Alyssa Pictures

I have been getting so many requests for new Alyssa pictures. I have been terrible taking pics with everything going on lately and lost my camera for a little bit. I promise I will start taking more now - but I am lucky Alyssa's teacher this year is a photographer so I have some cute candid's from her at school. They are random but will suffice for now until Mommy can get on the ball and take some!
Alyssa is doing great these days! She is getting so big and has become a beautiful young lady :) PS - she hates it when I call her that.........but anyway - she has been in the kindergarten class at Sunflower Station this year. We have been there since she was 10 months - but we are making a change! Alyssa's last day will be this Friday. This summer she is going to have a really sweet girl watch her at the house. Her name is Miss Kristen and she use to work at Sunflower Station (SS) and kept Alyssa's class in the afternoons so Alyssa knows her well and loves her!
Then in August Alyssa will be starting Pre-k at Madison Academy. For those of you that don't live here or know what that is.........it's a private christian school that Anthony and his family went to. It is a beautiful school and I know Alyssa will love it there. She is so happy to go to "big school" this fall! She also has some friends that use to go to SS with her, Maddie and Gabbie, that will be going to MA with her. We have kept in touch with them since they left SS and it has been awesome! Maddie is 5 and Gabbie just turned 4 and Alyssa adores them! Me and their Mommy get along great too - so they have been a really nice introcution in our lives! :)
Enough rambling - here are the pics and I'll update again soon!
Love to all!

New House!

Hello All!

So............ Anthony, Alyssa and I bought a new house! We have not been in the house long but we have been working hard to unpack, paint, etc. I have some pictures of the house - some before, some mid move, some unpacking and some rooms completely done. I forgot to take some of the outside so I will do that and post those and post the other rooms as I get to them but I wanted to share what I have so far that my Mom has taken for me :) Lost the camera during the move! But I found it so I can start taking pics.
We love the house - bigger than our previous house and a huge yard! Almost an acre of land. We are putting a pool in this summer and are super excited about that!
Alyssa's room and playroom were the first rooms finished in the house so the most pics are of those but the other's are coming slowly but surely.

Dining Room
Living Room (Window in front of the house)

Living Room 2 (and new furniture!)

Loft area upstairs visible from Living Room

Part of Kitchen done (need to take pics of the rest of the kitchen).....

sink area of Kitchen - during unpacking

Another unpacking Kitchen

Soon to be Guest Room - walls were blue and orange. I am an AU fan - but this has gotta go!

Another view of guest room before.........after pics to come - we are mid primer then paint right now :)

TV portion of Alyssa's playroom. This room is huge and she loves it!

Other half of the playroom - sorry came out dark - will retake.

Alyssa's room color before..........

Applying lots of primer!! This was the UA room - YUCK! I'll have you know this was painted the 2nd day I had keys to the house!

More priming!

Part 1 of the finished product - Alyssa's new bookshelf from Grammy and Papa Sean :)

Part 2 Alyssa's Room after

Part 3 Alyssa's Room after

Part 4 Alyssa's Room after - We are adding many stuffies to the shelf

Alyssa's new ceiling fan - Daddy picked it out!

Ta-Da! Main part of Alyssa's Finished Room

More to come - promise! :)

Happy Birthday Anthony!

Today is Anthony's birthday and I want to wish him a Happy Birthday and know Alyssa does too :) I have attached some cute pics of Daddy and Alyssa. He is the most wonderful father to Alyssa and I appreciate him so very much!! Love you Anthony

Bad with Camera

So I have to appologize to everyone! I have been horrible about remembering my camera anywhere we go lately. But we have been busy and having fun. I just need to start taking some pictures!! This past weekend Tracy, Jeremy and family were here. Alyssa was able to spend some time playing with Addy and we were even able to take her with us to a birthday party Alyssa was invited to for twin boys she goes to school with. They had a great time at Pump it Up! We also got to meet sweet Kensley. She is so precious and looks just like her big sister :)
We are looking forward to the spring weather as it is starting to get warmer and we can play outside more! Yesterday we got to play outside and blow bubbles at Grammy's.
We got to spend time with my family this weekend too which was very nice and watched the Blind Side yesterday at Mom's. I loved the movie and of course cried :)
I will start taking more pics so I have some to post. Hope everyone has a great week and is ready for Easter next weekend!

Love to all!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Just wanted to post a far away birthday hug to my Dad! Happy Birthday Dad!!! I hope you have a wonderful day! Alyssa still keeps asking for Grampy to come visit.....hint hint :) We love you!!

Congratulations!!

I just wanted to wish Tracy, Jeremy and Addy a heartfelt congratulations! Kensley was born today and from what I hear her and Tracy are doing well. Addy is a big sister today and I bet she is so excited!! We love you all :)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! We had a great Christmas with everyone and were very blessed this year! I of course missed all of my family in NH but maybe next year we'll be there!! This is a picture from Alyssa's visit to Santa. She did really good this year. She was a little shy but it was the first year she didn't cry and a huge improvement from last year since she wouldn't take one with Santa at the mall last year :) I will post more pics from Christmas but I need to get them from my mom first. I of course let my camera die and forgot to charge it every day we had a Christmas!!! But I'll get mom's and post them for everyone.

We wish everyone a Happy New Year's!!!!
Love to all