Welcomed Distraction

Though we were horrible hosts and probably not great company, we had Dan and Marisol in town AND we got to spend the night St. James visiting with Martha and Ron. It was a really good distraction from all the chaos and fun - as always - to see everyone!

Fat Pelican - Beer is Love

Havana's yard games 

Lita and Crew people watching

Wild man and Grandpa Ron

Crew taking in the beautiful St. James Marina

Remodel Progress

Following demo it was bare concrete, sealer, padding and then they started the install of the new (lighter and more rustic) floors. On a positive note, we loved them, but the sanding of the stairs to eventually stain them to match made a BIG mess that we spent the next month cleaning up after. Grr!

Bare concrete

Turquoise sealer that ended up on walls, trim, doors, etc. 

Mid-sanding

Starting the install

Our bedroom for 1+ months

Attempting to hang out in our construction site

Hotel Nana

The Henson's had renters booked at their condo, so we cleaned up after ourselves and moved to my mom and Jerry's place. They were out of town for the weekend, so we initially had our run of the place...and then we stayed with them for another week or so (I can't even remember). HUGE thank you to them for putting us up. We're a rowdy and messy bunch these days. Look at the beautiful view!

Being displaced from our house with two kids calls for happy hour (in a fire hat if you're Danny)!

And wearing the same (disposable) fire hat all torn to pieces at Trader Joe's. Goof ball.

Danny's First Fish and New Floors

Next up for the O'Connor family was Crew's first boat ride and Danny's first fish! The day started out pretty rough with Crew freaking out pre-boat ride, but it ended up great when Danny pulled in fish after fish on his little Lightning McQueen rod that Nana got him.

Happier on dry land

And then that week was the start of our floor remodel project. The concrete did not fully cure when our original floors were installed in May 2014, so we had to rip them all up (basically the whole downstairs) and lay a new floor. It was supposed to take 1.5 weeks and as I write this (on 10/19), we're still waiting for one last piece of the project to be completed. That's almost 2 months. More to come on this...

The Before - Old Floors

Here's the kids sleeping at the Henson's place where we stayed for the demolition.

Taking our mind off things by playing in Reeves and Phoenix's backyard.

Storytime, Smiles and Sleeping

The blog is still alive!! I'm going to be back-dating some posts so the recaps of our crazy life stay in order. Sorry for the hiatus! Anyways, here's Crew's first baby storytime (way later than Danny's first, but what are you going to do?), as well as some cute smiling and sweet sleepy shots.

Dad's 60th

I suck at keeping up with this blog. There I said it. But my dad's 60th birthday is certainly reason enough to put together a post, so here you have it. We went up to the mountains this past weekend to help him celebrate and see my aunt, uncle and grandma. The mountain weather and scenery was such a nice break from the beach and it was all a great time!

Brothers

On a walk

Feeding some horses at a school nearby

Swimming in Steele Creek

Loves Uncle Mac's cat

Grandma, Dieter and camera-shy Danny

Crew smiling for Grandma

Dad taking Dieter and Danny on a tractor ride

Hiking

Slipping sliding 

Crew and the birthday boy