A lot happened in a week

The entire inside of the house (and garage) was painted (an ugly beige I might add, we will have to do some painting when we move in). We have baseboards and doors throughout the entire house. The cabinets are all in, in the kitchen and bathrooms. The counter tops are all in too. It was dark and rainy when I was trying to take pictures tonight, so everything looks kind of dark to me. We are supposed to get the carpet and wood floors in next week. It's so close to being done! I didn't want to leave the new house tonight, I just wanted to stay there forever. I didn't want to come back to this other house. I want to move in SO bad!!!!!!!! But, I figured sleeping on the cement slab wouldn't be too comfortable, so we went home.


Trying to get a better shot of the granite. I really like the silver that is speckled throughout it.

Yellow Belt!

Tyler tested for his yellow belt at Tae Kwon Do before we went on vacation. When we got back we found out he passed! He was very excited to get his yellow belt.

School's in session!

My sweet boy started 1st grade today! I asked him if he just wanted me to drop him off, or if he wanted me to walk him to his class. He said he wanted me to walk him to class. This boy is such a sweetie! And, he totally doesn't mind me kissing him in front of his classmates...yet :) Brena and I really missed him all day. I keep telling Brena she can't go to school in a couple of weeks because I will be all alone! She says "Mom *with a dramatic voice* I HAVE to go to school, don't cry at home." She will be going MWF 9-2:30pm - what in the world am I gonna do all day??? And, I am all too aware of how fast this year will fly and then I will be taking Brena to Kindergarten and Tyler to 2nd grade....ahhhh!!!!!! I have to stop thinking about it.

Peaches!!

It was one of the best times to be at my parents' house. The peaches were ready! My parents have a large orchard on the back part of their property and we got all the peaches we wanted. The kids were in heaven. I have given up trying to ever buy peaches anywhere else we have ever lived because they are never as good as Colorado peaches. It's very disappointing to bite into a peach, expecting it to taste as good as you think it should, and they never do.

Kim was lucky, she gets to can her peaches and take them home. I couldn't do that. So, I got the dried peaches and the peach leather (which I forgot to take! Can you mail them Dad, please??). This is the 2nd kitchen in my parents' house, it is a dedicated canning kitchen because they have so much fruit from the orchard. And my mom would get mad when my dad was making a mess with all the fruit stuff in her kitchen.

This was the after picture, because I forgot to take a before picture. This is the canning kitchen fridge, it was totally stuffed to the gills with peaches when we started that night. After we finished, there were just a few peaches left. But, there are plenty more peach trees ripening in the orchard, so there will be lots more soon.

We canned, dried, pureed...

My Dad is so silly...

Some of the orchard.

The pears will be ready soon...I wish everything could be ready at the same time so I could have had some!

Gotta use a ladder to get to the top!

Look at those peach beauties!!!

The apples will be ready in a month or two, missed out on those too!

High School friends

One of the fun things I got to do in Colorado was get together with some of my best high school friends. We got to have dinner and talk all night. Well, I had to leave around 11pm, they stayed until the place closed at 2am!

This is us on graduation day - May 1996! From left to right: Valerie, Shandee, Mandy, Sarah and me.

This is Valerie and I in the 9th grade. I think this picture was taken in 1993, but I could be wrong. We met in cross country and hit it off right away.

And this was us on August 7. I had to crop Mandy out of the picture. Mandy is a model (and GORGEOUS!) but her hair is under contract...or something like that, so she can't be in any photos. You can see her in the first picture (graduation) above. Oh, and one other thing I forgot to mention, Mandy and Valerie are twins.

This is Sarah and I. We played basketball together. I have such fond memories of all these girls! It was so good to go out with them and catch up. I wish we could do it more often!

House

It was so strange to come home and see the house, it looked so different. We have walls now! We have stucco too. Only 1 month to go.......

Brena's room and closet.

Master room

Kitchen

Front.

Camping

We went camping while we were in Colorado. I forgot how much I love to camp in the mountains. It's cold, it smells wonderful and it's just fun. It was strange to wear coats in the middle of August. I don't know what the temperature was at night, but the next day when we left it was 52 degrees at 11am. I wanted to stay forever.

Samuel aka SamSam

Brenalee and Kayleigh

Tyler and Brenalee

This was right before we went camping, aren't they so cute??!!

This is a wolfum. We first had these 6 years ago on a camping trip with our friends Kate and Travis. You can see the stick in the right bottom corner of the photo. It's a refrigerated biscuit that you put on that stick, then roast in the fire until it's cooked. Then you take it off the stick and it's got a hollowed out middle that you put cherry pie filling in (or whatever pie filling you like) and then spray whipped topping on the top, then you wolf it down. They are soooo yummy.

Kim and Kayleigh

The s'mores

Derek and Tyler roasting some hotdogs

Grandma, Derek and Brena

Random posts

My posts are pretty random right now. I just got back from vacation and have lots of photos I want to upload. But, Kmart was doubling coupons again, so you know I couldn't miss out on that! I got some pretty sweet deals, and I am getting ready to go back today and do it again. I only paid $3.58 for everything pictured above!
(8)packs pudding
(2)softsoap body washes
(2)softsoap hand soap
(2)scrubbing bubbles toilet gel
(1)pack bic razors
(1)pack chinet plates
(4)boxes rice krispies
(2)Ajax dish soap
(2)boxes honey bunches of oats
(6)boxes Kellogg's cereal
(2)chef boyardee
(1)Renuitz air freshener
(1)Clorox wipes
(4)trident gum (should have been 8, they were stuck together and I pulled them apart - then today realized they were supposed to be stuck together because they were buy one get one free! I hate it when I do dumb things)
(4)Nabisco snack cups
(2)Revlon Hip eye make-up (forgot to put them in the pic)
(2)Dove Deodorant

Family

I LOVE Colorado. We stay outside all day and play. It's not hot like Florida and sitting in the shade you hardly know it's summer. Brena rode this stick horse all day, when she wasn't on the hammock or swing.


Tyler always gets a haircut by Grandma when he's in town.

Brenalee, Tyler, Analise, Levi, Anthony.

The best corn on the cob ever, Olathe Sweet!

Brenalee is 4!

Because Brena's birthday is in August (9th to be exact), she gets to sometimes spend her birthday in Colorado. She got to do it this year. She was so excited to have a birthday with her cousins. Of course Kim ended up working that weekend (she's a L&D nurse) and so her kids weren't there. But, the rest of her cousins were.






I didn't even realize we were dressed alike.

I'm sure you can tell, I didn't make the cake this year. That's Stephanie's job when we are in town.