New to us!

On Wednesday night, we bought our first new piece of furniture for the new house....a china cabinet, or since I don't have any china, I'll just call it a hutch. :) I had been watching Craigslist for a few weeks and when I saw this one, it caught my attention...all the other pieces were from the 70's...not my style. We went, checked it out and bought it. I can't wait to fill it with all the pieces that have been sitting in boxes since we got married 4 years ago. :)

Now we need to find a round dining room table....

Park & Random

We spent the 2nd weekend of October down at Lora's....we had a great time despite a trip to the urgent care, due to Sydney getting over heated on the trip down....at least that is what I am saying was what was wrong, because the rest of the weekend she was her normal, 2 yer old self. :) We ended the weekend with a quick trip to the park...we all had a great time.

Who's in the tunnel.....oh yeah, it's Auntie Lorla and Sydney

These are some random pictures of Sydney taken the last couple of weeks....and a few random sayings by Sydney.....

Hallalula = Halleluiah

Speedy Gonglasses = Speedy Gonzales

Chipmunks = Rice chex that she had to eat at grandma's on Sunday

This was right after a nap....her hair was crazy! :)

I can't believe how grown up she looks and is getting. I found her and Hobbes playing on her new rug and thought they looked so cute.

Fun with leaves

We spent our first full weekend at home, this past weekend! It was great! Although Sydney was getting over her virus, thankfully we were on the tail end of it and by Saturday night things were looking good. We had Erin and Caitlin stay with us on Friday night (dad is out hunting with Jim in SD). We enjoyed dinner at Old Chicago and rented a couple of movies. After a few techinal difficulties hooking up the DVD player we were finally able to watch the movie....well, Erin was. Caitlin and I were both asleep 15 mins into the movie....guess I will be rewatching that one. :) We took the girls dress shopping on Saturday (which by the way, I have decided I hate ((yes, I said hate)) shopping with a 2 1/2 year old. (I would love to go shopping with some girlfriends and actually get to try on clothes or just look at stuff without a whining kid in the stroller.....if anyone is interested, let me know. :)) The girls were both successful in finding dresses and shoes....they look so good...so grown up (wish I had gotten a picture). We dropped the girls off at their mom's on Saturday night and then it was just Sydney and me. On Sunday our only plan for the day was to go to Target and hang out at home....just what we both needed. After our trip to Target (which was completed without any whining...by either of us...haha!), we spent some time outside in our lovely, big backyard. I met one of our neighbors (I had met the wife at the neighborhood picnic). We had a nice chat....I love meeting our new neighbors...have I said lately that I love my new house...because I do. Okay, back to the fun in the backyard.....Sydney had a ball playing in the Bo's kennel, running around and playing in the leaves. Although I hate shopping with her, she really is a great kid. She has the funniest sense of humor and can be so sweet at times (I love it when she rubs her hands on my cheeks). I dug out my good 35m camera and shot an entire roll of film of her playing outside....below are some of my favorites.

Should I blog about this...just yet??

What the heck, why not! Tonight, Sydney wore (wanted t0) big girl panties after her bath! The last couple of days she has had a little virus running through her body, causing some dirty diapers and some oh so sore diaper rash. Last night, before bed I had the diaper off and let her run around for a while, she all of a sudden had to go potty, so she quickly got on the toilet and she pooped! Sweet....she refuses to go potty, but has this little virus helped us move her along in into the next step of potty training? Oh, how I hope so! It was like she knew when she had to go and what she needed to do. (I knew she understood it...) Tonight after her bath she didn't want to wear her diaper, so I let her run around for a while without one....then she wanted to wear big girl panties. She wore them for about a half hour (Jim thought I was going to let her wear them to bed...haha...NO!) and then it was time for bed! We are home this weekend, so I think we will be working on potty training. I have been dreaming about not having to buy diapers for so long, will this dream finally become a reality? I hope now that I have blogged about, that I haven't jinxed myself....

Stay tuned.....

New posts

I am in the process of adding new posts from things that have been going on since July. Scroll down to see some of the new ones or click on the new ones on the menu. I still have a few left to do....but I am getting there. I was WAY behind...obviously everyone knew that. :)

Our New Home

Finally.....here are some pictures of our new home. I took most of these during our inspection. When the time comes that we actually have a free weekend (which we haven't had since we moved in), I hope to get a lot more unpacked and things organized...at that time I will take some new pictures to show everyone how we have made it our own. Enjoy!

Looking up into the living room from the landing

Looking down from the living room to the landing (Eryn & Jim) - the door with the windows goes out to the garage. (YEAH - I finally have an attached garage...I LOVE IT!)

My very small kitchen - this is looking in from the living room, right at the top of the steps

(which actually has more storage space than I originally thought...but still not enough space.)
Dining area
View from dining area looking into still small kitchen - we plan on remodeling within a year to year and a half. Until then I will dream....
Living room looking towards kitchen and dining area
Living room looking out to the backyard (not our chair...but we got the couch) - the hardwood floors is the original flooring, the entire upstairs is hardwood, except the kitchen and bathroom. As much as I love the hardwood flooring, we really need to get some area rugs....its a little echoey.
Hallway from the living room - 1st door on right - bathroom, 2nd door - linen closet, end of the hallway - our bedroom (Sydney's room is on the left, right across from the linen closet..far cry from the old house, where our room was in the basement and hers was upstairs).

This is from the night we moved in - our room. This is where I found Sydney while we were putting her room together.

Sydney's room

Upstairs bathroom (We have another full bath downstairs, but no picture)

Upstairs linen closet

Family room downstairs with walk out to fenced in backyard

Laundry room - with the oldest dryer I have ever seen

View of back of house

View of yard

View of yard

Seeds

We went to Austin to see Jamie’s band, Seeds Replanted and to see Lisa. Although a little crazy that we went 5 days after we moved (priority’s….haha!), we had a great time. We had this night out planned way before we even sold the house. Going out always brings out the best in people (scary that I am sure I was one of these people back in the day…I can laugh now! Ha!). I was armed and ready with my camera….but didn’t know I would be putting it to use taking pictures of random people. We had a great time seeing some old friends and catching up with one another….we had our best laughs at the courtesy of others.

Us girls...as Lisa said, Lora was the cream in our Oreo cookie.

(We didn't plan our outfits, it just so happened we all wore black shirts)

Lora, Christy & Jeff (not sure why there is a blob on Jeff's head)

The band...Jamie is the lead singer

Without further ado....for your viewing pleasure!

Drunk girl....she was funny!

Bret Michaels - in Austin? I can't believe it!
And last but not least....butt cleavage!

Seriously, it was worse at other times during the evening!

Moving

These pictures are from when we moved....and this is all I got. I was to busy actually moving, and I forgot to take pictures. I should have had someone else doing it. OH well!

Sydney and Hobbes hangin on the couch

Blair and Jim loading up the truck....this thing was FULL!!
Jerry and my house in disarray
Jeff
The truck and our old house
Wayne

Sydney's first bath in the new house...so cute!

Girls Night Out - 9/12

Us girls went out to dinner at Chianti (way delicious) for Terese's birthday! Love ya girls!!

Allison, Christy, Terese and me

MN Zoo

My mom's work, Hormel, had family day at the MN Zoo on 9/7. My mom, Brad, Jessie, Sydney and I all went (Jim went hunting for something... :)). We saw lots of animals, walked a lot and had a lot of fun.

"Hey, Mister Bear, they just got done feeding you....Sydney isn't your dessert."

Fun times with Jessie and Uncle Brad
Not the best picture, because of the flash, but I do like it because how cute they look. They are such a cute couple and get a long so well....love you guys!
Is that Brad or a bald eagle?
Jessie, Brad, Sydney, Mom and me