Baby Shower!

I have often said that I have the best girlfriends.
But I'll say it again... I HAVE THE BEST GIRLFRIENDS EVER.
Christine & Shannon threw me an Alice In Wonderland Tea Party Baby Shower!!! The weather cooperated so we got to be outside the whole day. There were teapots everywhere! I even got to use my wedding china tea pots! It was such a perfect afternoon with my friends. Mom flew in and Eliza made it back up from So.Cal in time. It was really nice to hang out with the girls for a whole day too. I know I won't get a chance to do that for a while after baby comes.














Here Natasha gets to see what a baby shower looks like. She tried so hard to attend her own shower we thought it was only fair she get to come to mine.














And of course we were all ecstatic that Ambrosia and Iggy made it to town in time! We hope to be seeing more of them soon. :)














This would be Baby's first fight skirt. Natasha got one too. Irene and I cannot wait to teach our daughters how to beat each other up with sticks. "Remember baby, you can ONLY hit someone in the dome!!!" Although I'm thinking we'll probably have to build our own little dome at home and do fights here. Something tells me if we try and harness our kids up at the local park jungle gym, some Alameda Mommy group will take issue with our parenting techniques...















Here's all the moms!

Close Escrow and Floors!

We closed escrow on Monday the 6th! We're so excited and happy. We cannot believe how fortunate we are to have found this beautifully maintained house. This great pic of Jonathan and myself holding our keys was taken by our awesome real estate agent Gregg Fujita. I totally reccomend Gregg if you want to move over here to "The Island" 

So there's a big list of stuff to do but only a couple things to take care of 

before we move in. We need to open up one doorway to connect the two units from the inside. So my folks have driven down from Seattle to help us rip out the 2nd kitchen and make an entryway out of it. 

We took a few more pics of the back yard 'cause ya'll were asking to see what it looks like. It looks BIG! and BLANK! We can pretty much do whatever we want. Woohoo!

I'm thinking herb garden. Some bamboo on the edges in planters to block out the neighbors. I'm sure they'll appreciate it too. I want wisteria and Jonathan wants a Japanese maple leaf tree + a Koi pond. I guess our house will be Mod-Vic inside and Japanese Garden on the outside. 

So once we got the keys we went inside with Rooster and ripped up the carpets in the second unit. Holy shit we hit the JACKPOT! Even MORE hardwood floors! We have original hardwood floors in 6 rooms! And they are all different patterns! Not kidding. They all need to be sanded and refinished. But almost all are in really good shape. The entryway might need to just be tiled till we can afford to replace the damaged section. We can wait on that. For right now we'll stain the rest of the floors a little darker (since that's the way we roll) . 

Here's the pics of the floors in each room:

Bedroom #1 & #2

Parlor and Dining Room:                                         

Here's the entryway that was previously under linoleum and a refrigerator

 for many many years. We might hold off on fixing this for a while. I anticipate a grand or more in repairs for this kind of thing. It's pretty damaged but we'll hold onto it till later. 

So that's it for the moment! My parents are here with all their tools to give us a hand. We got our permit from the city and are going to open up the doorway on Sunday. YAY! We already met several neighbors and neighbor kitties. Everyone is really friendly and we're so happy to be on this block! More to come....