Good Times at the Park

Last Sunday we took the kids to "Freestone Park" also known as to the kids as the "Ducky Park". We fed the duckies and the kids played on the playground, we had a really great time!

Do you see all of those stinkin ducks! For real!

Yeah Justin!

Check this out! Justin's mom sent us some pictures of Justin, and one of them was this one....

He made student of the month at his school!!!! Whoo Hooo!! Diego is calling him tonight to tell him congrats! Justin was just telling Diego yesterday that he got an award, but he didn't know what it was for...well now we know! Cute little guy!

Happy Valentines Day!

Here are some pictures on Valentines Day morning opening their Valentines from Diego and I :) I also made them heart shaped pancakes!

Ales was trying to take a picture of me.....LOL (btw, this is early, no make-up sorry!)

Awe! Heart Shaped Pancakes!!

Brooklyn got some candy, a big heart sucker, sun glasses & finger nail polish!

Alex got candy, a heart shaped sucker, a car, & sun glasses!

Happy Birthday Justin!!

Today is Justin's (Diego's little boy) 6th Birthday! We are sad to not be with him today, but we are sending birthday wishes his way...and presents of course!!! Hopefully he will get his presents next week, I am bothered I couldn't get them to him this week, $$ didn't have the right timing. But better late then never I guess! Here is a picture of him back in July (I am sure he has grown quite a lot since then!!).

What's going on in my home...

Well, my house is about 90% finished. We have our upstairs hallway, the stairway and in the formal living/dining room we have to paint the highest part by the ceiling (about a foot around the top of 4 of the walls). The thing is our formal living/dining room ceilings go to about 20ft at the highest part, so we have to rent a scaffold to be able to do it neatly :) But as for the kitchen, and family room then the little hallway that leads to my downstairs bathroom and laundry room are all done! Well, my husband wants to do a little more "touch-ups" because he is by far the BIGGEST perfectionist I have EVER met. I mean really, I thought I liked things a certain way, but good grief, this man is borderline OCD, LOL!!!!

So here are some pictures that I have taken so far, the batteries died on my camera and I haven't bought new ones... so what you see in the pictures, is already done! I have even put up my curtains in my family room!

The kids helping :)
The formal area which will consist of pretty curtains and paint for a long while! I am perfectly okay with that! :)

Oops! We got a little bit of paint on the window! Hehe! No worries, it came right off!

See how tall the ceilings are!! WHOA BABY! The green you see carries through into my kitchen. I painted below and above my kitchen cabinets that color, it looks great! Can't wait to show you!

Doesn't the paint change look great! I am soooo super happy with it! The room to the back left is our family room, and it is already done w/curtains, so cute!

Is Hell freezing over??

LOL! "Hell" meaning the hot dessert of the Phoenix area, LOL!! So check this out yesterday we had some rain, not unusual..but then it started to hail. Now I have seen hail out here before but NEVER have I seen hail stick to the ground like snow!! Yes, it stuck for maybe 10 minutes but still! It looked crazy! Check out these pictures that I took!

Pretty crazy huh?

Painting...I know..it is still goin' on...ugh!

So, we have came across some difficulties with painting. You see we have vaulted ceilings in our "big empty room" which is also known as, the formal living/dining room. The highest point of those vaulted ceiling go to about 20 feet!! Yikes!! Basically most everything is done, except that room. I painted the walls in that room about a foot away from the ceiling, b/c I wanted to make sure that we got it straight when it met the ceiling. Well we borrowed a really tall ladder from a friend, and that went down the drain! The ladder just didn't seem safe enough for my husband to go all the way up the ladder. So this Wednesday we are renting a 10 ft painting thing (can't remember the name, lol!) from a local store and we are going to FINISH it! Yes!!! Hooray!!!!

Even though the formal area isn't finished completely I am happy to say that my family room is pretty much done! My curtains are hung and everything! Yippeee!!! I can't wait to show pictures of it all! It has changed the look and feel of our home so much :)