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Welcome to our new Home... Mi Casa es Su Casa!

A view of family room from the front door

A view of family room and kitchen from back door

I love this Kitchen!

View of family room from the kitchen

First Bedroom, still deciding what to do with it (as well as our many frames).

It might be a guest room, perhaps Anna's room, or the baby's room.

Laundry room and view of garage door. (Yes after 7 years of marriage we are lucky to have BOTH cars in a garage!)

"The Green Room" aka "study" for now and perhaps guest room

You know you want to come visit and stay in this beauty huh? Visitors welcome ANYTIME!

(As long as you are not some stranger creapily checking our blog)

Anna's Bath and guest bath

Anna's cute Pink and Green room(no I did not paint, but sure love it!)

Everything matches so cute!

The Master Bedroom

Another view of our not so put together and make shift furniture room. We can actually fit all our clothes in one room (We have been in multiple closets our whole marriage). We love having a walk in closet! Woot woot!

This is a shelf that Dave found brand new in the box (we had to put it together) on Craig's list for $80! It is a nice piece that we will use as a book shelf/clothing shelf until we have other furniture.

Master Bath

Another view from the other side of the room.

view of backyard from our bedroom slider door.

The back yard. Mia is SOOOO happy. She is a totally different dog! She gets to wander all day, we get out on walks, and loves having a yard to run and play fetch in. I feel like a much better owner than we were in A2 with both of us gone all day her stuck in a crate without grass.

Summer Life and Father's Day pics

FATHER'S DAY Trying to get a good photo with a Two Year old is tricky, especially one with the goofiness of her father!

The Cake...

I was just going to make a classic Tie/shirt cake, but I thought I would personalize it. Dave was so surprised and had no idea, he thought I was making Lava cakes. Don't look to closely.

As perhaps a gift to her Daddy, Anna started more vigilant potty training on Father's Day. We promised her a swimming pool if she could not go pee pee in her diapers all week and it is Thursday and so far so good (except night time...but I am not too concerned about that!)

"Daddy's little Princess" shirt from Grandma and me trying to get a cute photo.

I asked her to make a cute face... this was it.

Cheese Face- sort of

Daddy with his cake

SUMMER TIME FUN

Lining up the Princess dresses. This girl is always very organized in her play.

Watching Dora, Mickey Mouse, or Curious George with some of her babies and animals. A new favorite past time. (oops, but only once or twice a day for down time).

Though I think she is getting into Dora a bit too much and her little mind isn't old enough to distinguish fantasy and reality.

Examples: Yesterday while eating dinner she heard a sound and said, " Is that Swiper?" she was really nervous. I had to tell her a couple times and Swiper can only go to Doras. Also, Last night she woke up with nightmares saying, "I don't want Daddy to steal it" I think Daddy and Swiper had switched roles in that dream. ): She forgave him this morning for whatever he was stealing.

"It's SO HOT Mommy, let's Go to California and turn on the air!" I think she thinks our houses name is California and this has been her response lately when we play outside. We went to a playgroup at the park yesterday and she was a pill! "It's Too Hot." We came home and played in the sprinklers, much better!

I LOVE THIS PICTURE! It captures Anna spunk and excitement.

Mia enjoyed it too!

I have to say I love the non- diaper bum in a swimsuit! So cute.

What could be better than WATERMELON on a HOT day?

Succulent

Our Swing Set where Anna Love to try the "big girl swing"

CRAZY PIPPY LONG STOCKING HAIR after her nap!

Checking out the clouds with Daddy

Oakland and the Zoo

In trying to get caught up on life and blogging my goal is to blog once a day. We'll see how that goes!

A couple weeks ago we had to tearfully take my parents to the Oakland Airport to fly back home after helping us move here to Modesto. We decided to take advantage of being in Oakland to see a bit of the ocean and use our new zoo pass! It is such a GREAT zoo! Seriously I thought the new renovations to the Hogle Zoo in Utah were good, but it doesn't even compare to the life these animals at the Oakland Zoo have! Lucky ducks (okay not literally we didn't see any ducks...well perhaps a few visitors.

Walking along a cold Oakland Pier looking over at San Francisco

Anna was still in her PJs and was so cold. Luckily we had our trusty blankie, this thing goes everywhere- mostly to have at nap time. Anna is our little "Linus."

Pretending to wave goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa, though they didn't leave until later and didn't fly West.
My two favorite people....So Cute!
View of San Francisco... or so we think.
Driving to the Oakland Zoo we were in some sketchy areas. Makes for a cool school though.
Welcome to the zoo!
Anna loves see camels now because Grandma and Grandpa and Great- Grandma rode on them in Africa and brought home a little stuffed one for Anna. It has been her toy of choice many times! Also, I was so nauseated I sat down on the ground by these guys and a worker asked me if I was alright and needs a cart to drive me around. That would have been nice! I told her I was pregnant and nauseated, her reply was, "oh poor baby." I really hope she meant me!
El Tigre, they were HUGE! But not as big as the next animals

This Lion was fighting with another Lion on the other side of the gate. It was SO CRAZY to watch, they kept Growling and jumping up on the gate. It was fascinating to watch.

Another View. (We stood about 10 feet up and over a railing so we were right there!)

He soon settled and went up by the lioness, she was not very impressed.

Look at the size of those paws!

My favorite of course! So cute!

There were about 5 Elephants and they had the largest "cage" of all.

The Zoo has a little "children's garden" Anna enjoyed exploring the butterfly and other over sized bugs!

Dave and Anna visited the bats, it was meal time.

Try eating upside down... seems difficult to me!

Anna was being silly by this point and NOT into photos. This is how she attacked Dave. I love this photo because it shows Anna "tense face" which she'll do if she is squeezing hard. Sorry it was your nose Daddy!

Not too thrilled to be released, still making the "tense face" At least Dad was free!

There were quite a few monkeys but we were hot and tired (and nauseated) so we skimmed by them.

Anna was SO excited for the "ferris wheel" as she calls it

One of my new favorite pics!

Chug a chug a choo choo!

What a great day and introduction to our surrounding areas! We are excited to explore more of California!