Project Backyard Landscaping: Check

In a historic day, we finished our backyard landscaping and hosted a beautiful party for our beautiful baby girl. After all, we entertained two families, in our small house, for an entire weekend. It was a wild ride but we had lots of fun! Thank you to the Clarks & Burgos' for the amazing memories!

Make a photo book design

Kiara's Room

We've finally finished Kiara's room (with the exception of an accent rug. The right color and size are hard to find!) It's so exciting to see it done. It's now our favorite room in the house. Jeremy did a great job painting, assembling and everything else in between. Bibi and Brianna helped assemble some and also picking colors, styles and accents.

The changer and a swing in the corner

Another view

Though it looks roomy, this room is more on the small side. The solid wall color helped create an illusion of spaciousness that really works. Kudos to Jeremy!

Painting Project - Kiara's room

Last week we stripped the old wallpaper and this week we're putting in a coat of white paint to cover the flowers before the sage green goes in! Jeremy is working hard after work and is very meticulous and detailed! Brianna is also "helping," though more white paint ends up on her body than on the wall itself =)

This is (approximately) what Kiara's room will look like when it's finished. This is the bedspread and color scheme we chose for her. We'll only be waiting for a beautiful bundle of joy!

More project updates & pictures to come!

Fun weekend with Ile, Lalo, Camila and Giovanna

We had a really fun time hanging out with our first official guests, the Burgos family.

Everybody, especially the girls, had a blast in the jacuzzi. Camila and "Peque" learned to go underwater thanks to fearless Brianna (who, by the way, started swimming on her own this past week).

After so much fun in the water, our hungry crowd enjoyed amazing barbecued pizzas with different toppings thanks to Patricia.

We're now family!!! Ile's first cousin married Bibi's first cousin on Sunday. We're now related through marriage! We celebrated with yummy scones, homemade pancakes and lots of dulce de leche ...

Home Blessing

On Friday evening we were blessed to host a house warming dinner and home blessing by our Children and Family Pastor, Karron Kuns. Our family and closest friends were present and it was such a special time! Here is the food ready to go!

Brianna's friends arriving ... our social butterfly is ecstatic!

Posing for the parents ... well, not really

Our pastor went through the house and read verses from Scripture that applied to every particular room followed by prayer. Pr. Kuns selected very meaningful words and Ampee Ken prayed beautifully for our home to be a place where God is served fully.

We Have the Keys

We have the keys to our new home!!
Tenemos las llaves para nuestra nueva casa!!

As of 2:00 pm this afternoon we are the proud owners of our first home! What a crazy process doing Escrow in 28 days! We're glad that part is over and looking forward to great things to come! We will be enjoying the jacuzzi and pool as soon as possible!!

We are in Escrow!!!

Last Thursday night, we saw this beautiful property for the first time ... and signed papers within the hour (as there was a counteroffer that fell through at the last minute, thank God) We feel this was very much a providential acquisition and are very excited to share it with all of you!

Our future home has 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautiful paint throughout the house, hardwood floors in entry, kitchen and dining area, and hallways, island kitchen with stainless and black appliances, white cabinets and really nice tile. The bedrooms have almost brand-new upgraded carpet. All the window treatments are upgraded. And of course, there is a beautiful fenced-in pool and jacuzzi in the back: a must for this water loving family!


This property sits on a corner and to the right there is a cul-de-sac. We've been to this neighborhood before and it seems quiet, family oriented and kid friendly. We look forward to meeting our neighbors and Brianna looks forward to making new little friends.

More pictures of the inside of the house to come later. We expect to move in around March 20th. It's going to be a very busy time from now until then, but in mid-April we'll take a cruise to the Western Caribbean with Bibi's family and we'll get all the rest we need to recover from the move. We're so blessed!!!!

Christmas Season in full gear

Bri at sabbath school playing with the turtle

she's having a lot of fun "camping" this trimester and learning all about squirrels, turtles, beavers, camping gear, etc.

Bri just got her very own "kiddie living room" to entertain friends in. She's got two new kiddie chairs and a "coffee table," surrounded by baskets of different toys and books. There is also an easel where she practices her ABCs and keeps learning numbers.

We finally added a few new pieces to our living room and had an "interesting" night of playing Christmas music and trying to decorate the Christmas tree and mantel. Our tree and many of the ornaments are very special to us, since they came from Jeremy's late Grandma Tym. They have been with us for 8 1/2 years, unharmed, but this year, somehow they got irreparably damaged thanks to our precious toddler's curiosity ...

So far our tree keeps standing tall. It'll be a real accomplishment if it makes it through the Christmas season with most lights and ornaments still attached!!!

Our love nest

We have lots of space and not a lot furniture (yet!!) and that equal a big playground for Brianna

Our beautiful kitchen!

Brianna's African theme bathroom

Our master bathroom complete with bathtub and shower (not pictured). Slowly but surely, everything is falling into place. We LOVE our new house and can't wait to get some new furniture pieces to fill the empty spaces. We also can't wait to have our loved ones come and visit us for a weekend!

We're all moved in

Just a quick note that we are all moved in to our new home in Visalia, CA. The boxes were delivered on Thursday morning and we are already pretty much settled. We still have some boxes in the garage to open up, but the house is done.

Legamos bien a nuestra nueva casa. La mudanza llego el Jueves de maniana y estamos casi todo desempacados. Nos faltan unas cajas del garage pero la casa ya esta.

New year, new Brianna, new look

Thanks to an unexpected b-day gift, Mommy could fulfill a long standing dream of redoing Bri's room to reflect her taste and personality

Here is the new under-the-sea theme

Fishies, octupus, starfish and clams .... colorful & fun

The new look blended seamlessly with her name on the wall
All three of us LOVE Bri's room now!