Simi

We had such a fun day on Thursday down in Simi Valley.  My mom and I packed up the kids and drove down to Aunt Kristina's house for a fun playtime with the kids.  Kari, Brinley, and Titus all met up with us as well as my long-lost Bako buddy, Mary Beth!  The weather was amazing and it was so nice to get out of town for the day and hang out with friends and family.

Eating lunch together.

Zoe and Katelyn

Asher made hot chocolate for everyone!

Me and Mary Beth

And just a few randoms of Luke!  Rolling all over the place, eating his toes, so smiley and giggly!

Does he look more like Steve or me?

A few checks off my list...

A few things I have been needing/wanting to do for a while finally got accomplished over Christmas break.  Gotta love the time home with the hubby to help with the kids!

1. I have been wanting to turn our "coat" closet into a craft/scrapbook closet.  Much more functional than collecting coats we seldom use.  So I just moved all of the coats into our bedroom closet to make room for Steve to build me some shelves.  He painted the closet wall a really pretty gray (revere pewter by ben moore) and left the pole for me to hang organizers or ribbon or whatever on.  I WISH I had taken a picture of what it looked like before because it really made a drastic improvement!

So far, I have just been collecting all my random craft stuff that was stuffed in the office and been sticking it in here.  My next step is to actually organize it, label everything, and make it really functional.  I think I'll be a lot more motivated to work on something if I have everything I need easily accessible.

2. For a very long time now I have been wanting to change the great room/kitchen paint color.  But we have hesitated on doing it for various reasons (pregnant and not wanting to be around the paint fumes, newborn in the house same reason, having a really hard time picking out a neutral we like, and just plain not wanting to buckle down and spend the time to paint!)  Well, we finally tackled it and I love how it turned out!

We don't get a lot of natural lighting in our house so I went for a pretty light color to try to lighten things up.  It is sort of a gray/beige color called Grant Beige by ben moore.  It took a little while to adjust because after having lots of color on the walls it looks a little more plain now, but as soon as we get curtains and a rug it will look great.  Next big project: get those cabinets painted white!!

3. I had time to make a bunch of purees for Luke and freeze them for easy prep during weekdays.  He had his first bites of solids and how did he do?  Well, this pretty much says it all...

As with everything we do with Luke, Katelyn is super interested in feeding time.  She's always saying, "I want to do it!" or "I want some!"  So here she is helping her brother eat.

And after a few bites she has lost interest and is playing iPhone games...

And as soon as Luke is finished..."MY TURN"!!