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| Silly boy! Kieran using chalk as horns at a birthday party... |
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| Lunch with Camden at the party... |
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| Mmmm! Juice- straight up! |
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| Doing some work outside at the party... |
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| Crazy kid! |
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| Note the new haircut... a little too short for mommy's liking... he looks too grown up! |
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| Pinata' time! |
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| I think this is Kieran's favorite part of any party :) |
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| Kieran and Jackie (Shannon's boyfriend's daughter) playing in the closet at Shannon's old apartment... she moved too- the same week as us- copycat ;) |
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| For those of you who don't know... we moved! This is our old place in Ashland in the process of packing up... what a mess! |
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| Here. Kieran helps sweep out the moving truck... we had just finished unloading the last of our belongings into the garage of our new home in Jefferson City... |
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| And here's our new house in Jeff... this is an older picture that we took when we first saw the house... pretty nice, huh? It's about a nine year old ranch walk-out on nearly an acre lot at the end of a street that backs to woods... in other words- just about perfect for us! |
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| A rear view... loving the screened in porch and can't wait to add on to the deck... one of many future projects we have planned ;) |
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| View from the porch... |
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| Kieran enjoying a little breakfast in our eat-in kitchen with doors to porch/deck... |
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| More of the kitchen... we did a little painting this morning before breakfast ;) |
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| Opposite view of kitchen (another older pic...) |
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| As you can see, Neko has settled in just fine ;) This is the living room... it was a tricky space to arrange furniture in... but I think we found a layout that will work for us... now to hang the art... |
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| Koshka napping below the living room window... he's a little less settled than Neko... but he's getting there :) |
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| Kieran's new room (practically identical to his old room ;) we just finished painting this room- it had been a very dark blue and is now a silvery blue-green (a pretty nice color we found in the miss-tints at Menards)... this room will have a geography theme as Kieran is very interested in countries and continents right now. |
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| Our bedroom... still a bit of a mess... but coming along... I love the bay window :) |
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| An older pic of the master bath... it's a total mess right now... no towel racks for some weird reason... |
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| An older pic of the soaking tub... both Kieran and I LOVE this tub and have already used it a couple times ;) We will be adding a door to the adjacent shower this month... so many projects and plans.... so little time/money! |
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| The basement is coming along... nearly half of it is basically Kieran's play space... he's pretty happy with this arrangement, as you can imagine ;) |
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| The other half of the basement (at least the finished part) with a family room space (note the lack of 2nd tv ;) and Rick's studio area with a 3/4 bathroom to the right. Our future plans for the basement include walling off the office space to create a 4th bedroom and adding a dog door through the unfinished shop area that exits to a run... oh and at some point we want to add a small kitchenette'/wet-bar in the little room that is now a reading nook... |
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| Kieran's first find in his big, back yard... a three-toed box turtle! |
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| He is pretty excited about this turtle... :) |
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| We released the little guy in the small stream that runs through our back yard and guess what... he was still there this morning! |
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| I read that these turtles like strawberries and mulberries (which we have a lot of in our yard) so we gathered him a little feast ;) |
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| One cool kid! |
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| Our turtle visitor with his spoils ;) |
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| Another fun find- a slug... Probably won't seem so great once we start a garden, but for now it's pretty great! |
