other recent happenings...

so mark has purchased a new toy and as you can see he has had NO PROBLEM breaking it in!!! and for all of you that might be wondering... YES IT HAS A STINKIN' CUP HOLDER!!!
max has also recently been busy making new friends. this little cutie tootie is logan or as max refers to him "wogan". logan is the little boy of an old friend, jen who has relocated to the west coast and happened to be visiting auntie patty and uncle keeney. needless to say these 2 did just fine together. max is still asking for him!!

and this is max on one of the visits to ri hospital to visit his great mem. this face kind of sums up all of our feelings about her entire stay. AUGHHHH!!!! i am happy to say she is currently at a rehab and doing much better.

this past weekend we took a day off from the ole' house project and went to a birthday party for mason and our nephew, evan. as you can see he is into spiderman at this point in time....

there's mason, waiting patiently...

here are our 2 nephews jeffrey and evan. getting to be too big.
this is sammy, meg and katie (mark's cousins kids)
and then there is "fingers aguiar" ( his auntie mis gave him that name) he hasn't come a cross a cake, i should say frosting, he has not liked yet!!

bek, this one is for you..... do i need to explain????? we missed you!!!get better soon!

the new house....

so here are a couple of before and after shots... this first couple pics of the gorgeous striped wallpaper is going to be our bedroom.... it is coming along- slow but sure!



this is the laundry room, very conveniently located off the kitchen, again notice the original gorgeous striped wallpaper....

and finally we have the lovely bathroom. its amazing what some chocolate brown paint can do!?!

we even put max to work.... actually every time we turn around he has a roller in his hand and looking for something paint.
this blue room is max's playroom:

as you can see we have been spending most of our free time at the house, trying to fix 'er up abit and make it feel like "our home". we are getting there, a couple of rooms have gotten a little bit of a face lift w/some fresh paint and a couple of rooms have been altered with some heavy hitting machinery, (bubba, dad, mark and mark being the machinery). walls have been knocked down and re-built as well as a ceiling or 2. we are hoping to get in ASAP, we will see, until then here is a look at some of the progress.