latest landscape photos

Here are the latest photos from over the weekend...enjoy!

Sneak peek of patio furniture

I am not going to say what we got... but here is a sneak peek! Its supposed to take 5-8 weeks.... so that puts it being delivered about march 28- april 18th.... Hopefully its coming sooner rather than later

backyard update pictures

SO this is what Bryan and I came home to today! The patio cover is coming along!

Valentines and Nails

So Bryan totally surprised me on Valentines Day. I got home and was stressing about work and Bryan just smiles and pulls this box and card out for me. He got me some chocolate covered strawberries and a card. He can really be a sweetie sometimes! We then vegged out the rest of the night and watched two episodes of Lie to Me and promptly feel asleep on the couch. I don't know why we are so tired lately!

On a much different note, I have made the conversion from acrylics to this new gel from OPI (axxium). Its basically a gel polish that stays on for 2 weeks with no chips or dulling. I am toally loving it! Those are my real nails people! I have never had my real nails this long before. I am totally in love with the whole thing.

Clock for our family room!!

So this is our latest upgrade to the family room. We absolute love this sofa table we got and figured we needed something to go above it. It took us a while to find one that we liked, and it finally arrived yesterday! Bryan was such a wonderful husband and put it up for me today. I love it!!!! We are slowly but surely decorating and I am loving it so far!!!

kumos show for the workers

So I am working from home today since basically I got up and worked every two hours last night. So I was in no mood to get dressed for work or deal with the commute. So anyhow I am just minding my own business working away on the couch and I look over to see this... Kumo sunning himself and giving the workers in the backyard a nice view of his underside, hahah. What a dork!

my view of him from the couch

view after sneaking up to him

sneak peak of the backyard

So I ahven't posted any pictures of the backyard because we just haven't taken any. Our Lanscaper is taking pictures of the project and all the stages so we haven't taken any ourselves. Well Bryan snapped these three photos over the weekend since everyone has been bugging us to see the progress. So here it is:

you can't really see it, but at the bottom of the photo is going to be this raised sitting area at the bottom of the stairs, this then leads down the the lower patio...

lower patio, the thing with the white pipe sticking out is going to the be the fireplace. The circles on the ground in the middle are the posts for the vine trellace. The blob of rocks on the left is our waterfall which I am WAY excited about! Cement will be going in next week :)

walkway to the upper lawn area

This past weekend

So some of you know how much I have been working lately. Well this weekend I got a small break from the long hours and was able to enjoy some time off. Dustin and his two girls came to visit from Pleasanton. They loved Kumo. I didn't take any pictures this weekend, but Bryan got this on Sunday... They were playing go fish with Tanya :)

Whats been going on in 2011

Hello 2011! Hi everyone. This year is going to be fun!!! We are still getting lots of stuff done around the house, from putting up paintings to getting furniture. Our landscaping is coming along nicely. We are on schedule to have a finished front and backyard by March 1st. I am thinking its going to be more like mid-March though with how slow this whole process has been. We started the landscaping project in September and Bryan and I can't wait until we are donnnneeeee!!!!

Some other exciting news along with the yard being done. We are having some visitors come in April and Bryan and I are very excited!!!! Bryans family is coming early April and my friend Nikki is coming out later in April :) Bryan and I both had birthdays this month, along with Kumo. Bryans birthday was fun! I surprised him by taking him rock climbing and it was really fun! For my birthday we ordered PFChangs and had a nice night in with my two best friends Jess and Tanya. Another fun thing we did this month was go to Intels Winter Ball. I am really lame and didn't get a lot of pictures so this is what I have on my camera phone for the month of January....

This is going to be our front yard fountain! Its huge, the top of the pot is about eye level

kumo somehow wrapped himself up in this blanket and then fell asleep
the day before my birthday my parents took us to dinner at my favorite resturant Hawk's!
kumo and bryan crashed on the couch

a typical night at home, fire, tv, naping with Bryan Kumo and Tanya...

Intels winter ball. Bryan was taking the picture

Happy 2011 Everyone!

So I figured I would start this year off right. I am scrapbooking again! So excited. Carla showed me this really cool program online that I can use instead of designing my scrapbooks by hand. So I decided I would get my butt in gear and do the last two years. I don't have a ton of pictures from 2009 and 2010, but enough to make two books. I was putting if off becasue designing it by hand would have been really tough and time consuming, so I decided to use Carla mixbook software. Hopefully I can get these two books done before our anniversary in March. Bryan and I's Christmas break was wonderful. We were able to make it out to Utah to visit Bryan's family. We enjoyed our time there and I got my first white Christmas! We kind of did a Todd photo session and here are our family photos: