Catching up

Well, its been a LONG time since I've written. Life has been CRAZY busy, but its all for the better :) Kelson is 3.5 now and is the smartest and cutest little girl i know. She sleeps in her big girl bed (with a little bribe from Chuck E Cheese), LOVES going to the Little Gym and her teachers are always excited to see her as well, she loves to eat "snacks" and fruit. She is looking forward to having a baby brother or sister one day, although she told me Wed night that would like to have TWO of them :) LOL! She is a BIG snuggler, loves to sing, loves to tell you stories about her day, has a GREAT memory, and loves to take a bath, watch a little part of a movie, than have her back rubbed to go to sleep. I don't know what we ever did without her :)
Jason and I have been BUSTING our tails on our new addition and remodeling of 117 Clutts Road. We started back in July getting the funding for it and then started the work around August. Me, the lead contractor, :) found all the right hired help to get us our "dream house".. it took us around 3.5 months to get to a liveable place. It was such a great investment for us. We spent around $70K on it.. added 1500 sq ft, a huge back porch concrete area with fire pit, a huge fireplace/entertainment center in our livingroom. Custom countertops and cabinets in the kitchen. All new appliances, made our existing livingroom into a media room, our existing dining room into a playroom for Kelson. Existing kitchen into a spare bedroom and foyer area. we have a huge courtyard area (TBD what we are going to do with that). We added around $120K worth of equity into the house, so i would say it was a wise investment. We still have some things to finish it up... baseboards, finish the back porch, painting, buying the media room furniture and electronic accessories, fix up the outside landscaping, stucco, etc.. Another to do is getting the A/C units replaced with energy star units. All this extra house sure is driving up the utility bills ;) So now our house is 3200 sq ft with an almost 600 sq foot CAVE :) Our open livingroom and kitchen combo is AWESOME.. we ha the ceiling done in tounge and groove instead of sheet rock, so it makes it more unique. So our house now consists of 4 bedrooms, a playroom, a media room, livingroom, kitchen, laundry room, storage room, courtyard, and back porch concreted area with firepit, and the cave :) Not bad!!! We did do some house searching previous to this and we just couldnt' find anything we wanted, so we built it :)
It was a lot of hassle over the last few months between getting everyone on the same page, the financing, the appraising, etc.. but it all worked out. We couldn't of done without our family's help!!!
Jason is still jamming with the Jason Albert Band when he wants to ;) mostly on the weekends. He loves being at home and being a stay at home daddy. We are thinking about starting Kelson is a mother's day out program, only because she needs to get used to being in that type of enviornment to get ready for Pre-K. Plus she LOVES the interaction with new kids and teachers.
I'm still at Boeing working under Business Development (Marketing and Sales). I LOVE IT! This is my fav job since I've started working here back in 2003. Sometimes it takes time, but I'm so happy I landed where I am. I work with GREAT people and I love my team.
So, yes, we are trying for baby albert #2. I've been tracking my BBT on the fertiltyfriend.com website. It's a little hard to read at first, but i think i'm getting the hang of it. We'll see how things progress over the next couple of months :) I'm shooting for an 11/11/2011 baby. I'm fine with another girl OR a bouncing baby boy. As I mentioned, Kelson wants two ;) If that were to happen, I'm just fortunate that I have LOTS OF help. I'm still not sure if we had another one if I would be done, but at least after he/she arrives I will know shortly after ;) LOL! I have BAD baby fever right now. Kelson NEEDS a sibling to play with.

Oh- since having the new house, EERS has been spending the night in the cave. He, after 12 years of trying to potty train him, still hasn't grasped it yet, so I bought him a nice bed, and he is hanging out at the cave with Bob :) Don't worry its like an oversized and comforting dog house. He doesn't seem to mind it. We let him come over and spend the night occasionally- only cause we start to miss him, but if he just wouldn't PEE everywhere GEESH.. and oh the hair.. that's another blog ;)

Well I guess that about wraps it up. 2011 is going to be a fun and interesting year. Lots of trips planned: March- Rebecca's wedding and a disney trip together,and May- cousin Lash is getting married in SC (first time Jason has met this side of my family)!!! looking forward to all the fun activites and HOPEFULLY baby that God will bless our family with. Happy 2011 everyone!

Oh- and on top of all this, the corner- Jason, Kelly, Lucy, Louise, and Theana are all dieting :) Let's see how that goes. So far so good!