house!

We have been working like horses trying to get our new house liveable! When we moved it it had all white walls and old nasty light fixtures and blinds that looked like they had seen one to many days. I am so sad we forgot to take before and afters, every time we started a project we were so excited that we just forgot! These pictures are not very good, the house turned out really hard to photograph!

we still have a bit of work to do with hanging things on the walls and window coverings but I haven't had time to even think about that!
we only two things we sacrificed in this house was the second bathroom is SMALL, and hardly and closet space! its a good thing the basement is unfinished and all our stuff can go down there!



I want to refinish the cabinets to either cream or a really dark brown, and get new counter tops, but that's way to much to even think about doing right now!
This is Steve's HUGE couch! he picked it out himself! He did a great job! its so nice to cuddle with Khloe and Buddy and watch movies all day:-) Every time I used to see a fireplace "hidden" and not the center of the room, or covered with kids toys I got soo annoyed because I have always wanted one, i am now the one "covering" the fireplace with toys and a HUGE couch!

my amazing finds!

Khloe has never been attached to anything before but this pink monkey from grandma Jensen has changed EVERYTHING! She carries it every place she can! including bed, the worst part is I cant find another one and the monkey cant be washed...it could be a sad day when monkey has to be put "away".

This last Saturday I went to a Grab Bag sale at Once upon a Child, honestly not a fan of second hand stores but I thought I would give it a try! I have changed my mine on second hand stores, not only did I find name brand clothing WITH TAGS STILL ON, but toys that have NEVER been used! for $70 dollars I grabbed 3 Never used and SUPER cute jackets 13 outfits All tags on and from places like Gymboree, gap and children's place couple skirts(once again tags still on from name brands) a vest, 3 walker toys couple books all brand new just not from the typical place! I couldn't believe it! people were actually throwing away perfectly good kids items! I was soo excited to find all these good deals!

New car!

Well like I said we would "try" to be without a new car for a month...NOPE! Steve's job requires him to have a car to go to the bank and run and grab stuff during work, leaving me and Khloe with no car...we took 2 days of not having a car and went insane!

So this is my new beauty:-) She gets 500 miles to a tank! 40mpg on the highway and about 31 in town!! I didn't want ANOTHER small car because Steve and I are super tall and driving long distances to Idaho and Utah are so miserable but this car has MORE room than our SUV! Khloes car seat even fits perfect, refacing even! I'm in love with her!

Life

Its no surprise the last 10 months of our life have been combined with blessed events(khloe, moving closer to family) and multiple HORRIFIC(pipe break, hail dented car) events. Well last night I got a phone call from steve saying he had been in an accident! another HORRIFIC event in life, we are blessed he was not hurt but that was most definitly NOT the case for our corrolla.

We have decided to TRY and live with only one car for awhile, my guess is that we will have to have another car within a month. That corrolla has REALLY taken a beating this last year. We keep saying we will be fine if NOTHING else happens to us, and yet one thing after another continues to come. SOOO im not saying that any more now ill say

"When the next HORRIFIC event happens, we Will get through it"