Catch-up!

Ok, so its been a long time since my last post...i've been a MAJOR slacker! I don't have any excuses, but at least I've been taking pictures along the way!
Lets see...how far back do I need to go?
Here we are at the beach a few weekends back. We had a fun day, just the 4 of us. Wylie tried to eat the sand...hmmm, that was interesting! By the end of the day Audrey finally started to get used to the water and sand...lets just say she's ALL girl (she never got used to the seaweed...one step at a time!) I basically had to force her down and plop her in the sand to get her to dig with me...then she started to enjoy it. (Notice that I made her sit in the sand but I sat on the mat...shhh, she didn't notice :)

For the last several weeks Audrey has been taking swim lessons from our friend Emily. She is catching on, slowly but surely. In the beginning she would cry hysterically but now shes starting to enjoy it more. I think she'd be able to swim all by herself if she'd just start to move her arms more. She's doing great with the kicking though. I wish we had a pool for her to practice more! If you look closely you can see her little pouty faces...she was over it by the time I brought the camera out...but at least she faked a smile for the last picture

I had mentioned a while back that I've been slowly fixing up our home office. This is definitely a multi-purpose room. As you can see, it serves 3 purposes: exercise room, guest room, and home office.
My dad built the desk and bookcase for us several years back (thanks dad!) and my mother-in-law was nice enough to sew the pillows for me and help with the valance.
The photo collage next to the treadmill is a recent addition. I just took all my old frames that weren't in use and spray painted some of them. Then I had my printer guy that I use for work print up a few of my favorites. I like the way it turned out!
Another recent project was putting the scrapbook paper under the glass desk-top. I found a cute paper and pieced together several sheets, then trimmed it with ribbon. It really lightens up that side of the room.

Here are a few shots of our living room/dining room/entry hallway (all the same area). The latest project in this room is the vinyl lettering (in the first pic). It says "Speak kindly...Care deeply...Love generously...Pray faithfully" Words to live by!

These pictures are of our great room/kitchen area. My dad and Michael built the fireplace mantel and the media built-in just after we moved in a year and a half ago. Nothing too new in this room...oh, except for the lamps. I told Michael that I wanted those for our anniversary. Romantic, I know ;) Don't blame him though, it was my idea.
(the color in the 'kitchen table pic' is kinda off for some reason)
Speaking of our anniversary, Michael and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary this past Sunday! Yeah! We dropped the kids off at Michael's parent's house (thanks a million you guys!) and headed out to a FABULOUS dinner at the Melting Pot in temecula on saturday night. If you've never been there, you must! Its pretty pricey (but we ate for free because we had gift cards...again, Yeah!) The food is amazing!
Its a fondue restaraunt...so you start out with your cheese fondue along with the breads, veggies and apples to dip in it...YUM! Then you get your salad, then move on the the meat portion of the meal. Our platter had lobster tail, steak, pork, chicken, shrimp and mushroom raviolis and you cook it all in a broth there on your table. It was fabulous. The the meal ends with a BANG when they bring out the dessert platter. I'm sure I'll forget some of the goodies but I know it had strawberries, bananas (both my favorite), cheesecake, marshmellows, pound cake, brownies and you dip them all in the yummy chocolate...OH MY GOSH...its SO good!
So basically you do nothing but eat for about 2 solid hours...and love every moment of it!
Ok, moving on, the next day (our actual anniversary) we spent a VERY relaxing day at Glen Ivy. This is the only picture that I got of the day, but here we are after covering our bodies in clay...so much fun! It was so nice to hang out with my hubby all day long (without being interupted), in such a beautiful, relaxing environment!

Ok, lastly...my little man Wylie is almost one! I can't believe it! The past year has flown by! In a lot of ways it makes me a little sad that my baby is growing up but mostly I'm just excited cause he is so much fun as he's getting older!
I just designed his b-day party invitation, so of course we had to do a little photo-shoot to get a recent picture of him...here are a few of the pics.

...and here is "sassy sister" who was SO upset that I wasn't taking pictures of her...just Wylie. So finally I took a picture of her, and here's what I got.
And (drumroll please) here's the final invitation...