Not Much Yet

So far Leland and I haven't really been doing much, mostly helping with gardening chores and the occasional 40 minute drive down the mountain into civilization. On Saturday I picked peaches and mushed some up for Leland then Mom and I made peach cobbler, yesterday we made banana bread. I'm going to need some serious exercise or I'll be gaining some pounds with all these treats! Tomorrow we will be taking that trip down the mountain again to pick up my Dads tux for my brothers wedding and I will get a few things in preparation as well.
Dave and Caleb are in Chicago until the 28th(the day of the wedding). Dave calls me everyday to tell me how Caleb is doing, most of the time he is good but wants to get into things like most 3 year olds. I try to talk to him on the phone but I don't get a lot out of him, maybe just a "hi" and a couple "yes" or "no" answers. I wonder what he will do when he sees me at the wedding???
Leland is doing a little better with sleeping. Today was the longest he slept, close to 12 hours. I will probably have lots more to tell after the wedding and when we actually venture out more and maybe go to Sea World or the beach!
Love you all!

Our First Day In California

Our fight was good, Leland did very well on the plane. He got a little fussy on our two hour drive to my parents house but he feel asleep for part of it. I put him to bed about 9pm California time but this morning he was still stuck to his normal schedule eastern time and woke up at FIVE. My Dad got him out of bed so there was no chance of getting him back to sleep. Hopefully I can get him to adjust to a new time zone in the next couple days.
We haven't done much yet, just hanging around the house but it is fun here. There are lots of peach trees on my parents property, apple tree and fig tree that need picking a huge garden to weed (I offered to do this chore since my Mom can't really get down on her knees too long). I'm not sure when or if I will be able to put any pictures on here since his computer neither has the software or any other way to put pictures from my camera to the computer. I will keep you all up to date on our house selling or any other adventures we may have.

The Painting is Done... On The Inside Anyway

Finally we are done with most of the painting, Dave will have to do the deck and porch himself while I am gone but those should be fairly easy. Tomorrow the house goes on the market so we are doing a little more packing and cleaning.

Okay, okay its a little bright but its a small bathroom that gets no natural sunlight so it needs some cheeriness to it.


The upstairs bathroom. Very neutral!

Sleepy Eyes

A few days ago I was busy upstairs with something while Dave was feeding Leland breakfast. I hear some crying for a minute or two then silence. Turns out Leland was really tired and feel asleep after eating.

So precious


Hey dude why are you waking me up?


Back to sleep again.


A little blurry but stunning blue eyes.

Getting There

Yesterday Dave took the day off so we could get the kitchen finished. We are pleased with the outcome and are bummed that we didn't paint in here a long time ago, now it looks so nice and someone else will enjoy it instead of us. I'm okay with that though if it will get the house to sell faster.


No more ugly maroon, so much better!


It looks so much bigger with out everything in it.


Oh, check out the sunflowers on the table straight
from the backyard.

Two Down Four To Go

We moved the boys to the other upstairs bedroom and painted both rooms a neutral beige color. One room is now an office and the other is the boys room. We still have the stairway area, 2 bathrooms and the kitchen to finish painting... inside the house. We still have to paint the deck, the trim on the from porch, and the shutters. After that some landscaping and a good cleaning then we are ready for random people to start scrutinizing our house,picking out things that they don't like, and hopefully deciding that this is the best house they have seen and pay us lot of money for it.
Last weekends yard sale was really good. We sold almost everything and what we didn't sell we took to the Salvation Army, we still have some more random things that we are doing to take to a thrift store. The Grand total for the yard sale was around $600.00! Praise the Lord!


The new office


Different view


New boys room


The beds fit much better in here... more spacious.

Progress

This weekend is the last of the yard sale, yay! I can't wait 'til that is done. We painted one room so far and hope... I mean WILL paint the other upstairs room, stair well, and foyer. After that it is on to painting the kitchen and bathrooms. Today I took down all the annoying wall paper border in the bathrooms, kitchen, and upstairs bedroom to prepare for painting. I have packed about 12ish boxes and have just a few more things to pack in the kitchen. Amazingly it seems that is most of the packing is done, maybe a couple more for clothes and other odds and ends. Then it is off to vacation which may or may not end up REALLY being vacation but just getting things ready to move out there. That is all for now :)

So Far....

This Morning :
Leland woke up an hour earlier than normal.
Caleb decided it was a good idea to eat his cereal on the couch and spilled it just as I had discovered where he was.
As I was cleaning up the cereal mess Leland spilled the cats water and ate a piece of cat food, Yuck!
I need to be out the door in about 45 minutes and I haven't even showered yet.
So why on earth am I on the computer AAAAAAAHHHHH!

AAAAAAHHH Elmos Gonna Get Me!

Leland reaction to Elmo

Random Stuff

Leland eating his first pizza crust.
He really liked it.


Pizza crust heaven.


Trying to shove as much into his mouth as possible.


Leland playing with his friend Julian.
It seems even at the baby stage they always
want whatever someone else is playing with


Julian: "what is that shinny light flashing contraption?"
Leland: " Put that thing away or I will beat you with this
almighty powerful paper towel roll."

Yard Sale

My apologies, I have no actual pictures of what last weekends yard sale looked like... we were just a tad too busy I suppose. It was fairly successful. The first day it took me three hours to set up everything(I was awake by 6am) then I waited, and waited.... and waited but nobody came. Dave suggested I go make sure our signs were still okay, turns out they had curled up over night from the moister in the air and no one could see the signs. We made new signs and as Dave was putting them up people started coming woohoo! The first day we sold the pool and a few more small items. The second day was much better our first customer bought a bed frame, bakers rack and side tables. We had lots of people come and bought a decent amount of stuff and our final amount was around $260... not too bad. Next weekend I'll put out some more furniture items and a few more things I found that we don't need then what ever is left from that we'll bring to the salvation army. Thank you to Vanessa for the good advice on having a yard sale!