Wednesday, April 22, 2009

New House

This is our new house that we are moving into May 2/09, only 10 days to go!!! We are actually just one street away from my sister and her family and my mom is also living in their basement suite so we are all within walking distance. The kids will take the school bus starting in September, for May and June I will be driving them to Abbotsford so they can finish out the school year with their friends. The house is really nice, 3 levels, 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms and a yard big enough for the trampoline and swing set. I will miss the huge yard we had in Abbotsford and the gorgeous deck though. I was kinda sad about changing the kids school and not being with their friends though. I know they will meet new friends and everything will work out great for them though.

This is the view coming in from the front door. To the left is the den (which will be my craft room), the powder room and the living room. To the right is the door to the basement, stairs going up to the bedrooms, and the kitchen. The laundry is off the kitchen going out to the garage and it has lots of cupboards in it which is fantastic!

Here is a shot of my craft room, I just don't know how I am going to fit everything in LOL!! It has great natural light which will be great!

Here we have Madison and Joe in the kitchen. There are tons of cupboards which is great of course. We have the island in the centre and to the right there is a desk and the door to the laundry room and out to the garage. Between the kitchen and living room will be the eating area. For some reason I don't have a pic of the living room, I thought I had taken a picture but I guess not, oh well!

This is just a shot from the upstairs landing looking down. There are 2 bedrooms to the right, bathroom behind this view, one bedroom to the left and the door you see goes into the master bedroom. Every room has a great view and nice big window to see it.





Saturday, April 11, 2009

Look, Look, Look

Look at what I discovered can be done in Picasa 3, isn't this totally cool?!? You can select certain pictures and do them up as a collage. There are a few different choices for doing the collage and different sizes. This would be great for scrapbook pages where you want to highlight a month or year in review. I took pics of the kids from the last few months and put them all together for this one. If you don't have Picasa 3 it is a free download and there are so many things you can do with it, this is just one example. Anyway enjoy the pictures!!!


Friday, April 10, 2009

A Day at the Park

We took the kids over to the park to let them run off some energy. Here are Madison and Wyatt on top of the big climbing rock at the playground, of course once they were up there it was "dad, mom help us down we don't know how to get down" They did manage to make it down on their own.



Strike a pose kids! Ya gotta love those cheesy grins when they know the camera is on them lol!!!



Riley enjoys going in the swing at the park.



Joe and Madison fightin over the soccer ball.


Wyatt our soccer player, even wearing his soccer jersey from Brasil compliments of Grama. He has never played soccer on a team, but I think he would do quite well.