California

Last weekend we were able to take a quick trip to California to visit Alex's Sister who is there for the summer. The kids has so much fun on the beach as these pictures show!!

They loved to play in the water, especially Owen who didn't want Alex to hang on to him at all, he wanted to do it by himself, but he kept falling over. It was so funny to watch him play in the water. They also loved to play in the sand!!

We packed a lunch and taught our kids why they are really called sandwiches!! Abby didn't like it so much and didn't eat any of her sandwich, but she did drink like 5 capri-suns.

We had such a great time and the weather was awesome! I forgot how sandy everything gets at the beach and our car now looks like the beach. We are still finding sand in the most interesting places on the kids!! We might have to make it a yearly trip.

New Pictures

I wanted to get some pictures taken of the kids for Alex for fathers day. My friend Shauna came through again and took some amazing pictures. We also had all of the cousins on my side in town so we tried to get some pics of all of them. We went at 7 in the morning and it was still so hot and muggy outside. Poor Abby looks like she is about to pass out in some of the pics. It was a fun morning!

This is the best shot we got with all the kids. Owen kept trying to crawl away.


These are my sisters new twins. They are so stinking cute!! I love this picture.

This a collage that my friend put together for me to give to Alex. He loves it!

My Boy is 1

Owen had his first b-day a few weeks ago. We had a family party here at the new house and BBQ'd and had cupcakes. One of the best parts was the new fire pit in this house. We had smores and sat around the fire and talked till everyone had to leave. It was really fun!! Owen loved his presents and the marshmallows!! Happy Birthday little one!!

He really wanted that cupcake!!

Shelves

One of the things that we really needed in this house was storage in the garage. I was so tired of having boxes in the garage stacked up everywhere. I found this video tutorial online a while ago so when we moved here I bugged Alex enough that he decided we should try it. Neither one of us has ever built anything like this so we were a little nervous, but they turned out great and now I feel like we can organize our garage finally!!

Here is a before shot of the space. There is a step up at the end of the garage, and this is where we decided to put the shelf. The girls loved the laser level a little too much when we were using it!!Here is a great action shot of my husband.

And here is the final product. Total I figure that it cost us about $65 for these shelves and the only tools we used were the level/stud finder and the drill. They are made out of 2X4s and OSB panels. The guys at Lowes were so nice and they will cut the wood for you for free. I love these shelves and can't wait to put all of our junk onto them!!

Help

I am dying to repaint and decorate my living room/dining room/kitchen area. The previous owners had painted it a dark brown on all the walls. As my Father-in-law so well put it the other day "it is the exact color of poop". The room, especially the kitchen doesn't get a lot of light so I wanted a color that was bright and colorful. I have also been looking for fabric to make curtains to match since I don't have any blinds. I found these fabrics online and fell in love with them. I just don't know if they are too "funky" for our personalities or if other people would think they were strange.

I am thinking of painting most of the walls a light tan color and then maybe the walls behind the cabinets in the kitchen a blue or orange to match the fabric. I would love to hear you opinions. Here are some pics of the kitchen (they are really bad-my camera is a little broken) to help you visualize the space. Seriously, any opinions are needed!!

Feeling Blue Lately!!

We were able to go in on Monday to have an early ultrasound. I was only 13 weeks along, but the tech thinks that the baby will be a boy! We are so excited to have a new little baby boy in the house. It will be a long 6 months waiting for him to come. Now we just need to start thinking about names!!

#4

We have had so much going on in the Elledge home lately that I will get to posting about soon, but I just wanted to let everyone know that we are expecting baby #4!!! I have been feeling really good, just super tired and hormonal. I am due on October 12 and we are secretly hoping for a 10/10/10 baby!!