Some of our summer projects!

We took so many pictures while we were in Idaho. Here are a few of Ben and Michele's family. They are the cutest little fam! We had so much fun doing their pictures!

Tyler and Riley are like the cutest brothers!

Kevin always makes fun of my obsession with taking pictures of feet, but he always loves the end result! I think that they are absolutely priceless!

How stinking cute for a nursery, huh?

This is our littlest nephew, Jack! He is adorable and I was so sad to leave him...I begged to just bring him home with me!

IdAhO!!

Zoë had a major mullet going on, so Michele was nice enough to cut her hair while we were visiting! She looks all grown up with her little bob now! We also went up to the South Hills to roast marshmallows one evening. It was so much fun! We never realized how much we missed having fun and free activities just a few minutes away!

Our Idaho Vacation!

We recently went to visit our family in Idaho. We had such a great time and miss living there and being able to enjoy the outdoors! This is Reese, Zoë, Tyler and Riley on the tire swing that Grandpa Barry made for them to play on! The one of Zoë by herself is priceless! They had so much fun!!

BaThRoOm!

This is what the girls' bathroom looked like when we first moved in, and for about 9 months after that too! I finally decided what I wanted it to look like, and all I had to do was mention to Kevin that I wanted to re-do something, and he is all over it.

The next day, when I came home, the pink tile was gone from the floor, the vanity was gone, the new wood was installed and the walls were re-textured! Kevin must have been busy while I was gone!!

I wanted their bathroom to be super girly, but not too over-the-top because it is also our guest bathroom. Since I am in love with all things Audrey Hepburn, I decided to try to force it on my girls too! Ha! I found this print and was inspired by the dark and light shades of purple. The quote says, "Happy girls are the prettiest girls"... perfect for the bathroom, especially when the girls get a little bit bigger! They will always be prettier if they are happy first!

This picture captures the color of the walls a little better than the top one. It's pretty dark, and I thing the diamonds are just too cute! We had diamonds in the entry-way of our old house and I loved them, so we decided to try them again! Kevin built and tiled the vanity himself and I painted it! We love our little projects!

ThE GiRls' RoOm!

Here is another picture of the girls' room. I ordered these letters a LONG time ago, and FINALLY got them up about a month ago. They are pretty cute, huh?

Reese London

Zoë Monroe

oUr HoUsE!!!!

We purchased our 1st home in California last May. I cannot believe that it has already been an entire year! We have literally gutted and redone almost everything in the house with the exception of the master bedroom and bathroom, which is always last for us anyway! The office has not received too much attention either, but it's okay for now, and HOPEFULLY it will become a nursery here pretty soon anyway, so I'm going to hold off on that particular room.

Since school got out I have had time to actually go through stuff and organize the house a little bit better than I did when we first moved in. Recently, Kevin built beds for the girls and I have been working really hard to get all of their stuff in order so they can have a fabulous and girly bedroom. It's coming along, but it's a work in progress, as are all things in our house at the current time.

This is the girls' room when we first got the house. The old carpet was removed and this was before the horrible days of scraping off old wallpaper! This house was originally a model home when the neighborhood was built in 1991, so everything was done very nicely, but the colors...WOW! It was 1991, what more can I say?

Here are some pictures of their room now...

This is Reese's side.

And this is Zoë's side. I couldn't bear to stop using their adorable crib bedding, so I tried to find things to incorporate and make it all work together!

I have been wanting to get the girls a new dresser because the one they had was from their nursery and had a place for a changing pad on top. I decided to give their black dresser to our friends, AJ and Jordan, who are expecting a baby in November. And it was the perfect excuse to get the girls a new one. I saw some people selling furniture on the corner a few weeks ago, and decided to go check their stuff out last weekend. I got a bargain on this dresser for the girls' room and it looks adorable in there!

My next project was their closet...UGH. It took me an entire day, but by the end there were only clothes that fit and that they actually wear. I weeded out SO many toys too, which was nice. My sister gave the girls an adorable wooden doll house with a million wooden people and furniture and they LOVE it! It's pretty much all that they play with, and it's really cute, so it put it in the living room on the side of the piano. These are literally the ONLY other toys that they have and I am so glad because I get really annoyed after birthdays and Christmases when they have SO many new toys and don't even play with half of them! Hopefully they will find new homes after the yard sale...

Reese and Zoë have A LOT of clothes! But they wear them all, and they will be nice to give away or hand down when they grow out of them...This is about half of what they had because I still had long sleeves in their closet and it's too hot now! I kept a few irreplaceable things in bins on the top of the closet just in case I ever have another little girl!!

Hopefully my yard sale will be a success. I have never had one, but I think we have some really good stuff that may be of value to someone else! If not, I suppose we will take it to Goodwill and they can have some donations. Our current project is the hallway! But I'll save that for another day...

Our 1st trip in a while!

A few weekends ago we took to girls to the LA Zoo. My parents came and we met my sister and brother-in-law and their kids Sydney and Sam. We had a good time and the girls still talk about all of the animals that they saw and how they all pee. Because all people and animals pee, as Reese continues to remind us! Here is Zoë, and yes she is holding and drinking a Pepsi...we are bad parents! OOPS!

Reesey posing for me!

On our way home we ate at Hooters in Burbank. That is where we stop to eat almost every time we are driving home from down South. It's fun and the girls love it there because they have fun books and they can be as loud as they like! Kevin and I got stuck at the end of the table because the girls wanted to sit with my sister. I'm pretty sure we are scheming up something here...I thought it was a really funny picture..ha!