Saturday, February 18, 2012

Kids & Renovations!

Our life is Busy busy! Lately we have been so so busy doing stuff on our house. .. Tearing a wall down, painting the kids rooms.. doing molding and wood work in the kitchen, cleaning up the yard.. the list goes on. Sometimes i feel like we are only meant for two kids with our busy lifestyle! But no!.. i do want another, at least one more. We will see how it pans out but within the year im hoping to be pregnant with child #3! It sounds so crazy, 3 sounds like a lot when your used to 2 and busy with 2. But we are mentally, emotionally and financially preparing ourselves lol cuz now that we started to have kids i want them to be all close in age. Anyway thats just been on my mind lately. Babys babys! so cute :).

Gavin Had been the biggest helper with renovating the house. He gets so excited when we do stuff. "Thanks you mommy!" he said after i painted his room. aw (so sweet). We are still working on the potty training, well, the #2 part if u know what i meen. Pee is no problem, day and night he has it down and even wakes me up to go. But poo no way! Its a constant battle and i try everything.. Getting mad for a week, not getting mad for a week, time outs, prizes, bribes. ... etc etc. Im just hoping it will just click!!! Cross our fingers!! He is getting so smart though. Loves to read, loves to make dinasour and lion noises all day, torments his adorable brother and plays with him too. He has started to help him, and teach him stuff (really picking up on the big brother role :)) which i love! He gets up every night at least 3 times still! and Im the pushover mom who goes and lays with him every time. (i figure the time will pass and ill miss theses nights so.. ) He doesn't eat, lol. We really don't know how he survives on water and milk. I love watching all his phases the older he gets. I cant believe he will be 4 soon! He is my softy and mommas boy, i love him to pieces!!

Deklin Is the opposite most the time. So hilarious this one. Has so much energy and fire in him. Its so funny to watch, ill have to catch his attitude on video and post it. What a little rascal! He keeps me on my toes thats for sure. Right now he is hitting and pinching and throwing things. . Cries a lot for attention but gives kisses and hugs and blows kisses to me when we leave and runs and laughs when we get home. Such an age.. 18 months and so much personality. I really love it but it sure keeps me busy. He is saying so much.. momma, daddy, he even says Duke (our dog..) but its more like "dooo". :) He is my good eater.. loves meat (haha, for those of you who know I'm a vegetarian will understand why that funny. . most the time i just cook it and put it on the side for brandon.. so gavin never really wants it.. im happy deklin does though! He loves to play hide and seek, and take baths. He is picking up on every noise gavin makes so he likes to make loud noises too (i love that though ). He is sleeping through the night! Which is great cuz if i had both kids waking up all night i wouldn't survive the day without losing it. Such a cutie pie! I could squeeze him all day!

Stephanie's wedding is coming up!! Yay!!!! I don't think ive wrote about my baby sis!! She is marrying Brandon's cousin and living here!!! Freaking awesome!! lol I'm really excited and so happy to have my sista friend here with me. There is nothing like family. So we have been wedding planning and shopping while renovating the house! Its nice to stay busy, I don't think I'm the stay at home all week type of mom, Which is why the summer needs to come ASAP!! THEN i wont go out and spend money we can just hang outside and go to the park lol.

So here are some recent pics of my adorable munchkins and some random things we have been doing. Deklin is usually napping while we paint so Gav was the big helper with these projects and in most the pics. :) Ill keep you posted for more before and after pics!!! Brandon has been working so hard for me. love ya babe :)

I have the best husband.. I really wanted to do a half marathon this year before we had baby number 3! SO... we both are training for one that is on July 4th 6am... 13.1 miles. Ya i know.. me run a marathon.. haha But we are doing it and training as we speek. Im up to 2 1/2 miles on the tread mill and have alot of work to do.

oh and ps.. we traded in our excursion and got a jeep commander!! woo hoo! so glad to get rid of that money pit vehicle.

(Drinking their main snack before bed to fill them up.. packed with fruit spinach and flax seeds, they still love em too!)








Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Our New Front Door. (using paint ofcourse! )

This was one of the first things i wanted to change, it took a while but last week i did the final
touches! First i painted it all white, painting is so much cheaper than buying a brand new door!
So then took the screen door off, then didn't like the white so painted it black and fixed the
paint on the trim. After i added the beautiful wreath from Target (thank you Target for always
coming through for me :)) . I also got the flower pot by the door at a garage sale for $20! yay!

The ugly... yes ugly ugly door! Before......

AFTER! :) (BIG SMILE)

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The START of Our Renovations! Room 1

The funnest part of buying a fixer upper (house) is showing the before and after pictures and that feeling of... success!! We knew when we got this house a year ago it would be alot of work to make it our realistic "dream home" but me and brandon really enojy DIY prjects. Its fun and it gives us something to do together (other than the regular day things). I know i get a little more excited than brandon, lol but he seems so love the process tooo. :) First things first was we moved in and all the wall were white... white! I had just hd a baby and i could feel the postpartum sinkin in , not feeling at home. So we started painting. Its been a year and i finally am blogging about all our renos!

The before.... (sexy brandon :)) he will probably kill me for showing u all this.
But he did all the work in this room sense i was recovering from delivering our adorable baby boy Deklin. . so it was only fair i give him credit. :)

Living room BEFORE...
AFTER!!
What a huge difference it was. This room really felt like home.
Its crazy what a little paint can do.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Fun with the kids!

My adorable boys.. such cuties, i just love them so much! Its hard to catch a gooder pic of these busy bodys.. but i did it.. kinda ha.

SOOO telll me, does anyone else have a hard time getting a pic of their kids together??? cuz we sure do!! Its so hard to get them to stand beside eachother at all and get somewhat of a picture! lol ugh! i dont have very many of them together, here is us trying to get something decent....

and.. obviously that didnt work.. haha, but we did manage to get there faces in a family picture and some of them seperate.... Here is a bike dad brought home for Gavin as a surprise!. So awesome! he loves it.
PUtting up the christmas tree early... i think it was mid november, ha.. but i love christmas so i made brandon haul it out of the shed and put it up. :) go me!!
(Deklin was asleep so he missed out on the end result)

We took the kids on The Polar Express!!! AWESOME! and i would totally recommend it to anyone with kids.

How awesome is this?? My boys love trains and they have a train ride at the mall. woo hoo! the highlight of our mall trip would have to be that!

And our santa pic! he.. like i said... rare to get a pic of them together, so im just so happy they are not freaking out in this photo.. soo.. success!!
WE leave to Canada to visit the Family for christmas. so excited, more pictures to take and memories to make. So you will be seeing more of that asap!

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Our Puppy Rocky.

Our poor little dog Rocky Past away 3 days ago. He fell of a ledge the wrong way and broke his spine. We had him for 51/2 years and we will miss him so much. We really did grow attached to this little dog, and so did our kids. It was a hard few days, and we are really sad he isn't with us. RIP Rocky. Here are some moments with him the last little while.

Rocky Broke his leg a few months back and we finally got it heald. :( Brandon taking it off.








You can tell he was Gavin's Best Buddy, all the pics i have of Rocky are with him. We are just glad he doesnt understand what happend cuz he saw the whole thing. He just aks where he is and we tell him he is in heaven.

Halloween 2011

So my boys make me so happy. I miss blogging cuz i never get to sit and enjoy all the small moments and pictures we take. Halloween was really fun this year. Gavin is just getting more excited for things and loves sharing it with his "little brother" (what we call deklin). Here are some pics from october! ps Deklin is walking everywhere and running!.. He says uh oh, daddy, momma, ooo, hi, and some other cute mummbles. lol. Gavin is POTTY TRAINED and in underwear, what a super star! Go gav.











Saturday, November 12, 2011

skipping ahead!!!

So yes my last post was of halloween last year!! i know.. so far gavin turned 3 Deklin turned 1 we got a new puppy who is now a huge chocolate lab dog! .. and i worked at Loft (clothing store) then quite cuz i missed my kids way to much and had the hardest time being away so now im home again with them and we are on a budget so i dont have to work. :) ALso brandon built a fence for us!! with the help of him brothers and a little from me! so that sums up the good stuff so here are pics for all that so tomorrow i can finally blog about something thats actually happening NOW. :)

Deklin Turned 1!!! time went by so fast!







My Baby Gavin turning A big 3 years old!