Kaiden was anxious to have his room in the mix...

We painted a light blue/ grey color in Kaiden's room. He has a castle themed walk- in- closet, which is his secret club house and thus not postable online. Next to his bed you can see traces of his "knight in shining armor" which decs out his closet by the dragon, tassels that hold the draps, and the flichering torch light next to his pillow on the bottom bunk. I made the dragon comforter on the top bunk out of an Ikea duvet cover and there is a matching sham for the pillow. I'm pretty happy with it, so I think next time we're at Ikea I'll pick one up for the bottom bunk. All the walls are the same color, but the true color is manifested in the picture with the bulletin board. The sun is too bright for the other pictures, I guess.

Kelsey's room is ready to go!

We finally finished Kelsey's surfer room- shy of Tony's surf board we're planning on suspending from the ceiling as soon as we're able to bring it down from Concord. Enjoy the shots!

The canvases of beach scenes Kelsey painted.

The raffia bed skirt Kelsey and I made together out of table skirts we bought at the party store.

The palm leaves- which look so much cooler than I could get them to look in the pictures- are from our tree in the back yard. Tony cut them and then we laid them on the side of the house for three months to dry out.

Sea World

It's not here! As a tribute to Audrey we lost the camera we took to Sea World to prevent the possibility of losing the good camera. So the pictures of Auntie Maya and Nana Paula and I escorting the kids to Sea World are not here yet, but as soon as we get the camera we'll add them to these images I borrowed from google images =).

The story of the garage

Home study number one- of what will then be six total.

The fist time someone comes out for the homestudy they make sure your house is "safe" for kids and tell you all the things you need to do to prep it for approval. Then they give you 30 days. Well, with a foreclosure we have neglected to put away a lot of things in the garage. A lot of it is attic stuff, but some is just all that stuff- chemicals, books, paper towels... So we already built these fabulous cabinets (well, put them together) and filed them with everything toxic- household cleaners, bug sprays, lawn chemicals, car washes, the works. And we put up these other shelves to hold all the household stuff, and I thought we were doing pretty good. Tony had even put up this (see picture) tv, video player, and video game system on top of a mini fridge complete with some game chairs for the kids. Actually it started out as the tv and stereo for him when he's working out there, but the kids took it over.

Long story short, our homestudy says we're not allowed to have any boxes or tools in the garage. So we've been cleaning everything out. And I even put garage floor paint down on the floor to protect it- after sweeping and blowing off the dirt.

Hmm... didn't work out so well. We parked on it after it dried and look what happened! It all peeled off when we drove on it! Turns out you actually have to strip the floors before you pain them! I don't know how we're going to get all that off to strip it! Anyway, one third of the garage is now complete and hopefully after next Saturday you'll get to see the rest of it done!!! Anyone ever clean your garage in 100 degree weather? Classic experience.