Quality Bella time..

For Thanksgiving we went to Chicago to see Ashley graduate from Boot Camp. My sister Erica, her daughter Bella, and my Dad all went and met us there too. We had an awesome trip and it gave us a great chance to spend some quality time with Baby Bella.

Its funny, how much personality she has at 6 months old. Surprising almost. She's so happy and content and she loves everyone.
I loved how she would make the cutest faces when I was taking pictures.

SO everyone makes comments about my purse, I got it in San Francisco last summer and I don't care how big it is. I love it. Some one made a comment a few months back about it. They said "What are you smuggling babies in that thing?" Well now we know I could if I wanted to.

This picture just makes me fall more in love with him. We drove all through the night after work so we could get to the Graduation in time. Right when we got there we went straight to the base and watched the ceremony. Directly after the ceremony we got to visit with Ashley and plan where and what our next move was. I think Paul was releaved that it was back to the hotel. Him and Bella crashed pretty quick.

I think she likes my purse (baby smuggler) as much as I do.

Bad blogger....

Yes, it's true... I even had to be reminded to post a new blog. I think that people forget how much that have going and before you know it they're leaving out the things they like.

We're getting prepared to start remodeling the kitchen of our house. As of last week we started picking out the materials that we like.

Pauls gradparents were here for a visit for about 3 weeks and that gave us the opprotunity to get some ceiling fans installed in the two main bedrooms. That is a bonus because we didn't even have overhead light fixtures.

Slowly but surely its all coming together. I'm sure it's just going to take time

12 DAYS until Ashley graduates from Navy Bootcamp. I'm so proud of her and I can't tell her enough. It's amazing how people and their relationships change as you get older!

Paul and I will be leaving on November 24th to go to Chicago and see Ashley graduate from Bootcamp. I promise to take lots of pictures and blog as soon as we return. Who knows, maybe we'll take the computer with us.

CHICAGO HERE WE COME!!!!

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween and Veterans Day.

A day NOT FORGOTTEN.

It's been 8 years since that unforgettable day...

I was a junior in High School. Entering my first year into Criminal Justice. It was the 3rd day of school. When our principal came into our classroom and pulled our 48 person class into his tiny office. Every one of us stared at the TV, not one of us said a word.

On 9/14/01, my dad and a group of men from our local fire departments made a 5 day trip to NYC to help clean the wreckage. It saddens me that the human race is capable of such hate, but it makes me so proud that so many more of us have such big hearts.

Here's to a day we will never forget....

All little time in the great outdoors..

So we got spunky and wanted to take a day out of the weekend and go for a hike. Lucky for us Grays Peak is pretty close so we piled into Pauls truck and headed out on a Sunday Morning. Paul was already excited because I agreed to take his truck, but as we were driving up the trail people started asking if we had room for more. You should have seen the smile on Pauls face. He was so excited to first get the chance to offroad and second that he looked so cool going up the trail that people actually wanted to get in! Off roading makes me nervous on parts like this so I got out of the truck, halfway to a heart attack, and took some pictures of Paul doing all the fun stuff.

We ended up sleeping in a little too late so we didn't get to the trailhead until around 8 or 9AM. By the time we were reaching the top it was soooo windy! Right through your clothes windy!

And can you believe it.. Middle of August and we're having a snowball fight.. I won by the way, I always win.. Just kidding.

I think Pauls favorite parts of all this camping and hiking is that he gets to use his GPS, and his gear, not to mention bouncing up and down the trail in his truck.

My favorite part is it's not about being Glamorous. Hopefully next time we'll wake up in time and climb both Grays and Torreys!

It's been too long.

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted. Since Paul came home from WLC it's been nonstop around here! Lots of work is being done on our house so I'll have to put up some new pictures. I promise I will be better.

As far as whats been going on... I went back to NY for a week to visit my family. Paul parents were here for a visit, our friend Cody came to stay with us for a couple weeks, and my little sister Ashley came to live with us for a while. All the company has been great but we're exhausted.

I was extremely busy while I was home also. I got to meet 2 new nieces, my little sister graduated High School, my friend Tiffany got married, I had plenty of family to visit!

Sams Graduation Cake. We're so proud of her! She is starting school at JCC this fall.

My niece Chloe. Shes such a smart little girl. If you tell her you love her she will say... "I know."

My new niece Jade. Big blue eyes! No one puts her to sleep like I do.

Chloe in the bounce house. I kepts saying "Chloe you're so cute" and she would say, "I know."

My new niece Bella with her dad Sam. Bella makes the cutest faces.

My niece Talise. I spoiled her a little bit while I was home. It's hard not to when you don't see them very often.

Jess.Ash.Sarah.Nikki all of us ready for Tiffanys wedding.

This is a picture of Nikki hanging out with Bella at the wedding. Bella turned out to be quiet the little party animal!

Its great to have Ashley around because she helps out alot around the house. If we're working on something she is right there to help us out. Shes pretty ambitious too. She already found a job and started working! I'm so proud of her.

Ashley and I in Boulder. We took her around a little bit on her first weekend here.

As soon as I get a spare minute I will post more pictures. Like I said, we've been very busy!

WLC

A couple weeks ago Paul left for WLC. Right before my birthday of course. So the Friday after he left I went to a Party with Ashley, that her cousin was throwing. It was so much fun! It helped keep me extra busy so this time would fly by. Thank You Ash for inviting me!!! I had a great time. Not to mention the food was good!

Kim came up last weekend to keep me and the dogs company! I love having her to visit! I'll be sad when she goes back to NY. We went to the zoo all day on Saturday!! I completely forgot my camera so if I can manage to get some from her I will post them. It was a great day for the zoo. Sun was shinning, all the animals were out, and we found good parking!

On Sunday we woke up and mowed the lawn and took out the garbage and pulled the weeds, then we took the dogs to the park. We again got some nice weather for the morning and most of the afternoon. Because of all the rain we have been getting the park was GREEN!

I'm just happy Paul will be home tomorrow. Apollo has been quite the pain... (Chewing EVERYTHING) I'm so glad this was only a couple of weeks. It's a nice change from a year.

Beatiful baby niece.

My baby niece Bella is finally here! She's sooo beautiful.

Chloe.Bella
She makes the CUTEST faces!

I can't wait to go home and see all my little nieces and nephews!
See you in 13 DAYS!

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!

So we bought a house and we're all moved in! We've been so busy since we went under contract I haven't had a spare minute to catch my breath. Both of us have been working full time and then going home and doing odds and ends to maintain the house. I never really knew how much work a lawn and garden can be. We're soo anxious for Pauls family to visit! They are pros! We feel like we can't keep up with the grass, but then again, we are SSOOOO greatful to even have grass! When we bought the house EVERY room was yellow... I kid you NOT. EVERYROOM! so far we have painted the living room and kitchenette and the framing in those two rooms! We've also done most of the trim.. We tore out the ugly brown carpet that was in the living room and dining room. We pulled out all the sticky paper she had in the kitchen cabinets, and packed them full of our dishes!! And we already have a BILLION ideas for what to do next. I'm so tired.. Will we ever find time for the gym again?

This is the view of the living room/dining room from the living room window wall. Those are the wood floors we found under that old carpet! Woohoo! At lunch with Ashley and Vivian a couple weeks ago, Vivian said, that clean ugly floors are better than, dirty carpeted floors! AGREED! I would have been happier with plywood floors, than I was with the carpet!

These pictures were taken before the accent wall in the living room was painted but we picked a sage grey color that we LOVE LOVE LOVE! We haven't finished hanging stuff up yet but we'll get to it.. for now I just want to enjoy it for a few days first.

I promise I'll be better about updating! I have a couple pictures of the park about 6 houses away with pretty pond RIGHT in the middle. I'll upload them and post them soon! Hope all of you make it over to see the new house soon! We miss you guys!

HOUSE HUNTING!!!!!!

WHEWWWW!!!! We're BEAT! We have been looking for houses almost everyday for weeks. We found one we liked, let the selling agent know we were putting an offer in. The agent let us have a second viewing, saying it was still available and noone had yet showed interest. THAT NIGHT, we go to write our offer and GUESS WHAT...... Under Contract. And NOT TO US. ARGHHHHHHH.

So we're back on the search. We found another house last week that both of us liked that was priced too high, so our agent called theirs and asked if they could accept less.. Unfortunately the owners are facing foreclosure and need to get the most out of it. In a market like this they are far more likely to be foreclosed on.

I'm getting a little frustrated because it is really hard for us to completely agree on a house. When we finally do something else comes up!

Please keep us in your prayers... WE NEED A HOUSE!

NEW PJS!!!

For Christmas my sister and mom traditionally get everyone a new pair of PJ's! The night we got them we had game night so we got into our PJ's and sat around playing board games!

Shaylyn (niece), Amber (Sister), Mom, Me, and Tre (nephew)

We had a great Christmas this year.

Uncle Paul gives Tre a lift!

My big brother Tom!

Sister, Sister, never knew how much I missed her!

Amber.me

Nephew Tre, Niece Shaylyn

Andrea (Toms Girlfriend) having a baby girl!

This is at my dads house! I'm guessing we played about 6 hours of Wii in one night! My dad is a GREAT BOWLER! I wish I would have gotten pictures of EVERYONE! I feel so blessed to have grown up with such a large family! Even through all of the fights.

My sister Erica is having a baby girl too!!! (Erica.Samboca)

My brother Abe!

Me and Sambo as I set up her computer!

We had a good Christmas!!

Paul has a Birthday.

This month was Pauls 23rd Birthday. His grandparents are in town, so we got the pleasure of celebrating with them!!! It the morning I woke up and made him a big breakfast and then I started chili. (he loves chili) As the chili was in the crock pot I started to bake his cake. A carrot cake with homemade cream cheese frosting! Yum! He'res a little clip of him blowing out his candles!

Look at that Cake!!!!!!!! YUMMMMMMM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL!!!