A room fit for a princess

One room almost down.  We went from Spider-Man to Princess in just a few weeks.  Sydney's favorite colors are pink and purple so that's what we gave her and we will be adding a white chair rail to finish it off.

The Cave

And now the cave is transformed... with lots of arm breaking work we finally have gotten rid of the nasty brown walls, it only took some re-texturing (which I can now say I am pretty darn good at) and a million gallons of primer.

even Sk helped
Like I said a cinch :)

Now they are a lovely celery"ish" with a light butter cream accent wall. Okay all we need now are floors and some base boards

One Last Summer Outing

It was such nice weather we had to have one last summer outing (and a definite break from home renovation) , so the whole family went to Raging Waters and had a blast. Sydney with her cousin Mikayla

Wow a giant mermaid or as she called her cereal aka Ariel

First Football Game

So call me strange I am 34 years old and just went to my FIRST high school football game, and it wasn't even for the game Tatiana (as I have posted) made her schools' color gaurd team and their 1st half time preformance was last weekend. Oh and the game was pretty good to, we spanked Alta Loma 34 to 10 ... Go Chaffey Tigers

Pool Renovation

When we first were looking for a house I so wanted a pool it was one of my "must haves", though the house we got had a pool I was afraid it was beyond help, but my fab honey said "we'll make it work" (I did not tell him that was A great (gay) stylish old guy's famous line) and know what he did, he is also now best buds with the team at Leslie's Pool Supply too :)

Before

Oh and thank you Carl for our killer house warming gift of Bottom Pete, (our new pool cleaner)

And of course what a pool isn't complete without a Labor Day pool party

Renovation... Where's the primer?

So we have officially started renovation on our soon to be home, that's right it's still not "officially" ours we have hit every bump in the home buying road it has been more like an awful off road hell. This last bump has to do with the city and the fence into the backyard, it's not really a fence is the problem it's more like two big pieces of wood with a padlock across it to keep it closed which is not good because of the pool in the back, so the FHA won't sign off until the city inspects it and knows that we are aware of the problem and that we will fix it...god we know we know and we are going to fix it but it needs to be ours first god! But that all said the listing agent said we could go ahead and start our renovation as long as we didn't move in (yeah have you seen the place it needs a total overhaul before we can do that) which is why we need to start renovating like last week (when escrow was supposed to close.

This is what happens when you don't use primer, the paint is litterally peeling off the walls. Actually it's a good thing makes my job a little easier.

What are some people thinking??

Maybe we should use all those sheets of paint for a pool cover, lol

Vegas Part II

I never thought I would enjoy Vegas with a child but it really was fun and Syd is the ultimate "party girl".
The Fremont Experience, downtown was rockin it was the 40th anniversary of Woodstock.

we met some friends at the pool.
and on the way home we totally had to stop at the famous Barstow Del Taco..YUM