Look out Florida...here we come!

Well, I've been doing laundry and running last minute errands all day today...gosh I'm pooped but extremely excited that we're finally leaving for Orlando, Florida. I just need to finish packing and take care of last minute stuff and then we take off from LAX on Monday morning @ 7:00am.

Phil and I had been talking about taking this trip for years after we had the kids and we finally got the opportunity to do it for the Holidays. One of his associates named Bettina who he just worked with on the Brand new Simi Mall Opening worked for Disney for 24 years. Well she was able to get us a 5-Day Park Hopper Pass for the entire family to all the major parks. We couldn't believe her generousity and we of course couldn't pass up the opportunity. (It's good to know people...huh...LOL!!)

The Shearers' love Ms. Foxy Toni so much that we decided to get her a Park Hopper Pass for X-Mas and have her join us for the trip. Well she said "Yes" and we're all going to go and have a wonderful Holiday vacation together. Yippie!!!

Finally...Renovating our Home!

We had been talking about renovating our home for about 2 years now and we finally had to schedule it in our calendars to finally get it done. We started with the kids room first because they really needed it...their room was an absolute disaster if you ask me... LOL. We're so happy with how it turned out. We chose the color "blue" first of all because it's my favorite color and secondly we thought it would be a great color for a girls/boy's room. We bought the flooring from Costco and we put it in ourselves. All the furniture is from Ikea - the only thing we had to stain was the wall unit and the tall toy bin. Oh I almost forgot to mention that it was Phil's brilliant idea to build a coat rack from scratch. So he built it and my Dad stained it. I think it turned out awesome and best of all the kids love it. We had the help of my wonderful "Papi...gosh he has helped us so much, my niece Katy and my Father-In-Law Miles. We couldn't have done it without you guys - Thank you for all your help...we love you very much. We're left with ordering their new bed comforter sets and hanging a few things on the walls. I'm slowly trying to add more pictures to share so please be patient with me...I'm kinda new at this...LOL.

The start of a new beginning...

Well, I know it took me way too long to finally start one of these up...but I finally did it and I'm so happy that I did...

I grew up always having a journal but as our lives got busier and busier I just got out of the habit and I've missed it very much....so here I am.