Grandma & Sadie Go to Sea World

For Sadie's 5th birthday Grandma took her to Sea World for the day.   They had lunch with Shamu and his friends.  Which Sadie loved, she got to see the animals up close. 

What a special day for Sadie to get to spend time by herself with Grandma.  Thanks Grandma!

Dylan Meets the Smits!

On May 21 Jon (my brother in law) came down to install our new counter tops.  Which are beautiful and he brought Julie and my new Niece with him.  I couldn't wait to meet her!

Dylan Kate Pereira was born on Sadie's birthday April 30th.  She's adorable.  

Her cousins are crazy over her.  They got to spend the evening visiting with their aunt and uncle and their new cousin.

They took turns fighting over who's turn it was to hold her.  And they thought is was hilarious when she made "a face like something smells really bad"

Uncle Jeremy seems to think she's something really special, and Sadie thinks that since they share a birthday that they must be sisters not cousins!  We tried to explain it but it didn't seems to sink in.

Thank you Jules for making a trip out here just to see us, and let us see her.  I feel so grateful for the time I got to spend with your new little family.  She is beautiful and perfect.  What an amazing mother you are becoming.  You seem so at ease.  Motherhood becomes you.  I love you and am so proud of you.

Mini Olympics 2009

For all you non-Calvinites who check out my blog.  Mini Olympics is a Calvin event that is basically just what it sounds like.  The kids are on teams designated with a color and a country.  The teams are made up of first thru sixth graders.  The Eighth Graders run the events, the Seventh Graders are the team leaders.  They compete in all sorts of events, ending in a huge relay race!

Madison was on the grey team, which was France.  She seemed to be having more fun than this picture shows.  It was a beautiful day, unlike last year which rained!

Sophia was on the red team, which was Holland.  Here's Sophia running the relay race smiling the entire way.  She seems to take after her Dad, lucky girl.  She has much more coordination than I do.  She even got her National fitness award this year for the first time.  The only thing she didn't qualify for Presidential in was sit ups.  Sit ups have kept her from getting the award every year until this one.  Way to go Fia!

I had to stop taking photos of her, she kept stopping to smile at me!  This is her during the middle of the obstacle course!

Great action shot!  This is Sophia at the standing broad jump.  PS I love my new camera.  I was able to take six pictures during this one jump!

Sadie can never be entirely left out.  She gets a piggyback ride from Madison.

Madison's Standing broad jump.  Look at her go.  I can't believe how tall she's getting.  Look at those long legs.

Day 50 (catching up)

Ok so currently were way past this, but this is the only picture I have of the new cabinets as they were going in.  So here it is.  This picture was taken while Mr. Tom was in the process of installing, mainly the lowers.

Day 49 (catching up)

Not much to say in this post other than check out my awesome sink!  Jeremy took pictures of it this day to send them to Julie and Jon to figure out the best way to template around this sink with the marble we choose for the countertops.  It's not a great picture but you get the idea!

Day 43 (Catching Up)

Since I haven't blogged in many a day I'm catching up with the few pictures I've taken to show what's going on with us.  Here's the kitchen with no paint or cabinets but new electrical!  This is the view facing my window over the sink. ( Jeremy took these at night with no flash for some reason?)

View of what will be my refrigerator, oven and pantry wall.  Again no paint with electrical.

View from the kitchen towards the entry way, paint cut in around the edges.

This is the view of my eating area from my kitchen, nothing but electrical done.

Day 38

So for me this week I've picked out my backsplash (sort of) worked on hardware and all around feel like I've gotten almost nowhere.  My only job is to pick out stuff, but since I want it to be perfect, well it seems to take a while.  Better luck next week.

Not too much change, but Jer is out of the walls.  Here is the dining area...
Here is Leon the drywall guy. Yea! getting rid  of my swirly celings.  He'll also be patching op all the walls and texturing them so they match the parts of the walls we tore up.  He's really good at walking with that bucket under his feet.  He just scoots along with out climbing down.  I would absolutely kill myself.  I guess that's why I sit at a computer instead of putting up and texturing drywall.  It was my second carreer choice, after taxi driver, landing zone for throw up, incessent whine listener toer.
This is the main area of the kitchen, by the end of next week it will look ton's different.  The lowers will be installed and then we'll be waiting for the granite, or marble we can't decide which.
The office looks the same.  Jeremy still has to put up the drywall in here, then Leon will come back and texture this room.  It'll be sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Another view of the kitchen.  The sink goes Monday, I'll miss you sink!  I think I'll be doing dishes with a garden hose!  Just for a few weeks, hopefully, an adventure!  That's it for today, I was just excited.  These are technically the first guys other than Jer to come in and do anything.  Of course the cabinet guy has been working on it, but since he's not here I don't think of it that way.