ITS OFFICIAL

Today we closed on our new home!! YEAH!!!! We are so excited about this new phase in our lives! I really am looking forward to having a yard and being able to work at making it beautiful! This I'm afraid is going to be really hard for me because honestly every single plant I touch dies! I'm not kidding either, this will be new and different but I am really looking forward to it. I am really really excited too because we have orange tree's in the backyard and this is something I have wanted since moving to California! We wont be moving in until the end of April because we really want to fix it up a little. It was a short sale and hasn't been lived in for a long time so it is pretty dirty and needs some work.

Using the keys for the first time!! I promise Toby is happy about our new house even though his face doesn't show it.
We are getting a fence put up around the pool next week and hopefully then I wont be as nervous about the kids running around outside.

I will post more pictures of the inside later when the inside looks a little better. Hopefully I will remember to get before and after shots of it all.

Brooklyn packed her little Dora suitcase yesterday with a bunch of her favorite things and told me she was ready to move to our new house. I hope the girls transition well!!

FRAME BOW HOLDER

This is probably no surprise but I have a million little girls bows, flowers, and clips that are a big mess in my cupboard right now. Tonight I decided to try something new and I think it turned out pretty cute. One downside to this frame in my case is, I'm going to either need to make 10 more of these frames or make one that is HUGE to fit all my bows! I will admit I have a problem and I buy way too many bows but they are just so dang cute!

I thought I would share this idea with everyone so that you can make your own. All I did was get a frame and take the glass and backing out. Then I used some ribbon and hot glued it to the back of the frame. It was so easy and I think it turned out pretty cute.

SLEEP TALKING

For the past few weeks I haven't been able to fall asleep very well at night. Some nights I find myself lying there for an hour or two before I can drift off. The other night I was lying there thinking of all the things that we need to do before we move into our new house. (this consumes most of my thoughts) I start to here Nikell moving around and kicking around in her crib, following that I start to here her talk but I can't tell what she is saying. Luckily I still have the monitor in my room so I hurried and turned it on to see what she was doing. At first I just here mumbling and breathing and then I here her start to talk very, very slowly..."one, two, three, four, five, sick, seven, eight, nine, ten. Ready o'not (or not) he-yi-come (here I come)" It made me laugh!

SO MUCH FUN

We have been loving this weather we have been having. It is so nice to take the kids to the park and just let them run and run and tire themselves out. We have been going to the park quite a bit lately and I wanted to post a few pictures of one park day last week. Misty and I went to a park nearby with the kids. We met some new friends there and it was so fun for all the kids to play and run around together. We even skipped rocks down by the creek. We love warm day's and we love the park!

Nikell is so much fun! I love her personality and think her little laugh is so cute. I am starting to notice more and more that she is so content and happy to just hang out on her own. I was watching her at the park and she seems to go somewhere by herself and just play and explore all alone. I wonder if it is her age or if she is going to be like her mommy. We shall see.

HAIR

I know I don't update my hair blog as often as I would like but I just updated it if anyone wants to check it out. www.rockinhair.blogspot.com

LEARNING TO WRITE

These last couple of months we have been working with Brooklyn on her letters. She is doing really well and is always asking if she can learn her letters. Today was a good day because its the first time she actually wrote her name by herself. She was so proud that she did it so pretty much the whole rest of the day thats all she wanted to do. I am happy that she is so enthusiastic about learning, hopefully it sticks with her!

HER HAT

I got a lot of people wondering where I got the hat Nikell is wearing in the picture below. This is the website if you want to check out her stuff. www.giannabyjerilyn.com