Baby Madeline is here!

Our dear friends Chris and Jennifer just welcomed thier first baby Madeline Paige this past week and we were so excited to share in their joy. Chris is one of Matt's best friends.....they have been friends since high school. Matt really enjoyed getting to see baby Madeline and I think my husband has baby fever. It was adorable to watch him with Madeline and I know he will make such such a loving father someday. Here are some pictures from the hospital. We love you Madeline and can't wait to see you again!

Ok...I am back people!

Well Matt and I are still alive:) I feel like I have not blogged in awhile. I had no idea how busy moving and then starting school would make me. I am just now trying to get back to normal. The house seems to come more together each week. We still have a long way to go but at least we are living in the house and enjoying it. These are just some random pictures I have taken over the last two weeks. As you can see in the pictures we don't really have any window drapes yet so the windows look kinda plain.....I had to take down all of the ugly drapes that we up on the window and now I have to decide what to put back up there:) Here is a picture of Matt in the Living room....this room and our master bedroom are the most finished rooms so far.

Living room facing the kitchen. If you look close you can see the kitchen..we just had it painted olive green (but I don't think I have a picture of that yet)
Here is the guest bedroom...it is a light yellow color...it is like sunshine in there:)

Here is our bedroom standing at the door. You can see where I took the drapes down....now I have to figure out what to put up:) I did not take a picture of the kitchen, office or the family room since they are still a big mess.

Well here is the bathroom mess......fun stuff huh:) We are still in the process of getting the right contractor with the best bid to start working on it. Hopefully we can start work on it within the next 2 weeks. I would love to have more people over and have a place for people to use the bathroom. I can't wait to see the final product when it is finished!! Ok well I will post more as we keep working.

Our house is slowly coming along

old hallway look with 2 tone faded paint and carpet. Freshly painted doors, trim and walls....much better:)
Sandy....you are the best for coming and helping us paint that fun detailed molding

New kitchen floors
Old kitchen floors.....yuck:) so glad those are gone!
Old carpet and the starting of the new paint color...I am so happy with how the color turned out. It was harded than I thought to pick good paint colors for large rooms. Freshly painted living room with newly finished hardwood floors

Well the house is coming along. We have had a lot of great help and some hired help and it is starting to look more like our home than a 1950's old house. The hardwood floors are done!! Yippie:) The painting is part way done.....all the major areas are finished (like our master bedroom and the living room areas.) The guest bedroom and office will have to wait until after we move in to be finished....we are moving in this Thursday so we are in crunch time!! Thanks so much to my Dad, my Mom, Matt's mom Barbara, Jan, Sandy and the countless workers that have helped to make the renovations go faster for our move in date. We could not have done it without you. I will post more pictures soon....the hall bath is totally a mess. We had all of the tile removed (it was pink and mauve) and we are still in the process of cleaning up that mess and fixing the bathroom.

Cabo 2008

Matt and I had a wonderful time with Chris and Jennifer in Cabo. It was a perfect getaway right in the middle of our house renovations....of which I will post pictures of that fun mess in a few days. We needed a small break from all of the work. We fell in LOVE with Cabo. It is so beautiful there. I have been to several cities in Mexico and this is by far the prettiest location in Mexico I have seen. It is very mountainous and has very pretty scenery all around. Here are a few pictures from our trip. We can't wait to visit again. Thanks Chris and Jennifer for sharing your wonderful resort with us.

Matt and I on the sunset cruise. They took us near "Lovers beach" and the famous arch.
View of the city from our resort.

Chris and Jennifer before we went to dinner at Cabo Wabo...which by the way serves delicious food.
We visited the glass blowing factory where they produce a majority of the blown glass that we purchase from places like Pier 1. It was very cool to watch. This man was making a glass fish.
Jennifer and Chris on the sunset cruise.
Picture of the pirate ship we went on at dusk. The pirate show was kinda cheesy but the scenery was great!
The famous arch near lovers beach. The picture does not do it justice.

This is the Palmilla Golf Club....which was designed by Jack Nickalus, where Matt and Chris played golf. It was absolutly beautiful. Jennifer and I were their caddies for the day. The scenery was worth the long 18 holes of golf that they played. It got very hot at times but Jennifer and I had cold hand towels to cool off.
Chris and Matt with a cactus on the course. They were all over the place. We also saw some sort of lizard and then lots of little chipmucks....they were so cute and very fast.
Umm......the best golf cart driver ever!!

One of the prettiest holes backed right up to the ocean.

Matt's great swing...... keep your head down honey.

Matt and I in the infinity pool. In the far left corner you can see a little ship. We went on that Pirate sunset cruise one night and it was a lot of fun.
This was the view from our balcony. It was neat to watch the cruise ships come and go over the week. There was also a big shopping market place across the street where we could do some local shopping for goods and fun stuff.

Matt took this picture. Cabo is very popular for Marlen fishing. They would hang fish up all day. It was the start of heavy Marlen fishing so there were plenty of fishermen and thier catches to be seen all day. Next time we go Matt wants to go out on a fishing boat. Instead of fishing the boys opted for playing golf near the ocean. We had a great time and the week was so very relaxing. I wish I could look at scenry like that all the time. We are now back to the grind of the house renovations and wait till you see the before and after pictures of the house. It is coming along.....still not anywhere near done but getting a little face lift. More pictures to come soon.

Cabo here we come!

Matt and I are leaving Sunday for a relaxing week in Cabo. We are so excited and ready for relaxing time on the beach. We will be traveling with our fun friends Chris and Jennifer. It will be a nice relaxing time before the big move into the house and renovations that we will continue when we return. Matt is excited about playing golf near the beach at a really nice resort. Jennifer and I are looking forward to our day at the spa. Pictures to come when we return.