Johnny, Katie, Molly and Reese!

Monday, May 17, 2010

The FINISHED Backyard!

We FINALLY finished! It's great! We've been able to put it to good use already - date night for us, fire pit time with the neighbors, dinner with our community - and many more fun times to come! Here are some before and afters so you can see the whole transformation :)

Happy Days! LOTS of hard work!

Before . . . One of the first projects in the yard was taking out the spa.

Before . . . Next was the cement pad, old wood fence and the ivy/chain link fence! YUCK!

AFTER!!!! Extended the patio, grass, a garden, planter box, & BBQ area!

Before . . . messy.

After . . . relaxing :)

Before . . . seriously a mess!

After . . .

After . . . garden next to the shed (which is our next project - needs some paint).

After . . . this is looking back at the house.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Adventures of Molly!

Molly has officially been inducted into the Disneyland group! We took her to Disneyland to meet Johnny's cousin, Aileen, for her birthday! It was a great night!! Molly has also had her first trip to the river (we met Katie's Dad & Terri there) & her first painting class with Mommy. Enjoy the pictures from out adventure.

Daddy and Molly in front of California Adventure.

Family picture at the entrance.

"I'm AWESOME! And it's my 1st visit to Disneyland!"

Johnny's cuz Aileen with Jake and Jacoby - getting ready to go on Molly's first Disneyland ride, It's a Small World!

Looking a little tired Molly . . . but still enjoying Casey's Train.

On the Carousel. She semi enjoyed it but afterwords we realized she spit up a little :( oops!

Can't leave Disneyland without a picture in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle!

Molly's first painting experience! It was so fun to watch her experiment :)

And then there's the painting of herself - gotta love it :)

Molly and her friend Lily! They were so cute together :)

Papa and Molly

She wanted to keep walking in and out of the water even though it was FREEZING!

Playing in the sand on the river's edge.

Papa & Molly laughin' and playing!

Friday, April 2, 2010

Spring Fun!!!

We've been enjoying the beautiful weather and wanted to share some of our fun times. Molly is 13 months now and is so busy! She loves to be outside and play with the other kids and she is almost walking :) Katie's step mom came for a visit and the girls were able to have some fun girly time, but we also put Terri to work on the backyard. Terri and Katie shoveled gravel last Friday for the new paver patio we're putting in - that way it was all ready for Johnny to get to work on! The yard is turning out great and it's been fun to do it ourselves (just takes longer)! Hope you enjoy these pictures.

Priceless! Out on the lawn playing with bubbles. It's the ultimate kid picture - LOVE IT!

Not sure about the bubbles :)

She learned how to get into her new chair all by herself! Now she sits there are reads ALL THE TIME!

She loves it!

Molly having fun at the harbor with YaYa.

Molly and YaYa!

The Girls

Our neighbor, Kim, gave Molly this table and her and Sara just sat down in it and stayed there forever!

They don't have a choice but to be good friends!

So beautiful! What poses :)

The beginning of a lot of work! Terri and Katie shoveled that whole middle pile to the backyard!!

Molly was having so much fun helping daddy install the pavers!

Mommy helped too!

We were able to get about halfway at the end of the weekend.

It looks so good, we really love it!

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Winter was SOOOOO last week!

So the weekend before last we ended Winter with a bang and this past weekend we started Spring with some fun too! We took Molly to her first Drive-In Movie (I know you're thinking "they don't have drive-ins anymore", but Simi Valley is bringing them back!) A park near our house is showing movies once a month! We went with our neighbors, piled in the cars and enjoyed Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs :) Enjoy the pictures from our adventure and some from Saint Patty's Day too!