Our House

Here are some recent pics of our new house, with our furniture in it. Jason has dreamed of putting up our TV on the wall, and it has finally come to fruition, when we moved into this house. Eventually though, he wants to get a projector! Men and their "toys"!!


As you can see, we finally got rid of that old blue plaid. lopsided couch that we've had forever!! We figured, we should get a new couch to go with our new house. We love the ottoman especially because it's got storage underneath it! Yay!


We repainted the kitchen from that dark red color, to white. Any of you that know me, know that I LOVE the color red, but it just didn't work for me in the kitchen.


The front room we made into Savannah's playroom....since we don't have any additional furniture to make it a formal Living Room (a.k.a the Visiting Teaching/ Home Teaching room)
We also bought a new dining room set, since that little round drop leaf table we had was pretty small and would look dwarfed in the eat-in dining room.
We love our house and the space that we have now. It's amazing how we managed to fit all the "stuff" we have now, in the little apartment that we had before.....it was just all in the patio storage apparently!!

Dance class

3.8.11

This was suppose to be her 1st day of dance class, but about 10 min before we left, we got a call that the class was cancelled for that day. She was so excited for the class too!

3.15.11

Here she is ready for her 1st day of dance class!!
I braided her hair, to keep it out of her way. I couldn't believe she sat still long enough for me to braid it!!

Unfortunately, the videos we had of her during her last dance class, somehow got deleted from the SD card, so we don't have those....BUMMER!! They were cute videos of her sonersaulting, and doing different moves. I'm so bummed about that. Guess I should be better about uploading the pics from the camera sooner than later.

She loved her dance class and wished we could've done another class, oh well. Another time maybe.

Phx Zoo

2.25.11
So one day we got to tag along on a field trip to the Zoo with a Pre-school group. Savannah really enjoyed it and had fun with her cousins.

Jackson and Savannah

Brooklynn & Savannah

Feeling for Stingrays

Pics of Savannah's 3rd Birthday

1/10/11 (though her birthday is actually 1/12/08)
So, here are some pics of Savannah's birthday party we had for her. She was so excited for her friends (she calls her cousins her "friends" too) to come over and celebrate with her.
We were excited to have an event/excuse to invite people over to our new house too!!

Been too long...

So it's been FOREVER since I posted.....

I'll try to just post the interesting things that has happened to us these last few months.

FIRST being, buying our new HUGE house! (well, anything would be HUGE compared to the little 800 sq ft 2 BD apartment we lived in for 3 years, right?)
-The home buying process was a headache in itself!
-Home Buying Assistance program: Ran out of funds by the time we were ready to purchase.
-Student Loans: too high, so to defer them, I went back to school.
-Close of Escrow: extended twice! (needed Student loans in "In School Deferment" status)
We were REALLY hoping to get the keys before Christmas, since we signed papers on Thurs the 23rd......but it didn't happen. Apparently the Title agency wanted 72 business hours to review file before accepting payment and then recording all the paperwork-and Friday the 24th was Christmas Eve, so they were closed that day!
Wednesday, Dec 29th we FINALLY got the keys!!
So needless to say, we did nothing to celebrate the New Years!! Oh, except we let Savannah go to her first sleep over at her Aunt's house with all the other cousins! SHE LOVED IT!! So we had a quiet house New Years eve, and we all went to bed at around 8 or 9 or so!!!! How sad is that??

NEXT moving in. We underestimated how much stuff we had.....we thought we could do it without the use of renting a truck....well, it ended up taking all day Friday, and 3 trips (this is not including 2 other trips on Wed and Thurs). Oh well. We had family that helped us out, which was really nice.

Painting, carpet cleaning, appliance buying, couch buying, and about a month later, we are adjusting to life in our much bigger house. I'll have to get some recent pics with our furniture and new paint job posted soon.

We got to celebrate Savannah's 3rd birthday early, on Monday, the 10th. Jason works evenings Tues-Sat, and Jason's mom, who has been down helping us with the move, would be leaving early on the next day, Tuesday, so we wanted to celebrate it with them. She got a Princess bike, and can ride it in the house, cuz it's big enough!

Other News:
If you haven't heard the news from Facebook, or family.....we are having baby # 2 in early July-the 2nd to be exact. So as of today, I am 18 wks along. I have not had an appointment yet since moving, but am in the process of getting one. So to answer the next question I'm sure is on your mind....I don't know yet if we are having a boy or a girl.
When we finally told Savannah, around late-December, I would ask her if she wanted a baby brother or a baby sister...she would say one then the next she would say the other. Lately though when I ask her she wants a baby sister.....hmmm...(tho I just asked her again, and of course she proves me wrong and says, "mmmm....baby brother"

Savannah's latest antics:
She LOVES to dance! I missed the enrollment for a local dance class here in Buckeye, but hope to get her in on the next one. Anytime there is music on she goes into the kitchen and will dance. Then she does a bow! It's so cute...I really need to video it because it's too hard to describe.
When I ask her to do something she's not totally thrilled about, for example, picking up her toys, she goes, "oohhh-kaaay" in her most bored tone. Again, I would have to video it because it's hard to type the description of it!
When she gets something she really likes (example: HUGE princess spiral bound coloring book-she can't carry it herself it's so big) she declares excitedly, " I LOVE IT SO MUCH!"
It's so cute when she is loving to me or Jason, and it just melts my heart! She has recently started telling us, without us saying it first, "I love you mommy/daddy" or "I love you so much". I love those moments! One night, she was sitting next to me, watching a show with me, and she took my face in both her hands, turned my face to her and said, " I love you mommy". Out of the blue!
When she gets needy/tired, she says, (in her whiney voice and waving both arms to be held), "I want you, I want you". I don't know how she's going to handle a newborn baby being in the house and taking all the attention away...
When we ask her a question, she'll "think" about it, and go, "mmm....(while tapping her index finger to her mouth a few times and looking to the side!)......" then give us her answer! It's so cute to watch her!
She LOVES, LOVES, LOVES, being around other kids, and is very gentle with those younger than her, I noticed. I don't know if that's natural for all young girls. But she kicks and cries, whenever we have to leave playgroup, or the park when there's other kids still there. If she could she would stay at the park ALL DAY LONG, as long as there were other kids there.

So those are the MAJOR things that have happened in the last couple of months....I should be posting some pics of random things from October to recent just to be up-to-date (for the analytical side of me)

NEW HOUSE!!

This is our new House!!!

We will be having a hectic Christmas this year, because we will be moving over the weekend. We will be getting our keys maybe as early as Thurs. morning, or as late as Friday morning!!! So we may just move over the bare necessities, toiletries, some clothes, the Christmas decor, gifts, and such on Friday, then Sat, Sun, and Mon we'll have to move more stuff over.

Front of house

Back yard (which is pretty large! Yay!) with fully covered patio (Yay!), and extended patio-for Savannah to ride her bike....whenever she gets one....

Garage with Cabinets (we loved this feature!!)

Eat-in Kitchen (no Formal Dining Room)

Family Room, opposite kitchen (we WILL be re-painting this yellowish wall)

Front room from front doorway (try saying that a few times!!)
This room is gonna be empty for a while, or we'll temporarily use it for some of Savannah's toys, because we only have ONE couch-we've never had room for more than that!!
We loved the staircase as well.

View from opposite corner of house (family room) as above picture. The kitchen has an island (another feature we loved). That hallway goes to a small BD (w/ walk-in closet), and full Bath

Bikers

Saturday Oct. 9th, our street, Hardy Dr. was closed off, for this bike parade. This happens every year, (at least all the years that we've lived here in Tempe, which is 3!) We decided to sit out and enjoy the bike riders riding by



Here's Savannah, she decided to play outside on the patio for a while, and brought out some of her toys to have a little tea party.