Living room flooring- finally!

Saturday I removed the tile in front of the front door then later that night we moved everything out and took the carpet out- ew!

SO much dirt.

And it was disgusting looking at the bottom of the carpet. It was like 15 years old!

Sunday afternoon Steven and his Dad put most of the flooring down.

 They ran into a few problems and it took a lot longer than they thought. Monday they worked for about 3 more hours and the living room was done. I LOVE it! One thing that kind of stinks is, there was a different one that we really loved- it was way cheaper too. But it had bad reviews when it came time to installing. And what do you know- so did ours! Oh well.

It still feels a little unreal for some reason. Like its too pretty, it can't be my house! haha. You can see every little thing on it though, I'm constantly sweeping- it drives me nuts! We still need to buy new baseboards, then the living room will be complete!

Oh yeah and Steven's going to build a new tv console:

 Perfect!

I really love this color but I think it'll clash with the floors. We can decide on that later.

An upclose picture. One of my favorite things about it is how textured it is.

It might be taking us a long time to get things done- but we're getting there! And having fun doing it... well at least I am, since I'm not doing much of the hard labor. :)

House/Ryan's birthday

Our flooring came in last Monday- on Wednesday Steven and his friend Sean went to pick it up, Steven's Dad met them there.

All piled up!

Sunday Steven and his Dad are going to put it in the living room- I can't wait! But... honestly I'm a teeny, tiny bit sad about not having carpet anymore. I'm sure I'll get over it quickly. Then comes the fun part, fixing this dang kitchen floor.

My new faucet and sink. :)

Its so unhomey in this area, I don't like it. But I know it'll be worth the wait in the end. [My kitchen walls always come out lime greenish in pictures, they aren't that bright.]

We still have to order the backdoor, buy new doors for the rest of the house, baseboards and I want new light fixtures in the kitchen. Also paint all the door handles/hinges bronze. Phew! I'm not in a huge hurry for any of this except the backdoor. The one I chose has a window and its so pretty! Steven went to order it like 3 weeks ago but the guy wasn't there... get on it, buddy!

Saturday morning we left for Ryan's second birthday- I can't believe he's already two! These babies grow up way too fast. The drive is long and of course, the kids never fall asleep til the last 30 minutes- happens every time! They slept almost the whole way back home though.

Birthday boy!

His party was monster themed, Rebecca did such a good job. It was fun! It rained a good amount and the kids loved it. It made the day so nice and cool. We got to see Elyse, the last time we saw her I was about to pop with Aiden. When we walked into Rebecca's house, she looked and me and smiled. When I said hi to her she walked up and hugged me. It made me happy. :) Its too bad she doesn't live closer to her brothers and the rest of her family.

I love being an Aunt! Ryan and Jake being Rebecca's babies makes it extra, extra special.

It was a fast but fun weekend! While I'm wishing that people lived closer, I also wish we lived closer to the Rios'. Our babies love running around together. Aiden, Rian and Ryan love each other so much- its so easy to see. Jakey will too when he's older! Best buds.

Oh yeah and I can't forget to write about Aiden looking at me, smiling and saying, "You look like a princess." Awww! Love.

Geez I haven't updated in so long! Maybe because I try to only be in the kitchen when I absolutely  have to, it doesn't feel too homey at the moment. We haven't done anything to the house since my last update. My parents are in Hawaii for the next two weeks and when they get back, my mom and I are going to start chipping at the kitchen floor- fun. We ordered our flooring last week so it should be here in another week and a half. We're going to do the living room asap- can't wait!

Life is as crazy as ever. Two against one when Steven's at work. I try to get them outside in the mornings before it gets stupid hot out. I can NOT believe its June already. Didn't 2012 just start?! This is my last year home with Aiden. For the most part, I'm very much looking forward to him being in school but when the time comes, I know I'll be sad. Around January we're going to enroll him in part-time preschool so he gets used to the school concept.

Kid updates:

- I love when they "shhhh" each other. Aiden's sounds like "sssss" and Rian's "thhhh' haha!

- This may be inappropriate but one night we watched Ridiculousness and they waxed this guy's chest, right over his nipple. The next day Aiden came out of his room with a piece of tape he found and said "Watch this Mommy" he put the tape over his nipple, ripped it off and did a fake, dramatic scream. It was so funny. We definitely have to be careful with what we watch, no more Ridiculousness for him!

- We were on the back porch and two big birds flew right in front of us, Aiden said "Whoa! I didn't see that coming!"

- The other day he said "Mommy that looks like you!" and I thought it was Lindsey Lohan, I told him "Don't say that!" And Steven said "It was Lauren Conrad" Aww he's such a good boy! haha Even though I don't look like her.

- Rian's new thing at naptime is "I want to sleep with Aiden"- which would obviously never work. So we have a battle every. single. day. when I try to put her in her room. Augh! Terrible twos are in full effect.

- For awhile now Aiden's been telling us how to respond when he asks us something. "Mommy say yes." "Daddy do this to your head" and he'll nod his head. At night after he's been in bed for a few minutes he'll yell "Night Mommy, night!" and I yell "Ni-night!" back. The other night I said "Night, bud" instead and he said "No. Say 'ni-night!'" :) The other day he said "Rian, you don't even speak Enlgish!"

- Rian's new word: actually. I can't believe she says that. She's supposed to be a baby! "Actually, I just did."

- She finally poops in the potty, regularly! I'm not sure if I updated about that or not. Since she started going on the potty, she hasn't needed her fiber gummies. So weird! I officially have two big kids.

I've been so bad at writing down funny things they say. I need to do it, I want to remember everything- they're so funny!

I've been wanting to make her a kitchen forever. The other night I drew a little stove and put it on her nightstand. I found a little tv stand yesterday to make one but Steven wouldn't go get it for me! Rude. I'm going to see if its still there tomorrow. They have so much fun pretending to cook.

I found her this cute little highchair at Goodwill- she loves it!

Last week Tim, Rebecca, Ryan and Jake were here- they had soo much fun running wild with their cuzzies! Poor Jake was scared of Rian though- she's so rough! Obsessed with babies. Love those stinkers.

Their M&M outfits Grandma brough back from Vegas.

We let them watch tv in our room the other night while we watched Hatfields and McCoys. Seriously, how did parents watch tv before DVR?! I wonder this all the time. Sometimes it can take us an hour and a half to watch a 30 minute show because we have to pause it to wipe a butt, breakup a fight or rewind it because we can't hear over the screaming.

The other day I told Steven I hope he realizes I'm going to want another baby when Aiden goes to school. He said, "I know... I was just talking about that the other day at work." So, unless I change my mind, I think we're going to start trying in 6 months or so. Yikes! I just really don't want to buy a new car. We're going to have to eventually anyway. I don't want to think about a giant car payment and huge gas bill.

This is such a crazy, loud household already. I must be insane to consider bringing another monster in!