Peanut Queen!

So I mentioned in my last post that my friend Jen had come and helped me with a few projects around the house this summer. Well that mention reminded me that I had a few pictures to post from her visit!

Jen has always been my "allergic to nuts" friend and I've always made sure to be extra careful not to kill her! However, in the last month (after lots of allergy tests) Jen came to find out that she is allergic to tree nuts but not PEANUTS!!!! So after all the projects were done and we were talking about getting dinner and decided Jen's first Pad Thai was what we needed to do that night!

We went to our favorite Thai restaurant in Temecula, Aiyara, and had a peanut-rific dinner!

Here's Jen's first bight of dinner (Pad Thai)

and here's Bennett with his favorite Jen (whom he calls "Jay")  at dinner!

Thanks for coming out to help Jen and we are so glad we got to eat peanuts with you!

Summer Projects!

So besides the amazing bed Adam made this summer, there were many other fabulous "around the house" projects that were done as well!

We'll start in Bennett's room ...

As I was laying Bennett down I put my knee on the edge of his bed and Snap! One of the boards broke! Dang! But that was an easy fix! Unfortunately Bennett was not happy the board was a different color from the others, but I was super happy we had the board just laying around the house so it was a totally free fix! YAY!

Adam finished up his three paintings for Bennett's room!

My friend Jen and I rearranged Bennett's room a bit and gave him a "reading corner" - it's pretty stink'n cute!

Then moving out into the living room area we had some great projects out there too!

Adam replaced the loud, old, wobbly ceiling fan with a brand new little quiet one! We love it!

Also, random thing ... when pulling the wire's down to hook up the new fan ... this came out with them!

Yeah, it's pretty much a petrified mouse ... that thing could have died like 10 years ago! I don't even want to think about what else could be up there! Yuck!

With a few extra side jobs from this summer we were able to get a new flat little TV and get rid of our big bulky TV and cabinate! YAY! With some furniture rearranging, some wood, some paint and a cute little helper ...

we went from this:

to this!

Pretty great huh?! I love it!

And then along the same lines ... we also "repurposed" the other window seat in the living room to be our video cupboard (and my friend Jen totally alphabetized and labeled all our movies too!)

So we still have painting to do (our room, the video cupboard doors, some touch up's in Bennett's room) but for the most part our house got a fabulous face lift this summer!
Gotta love handy husbands!

When Grandpa's Attack!

Lessons on Sharing from Bennett

If your friend gives you a ride...

... then you should give them one too!

Happy Birthday to Brian!

We celebrated my brother's birthday a few times and had a great time every time! 

On his actual birthday, we met up a the duck pond so Adam and I could run errands and Bennett could have some fun with his Aunt and Uncle. 

Later that evening, we met up for dinner together at Chipotle followed by dessert at White Lime! Bennett LOVES White Lime, he's pretty funny there! 

Trying to hold his ice cream in and say cheese at the same time! Talented kid! 

After ice cream we all went and watched the season premier of Project Runway together! (Super manly, right?! ha ha! Adam said that he was going to watch "the Gunn show") 

We didn't all have our astronaut pants on but we all did make it work! :)

Then a few days later we celebrated again with lots of friends, family and carne asada!

Mostly Bennett just enjoyed the fact that the people's house we were at had a doggie door! 

When it was time to sing to "Uncle Brian" I put Bennett up on a stool so that he could see better ... but without realizing it, I'm pretty sure he thought I was putting him in front of HIS dessert! haha!

And well, then when we sang, our suspicions were confirmed!
He for sure thought it was his birthday!


Lucky for Bennett he has a very nice Uncle Brian, who doesn't mind sharing and even let Bennett help him open presents!

Happy 25th Brian! 
Hope you had as much fun as we did! 

Saturday Morning Fun!

Some saturdays you just need to be out front with your friends in your PJ's!

But then if you are out front in your PJ's on a saturday morning, you will have to eat breakfast in their fort!

And if you eat breakfast in your friends fort, then you'll probably also have to go on a motorcycle ride!

And if your friend is really nice, they may even let you drive the motorcycle too!

But then if you have gone a motorcycle ride, you will of course have to have some music time!

And then after music must come play-do!

But then after play-do and music and motorcycles and breakfast in your PJ's, it's pretty much time to clean up because your fun saturday morning has all of a sudden become saturday afternoon!

Duck Pond

We love a good trip to the duck pond and this time we got to bring some friends with us!

Notice the "billy goat" in the background! 

"Hey that's for the ducks, not you!"

Good afternoon with good friends, what more could you ask for?!