More photos of our new house

So now that we've been in our place for a weekish i decided to post a few pics of progress so far. We've done simple fixes so far like paint and yard work. We still need to paint the halls, our bedroom and Sienna's room. The yard as you will see is mostly dirt for now. The people before us had all rock in the back, not even a bit of grass. I have been removing all the rocks to make way for some sod in the near future. We're very happy with the house and very blessed




Before, after some rock removal, still lots to do

Our new house!!!!

Here is our new house in Hollister, CA. We are very excited to get into it this week and paint and do the floors. More pictures to come once we're in it.

Happenings and my 3 month before and after

Well it's been a while so i'll add a few pictures of things that have gone on. Also one of the biggest things happening in my life was my goal of losing 20 lbs since January 5th. We just recently celebrated Elizabeth's 29th birthday and had a special surprise visit from her parents. Sienna is doing good in gymnastics and is growing up fast. Anyways i'm heading to Las Vegas for Ben's 30th today so i'll just post pics cause i got lots to do.

I didn't want to post pics at first cause i was so humiliated by letting myself go over the last year. I decided i was really proud of myself for sticking with it and losing 21 lbs in 3 months so don't laugh at the before. This is a real before/after not like the magazines that are all photoshop.(I was gonna write before on the pic and screwed up and saved it with the black scribbly line, oops)

Sisi is 3/Gymastics

Balance beam pro

Jump jump jump

Tada!!!!!

Hmm goofing off

Shhh

" OK cousin Lily your cute but seriously gimme back my purse from Grandma

Sadly this is the best picture I could get from a bunch of 3 and unders

Classic




Mmmmm

Post pinata explosion


Whack that thing! Take out all that toddler stress

Still loves the swing just like when she was only a few months *wips tear from eye*

She loves Thomas the train so this is our homemade attemp at a cake. Turned out ok

New Post? Whaaaaat?

Here are sone random pics over the last little.

The random update

Here's a couple thing's I've learned about parenting over the last year

What the heck have we been doing

Well our last post was a long time ago. Since April we have just been doing our thing in Gilroy, and areas around. We have discovered that our favorite beach now is Capitola beach and Sienna's favorite passtime is by far Gilroy Garden's and the kids carousel. Elizabeth is enjoying her work and I am enjoying being a housewife. We had the Deringers down for a visit in May and that was a great time. Tomorrow we are having Tricia, Justin and Hunter for a week and a bit. After they leave a week later we will be in Victoria for a week for a visit and I will be helping at teen camp. We have had fun hanging with our friends here and Sienna really loves hanging with Juliet. We miss all our friends/family and are excited to see them soon. Also we are missing Mom/Grandma up north and hope we can see her sometime soon as well.

This and that, oh ya and some of those too.

Since the last entry weve done a few fun things that perhaps you might like to hear about. If you would not like to hear about them you can skip down to the pictures at the end.....Still there? So weve been hanging out with this really nice couple in the building who have a daughter Sienna's age and a new little 4 week old. They seem really nice and we have a lot in common, she plays tennis and he plays basketball. The one thing he doesn't do is play Halo, so we'll so how close of friends we will actually be. We went on a mom's morning out with the kids to the childrens discovery museum, and yes I went, afterall I am a housewife. It was really fun for the kids and there was tons to do. It was kind of a Science World for little kiddies. We got seasons passes for Gilroy Gardens and have visited there a couple more times. Every time I go to Gilroy Gardens I like it more and more. The park is so more laid back than your normal theme park, there are way less people and it is so nice. It was originally a kind of buchart gardens and the this Bonafante guy incorperated a bunch of attractions in to it. We had our first bbq outside, we are not allowed bbq's so they have bbq pits all over and you use charcoals to cook with. I like to grill this way but sure do miss my propane bbq. We have visited a bunch of parks in the area which are really awsome. Gilroy has earned the most awards in California for it's parks. Other than that we have been just enjoying the spring weather and hanging by the pool. It has been pretty hot here already, the last few days have been in the 90's or 32 degrees. Hope everyone is doing well and we miss all of you. Sienna with her first pair of thongs, sandals that is.

Sienna and Juliet discovering at the Discovery museum

The gurls getting lost in the rock maze

Sienna searching for easter eggs at our Vineyards annual easter egg hunt

Gilly the Garlic at Gilroy Gardens

What have we been up to??

So we've had a busy week with family and fun. Well since our last post we had Elizabeth's parents visit us for a week. It was great to have them here and Elizabeth was sooo happy to have them. The week they came was a pretty nice week weather wise. There were severeal afternoons spent pool side catching some rays and taking a dip. Sienna was sure happy to see G&G, it took her a day but after that she warmed up to them. One of the days we went to Santa Cruz to check out the beach, surf and walk the pier. The highlight of the week for me was my Christmas present from Elizabeth which was tickets to the Warriors Vs Rockets basketball game in Oakland. The Rockets were my favorite team but now I have to cheer for Golden State because we live here. The game went down to the wire and the fans were electric, Elizabeth's Dad was so excited he went streaking across the floor and got tackled by the security.

Of course it was Easter weekend so we went to church, which i won't mention the name of for fear of the pastoral staff catching wind and reading this post. For those that don't know the post I entered about "Football churh" got noticed by the Staff at the church and the whole pastoral staff read it. The pastor told us on the Following Sunday that they were glad we enjoyed it. That was an awkward momment.

Yesterday we bought our Season passes for Gilroy Gardens family theme park and spent a few hours there. It's great for Sienna and would be great for all you family and friends to enjoy if you came down(especially the ones with kiddies) Sienna had fun going on her first mini rollercoaster and got to drive a 67 corvette. Other than that were just having fun doing whatever we want to.