I've Been Tagged!

Toni tagged me so here we go...

Four jobs you have had in your life:
1st job I put up "Chain Link Fences" (if you can believe that). My friend Lynn (who has since passed) did it first and then got me into it. It was "Fun" but really hard work (only did it for a year).

Miller's Outpost
Fasano & Associates - Account Executive
Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank - Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital

Four movies you would watch over and over:
The Notebook
Pretty Woman
Grease
Steel Magnolias

Four places you have lived:
Los Angeles, CA
Burbank, CA
North Hollywood, CA
Burbank, CA (again)

Four TV shows you love to watch:
Grey's Anatomy
Lost
Boston Legal
Desperate Housewives

Four places you have been on vacation:
Mexico
Arizona
Utah
Florida

Four websites you visit daily:
Foxy Croppers
2 Peas In a Bucket
Toni's Blog
Lifetime Moments
(there are more that I visit on a daily basis but you only asked for four...lol)

Four of your favorite foods:
Mexican
Crab with lemon butter (I'm getting hungry)
My parents "Bacallao"
I just had "Sushi" again (didn't have it for almost 10 years now) but I really really liked it a lot

Four places you would rather be right now:
Hawaii with my hubby "Phil"
Cancun with my hubby
In a beach house scrappin with my friends
Looking out from the Eiffel Tower (ahhhh...one day)

Finally some pictures of our renovated rooms...

It was really hard work renovating Kaitlin and Nathan's bedroom, their bathroom and our bedroom...but oh so worth it. We took out the old and disgusting carpet and put beautiful hard wood floors in both rooms and we painted as well. We purchased all the furniture from Ikea, even the rug. My favorite part of the whole room is the awesome wall unit which holds pretty much everything.

As usual the prep work took so much longer than the actual painting...lol...but I was just so happy not to have "white walls" anymore. We haven't hung any pictures back up on the walls yet but here are a few pictures to share of our hard work.

First the kids room!

And here is a "before" picture of our bedroom...yuck!!! The carpet was awful...stains...stains and more stains. We were so frekin happy to get rid of it.










Here are pictures of what our bedroom looks like now. We didn't have to purchase any new funiture for our room...Thank God. But we will eventually buy a new shelf to match with the rest of the furniture for our candles in the next few months. By the way, you will notice two different colors on the walls (Phil wanted one wall to have an accent color). At first I said "you want what" but I trusted my creative and very talented hubby and I have to say that it looks pretty "cool". Again we haven't had any time to hang any pictures but as soon as we do that - I'm sure the room will look much better.

Phil and I will finally have a bedroom that we can call our very own and have it exactly how we want it...yeesh how long did it take...lol.

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.