A NEW HOUSE OF GIGGLES AND LAUGHS!

OKAY, It is about time. I am so far behind it is incredible...After the play, we decided to buy a house! We did! This would be the number one reason for the incredible gap of time with my blog. We have one! We love it. We are moved in and have been in our house for a couple of weeks now! During this time consuming event we had three birthdays! Mother's Day and Father's day!What a lot to do!

Eleanor turned three June 1st. I must confess I shed a tear when she did!
I thought I needed to share a funny story.
Eleanor is now fully potty trained save night time.

She was in PJs earlier then usual, so we forgot to put on her pull-ups.
I woke up that morning at 4:30 am to use the bathroom and nearly tripped over a little girl sleeping on the floor. There she was laying on the ground with her knees tucked under her and her little bum in the air. I woke her up, and when she finally woke up I asked her what she was doing.
She said as coherently as if it were the middle of the day, "My bed is wet and my clothes are wet." I then remembered what I had forgotten to do earlier, "Did I forget to put pull-ups on you?" "Yes, you'll never forget to do that again, huh Mom?" "No, I won't!"

I then went up to get her changed, she was shaking from being cold and wet she continued being pretty cheerful (even for 4 in the morning)...."I have the goosebumps, I am so cold mom." I got her changed and asked her why she never got us earlier. This is her true response "I was coming to get Dad but I needed to take a rest so I laid down on the ground and fell asleep."

Given the time I decided not to change her sheets but laid a blanket on the floor and covered her with another blanket. "Mom, you can sleep with me on the floor too, if you want to."
I smiled at her and declined with a kiss, "Daddy will miss me."

I have never had an experience with any child in the wee hours of the morning so calm, humorous and sweet. Most occasions like that consist of mostly trying to calm my child down.
I went back to bed and smiled myself to sleep. What a night!

This is the nature of my sweet Eleanor. She is usually a peaceful loving little girl.
She doesn't like to make anyone upset and is very sensitive to any negativity.
Her big blue eyes melt any one's heart. I am so happy to have her in my family.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORI!


Owen had his Birthday June 8th.
He Turned one!
He is already quite the handful. He is so busy!
Cute as can be, and always happy! REALLY!
He gets into anything he can reach and follows the girls around everywhere they go.
He is all boy.
I have caught him climbing on almost anything, and into almost everything.
He doesn't know how to walk yet...so I am still in big trouble when that happens.
Look out World Owen is on the Loose!

NOTE: The unraveled toilet paper!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OWEN aka BUBBA-BOO!


I had a birthday June 21st. I turned... (you think I am going to tell!)
I shared it with Father's Day. (Every 7 years!)
So we gave each other a TV and A HOUSE!!!!
Don't think we can top that next year.
We moved in the week of those two celebrations but we did take a break from our unpacking and cleaning and all the joys that come with moving to go on a date.
I surprised Brian by taking him to a roller coaster simulator in the mall! Not as great as the real thing but cheap and no lines in the hot sun! It was fun!
We then went to Sonora Grill were I got a free dinner for my birthday!
OUR day ended up being on a Sunday were Brian and the girls surprised me with a VERY chocolate ice cream cake! It was a good weekend and a GREAT cake!


AND NOW- OUR HOUSE!
Our house is a home built in the 1930s. That makes it quite unique.
In our search for homes we found that most of the homes that we could afford needed work and improvements. With Brian's travels I knew that I did not want to take on projects that would not get finished or would cost us more then we wanted to spend.
SO we stumbled upon the most charming house as we were becoming discouraged with our search. We wondered if we could find anything, so we chose a neighborhood and we saw this house. IT was the right price a good neighborhood and had all that we needed! Talk about Luck (or providence). The house had been on the market only for about 12 hours.
We went in and put an offer down with in the hour! AND we love it!

I want to see pictures you say....OKAY, OKAY!

This is upstairs:








This is Downstairs:





(The bedrooms are not ready for pictures yet! )
I do have to paint two rooms.
The girls' room is blue, they want pink. And Owen's room is Purple and Green.
I need to make his room into well, a boy's room.
Other then that I don't need to paint anything else. I'd say that is great deal!


I did need to add that Madi was in the ward talent show and she HULA HOOPED!
She was amazing and did to the Music 'I get Around' by the beach boys! I wish I had taken pictures she was quite the star! GO MADI!