House pictures

We are moved in and here are pictures of our house and some of our projects. It took us awhile to unpack after a oouple of months living out of boxes, but its so nice to be settling into our house.

View of Pikes Peak from our backyard that tree might need to go, durning the summer its going to block my view. We also have a hot tub that came with the house so that has been kind of fun.

Keenan's room - Before (these are the pictures we took when we first looked at the house it was their guest room)

After (a fun room for an active boy)

Georgia's room - Before a bright purple room

After (a cute pink/green room for my little girl)

While Neil was in Taiwan for a week I worked on painting our room. It looks so nice I love the colors and I love making my bed now. Before - the master bedroom with a flower border and mauve pink accent and tan walls. After- Bright, clean and fresh I love our room. Guest Room - Before it was a very ugly green with red curtains.

After- A nice relaxing room for our guest, please come visit :)

We still have some more painting to do and some minor updating, but we have a good start. I will post some more pictures as we continue to do more projects.

The Move to CO

A deer at the end of the road at our Rental house.

The MOVE- This will be the summed up version
We left Saturaday, January 15th for the trek out west in our little Escape(we had movers come and move our stuff out). Saturday we left at noon and I was very emotional leaving, but the kids did a great job with the long day in the car. We stopped at Kearny, NE for the night and then woke up the next day and finished the trip.
The 2nd day traveling was not as easy, Georgia had the stomach flu and threw-up 3 times in the car, but we made it to Colorado Springs around 3 that day so it was not as long in the car. We stayed in a hotel on Sunday in Colorado Springs until our Moving Truck arrived on Monday. They moving truck pulled up to our Rental house at 9am Monday and got everything unloaded by noon that day and so far everything looks good.

Keenan helping put the table together.

Georgia helping unpack!

Through out the week we unpacked some things, but left alot of boxes packed in the garage. for when we get in to a house.
Georgia never got over her flu and by Wednesday(19th) of that week, she had a temp of 103.3 with tylenol so we took her to a clinic and had her looked at she had an ear infection we got her on some medicine and by the next day she was doing alot better.
Neil's parents came on Tuesday(18th) and hung out with us until Friday. Neil and I went out for dinner on Thursday, because we figured it would be the last time in awhile that we will have a babysitter, until we meet people and feel comfortable leaving our kids with other people.
The last couple weeks we have looked at a lot of houses nice/ok ones and some awful ones, but we have found a house. I will post more about the house in the next blog.

Alot has happened since November!!!

Our New place of Resident!

Well, we haven't blogged in along time. The last time we blogged is when we were interviewing for a job in Colorado. Well 2 weeks after Nov. 1st was Keenan's 3rd Birthday November 18th which is when we got the news about Neil getting the job out in Colorado Springs. Neil and I were happy about the new location, but it was also sad to think about leaving Madison.

We Celebrated Keenan's 3rd Birthday at the (Keenan words )"Bowling Pin Place" with just Family and then had a big Birthday party on the weekend. So I had to make a Bowling Pin Cake he loved the cake. I can't believe he is 3, time just flies by.

We took a house hunting trip to CO mid December and looked at a lot of houses and did some site seeing which was a lot of fun. It was almost 60 degrees in Colorado Springs when we visited in December 11th. (1st picture)

Later in December we went to California for Christmas to see Neil's Brother, Wife and Nephew for a week which was nice to get away for awhile. We went to Disneyland for a day which was a lot of fun but very busy. Then we went to the beach on Christmas Eve(which was kind of wierd playing on white sandy beaches instead in the cold white snow). We went sailing one day and played outside as much as we could. It was great to spend time with the family before our big adventure.

When we got back from CA Neil had a few days before he left to go to CO to start his new job on January 3rd. It was a busy few days and was hard to see him leave because 2 weeks later when he returned we would all be leaving Madison and moving to CO.
Our house was put on the market Dec. 7th and we got an accepted offer January 9th. We close on February 25th. Which made it a little easier to move out of our house in Madison. More to come about the move. Stay tune.

Halloween 2010

This year we went out trick or treating with our kiddos and our neighbors. The kids had a blast. Keenan dressed up as a Ghost and Georgia was a lady bug they were so cute. Keenan would go up to the door and say tricken(it sounded like Chicken)or treat, he was a great ghost. Georgia was getting the hang of it too by then end of the night.

October Happenings

We have done alot the last few weeks. Going to the pumpkin patch, having a campfire one night, and just hanging outside as much as we can before it gets really cold out. We are hopeful that we will have a few more warmer days. Halloween is around the corner and I haven't got the kids there costumes yet, you will see later what they are going to be. Check out the blog in a week or 2 to see pics of them.

CA Trip with Georgia

Georgia and I headed to Santa Barbara to see Neil's Brother Chris, Jenny and Asher their little boy who turned 1 while we were out there. It was the first time flying with any of our kids so I had know idea how it was going to go with her flying. We left Madison at 7:00PM and got into SB at 11:00PM there time, our time 1:00AM. Georgia was exhausted she slept maybe 45mins total on the plane, but we made it.
We headed to a park one morning and it was in the 80's and gorgeous. Most of the week it was in the 90's and one day it was 109. Later in the day we went to the beach and played in the sand and in the ocean, I could not get over how nice it was Georgia loved playing in the sand and in the water.

One morning we had Breakfast on the beach they had the best blueberry pancakes.

My little Nephew Asher turned 1 while we were there and they had a party for him at a local park. they had food, a very cute birthday cake which he loved and some great presents. He a wonderful day and you could not have asked for better weather.

Asher and his birthday cake!!

Georgia and the big blue whale!

Apple Time

A few weeks ago we went to the apple orchard. We went on probably the worst day. It wasn't raining when we got there, but as soon as got to the farthest part of the orchard to get apples it started to rain. We tried not to have that spoil our outting, but we did get soaked.

Our bag was full so Keenan started putting the apples in Georgia's hood.

Georgia had a blast getting to pick her very own apples and eating them. Keenan always has enjoyed going and picking the best apples or finding ones on the ground. We have been busy making lots of yummy apple treats since.