House Photos

Mike bought me a camera this week (we used to take pictures with our video camera), so we went to our new house to get some pictures. Would you like a tour? www.flickr.com/photos/upoopoo/sets/72157605977321615/

That's just the first one. Go to the flickr site to see the rest!

Condo Pictures

Mark Lowrance is our realtor. He came here last week and did a great job taking pictures of our condo to post in the mls listing. I'm posting some of them here so you can see what our condo looks like now after all we did.

Good Hair Day

After trying hard, she finally let me do her hair like this. She won't let me put headbands on her head anymore, so it's gotta be something she doesn't notice it's on (Emily, I need some of your cute stuff with the alligator clips). Anyway, I thought I would post some pictures of my victorious attempt to do her hair. (The quality isn't very good because I took them with my webcam).

Busy Month

We've had a pretty busy month around here. With the purchase of the new house, we decided to do some improvements to our condo to make it sell faster. With that purpose in mind we just underwent a month a painting everything that hadn't been painted yet (now we have two tone paint throughout the house), painting our kitchen cabinets (not we have beautiful antique white cabinets), and redoing our living, kitchen and hallway flooring (we found a good deal on this beautiful laminate). So pretty much the condo looks great now (or so we think) and we hope buyers will think so too.
Everybody asks me (Camila) now that things are almost done and it looks so good if we don't want to just stay, especially after all the work we put into it. My answer is "no, thank you". I'm so tired of all this mess that I'm very ready to move into our new place. It is true that I'll definitely miss my many friends here and even our condo (it's been a great place for us, and we really do like it), but I've prepared myself enough that I'm ready for this new phase.
Sorry we have no pictures to show. We don't have our camera at the moment, but we'll take pictures in order to to list the condo this week, and we'll post them later here.
Anyway, I hope everything is going well with all of you. I'm sorry if we've been ignoring some of the family stuff lately. I hope my Italian nieces and nephews are having great birthdays (how do you say birthday in Italian?). We've tried hard to check blogs and stuff. Hopefully we'll have a get together here soon!
Oh, I forgot to tell you. Isabel has been walking for about a month now (only she was too chicken to let go and walk around besides going just from mommy to daddy). She now decided she is a big enough girl to let go and explore around a bit more. Fun, huh?!

Groovin'

I turned on some music to feed Isabel her bananas this morning. She started moving her body and shaking her head, it took me a while to figure out that she was dancing. I had to film it, check it out!

We bought a house!

Hey everyone! Ummm, we bought a house. I wish I had more pictures of it, but for now I will just include a link to their site. Pay no attention to the price, that's definitely not what we are paying for it. Here are a few links:

MLS listing


View Larger Map

If you go to the larger google map you can click on street view and cruise around our neighboorhood. Ours is the house under construction with the guys working on it. We will close on the house in 90 days to give us some time to sell our condo.

Shame on us!

I know we haven't posted in a while... shame on us!!! It's just that either Mike was sick, or I was sick or Isabel was sick or teething. Yes, you saw right, teething, she now possesses 2 cute little bottom teeth!
She continues to grow and do all the cute things that we enjoy seeing growing babies do. We have some cute videos and pictures I've been meaning to post for a while, but I can't find the cable to transfer them to the computer... I know all I have to do is ask Mike, and he will find one, but I keep forgetting.
Sicknesses aside, all is going well around here. Mike is doing really well in his Primerica part-time job. His friends say he is a natural, and he is really enjoying it (and is making some extra cash, obviously)!
I keep just doing the mom thing and it keeps getting better! Isabel is so fun to play with right now. She giggles and laughs, and claps when she is happy... she is just a delight to be with. When I have some free time, I obsess over the Twilight series. Thanks to Lindsey and some other friends who kept pushing me to read the series, I finally gave in. I think I read all 3 of them in about 4 days. Now I've been talking about it with friends, checking discussion forums, etc. I always have to obsess over some book or author. I have had my Harry Potter phase, my Jane Austen phase, and so on. Now Stephenie Meyer (Twilight's author), Brandon Sanderson (Elantris, Mistborn's author), and Patrick Rothfuss (Name of the Wind author) are sharing my free time. I love reading authors' blogs and learning more about the creative writing process.
Well, this is mainly what's going on right now. I'll try to post those pictures and videos soon.
Oh, before I forget. I support Emily 100% in her comments rule (if you don't know what I'm talking about, go read her blog), so let's truly keep in touch by leaving comments!