The Back Patio

The back patio has been finished for some time. Just never put it on the blog here.
The only help we had with this was Pressure washing of the original Brick Red paint. Pressure washing was done by:
Cleanovations
Kevin Denham
714-600-2486

I have used Kevin before and their work is always excellent and well priced. Check out the resutls.

Before:

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After:

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After the pressure washing, we painted the cement with Epoxy Grey. The Gazebo was added along with a Teak Round Table and chairs.

Christmas

Well this was the first Christmas in our new house and it was pretty nice. We had Christmas Eve at our house

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Letter To Santa

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Christmas Day started out at our house and then moved over to my Mom's house. It was a great day with Family.

Grandmas Tree - always looks so awesome

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The boys with Grandma

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The Nuggets

Barkley got Neutered. We did this last Monday. He will have the Cone off of his head this next Friday. Poor Puppy runs into all kinds of stuff with this "Satellite" on his head.

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Been a While

Thought a post was well overdue. We have started working on the house again just after Christmas was over and will get into what we are doing in later posts. This post is dedicated to the newest member of our Family:

Barkley
The pictures below where taken when Barkley was 16 weeks. We had just had him home. Barkley is a Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. Some of you may be surprised that we got a dog due to my allergies, well, he is hypo-allergenic. Kind of like Poodles, which is another dog that I can be around. Barkley does not shed.

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From Barkley Dawson

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This is a picture of the first bath that we gave him

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Because he likes to end up with this:

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So we ended up building (and yes, we did this ourselves) a Vinyl fence that looks like this for a dog run so he did not get as dirty unsupervised:

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4th Of July

During this holiday, out block decorates and has a block party on July 4th. I thought pictures of tree lined street with the bows was really cool looking.

Bouncin'

This is a couple of photos of the bouncer that we own with a couple of other Good Family Friends. This is the first time that we had this up at the new house.

This is what it is all about

So we where out in our yard today and the kids played out front on their bicycle and tricycle. The pictures really say it all ... to me .... this is what our new house is all about. Big yard for the kids to play in. It was such a nice evening to be outside.

Now Logan likes to push with this feet instead of Pedal the Tricycle. Turns out that his feet where going so fast that they blurred in the picture a little....LOL.