva's new 2nd grade teacher is the one directly behind her and her new
principal is there cheering and running along.
He's actually one of our family friends, a great family that we love to be around
and have known the longest since moving back to Corvallis,
he's known Eva since she was 4 months old! It's fun to have
a familiar face at school with a principal that we really know!
Aren't they the cutest?! They were holding hands for part of their run together!
Done! Phew!
I got the girls these cute headbands with ears!
And then I got Elle a top that coordinated and Eva the leggings that coordinated.
Aren't they so cute?!
It's carving time!
We didn't carve pumpkins last year and I felt sort of guilty
(even though the kids never noticed)
So I wanted to make sure we let them carve to their hearts content this year.
We only had two casualties...both were cuts, both were Elle.
We had JJ try on one of my Halloween wigs!
The best family picture of the night.
Jeremy and I went to an adults only Halloween party the other night.
Anyone know who we are?
And finally JJ in some new jammies courtesy of grandma and grandpa Bonham.
Next up Halloween, wish me good luck!
Farewell October, it was exciting and very fast!
Here's to a lingering November.
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