New House

Well if I have any readers left out there, I am really updating my blog! So we finally closed escrow on our house just before Thanksgiving. Brian and I went in and scraped the ceilings (they were that awful popcorn), tore out the nasty carpet and started tearing apart our kitchen...see pic below! The my Uncle John came down the week of Thanksgiving and started the remodel...we changed the kitchen around, replaced a sliding glass door with a window, and we had to mud ALL the walls and re-textured them! Then came the pretty stuff... baseboard, hardwood floors, new paint and carpet in the bedrooms. We officially stated living here the second week of December... just in time for Christmas! We have been enjoying our new house... our neighborhood is great and we are getting used to living in suburbia :) In other news...
Max:
*He is finally tall enough for the "big" rides at Disneyland and went on Space Mnt! What a STUD!
*He continues to do great at Preschool and LOVES to read
* He got a big boy bike (with training wheels) and enjoys going on bike rides to the park
Amy:
*This girl can eat! The other night she ate as much meatloaf and mashed potato's as Brian
*She just took her first steps on March 1st and will be running soon no doubt
*Amy is our water baby and LOVES splashing and playing in the tub and pool
Brian:
*He continues to commute to Westlake Village for work and seems to be enjoying his job
*We got Rock Band before Christmas and Brian is a Rock God :)
*He started a new "date night" in our family where we each switch taking one kid out for some special activity so that we both get some one on one time with our children...Max loves to go bowling and Amy loves to go swimming.
Alyssa:
*Having fun trying to dig up a new garden in our house (should be ready to plant next week)
*Trying to keep up on some good books and finally feels adjusted to the new home and the life with two kids.
* Got into Law School and will be staring in Aug!
That's all of us in a nut shell. I will try and keep better updated :)

This is our kitchen in the middle of construction...we removed a wall and added a pony wall for the island. Here is the after photo of our living room and kitchen Scrapping ceilings...FUN! :) Here is the before pic of the kitchen...we took out the wall on the left and added an island, we also moved the doorway to the laundry room/bathroomMax' new roomHere is a front view of our home.