Little bit of progress...

We find ourselves going over to "Duwango house" as Jilly says every evening to stare at what got accomplished that day. It is pretty exciting to see what you've imagined start taking shape!

The new header in the opening between the eating area and the denLaundry room wall starting to take shape.
Future master bath
Bye, bye creepy sunken shower...
Check out the smile and curls on little John, our neighbor's boy. The Arthun's kindly brought pizza over to the house for dinner and offered some suggestions on some of those remaining decisions.

"Doing Some Damage" at Durango

We finally closed escrow on Friday so after a fun Memorial Day weekend up in LA, we had the contractors showed up on Tuesday with their demolition crew (gulp!). The house pictures probably won't mean much to most of you but I thought it would be fun to document for future reminiscing...hopefully, "I'm so glad we went ahead and made these changes" vs "what were we thinking!" In the meantime, 101 different decisions to make. Anyone know an interior decorator? :o)

Wyatt, Noah, Lucas, and CJHappy Birthday, Uncle Dan!

Old staircase

New den area looking into eating area.

Den area looking into soon to be laundry room.

My Baby Girl is 2!

Our little Jilly turned 2 last week!

On the Saturday before her birthday, Nathan and Natalie came down to help us with house stuff (we are scheduled to close escrow tomorrow!! :o) and since Miss Amelia was with us we decided to throw Jill a birthday party. Ethan and his new brother Holden, Molly, Amelia, and their parents plus Wendy and Joanna joined us for pizza and cupcakes. When everyone sang "Happy Birthday", Jill got all shy and just started intently at her cupcake. Now when you ask her about her birthday it is all about the cupcakes, candles and singing. On her actual birthday, our neighborhood friends, Cameron, "Bo", and "John John" came over to turn dinner into another party. And then if two parties weren't enough on Friday our good friends Scott and Lisa Mills came with their two girls and we all went to Sea World on Saturday! Too much fun!

Yes. She was very close to eating the flames.

Lucas looking very cool, in his 3D glasses.

Going to get the mail with new doll, stroller & hat! Jill's new ride.