tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19816666781872374112024-03-13T12:50:54.676-07:00Motruk BoysStories about what our little men are doing in life for their friends and family to keep up to date about them.Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-87263265343180086202015-07-23T04:46:00.003-07:002015-07-25T21:10:54.809-07:00The trip that wasn't....So here it is; in all the gritty details you haven't heard. It's the blog I've been avoiding...<br />
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We started planning our trip at the beginning of the year. While it's nice that we've had many people come to visit us since moving to Texas we know that not everyone can and those that can can't often. We also felt that the boys were old enough now to enjoy and learn and really absorb and remember so it would be the perfect opportunity to take a road trip and see the sights. We wanted to see something truly "Texas" as well as any other natural and man made experiences we could along the way. People. We also wanted to see as many people as we could. So we planned to go to the Alamo, the Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and San Francisco. A tourist destination in every state. We figured out average hotel costs, budgeted for the $2 difference in gas between Texas and California, etc etc... I planned to work extra to cover the costs (for those that don't know; we follow Dave Ramsey's money principals. We have no debt other than our house, we don't own credit cards, we budget every dollar.).<br />
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We packed. We got the car thoroughly checked and new tires. We found someone to watch our house/pets. We had all the details figured out. The boys were counting the days to Legoland; a special trip from and with both sets of Ca grandparents.<br />
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Day 1: We drive to San Antonio; it's hot and the Alamo is less than exciting for them but Sr enjoyed reading all the history and the boys enjoyed the cannon displays. We stayed at a really cheap hotel for the night and ordered pizza from a local place that was disgusting and took over an hour to arrive. It was truly one of the grossest things ever. We then read the yelp reviews.... lesson learned: Read the yelp reviews first!<br />
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Day 2: A 7hr drive ahead. We take our time. We don't leave super early. We plan to get to our destination by dinner time which would still leave time for us to swim or see the bats at the caverns, etc... We take a stop in Pecos, Tx for some BK and playtime. We have under 2 hours to go.... about an hour in to our "home stretch of the day" the car starts to sputter. I ask Sr if that was the car or the road. He says the car...it starts to slow on its own. He can't keep it above 50. He sees a "historical marker" turnout and decides to pull over. We call AAA. The call center can't find our location. We use our "smart phone" to give the exact address (who knew the freeway had address numbers!!). We wait for that call/txt saying your tow is on the way... it never comes. After numerous calls where I'm told someone will call me back with a time (I called them every 15mins for over an hour) we finally were escalated to a supervisor when our original call center person gets our latest call and is appalled that we have no further information. We've been on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere Texas in 100 degree weather.... So far everyone has peed and we even had a desert poop! The boys are playing with their new hot wheels but becoming bored. We are trying to save the battery life for everything so the movie player is off... Our cell and internet connection is spotty. We are all hot and bored. Finally, after a plethora of calls and a very angry voice we are told that a tow truck is being dispactched from Sheffield, Tx and will arrive in 3hrs. It's the closest tow truck that can safely carry 5 passengers. The tow will cost extra since we've asked to be taken to our already reserved hotel room which is in New Mexico and we are stuck minutes from the state line. We even tried to call different tow truck companies ourselves to no avail. We wait. and wait. and wait. The sun starts to set and thunderstorm clouds are rolling in. I spray the kids in bug spray and they get out of the car and explore. We are a good distance from the freeway and there's a large puddle of water so ants and the like are out. Sr shows them how to "skip rocks on a puddle". They throw rocks in to the puddle more than skip but they had fun searching for the perfect flat rock for daddy. It gets dark. There's thunder and lightning. Everyone gets back in the car. Boredom sets in. We finally turn on a movie. Everyone is hungry. We have chips and goldfish and water...At the 2 1/2 hr mark I call for an update via AAA... no one has one. At the 3hr mark I call again. They give an ETA that has already passed... lovely. We wait. Every time a vehicle approaches we turn on the brights; it's dark and we are trying to ensure the tow doesn't drive by... He does. I honk obsessively. He's able to turn around. We get out of the car and loaded in to the truck. He gets the car on board and we are off. He's the nicest guy ever! He talks to the kids about kid shows and activities (he has 3 small kids of his own). It was practically midnight by the time we got to the hotel. Everything was closed (though we were staying 7miles from the caverns and there wasn't much to be open but I'll get to that). We eat more chips and pass out from exhaustion.<br />
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Day 3: The hotel does breakfast. We go down to the lobby. It's cereal, muffins, milk and OJ. No one cares because we didn't really have dinner and anything is better than chips. It's Sunday. No mechanics are open so nothing we can do with the car situation. We discover that there's a general store, a cafe, the hotel and a gas station with no liquor store or attendant. That's it. There's literally nothing else within walking distance. NOTHING. We check out the general store which has tons and tons of souvenirs but hardly any snacks of substance or desire. We swim at the hotel pool. We are the only ones in the pool; probably because everyone else went to the caverns or in to town. Our car was the only one in the parking lot. Sr took the opportunity to work on learning to swim without floaties. We dry off and walk to the cafe for lunch. The menu has a lot of variety so we will be ok eating here again for dinner and probably the next day while the car is fixed. Then we enjoy the rest of the day at the hotel's "water park". They have a huge splash pad with a boat and 2 large water slides. The boys are in heaven! Sr and I had fun, too. We grab some food options from the general store (frozen mac n cheese, etc...) and end the day.<br />
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Day 4: We should have been checking out and heading to AZ but we booked an extra day because we knew we wouldn't get the car back by checkout. We wake up early and call AAA for a tow truck. It's 7am. The tow truck will arrive by 9:35... I call to find out why it's going to take so long and they have no explanation. I call a tow truck company on my own and he says he'll be there in 40mins or less... and he is. Sr goes with him to town to a mechanic. After sitting there all morning Sr is home around noon with the car. The mechanic couldn't find anything wrong. It wasn't sputtering. It gained speed. No sensors or lights indicating a problem. I ask Sr to get something for lunch as the cafe (remember it's the only food place) is closed for the day due to a death in the family. He grabs sandwiches from subway on his way back from Carlsbad. The car ran fine on his way in... We decide to drive the 7miles to the caves. It's why we are there after all. We start the slight twist and turn inclines that mountain roads provide and about mile marker 5 the car starts sputtering. Sr can't gain speed to get up the inclines... we Uturn and he drops us off at the hotel and cautiously drives to town. The check engine light finally turns on. Not enough oxygen to spark the fuel. The mechanic spends the next 3-4hrs checking everything. At 5:30 he says it's the fuel pump and he needs to call around for the part. At 5:50 he gives the devastating news: he can only find the part in Memphis, TN. It will be shipped tomorrow and arrive Wed morning.... Sr calls enterprise; the only car rental place in town and they come pick him up as advertised. He makes the call to rent a car and we drive to Ca and leave it there. I can rent a car to come back in a few weeks for my car after we finish our trip. It's going to be costly but at least we will finish our trip....UNTIL enterprise says we can't rent a car because we don't have a "major credit card"... Yuri steps outside to call me and let me know what's going on at 6:02pm. I ask him to let me talk to the manager. He can't...the person helping him locked the doors. He's locked out. He's stranded. Literally. This is the point where I lost it. After being stuck in a hotel room with no where to go, nothing to do, kids bouncing off the walls, no real food and no way of getting food for dinner (remember the restaurant is closed and we've picked through the general store already). I break down into uncontrollable tears. The boys are giving me their stuffed animals and asking if I'm ok and I can't stop crying. I call my mom and I cry more.... With nothing else to do I get the boys dressed and we head to the pool. I have no idea what Sr is doing, where he is, nothing... An hour passes and he comes back to the hotel with the car. He walked back to the mechanic and the mechanic talked him through how to drive the car with the dying fuel pump. He went to WalMart and got chicken nuggets and frozen meals. He survived and I'm so proud of how he manned up while I fell apart (it was definitely not my finest hour!!!). The boys and I finished playing in the pool and went upstairs had something to eat and went to bed.<br />
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Day 5: We should have been leaving AZ for Ca. Obviously, we were still stuck in NM. We went in to town (a 20+ min drive) to enterprise where I got very heated with the manager that left my husband stranded. I called enterprise and went up the chain of command to no avail. I didn't want to continue driving my car and possibly cause further damage to other parts but I also didn't want to sit in the hotel bored out of our minds... Nina had called enterprise and arranged a car rental but they wouldn't honor it since she wasn't present, the card wasn't present, etc.... They told her we could use our debit card but we couldn't .... It was a mess. We worked a little magic which I won't divulge on the internet, sorry) but we were able to rent a minivan for the day. The mechanic told us the job would only take a few hours and the part would be in Wed AM so we figured at least with the rental we could head up to the caves and do what we came to do... and we did. We all enjoyed the caves. They were awesome. The caverns also had a nice cafe so we had somewhere to eat! We went back to town and saw "Minions" and had dinner. We then went at dusk and watched the hundreds of thousands of bats leave the caves to hunt! It was incredible. I'm so glad we were able to do what we intended while in NM.<br />
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Day 6: We head in to town mid morning after checking out of our hotel. We plan to drive the12hrs straight to San Diego as we had planned to go to Legoland and had a hotel booked already. We call to check on the car. The part didn't come in... the secretary tracked it and it should arrive by 11am TOMORROW!!!!!! This is when Sr lost it. We sat in a gas station McDonald's that had a playground and mulled over all the different options and costs. We are spent; mentally, physically, emotionally, monetarily. After hours at McDonald's we decide that we are going to end our road trip. We've spent double our planned budget. We are exhausted in every way possible. Continuing will further the stresses and drain our savings more... We just can't. We tell the boys we're going home tomorrow... They are very sad. We are sad. We find a new hotel to stay at in town. It has an indoor pool. Sr is pretty sure it's the same place he stayed with his family as a kid when they went on their cross country trip. We swim for awhile and then we go to the only real restaurant we have seen in days... Chile's.<br />
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Day 7: Thursday.... we check out of the hotel and reload the rental car. Luckily, the Days Inn had a hot breakfast so we all stuffed ourselves on eggs and pancakes. We call the mechanic. The delivery truck is being unloaded. Yes, the part is on it. It will be fixed in a few hours. We drive around trying to find touristy things to do... We find a park. We play. It's hot!!! I see some colorful things in the distance and ask Sr to investigate. We drive around until we find them. Lifeguard umbrellas. People are swimming in the Pecos River under lifeguard supervision. We decide to let the kids swim. The nice thing about being minivan drivers was we could fold down the middle row and had plenty of room to change everyone in the car! The boys swam for an hour and then a thunderstorm rolled in and the lifeguards got everyone out of the water due to thunder/lightning. The car should be ready soon as it was 3pm so we headed to the mechanic. Across the street, an excavator was demolishing a building. The boys sat at watched it for 30mins. The car was ready. We drove to enterprise; moved the car seats, the luggage, etc back to our car and returned the rental. We went to the bathroom, grabbed some snacks and hit the road. It was late. We had a 10hr drive to get home not including stops. Jr cried about having to sleep in the car... Around midnight we made it to San Antonio. The kids were asleep. We stopped at In N Out (I mean we were so looking forward to it so at least we got it?!)...I drove the rest of the way home.<br />
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And here we are... We've spent this week at home going to the pool, hanging out and doing projects around the house... It's been nice having the 5 of us have time just us as we don't get that often since Sr works so much and 1 day off a week is when I worked and the kids were in preschool.... once he goes back to work we will only have 2 more days like that before Jr starts Kindergarten. While we don't have the money to go do anything super exciting (we ended up spending twice our alloted budget in that 1 week and we had a month's worth of vacation still to go...) it's nice to just be. We still have moments where we realize what we were supposed to be doing and who we miss but there's reasons to all of this... we just have to find them.<br />
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Know that it was the hardest decision we had to make to come home and that we are still so saddened to not see everyone. Sr will be out in May for Gabe's wedding but otherwise we don't have any plans to visit as we need to recoop our loses before saving for a trip... We love all of you very much.<br />
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Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-16199359174798748242015-03-22T07:08:00.001-07:002015-03-22T07:08:08.260-07:00Spring Break fun!A few weeks ago my best friend came with her daughter and mom to visit us for our spring break. The weather was pretty yucky most days so we did a lot of indoor activities. We did so many many things I'm still tired! AHAHAHA We still had a ton of fun; including Jayne spending the night almost every night.<br />
Here's photos from our adventures!!<br />
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We took the kids to a place I've been wanting to go to for forever. It was awesome and probably my favorite activity from the trip. Here we are at an indoor kid science lab. All the coats, eye wear, and science supplies are provided in your admission. You can stay for an hour or all day and try 30 different experiments. The kids had a blast making a battery with a potato, Mentos with coke explosion, alka seltzer "bombs", and a few other fun experiments. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkY3CbCxqIEJsA24VZvzJoJ2HL5vb6epmFZTN8Zu7f62bPAPhu605GOzclsBn0tOYO1ci7Hsq25wpMmPEu4c__USyejhrtHPDhHgnToAVpI_3fHot36df8ee4RkKEFhyphenhyphenTkhxMFhI26f3I/s1600/10169227_10205274256030084_4011991360178491104_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkY3CbCxqIEJsA24VZvzJoJ2HL5vb6epmFZTN8Zu7f62bPAPhu605GOzclsBn0tOYO1ci7Hsq25wpMmPEu4c__USyejhrtHPDhHgnToAVpI_3fHot36df8ee4RkKEFhyphenhyphenTkhxMFhI26f3I/s1600/10169227_10205274256030084_4011991360178491104_n.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div>
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We took the kids bowling for the first time. It was hilarious and they loved it and asked to do it every day! They loved pushing the ball down the ramp and running away. They each scored a strike or spare. Lots of fun! </div>
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<br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-40748400274586803602015-03-17T16:54:00.001-07:002015-03-17T16:54:16.482-07:00Triple Bunks!!Our neighbor was redoing her guest room that had a few twin beds in it. She wasn't going to use them anymore so she gave us the mattresses for the boys when they were ready to outgrow their toddler beds (toddler beds use crib mattress, so they are still small). Well, probably a year ago, Sr and I found this blog post about a family making their own triple bunk beds. We loved it. It seemed simple so we figured we would do it when the time came.<br />
Well... the boys started asking about the beds we got and when they could use them... and in true preschooler form they didn't stop asking.<br />
My mom came at the beginning of the month and I mentioned it to her and well... we ended up with a project! Here's a few photos of the process. The beds are not finished yet. We plan to add a guard rail on the end of the middle bunk and maybe extend the top bunk's as well. Then of course, there is some painting requests and the typical odds and ends that every project incurs. I promise to get a picture up of the final project when it's done (don't hold your breath!).<br />
I'm super proud of my husband and all the hard, back breaking work he does for us at home and on the job. He's just amazing!!<br />
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Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-75969666151006621662015-03-01T08:12:00.002-08:002015-03-01T08:12:20.694-08:00Livin the Texas lifeI remember the first "rodeo" season we experienced in Texas. It was February. My mom was visiting and we were on our way to a "bounce house" when we were stopped. Literally, stopped. It was like time slowed down as we sat waiting to make a left turn for what felt like hours and far off in the distance we saw horses. Miles of horses. Apparently, trail riders as they are called, were blazing their trail through West Houston to the rodeo. My mom and I sat in the car stunned. Well, a few years now and I've manage to "avoid" the traffic creating trail. This year however, we faced it head on (sort of). I found out that a group of riders from the Salt Grass Trail Riders were going to literally blaze their trail passed our house. I embraced the Texas of it all and took the boys across the main street to a parking lot outside a church where we sat in the car and waited for a sign. Then we saw them. Hundreds of horses, dozens of covered wagons were coming down the street right passed us. We braved the 40 degrees to go out and wave. Lots of people said Hi to my little batmen and spiderman as they rode by. We counted horses (or at least we tried) and wagons and noticed how unique each horse (and donkey) was. The boys enjoyed it and I thought it was neat, too. It was a much better experience than being stuck on an off ramp too far to enjoy it. Next year the boys will be in school and we will likely miss it so I'm glad we took the time. Here's a few pictures. They aren't the greatest as it was freezing and the sun was bright so I couldn't see the screen to view what I was shooting. Memories all the same.<br />
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<span id="goog_2004651043"></span><span id="goog_2004651044"></span>Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-64655075927325817732015-02-03T17:18:00.002-08:002015-02-03T17:18:43.277-08:00Luca, my LucaLuca is a crack up. He's the funniest 3yr old I know (and I know a LOT of 3yr olds!). He is so observant and remembers everything we say and puts his own Luca-isms into things. Today, we had these 2 memorable conversations:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Me, "Anže, what's your favorite number?" </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Anže, "14!!!"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Luca, "My favorite number is 16! Cause when I'm 16 I drive daddy's truck! I drive like this *motions like a crazy driver*"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Me, "Luca, what do you want in your lunch tomorrow?"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Luca, "Mac n cheese I made. I poop and make more room and then I eat 2 boxes of mac n cheese!!!!!"</span><br />
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Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-43355890333032278252015-01-17T15:09:00.000-08:002015-01-17T15:09:03.753-08:00Long time no post. Goodness, I cannot believe I haven't written a blog in almost a year. I'm so sorry! 2014 so was busy. Writing is so cathartic for me so I'd like to have written more (maybe I was stressed!). Anyway, 2015! It's already been a busy year and it's only been 17 days!! We welcomed the new year, my birthday, said goodbye to family that came to visit, went back to school, Luca and Anže started ice skating lessons just to name a few. I'm going to try to write at least once a month. Here's a few pictures of what we've been up to! Sorry they are all sideways. I can't get them to rotate :/<br />
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<span id="goog_101673540"></span><span id="goog_101673541"></span><br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-84521178538959039042014-04-28T09:45:00.003-07:002014-04-28T09:45:20.494-07:00Blue BonnetsIt's a Texas tradition to take photos with the beautiful blue bonnet flowers that bloom every spring. So, since we are Texans now we did just that! Anže was the only willing participant while the other two were like pulling teeth to get a decent photo. They are still adorable! We hope you enjoy :D<br />
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<span id="goog_564127982"></span><span id="goog_564127983"></span><br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-82848103945492776382014-02-19T12:26:00.000-08:002014-02-19T12:26:06.444-08:00It's all fun and games until...What a blast we had today! We are members of a Co-Op Preschool and today we had our own preschool version of the Olympics. We had potato sack races, egg balancing races, straw races, bow and arrow shooting and just general fun.The weather this week has been gorgeous. It's been in the 70s but there's a lot of cloud cover and wind so we haven't been hot or cold. Babcha Nina is here for the week and must have brought some of the California weather with her :D.<br />
We met at one of our favorite parks with 20+ members of our Co-Op for a great day. Any day with a ton of preschoolers in one location is bound to be chaotic but we seem to thrive in it. It started out with some normal every day park play and then we brought out the games. Yurchik said his favorite was the egg race while Luca preferred the straw racing and Anze says seeing the diggers (they were actually ride on lawn mowers cutting grass at the park) was his favorite.<br />
The boys did a few new regular park adventures as well. This park has a "net" to climb and for the first time ALL 3 boys were able to climb up to the top on their own. No one fell, no one got hurt, no moms called 911 (although blood pressure may have elevated a bit!!). It was such a proud moment to see them all up there and independent. It's still bittersweet to think that just a few months, weeks, even days ago they needed my help doing something and now they can do it on their own. Children really do grow up a lot faster than you can imagine. It's nice to just slow down and take it all in every once in a while. I met a new mom today and she was amazed that the twins were preemies; everyone always is. Some days I even forget like today while they are 10 feet in the air climbing like "normal" kids! We are truly blessed.<br />
After our Olympic games, we ventured off to see the animals they have at the park. It's not a petting zoo per-say just some animals on the other side of the fence you can say hello to. The donkeys were extremely friendly and came right over to the fence for some TLC. All the moms were constantly reminding the kids to keep their hands out of the fence, away from the mouths, etc...<br />
It's all fun and games until YOUR son puts his entire arm through the fence and the donkey inhales it! Yes, Jr put his arm through the fence. Yes the donkey tried to eat it. The most upsetting issue to Yurchik was that of all things his shirt was dirty! A quick shirt change and all was right in the world and he was laughing about it on the car ride home. I'm so glad he recovered quickly (quicker than a mom or 2 on our playdate!). He was a great example to the other kids about keeping their hands on their side of the fence! Life lessons are learned every day, everywhere we go!<br />
Here's a few pictures of our adventure today!<br />
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<br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-68685800541183030272014-01-12T07:49:00.001-08:002014-01-12T07:53:45.224-08:00Teaching Love<br />
Parenting isn't easy. I don't know anyone that has ever said it is and I doubt in our current world anyone ever will. There are many days where everyone is tucked in and you stop and think to yourself, 'I did a great job parenting today.' Then there are those days where you're still pulling your hair out or crying your eyes because you feel like a failure. It's easy to forget that those days your child is still unconditionally in love with you and knows that you love them, too. Once you're a parent, it's also easy to forget that there are other people in your life that love you just as much as your children; your own parents, siblings, relatives, and even friends can love you enough. It's easy to forget that as you are trying to be proud parents of your child's first steps, laughs, words that other people in your life are proud of you for the little things you do every day. My baby sister helped me remember this during her visit this past holiday season.<br />
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She's 17. She's hip. She's cool. She's a brat. It's all part of the teenage years and I can say I was the same way. I thought I could do it all, be it all, know it all. Sometimes, it's easy for us "adults" to compartmentalize teenagers into the box of "they think they do but they haven't experienced it all to really know". When in reality; they are still young and still see the world with rose colored glasses to some extent- to the extent that they still voice their opinions and have strong beliefs in the positives of the world. As adults, we spend a lot of time trying to keep our opinions to ourselves to not cause trouble, offend others, etc yet at the same time we are raising our children and we want them to make a better world. Sometimes this line gets blurred. We push our beliefs, thoughts, and even opinions onto our children. We expect them to behave a certain way in public, to dress a certain way for dinner and to follow in our footsteps in our religious, political and personal beliefs. Some parents do this without even realizing it; especially if you strongly believe something should be a specific way. As teenagers, we tend to "rebel" against everything we've been taught. To find our own person and to be what we want to be instead of younger versions of our parents. Most of the time, we still hold on to the deep rooted issues such as faith, love, work ethic. I'm grateful that my mother raised both of her daughters to hold strong values in many things but there's one key thing she has taught us both that I'm happy to pass down to my boys.<br />
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Some may read this and think, 'Well, her faith in Jesus.' Others may say, 'Her amazing ability to sew.' But I'm hear to tell you that she has taught both of us to love. My mother has never said anything ill about anyone for believing, behaving, or being different from her. I never grew up seeing the racial, gender, political or religious lines that are so deep for so many. She has passed down her love for all to us and for that I will be forever grateful.<br />
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It's so easy to be put in a box for things you believe in. Every Muslim is a bad person, every Jew is greedy, etc... and with those labels come additional mini boxes to fill your big box; your views on abortion, homosexuality, racial integration, etc are all supposed to match in the view of so many. My mother never told me this. She never said someone was right or wrong for their choices in life. She just said hello, or gave them a hug or were their friend. It's easy to forget that your parents were your influence in how you treat others until you do something for your own child and your 17 year old sister says she's proud of you!<br />
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So back to the story! One night after Christmas we were up watching Cutthroat Kitchen; a reality cooking show. At the beginning they have introductions about each chief that is competing on that episode. They usually talk about their home life, restaurant and reason they're on the show. Yuri Jr was up watching with Gloria and I while we were watching this particular episode. One of the contestants mentioned that she works in the restaurant owned by her two dads and she wanted to prove how good she is for them to be proud of her. Yuri says, "Mom, she has 2 dads?!"<br />
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Honestly, without a pause or hesitation this is what I told him. "Every family is different, Some families have a mom and a dad like you. Some have 2 moms or 1 dad and no mom. Some only have grandma and grandpa or aunt and uncle. Every family looks different and that's ok." He sat for a moment as if he was processing it all. You could see the wheels turning and then he said, "ok momma." and returned his focus on the show. I didn't think anything of the moment as it happened. Life is full of teachable moments and I always try to grab them when I can; perhaps that's the educator in me. It wasn't until Gloria said, "You're going to make me cry. I'm so proud of you right now. You explained it to him perfectly." that I realized I was doing it right. I was following in my mother's footsteps. I was raising him to love, to set aside differences and just love. Some may disagree with me. While that may sadden me, it will not stop me to raise my boys to love everyone no matter how they look, act or be. When they ask my opinion as older children, teenagers or even as young adults I will happily tell them but I will be sure to always include the love. That's what our world is missing today. Love.Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-61828865199353151842013-11-24T13:31:00.000-08:002013-11-24T13:31:15.642-08:00Happy 4th birthday Yurchik!I cannot believe he is already 4! Where has the time gone?! To think of all the things that have happened in those 4 short years it's amazing! While I feel he is growing up too fast. I treasure every new thing he discovers along the way. He is truly a blessing.<br />
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So, he requested a candy land party. Who doesn't love the game candy land?! Well, this mama went for it! We turned the downstairs into an interactive candy land. I made most of the decorations from random things such as paper plates wrapped in tissue paper or cellophane to imitate wrapped candies, bowls wrapped in foil to look like Hershey kisses, etc... It was a lot of prep but totally worth it. Everyone loved it and gave a lot of compliments.<br />
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The kids started at the front door and walked along the path and at each land there was something to get or do. I tried to make it more fun and games than candy. The kids played an ice cream bean bag toss, got peppermint yo-yos, ice cream popper toys, buckets (gumdrops) and shovels, and sidewalk chalk that was wrapped in cellophane to resemble candy. There was actual candy in the candy castle but the kids were more excited for the toys than the candy! I'm okay with that LOL except now I have candy to last until next Halloween!<br />
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Most of all Yurchik was happy. He actually got mad at me for taking some decorations down! Apparently, he's still waiting for Dido to come to his party!!<br />
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Sr thought I was going a bit over the top but I didn't think so. Last year for his birthday we went to Chuck E Cheese...the 5 of us with Auntie Glo and Babcha. Gloria didn't want to miss his birthday and it was during her Thanksgiving break and Nina was in town because Jackson was just born! But, we hadn't made friends yet. We had a few playdates and were getting to know people but not nearly enough to have a party with. Plus, we had just moved and that was costly in itself! This year, we have a lot of new friends and I couldn't even invite them all! 20 of his friends came to celebrate with their moms and dads on his big day! What a blast!!<br />
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Here's a few pictures of our candy fun filled day; sorry that some pictures are turned around! Thank you to everyone out of state that sent him presents, cards, money, etc.. We truly appreciate the love you have for our family!<br />
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<br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-78101184827324184482013-10-16T13:40:00.001-07:002013-10-16T13:40:23.025-07:00Pumpkin PatchThis week we went with our preschool co-op friends. We were there ALL day (10-5 without napping and only having kettle corn and other snacks from home plus a million water bottles). It was the perfect day to go. The clouds were hiding the sun and it even rained for a few minutes while we were there! My wonderful photo friend showed up camera in tow just as we were heading to the pumpkin patch so of course she grabbed her trusty camera and documented the adventure. If the boys look a bit tired in some of the pictures it's because it's about 4pm by the time we made it that way after riding the different trains, seeing the farm animals, jumping on the giant pillows and sliding the slides plus all the walking it took to do everything! I was exhausted! LOL We had attempted to leave many times but each time as we approached the exit a new friend came along and the boys wanted to play with them! Unfortunately, I only have the pictures from Sarah to share as my phone was dropped in juice last week and I had yet to receive the replacement delivery and I couldn't find the charger for the regular camera. I was so glad they decided to come so that we could get a few pictures; plus her pictures are going to be far superior to mine!<br />
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Hope you're all enjoying the fall season as well!<br /><br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-27259927295749759932013-10-12T09:32:00.000-07:002013-10-12T09:32:07.562-07:00Talking Luca, Why-ing Yuri and Licking Anze... just another day in the life!It's been a little while since I wrote a blog and I find that the days I do I'm a much happier person. There's something soothing about taking a few minutes and writing out your thoughts. We've been super busy doing all sorts of fun things that I'm having trouble finding the time and energy to clean let alone take a few minutes for myself (and if I do, I'm napping!!). Sr is taking a 2 week vacation at the end of the month and our bff Jayne is coming with her mom and dad for a short visit during that vacation so we have a lot of fun planned (but I have a lot of organizing in the guest room before they get here, too!). So, that's what I've been focusing on! It's not easy figuring out the best way to organize things you want easy access to without your children having too much access. It's definitely a balancing act! LOL<br />
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Anyway, enough about me... Here's what we've been up to lately! Yurchik is doing great in preschool. He finally got past the shy wall and is now making friends and chatting like crazy with his teachers. His two friends so far area Brayden and Zoey (he holds hands and blows kisses with her!). He wants to go to Brayden's house and doesn't understand why I don't know where he lives! He is very inquisitive right now and needs an answer for everything and anything. We have officially entered the "why" zone. It doesn't matter if I fully explain something he still asks why! I'm sure every parent has been here before. It's cute at first and then it's just frustrating! I've yet to say "because I said so" so that's good! LOL (Although, Sr may say the "Because we are your parents and we made the decision to not...." is an elongated version ;) ). He's getting better at letting us know he has to go to the bathroom although if we ask him when he doesn't have to go he will still through a bit of a fit about it. It's all part of the learning and growing of life I guess.<br />
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Luca has become a chatter box. He's a great repeater and says all sorts of adorable things like On gee (Anze) and bwoc wee (broccoli). He is also able to communicate when something happens, "On gee push", "that one huwt", "ouchie guys", etc... Yurchik is NOT appreciative of Luca's newest skill as he can no longer get away with things or pass blame! It cracks us up to watch them! We've also become lovers. The twins will run over to each other and yell HUG and then hug each other. Or they will run to Jr and squish him with their double hugs. At the same time, they are starting that boy behavior of tackling, wrestling, chasing, etc... Their current favorite is when Jr will yell out an animal or other figure (ie dinosaur, snake, monster, ghost) and then he takes off running while the twins transform themselves and chase him complete with noises. Sometimes, only one is the snake and has to catch 2 of them! It's hilarious, loud, and a bit chaotic but they are having so much fun and using their imaginations so the more the merrier!<br />
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Anze, oh Anze... He LOVES to stick his tongue out. He will yell momma a million times until I look at him and then he will stick his tongue out and wait for me to copy him. Then he laughs and laughs and runs away. He would probably do this all day if he could! He also wants to lick everything. When they are playing chase he will always catch someone and lick them. His brothers will in turn laugh and yell yuck and run away again. This would probably continue until someone got upset that they're covered in slobber but we stop him and talk to him about his tongue staying in his mouth (the things you never thought you'd have conversations about until you became a parent). A few times, Luca has been the victim of teeth though. So, this is something we are working hard on. Anze is having a hard time with the pretend part of play. Yurchik yells out, "he's going to eat me" and Anze takes it literally. Again, something we are actively working on!<br />
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When not at home playing we are doing our new favorite things: tyke hikes and story time. We have joined the Houston Arboretum and go there weekly to learn about a new animal, hike through the nature walks to find the animal, play at the playground (it's sand and a rope bridge- boy heaven!) and then play in their education room. It's a great experience and our membership will be paid in 2 more visits so definitely worth it. We also get those traditional private events such as the ArBOOretum event at the end of the month with trick or treating, face painting and other things. They boys love it and I'm glad I learned about it. There's actually several programs like this around and I don't remember having anything in Cali for toddlers that was so much fun while completely educational.<br />
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Story time is another new favorite. We have tried out multiple libraries and have enjoyed most of them (one was in Spanish so that was a bit more difficult to enjoy!). The twins have done more of these than Jr since he is at school. It's a great way for the twins to do things outside of the house while he is gone and they love it. We sing songs, do crafts and of course hear new stories. We don't have library cards yet but we just learned that one of the libraries has a backpack that has stories and activities to go with them and if you complete them and return the backpack you get passes to the Children's museum so we will definitely be getting our cards to participate in that!<br />
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The weather is cooling off it seems so we are ready for some more outdoor playdates instead of living in the AC. We are also prepping for Yurchik's 4th birthday! He has requested a candyland party so we are doing our best to accommodate that wish :D. Overall, just staying busy! Hope everyone is well! Know you're loved!Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-83848751853696660672013-09-28T09:19:00.000-07:002013-09-28T09:19:08.086-07:00Baking Play DateLast weekend, the boys invited their friend Emma and her mom, Sarah, over for a playdate. The kids were having a great time when someone suggested baking cookies. The boys and I bake ALL the time so Yurchik instantly started to grab the ingredients out of their respective areas. We made a space on my island for all the kids to sit with the mixer and everyone took turns putting items into the mixer for our cookies. Once everything was mixed together Yurchik asked if he could be an excavator. Now, Yurchik's idea of being an excavator is using his hand like the scoop bucket of the construction truck to pick the flour up. This usually ends up with too much flour in the cookies or cake or whatever we may be baking but I had a feeling we were in for a bigger mess yet I agreed and the following pictures are evidence of the fun kids can have when mom says they can play in the flour! It's been a week and I'm still finding flour every night when I sweep the flour. It was definitely worth it as the kids had a blast and Sarah had her camera and photographer eye ready to go! I'm pretty sure we spent over an hour with the kids and the swiffers trying to get the downstairs clean and then they all took a bath together in my garden tub. It was a fun playdate! I'm sure we will have many many more (after all Emma and Jr are married).<br />
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<br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-331410797106750052013-09-04T16:41:00.004-07:002013-09-04T16:41:49.016-07:003 year old preschool I have always gone back and forth regarding homeschooling my kids. Honestly, I still do. There's so much violence in the world it makes me want to keep them close at all times. A different part of me knows this isn't real life. They need to find themselves in this world. I know there's good out there and I pray that it always finds us. Last year, for Christmas, I purchased a homeschool curriculum for 2 and 3 yr olds. We started working on it in January and then Yurchik started protesting. "I want real school mom. Not mommy school." So, Sr and I discussed it and we went out shopping around for a house and a preschool; not sure which would make the budget! We found the house first but knowing that preschools fill up quickly we kept looking around. I knew it wouldn't be cheap but I think Sr was shocked how much it could be. We searched and visited a few schools and none of them spoke to me. Then one day, I stumbled upon a school 10 minutes from the new house. We checked it out and I loved it. Yurchik liked it, too. The next week was registration so we signed him up and crossed our fingers we would find the money to send him and if not we knew he would be okay.<br />
Since February, we continued to work on letters, numbers, etc. We also joined a group of parents that started a preschool co-op. I thought this would be a great addition to our week; meet new people and make new friends, get some academics and socializing in and we can go whether Jr goes to "real school" or not at least all 3 would be exposed more. I thought this was also a great way for them to get some experience taking direction from other adults to adjust to that idea as well. We love the parents and kids in this group and I have recently agreed to co-organize with the mom that started the group. I'm in charge of the Wednesday meetings and had my first week of "in chargeness" this week meeting new members and leading group today. I think it's great for the boys and it's really helping me to focus my attention on things I'm passionate about. I've always wanted to be a teacher and am comfortable in that setting. While the house is currently an "arts and crafts explosion" from all the prepping and general crafting I know it will be better once I've got everything sorted out and organized.<br />
Admist the craziness of this new role for me, Jr officially started preschool. Last week we met his teachers Ms Frankie and Ms Alice and Tuesday was his first official day of preschool. I got a few good pictures and then a real quick one that I sent out to practically every contact in my phone! I thought I'd put the good ones on here so you could see more of his cuteness.<br />
He had a great first day. He ate most of his lunch (he's picky so it's been fun trying to figure out what to send), didn't have any potty accidents and was well behaved. His only fault for the day was he didn't want to do the craft. I'm not sure what it was but they didn't want to push him and I'm okay with that. I plan on telling them to send home projects if they can and I can work with him at home on them. I also talked to him about listening and doing things the teachers ask so we shall. He loves to do art but he has his days where he doesn't want to and that's alright with me but at school it's a little different sometimes.<br />
Luca had the hardest time letting Jr go to preschool. Yuri happily went into class without even a goodbye or I love you. Luca tried to follow and the teacher told him no (politely) and Luca fell straight to the ground sobbing uncontrollably. I picked him up and tried to walk out as quickly as I could. Once in the foyer, I reminded Luca we were going to the Splashpad and the tears were instantly gone! Parenting is often about redirection :D.<br />
While Yuri is at preschool on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the twins and I will probably visit the library for story time, play at the park and miss big brother. All 3 were happy to be reunited at the end of the school day and even happier mom took them for ice cream to celebrate a great first day!<br />
In the end, we all made it through the first day (Sr may think I held back my tears as I watched my big boy go to class and I may say I had to be tough for Luca's sake...) and I'm sure we will continue to make it through many more!<br />
Hope everyone is having a great start to the school year (for those that have one). Our love to all!<br />
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Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-51429324140957026892013-08-12T09:11:00.000-07:002013-08-12T09:11:11.880-07:00PreschoolToday, I find myself googling preschool... supply lists, transition ideas, countdowns, etc... My little boy asked to go to real school not "mommy school" and we obliged. AHHHHH My baby is going to preschool... Yes, it's only 2 days a week and only a few hours a day but it will be the first time he's ever gone off somewhere that wasn't church, a friends' home, etc... I can't believe he's almost four and heading to school. I'm sure I'm more nervous, anxious, excited than he is though! I have all these thoughts and plans and ideals for what school will be like, what it should be like, etc...Maybe it's the teacher in me, the mom in me or both.<br />
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So now I find myself stuck in this rut. What do I do with the twins while Jr is in school? I don't want to be stuck at home waiting for him but at the same time I have a small sense of guilt taking the twins places without him. I know it will be good for Yurchik to be in school and away from his brothers (and me) and it will be nice to have some time just with Luca and Anže...I guess I'm just stuck in my own head on making the best decisions for my boys. I know deep down any decision I make will still create happy memories and that's what I'm trying to focus on.<br />
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When I can't focus...I try to pick out a first day of preschool outfit. Should he wear pants to go on the play equipment outside and not burn himself or shorts so he isn't hot. What will I pack him for lunch every day? He's such a picky eater. What about going to the bathroom? I don't want him to be nervous...AHHH... My blog doesn't even make sense! It's a mish mosh of rambled thoughts...<br />
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I didn't realize it was affecting me this much!!Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-59714591219810303072013-07-28T18:30:00.000-07:002013-07-28T18:30:37.107-07:00KindnessYurchik has always had a sweet spirit. When his brothers were born he was always helping to take care of them-even though he was only 18 months old when they came home! Today, was just another example of his kind heart, generosity and selflessness. Sometimes, ad mist the chaos of the day to day activities I find myself becoming a reactionary parent. I'm trying every day to not be but when potty training multiple kids at the same time my patience has been quite low. And don't get me wrong because immediately following this incident my car became a zoo and the animals were going crazy. 3 boys screaming over each other to tell mom something isn't my idea of driving friendly or safely honestly! I almost pulled over... Instead I distracted them and we made it to our destination... Anyway, here's what happened today. Hopefully, it will make your heart smile just like it did mine.<br />
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Driving down the frontage road before getting on the freeway we stop at a light. A homeless man opens his crinkled, tiny piece of cardboard where "homeless and hungry" is scribbled. Jr, being 3 is not quite able to read any of those words (in, out, stop... sure but not that sign). Still, he quietly asks,<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> "mom, do we have snacks he's hungry?"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Me, "no bud I don't think we have any snacks in the car today."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Jr, "mom. Do you have my money with you. I buy him snacks?!"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Me, "no, you're money is at home in your bank."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Jr, "oh...ok...but mom, we should keep snacks in the car all the time. Some people need us share with them."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Talk about taking your breath away! </span><br />
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Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-63803300385111075012013-07-27T19:33:00.001-07:002013-07-27T19:33:55.355-07:00DIY Ombre CurtainsYes, you read that right... Do It Yourself Ombre Curtains...Orange Ombre Curtains in fact! We bought this amazing house and we chose this floor plan for its openness. The last thing I want to do is clutter it up with stuff...and that includes window treatments. I had a few things I was unwavering about...I want them floor to ceiling to keep the room long and open. I didn't want a solid color curtain (boring) and I'm not a fan of too much floral or polka dots or stripes or gingham basically I didn't want a pattern/design either... Then one day I stumbled across these at <a href="http://www.target.com/p/threshold-ombre-stripe-window-panel/-/A-14370529?ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001&AFID=Google_PLA_df&LNM=%7C14287150&CPNG=Home+Decor&kpid=14287150&LID=PA&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=14287150&gclid=CML1zeeMzrgCFRFp7AodBX4AVg" target="_blank">Target</a> and it hit me... Ombre! It's perfect... it's not a solid color or a pattern. I bought a panel (did you see the price?! $25 a panel!!!) and called my sales rep to open the house (it was still being finished but the cabinets, floor and counter tops were in so I could really see if I liked it against everything) and help me with her keen eye (thanks Megan!). We both agreed they were fantastic. I chose orange because it felt happy and bright and welcoming... I also had a few chotchkie items in mind that I knew would compliment well with orange so I thought perfect!<br />
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There's a few things however about these curtains I didn't care for. 1. They wouldn't reach floor to ceiling. They would reach top of the window to floor but that felt like I was truncating the space (although my husband disagreed-it's not technology so his opinion doesn't matter. I am waiting for him to write a blog about his new in wall speakers....). 2. They were too definite. I didn't like that each section was lined. I can be a very black and white no grey about it type of gal but I'm not a symmetrical person at all. I like things to have a little more flow and freedom to them aesthetically speaking. 3. They were pricey. I'm cheap as my husband says although I prefer frugal. There are things that need a lot of money spent and there are things that don't. I didn't feel that I should spend a lot of money on curtains. The target curtains would do if need be but at $25 a panel and 5 windows it was sure to break the budget and leave me not completely happy. So, I started researching. I googled, I pinned, I search and searched. I found a few curtains/fabric on the market but none of it quite spoke to me or met my budget. That meant it was time to DIY!<br />
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I did come across a few bloggers that had created their own. I wish I could thank each of them personally that wrote detailed instructions or even mention their blogs in this post but I don't remember all of them. I do know I read and reread <a href="http://www.thedesignconfidential.com/2011/09/diy-california-chic-ombre-curtains" target="_blank">1 </a>of them as it seemed to be the most informative . I continued to research as I waited for my mom to come visit so she could help me with the sewing aspects as well as the dyeing, vision and help with the boys.<br />
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So here's the finished product (excuse our paper temporary shades please)! They aren't perfect. But I like them and I will look at them and remember all the hard work and fun I had with my mom making them. Below you will also find my tips/ do's and don'ts!<br />
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I've written a general list of how we did the curtains followed by a LOT of tips. I started writing down the tips so I would remember if I ever wanted to do this again before writing the blog so I apologize if it seems chaotic and out of sink!<br />
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Step 1.<br />
Buy material, dye and large bucket. All the dyes say to machine or sink or stove or who knows what. A large bucket outside with water works just fine. I do suggest following the tip about adding salt or vinegar depending on your material type.<br />
Step 2.<br />
Decide how much of your material will be light and how much will be real dark.<br />
Step 3.<br />
Fill your bucket with water and dye outside and dip material in the dye. Leave the end you want dark in longer than the other areas. I would suggest that you move segments every few minutes (2-5) as the dye saturates quickly and too long will just leave you with a solid color instead of an ombre affect. It's up to your personal preference if you want there to be lines dividing the sections or not. I will say we initially loosely rubber band the sheets together and they still ended up with lines so be prepared for perfect lines or a slight color variation where you may not want it.<br />
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Step 4.<br />
Lay flat to dry (or hang...If I had a clothes line I would probably had them hanging). You can see my mom was going over them with dye in a pitcher and we also had a spray bottle to try and fix the areas that were a bit "tie dyed" looking. I'm not sure it helped that much but you can't learn until you try.<br />
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Step 5.<br />
Hang up (light side at the top) to rinse out. This is important as you want the dye to run down from the light to the dark or you'll mess up everything you just did! We just hung them over the fence and placed a few bricks on the top of the curtains to keep them up while rinsing. Be sure to rinse out til the water runs clear.<br />
Step 6.<br />
Let them dry again. They will be a lot lighter than when wet. The bottle says to double dye if wanting brighter or darker color but when we did this I didn't really notice that significant of a change in color to have wasted my time and water repeating all these steps!<br />
Step 7.<br />
Take them in the house (we wrapped in a trash bag; except the tops) and rinse them in HOT water in your bathtub until the water runs clear. Be sure to rinse out your bath tub IMMEDIATELY or it could stain.<br />
Step 8.<br />
Dry them in the dryer. The hot water should have set the dye. If it didn't and your tops get stained I apologize!<br />
Step 9.<br />
Hang and enjoy!<br />
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1. I bought FULL size FLAT sheets on sale in an off white/ivory color instead of buying a lot of material. They are actually really soft and were already hemmed around the edges and had a pocket in the top to slide the rod through- I thought this was pretty genius!! We did cut the sheet in half to create 2 panels and where I have smaller wall space we cut in 1/4s but that meant only 1 side to hem not 4! Again, genius!<br />
2. Don't try to put it in dye forever. I read a lot of blogs that said to take it out a few minutes at a time and it will gradually darken- WRONG! It's like dyeing your hair. You can leave it on for an hour and it most likely won't darken/lighten/color any more than if you only leave it on for the 1/2hr the directions called for. My best advice; dunk your entire section you want colored (Please not there's another tip on this) and immediately take it out and rinse where you want it to be light. (I'm sure you could bleach or peroxide it if you made it too dark but I don't own bleach so...). After you've rinsed the light area then you can place the remaining sections in and let it saturate. We initially divided our curtains into like 5 sections and we noticed that there wasn't that much of a change as it went down...again it's going to saturate as much as it can and then it will be done no matter the time.<br />
3. If you want the top to be the color the material came as then you need to wash your curtains in your shower with HOT water and avoid getting that area wet by anything ( the inital dye, the rinsing outside and inside). Let the curtains dry after the HOT water and then dry in the dryer so you know the color won't run. I wanted the tops to be ivory but now they are light orange because I rinsed them outside in cold hose water and the dye ran. Again, I could try to go back and dip in peroxide or bleach but I decided they looked fine.<br />
3. Buy a darker or a lighter color. If I were to do it again I would have bought 3 different orange shades and dyed section by section from the lighter shade to the darker given the issues we had with it not gradually fading as we had originally thought.<br />
4. BE OUTSIDE (in the spring or fall so you won't pass out from the heat or freeze your curtains when rinsing). I also didn't want to risk splashing dye onto my BRAND NEW bathrooms! I did bring them in once they were dry to rinse them in HOT water to be sure the dye set and didn't run anymore after the final dye.<br />
5. Cut your material to size before dyeing. Also, you can try to do them all at the same time but bunched up mine ended up with a slight tie dye look throughout the middles where the dye didn't quite seep in as much. For my sunset look, it works alright but I'd rather it be a bit more cohesive as the first time around it looked more ombre side to side than up and down. We left the sheets whole and they were heavy when wet as well and a lot harder to move around and not splash dye on the lighter areas.<br />
6. Be prepared to hang them up and take them back down to dye again. We actually went back to the store and bought a 2nd color to dip the bottoms in because the ombre didn't take as well as I wanted.<br />
7. Have a spray bottle with the dye handy to catch any spots that didn't saturate. This is also useful to blur the solid straight line if you don't want it creating a more gradual change. You can also dunk the area right where the color difference meets a few times to get that gradual change.<br />
8. The dye will creep up your material and I'm not sure how to prevent that. Since I didn't want solid lines this didn't matter to me.<br />
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Please feel free to ask me any questions if you need further explanation :D<br />
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<br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-65043432380712696542013-07-09T07:54:00.002-07:002013-07-09T07:54:32.980-07:00Home is where... The littlest Motruks are... This new house is AMAZING! All of our furniture is in and mostly put together and placed where we want it and there's still plenty of room for Yurchik to do his running! We've already had plenty of injuries to christen the house and boy have they left their marks! Luca was first. Mr Wreck It Ralph of course had to be the one! His story is actually quite ingenious albeit the landing at the end. While we were loading and unloading the furniture and boxes up and down the ramp of the rented moving truck the boys realized they could push their little tikes car and firetruck up into the truck and then ride it down the ramp. As I said previously, ingenious. We only have 2 little tikes so 1 of the boys has to sit out a turn. Well, Luca decided he wanted to push Yurchik down the ramp in the firetruck... Unfortunately for Luca, gravity and momentum exist. The firetruck took off and Luca went down. He has a nice road rash on his forehead now! It scared me half to death as we were at the front of the truck and thought he may have fallen from inside. Luckily, he had almost made it to the end! The things kids will do while you're talking to your new neighbors!<br />
Yurchik was the next one to injure himself. The two lots next to us are at the very beginning of building. Yesterday, the placed the foundation frame in the house right next to us to get it started... this requires a LOT of watering of the soil. Needless to say, the boys are in LOVE with the mud. So, after cleaning them off and distinctly telling them to stay out of the house because they had slippery feet and we have hardwood floors... See where my story is leading?! Yes, Yurchik slipped and landed on his cheek just as Teta and Jackson came over! His bruise is now fading as is Luca's road rash (Anže's knees had already met with a tough landing a day or two prior so he was walking around saying hurt and kissing his own knees to make them feel better so he was banged up prior! Life with 3 boys is rough, literally!!!)<br />
So, as I said, we are mostly settled in. There's still things at the other house and it still needs to be cleaned before handing in our keys but we are in. Before we moved we made a list of things we wanted and needed. It's amazing how long those lists can be yet how much can still be missed!!! It's the little things too... a 2nd hose for the front yard, non slip mats for under the couch and rugs. We also have temporary shades in most of the house because we can't agree on what we want for window dressing and don't have funds for anything fancy at the time anyway. For the most part we have a functioning home (the couch sliding across the house is the only thing we really need to fix!). It's exhausting moving 2x in less than a year. Of course, we hired movers to move everything 1,500 miles and they did so spectacularly. I moved everything 15 miles and broke 3 bowls and some of my shot glass collection! LOL<br />
We've also met quite a few neighbors (not that we have many yet!). A few have kids around our boys' age and ALL but 1 ARE boys (the one girl is a b/g twin with a big brother around the same ages as our older brother then twins!)! Our kids will have many friends to play with which is fantastic! ALL of our neighbors are really nice so far as well. It's amazing how having nice neighbors can affect how at home you feel as well!<br />
Obviously, the house isn't put together enough for photos but I'm hoping to have everything done at the other house so that I can focus on this one in the next week or so (minus the cleaning and turning in the keys...but I have until the end of the month for that!) then I promise to post pictures of our "decorated" home. I'm sure it will be different to see the house with furniture in it compared to the plethora of building photos you've seen! Hope everyone had a happy 4th!Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-61399081549461108802013-06-21T21:41:00.001-07:002013-06-21T21:41:27.762-07:00The Official We Own a Home Post!Well, here I sit waiting for Sr to get off of work so we can go down to the title company and sign away the next 30 yrs of our money! LOL... That's right! We bought a house! For some of you, this is totally new information and that's all on me. I really didn't want to announce to the world we were building and then have something happen and it all fall through....so here it is! Now you know! While sitting and pondering the idea of packing for the 2nd time in less than a year; I realized we never updated family with the FINISHED house pictures! Obviously, once things are in the home and decor has been added we will post again although Yurchik says he doesn't want to bring stuff to the new house because there won't be as much room to run; hard life of a 3 year old! Anyway, here's the final pictures before the move in!<br />
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<br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-39410776841588976742013-06-20T14:52:00.000-07:002013-06-20T14:52:09.045-07:00Water babiesThe first two summers of the twins' lives weren't conducive for a lot of water play...The first year they were WAY too little and Luca was attached to machines and had medication that prevented him from being allowed in the sun etc, etc... Last summer while we went to splash pads and the like we only visited 1 actual pool (thanks Aunt Kristy!)... the twins loved it but they weren't quite old enough for to enjoy the full experience LOL.. Since moving to Texas we have found that practically every park, community common area, etc has a splash pad or pool with wading area. This past week we finally tried the actual pool area after playing repeatedly in splash pads. The twins have been weary of the water coming from overhead. Sometimes, that water is coming fast and can be a little harsh on the body. Anyway, we tried Teta and Tio's community pool last week and the kids loved it! Teta's pool is great because it has a splash pad, a wading pool with a small slide and a regular pool (with a giant slide for people that can swim without help- sorry boys!). The kids are able to enjoy all aspects and a lifeguard is on duty to help moms of 3 3 and under if need be! Daddy went with us and the boys loved having daddy work on teaching them to kick their legs and swim. Since daddy has always loved the water, he enjoyed this as well!<br />
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Then on Father's Day we went to Jonathan's parent's house and played in their pool all afternoon. Here the boys could have a waterfall splash them, jump from the edge and lounge in floaties. The may have wore us out more than themselves (typical!). They also enjoyed having their cousin, Jackson floating around with them and he enjoyed it too! I can see many many hours of pool fun in our future with those boys!<br />
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So, 2 pools in 4 days wasn't enough...we had to up it! 3 pools in 6 days!!! Yesterday, I tested myself and my sanity and took the boys to a friends' 1st birthday pool party! We got all dressed in our swim gear and arm floaties and off we went! Our friend, Emma, also enjoyed playing with us! Her momma was busy taking photos of the birthday boy so she hung out with us. All 4 kids thoroughly enjoyed taking turns (most of the time) jumping into my arms. I was exhausted by the end of the party! But we all survived!! Anže is quite the fish... He figured out how to keep his mouth closed and push himself up from jumping in (he was the daredevil of the group! Constantly jumping off before I was ready to catch him!!!) as well as "swimming" over to me if he didn't jump far enough.<br />
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Our car conversations now involve how to walk at the pool, how to jump far and forward and how to stay near a grown up when near water to be sure we are safe.<br />
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Alright, now that I've told my story... here's what you've all been waiting for; the pictures! Please note the higher quality photos were by our friend Sarah (mom of Emma seen in some photos).<br />
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<br />Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-83804496599948896552013-06-07T22:34:00.001-07:002013-06-07T22:34:56.954-07:00June... Well, here we are. It's 2 days past our closing date. The house isn't finished (although a construction supervisor called me to do a walk thru since the house was done...). There's a few things that need to be repaired and a few things that need to be added before the house is officially done. While we wait for that we also wait for an issue with our loan to be approved and escrow can't close until the house and the issue are done....so we sit in limbo. Thankfully, we still have a roof over our head. We haven't given any sort of notice to our rental company yet (smart to wait until those keys are in hand and papers are signed!).<br />
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So, since we are in a limbo situation why not add some excitement to our lives! For the summer and because I couldn't take it anymore, I went and got my hair cut! It was the first time it's been cut since Nina last cut in September 2012 before we moved! EEEKKK!!! I got a groupon for a nice salon in Katy and used some mother's day funds I gratefully received to buy a cut and style! After the initial appt was rescheduled because the stylist was out sick I finally got to go in. I brought a picture of my idea for how I wanted my hair and she began cutting away.... and then she paused, backed up and vomited! Thankfully, she missed me... another stylist finished my cut. It's not quite what I had wanted but given the circumstances, I am just grateful I left clean! yuck!<br />
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So since my haircut didn't go the way I wanted... the hubby took me to the car dealership where we exchanged, yes exchanged, our tiny crossover for an SUV...it's a little older with a few more miles but we have room for costco shopping and when family comes to visit we can drive 1 car instead of 2 (the hhr had 5 seats... so with guests we had to travel in 2 cars!!!)! It's taking me a little while to get used to parking the GMC Yukon but it drives nice and the kids love it!<br />
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My husband is spoiling me for sure! LOL... The best part was we went in with the knowledge we gained from taking Financial Peace University with Dave Ramsey and walked out paying $0.01 for the bigger car! We told the sales guy we didn't want nor could we afford a car payment. We wanted an even trade or we'd go elsewhere... after trying to get us into a car with $5,000 financed and realizing we weren't going to budge he magically found the Yukon! Trust me, I said a prayer over the car and feel that this was a smart move for us (although my gas budget is different now... guess we will go back to the stay at home and eat Ramen plan! LOL).<br />
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The Texas summer weather has arrived and it came with a visit from my mom! She was asked to attend a work conference in Houston and was thrilled, as were we! We picked her up at the beginning of the week and spent the day with her and then dropped her at the hotel where she stayed and did all her work functions. Friday morning we picked her up from the hotel and had a blast seeing the house, playing at Teta's splash pad, grocery shopping, playing superheroes, candy land and just enjoying the short but sweet time we have together. She has a late flight tonight so we will have a great morning and afternoon before heading back to the airport. Hopefully, she'll visit again soon and we'll be moved and settled!<br />
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Here's a few pictures from this week!<br />
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So downstairs we got a wood floor. We LOVE it! It's gorgeous and will be SOOO much easier to keep clean with little boys running around!<br />
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It looks great with the kitchen cabinets! Plus, we have a kitchen sink! Hooray!<br />
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The den has carpet as we will use it as a guest bedroom.<br />
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The backsplash is finished. Although, I don't like it it's from the same batch we chose in studio so there's not much we can do about it besides complain that the studio sample isn't a true sample of the complete product. It will do... we already planned to upgrade the kitchen in a few years anyway (granite countertops etc...)<br />
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Obviously, there's a lot of cleaning to do...<br />
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Carpet on the stairs (same as the den). I can't wait for them to finish the stairway!<br />
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Master bath mirror! Still no sink but otherwise the bathroom is complete!</div>
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A better picture of the master bath.<br />
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Carpet in the kids' rooms. I'm not sure why it looks pink in this picture. It's a cream with speckles in it (ya know to hide the dirt from 3 boys and 2 cats and 1 dog)<br />
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Carpet in the game room.<br />
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The boys' bathroom is basically finished!<br />
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The powder room has a light and a mirror. It just needs the toilet and sink.<br />
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So, our house just needs a few more things; some bathroom essentials and appliances are the majors. The staircase needs to be completed and there's lots of painting/ touch ups to do but it will be finished probably before they originally thought. This may work in our favor. Our current close date is June 6th. If we can close before that it may save us money on closing costs! Either before the 5th or later in the month. The 6th is an expensive day to close! LOL<br />
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We haven't started packing yet. I don't want to pack until I have the keys in my hands! We are still working on the loan paperwork and getting things sorted out. Buying a house is a lot of work!! The kids love it and so do we. Hopefully these last few weeks will go smoothly. We can't wait for everyone to fly out and help us move! AHAHAHAHA!!! Thankfully, we have Teta Tetiana here to watch the kids (so graciously offered!) so they aren't in the way! It's crazy though. I just packed and unpacked. I'm really not looking forward to doing it AGAIN! At least it will be the last time (or at least the last time in the next 30 years?!) LOL...<br />
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Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed my update. Not sure how many more there will be since it's beginning to look like a home! We hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Happy Mother's Day to all!Momx3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021857173480842859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981666678187237411.post-12721064423974549082013-05-05T17:48:00.001-07:002013-05-05T17:58:35.506-07:00Just a small update<div style="text-align: left;">
Not much has happened in the past week or so since last update other then grass being put in, in the front & back yards, and counter top in the kitchen so with out further jabbering on from me...</div>
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Master Bath with Tile in shower & on floor... sorry don't have a pic of the floor</div>
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Kitchen with Tile Backsplash... And it's of a tile that we DO NOT like, some of the tiles pallet is too yellow and some are white (those ones we like) so tomorrow when they do a construction walk it will be brought up. (We talked with one of the sales people and she came by and saw what we were talking about)</div>
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Hey so, after I told Dani I was doing this blog post she told me there are more pics on the computer already so here you go.</div>
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Yes that's a Praying Mantis on the blinker, he took a trip with us from our House to the Houston Space Center</div>
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We also went to the Houston Kids' Museum which was a blast. We had a hard time getting the kids to leave! There was so much to do and see and I think we maybe saw half of the museum!<br />
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The twins also had a small birthday party with our new friends here at a local park and splash pad (water play area). This was simple and easy and the kids had a great time.<br />
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hi ho... who missed me? no one... well fine... NO NEW PICS FOR YOU!!! wait wut? ohhhhh so NOW you missed me... well ok... here are some of the new pics from our house... there are going to be a lot of them. So here they are with the ever so much loved witty commentary I provide.</div>
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Getting ready for driveway to be poured.</div>
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Right side of house, getting ready for the A/C slab & fencing.</div>
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Left side of house, nothing really special goes here... Well I guess the back gate goes on this side.</div>
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Kitchen... This space is where the Range/Oven/Microwave goes</div>
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More Kitchen, with Space for Fridge & Pantry on the right. (where the door is)</div>
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Kitchen Sink, or Luca's play area. Dish Washer goes on left Side. We have SO MUCH CABINET SPACE!!!!! OMGZ!!!!!!!!! When we move in, only about 1/2 of these cabinets will have stuff in them.</div>
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1st Rake of our stair way. And no it isn't the Stair Way to Heaven. (Who else just had Led Zepplin's lyrics go through your head just now?)</div>
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Tech area in game room</div>
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Entry into our Master Bedroom</div>
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Kids Bathroom</div>
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Slave's Quarters #1, I ummm errrr... This is awkward...</div>
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Slave's Quarter's #2.... ohhhh wait.... My bad, attic access door, COMES WITH IT'S OWN BUILD ON LADDER!!!!! Yes I made it more exciting then it really is.</div>
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Linen Closet #1 in Master Bath, we have 3 of these things. This is the biggest of them.</div>
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Ohhh Look a Driveway, with an actual Driveway</div>
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A/C Slab</div>
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Back Yard Slab</div>
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HEY WHO THE HELL PUT HAND PRINTS IN MY BACK YARD SLAB!!!!! Ohhh we did... I will leave it up to y'all to figure out who's is who's... (Hint: Mine's on the right)</div>
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Me, admiring my slab of concrete. Or just contemplating how to run wire from inside to outside for outdoor speakers... Yes I was already trying to figure that out before they put framing up.</div>
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Great Room... ohhh yea we got paint & texture done</div>
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Kitchen, again. Looking at this again after the fact, we get a lot of light into the great room during the day. I guess it's from all those windows we got... ohh and that one giant wall.</div>
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Stair way... to Great Room. (happened again didn't it?)</div>
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Hey yo, we got's us a fence... well 80% of one anyways.</div>
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More Back Yard.</div>
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EVEN MORE BACK YARD!!!!</div>
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SO MUCH BACK YARD!!!!, no wait that's just a slab</div>
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WHO THE F&(!@ MESSED UP OUR HAND PRINTS!!! ohhh just dirt... carry on...</div>
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Front of house, getting ready for sod & 2 trees. </div>
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AV Cabinet... Or Den closet... but mostly AV cabinet.</div>
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Tech Area in game room.</div>
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Master Bedroom</div>
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Master Tub</div>
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Master LINEN CLOSET #SMALL TWO</div>
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Looking into back yard from widow on the right in the Master Bedroom.</div>
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Slave's Quarter#2</div>
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More Kids room... I mean slave's quarter</div>
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Other Slave's Quarter</div>
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IT PUTS THE LOTION ON IT'S SKIN OR IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!!! Closet</div>
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Out side kid's window... hey look another house being built.</div>
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Game Room</div>
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So there you have it, we got painted walls with texture on them. According to the Super our house is ahead of schedule. The Countertops should be going in tomorrow I think (4/26/13) since they were not in today. And the 1st people on our sub-division moved into day, or yesterday. YAY FOR THEM!!! They get to live in a neighborhood with NO ONE ELSE!!!! for now... We are technically the next House to be ready on June 6th... So who wants to come out to Texas and help us move?</div>
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