Goodbye old house!!

Friday night we finally finished moving everything over into the garage of the new house and cleared out of Mammoth Circle. It was so hard leaving! Adam and I took our time walking around to each room and enjoying our cute little house one last time.

The kitchen that we worked so hard on remodeling. It is weird that our new house has such a small kitchen compared to this one. I will REALLY miss my cabinet space and my granite. I won't miss my inconsistent stove! :)

Adam and I in front of our home for the last time.

The infamous fireplace...

The family room where we spent MANY lovely times as a family. Where Alec took his first steps...ok, going to stop now cause I am going to cry....

Our new home...eewwww!!

On June 20th escrow closed on our old house, and on the 21st it closed on our new house. Could not have cut it any more close! As soon as we heard word on the 21st that everything closed Adam and I headed over to the house to check things out. The previous owners were smokers and were aparently not very fond of using a vacuum. All the walls in the house were disgusting yellow and the carpets were just thrashed. We were able to get into the house a week before it closed and run an ozone machine to get rid of the smoke smell (which it did) and then we had to paint and replace flooring for the cosmetic work. I am actually very glad we had to do this since it gave us an opportunity to put our personal touch on the house. Here are a few pictures of the house the day we took posession.

Looking from the front door into the entry way and up the stairs. Notice how disgusting the carpet is and the ugly pink marble on the floor...YUCK!
Here is Adam opening the front doors for the first time after the close of escow. The first thing we brought with us to the new house was our crusifix. Adam carried me over the threshold just as he did on our wedding day in our condo and also the day escrow closed on our Mammoth house. How romantic!!
One other good example of the yuckness. This is our master bedroom. You can see how terrible the floor is and also how all of the silk roman shades were just trashed from the years of smoke in the house. It is amazing how much the room was opened up once we took down the window covering above our sliding door. We had a lot of work to do!

Packing up our home...

With all the drama we went through, everything finally came together at the last second and we sold our house! We were able to close escrow concurrently with the purchase of our new house so everything worked out great. I have to admit, it was MUCH harder packing up our old house and leaving it then I thought it was going to be. I know that partially it was because of all the work Adam and I did on the house together but the bigger part was the emotional aspect. This is the place where we brought our babies home from the hospital. This was where Alec took his first steps. So many memories!! We will ALWAYS love that little house!!

Taking a break from packing to goof around with my boys. How cute is this picture?
Boxes, boxes and more boxes!! Who knew it would be so difficult to pack up a 1400 square foot house to move just a mile away?
My boys goofiing around a little more. Even though that house was small, it was filled completely with love and laughter!!

Hangin' at Grammie and Papa's house

Grammie playing Uno with Alec. Believe it or not, Alec wins the game a good amount of the time! He is a VERY good player with minimal help from others! I can't wait till I can teach him 11 handed rummy!!

Aaron and CJ (cousin Jason) hangin' out. We LOVE it when he comes to see us!!

HEY PUNK!!!!

Monkeys at the zoo!!

Although the San Diego Zoo is by far our favorite, we still have a pretty cute little zoo close by, the Santa Ana Zoo. It mostly consists of smaller animals with lots of fun things for the kids to do. Pauline and I decided to take the kids down to the zoo and let them run around for the afternoon. We of course had a blast!!

Cormac and Aaron hanging out in the stroller together. They are such good buddies!!

After some initial devastation by Alec due to a long line at the train ride and my unwillingness to wait in it, Alec had a great time playing with Ian on all the trails. I think here they were pretending to be swinging monkeys. Let me tell you, Alec took a good nap when we got home!

What would a visit to the zoo be without Alec feeding the animals? Yes all you germ-phobes...I washed his hands very thoroughly afterwards!! :)

What a difference a year makes!!

So these are not pictures of me, but of our good friends the Tobins...

June 8th, 2006...Pauline and Cormac on Cormac's 1 year birthday at Miss Alicia's class. What a cutie he is!!
One year prior, on June 8th, 2005, Pauline and Ian (Cormac's older brother) at Miss Heidi's class. After this class Pauline went into labor and had Cormac late that night. We feel so blessed to have the Tobin family as friends and look forward to many more birthdays in the future years!

Sesame Street Live!!

On June 3rd we had the opportunity to go to Sesame Street Live with Mya, Maddie, Josh, and other friends. Alec and I had a fun morning together with some alone time that we don't usually get to have. Although Alec did not show it very much that day, he had a GREAT time and did not stop talking about it for about a week afterwards!

Mommy and Alec on a fun morning at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. No red carpets were out for us though. How rude!!

Maddie and Alec watching the show.