Spring Break-more pictures

We really did enjoy ourselves this last week. The Colwell Ranch is very nice and relaxing! You can be in several parts of the house and not have a clue who is right in the next room. Which was nice that I could sometimes hide from Zach-especially since his new favorite word is Mommy. No he doesn't normally need anything he just thinks its fun to repeatedly call my name.

And now to the pictures... there are a TON!

Zach & Madison LOVE riding the 4 wheeler. Last time we had just a bike helmet for Zach to wear, but this time he got his own 4 wheeler helmet-although he didn't like it much-the face mask part of it blocked his view. Here's Grandpa to G-pa trying to put Zach's new helmet on

my 3 kids

Madison-isn't she pretty!

Sami-teething on everything-even a cigar! Yes it was in a case-and she cut her first tooth while we were there!

Someone was in the hot tub every night. It was so nice and relaxing...
Madison, me & Zach before Zach realized

It was a lot of fun to splash!
Sami sporting her very cute bikini-check out those chunky little legs! Too cute!!
This was Sami's first time the hot tub! Jenny, Sami & Lance

Jenny, Sami & Nana

And now for pictures of the new house!

This is the view when you walk in the front door-the living room-and on the other side is the solarium

still standing at the front door just looking left-the dining room is on the left, the kitchen is diagonal, and the breakfast area is on the other side of the wall in the center of the picture

still at the front door-the grand staircase. The stairs are taped of because they haven't been stained yet. The door underneath the staircase is Sheri & Cecil's room which I didn't get a picture of. It has a beautiful fireplace and a bathroom anyone would die for! I don't know how to link blogs, but if you go to Sheri & Cecil's blog they have a picture of Chris (fully clothed-thank you) standing in their shower with his arms outstretched and he can't touch the walls-he's 6'4". Zach LOVED the shower-they have several (I think 9) shower heads in there and all of them are adjustable, but one we would adjust to his height and he would have is own little shower. He thought he was pretty cool! underneath the staircase is another set of stairs that leads down to the basement

The front doors-they are beautiful!

The kitchen-there are so many things in here that I love. One being the huge island with plenty of room to walk around it. They have 2 dishwashers, tons of drawers, a mounted coffee maker that you can adjust to everyone in the houses like (for instance, how strong, how hot, etc.), a insta-hot by the kitchen sink that gives you boiling hot water instantly, a pot filler above the stove, a convection double oven, a convection microwave/broiler/oven, a cabinet front frig & freezer-with TONS of space--oh I could go on and on. The cabinets you see on the left hand side of the picture are actually her pantry she has 6 cabinets that have shelves in them for her pantry. To the left of the pantry is a door that leads to the craft/office. This room used to be the garage so it is the size of a 2 car garage. They added a fireplace in there. Right now it is full of boxes, so there isn't a picture of that either. To the right of the pantry is the laundry room with another bathroom with a shower, mud room, and doors to the back patio and the garage.

Standing on the other side of the kitchen-you can see the frig and freezer, oven & microwave-oh and the prep sink-how could I forget that?

The view from the kitchen sink-the stairs on the patio go down to the walk-out basement level where the hot tub is

The solarium-this is where I spent most of my time-it is very nice and the doors fold like an accordion. There are 2 TV's in here so no matter where you positioned yourself you can watch TV. It overlooks the back of the house and their acreage

Another view of the solarium-with the fireplace and the other TV

Now for the little bit of upstairs I took a picture of-this is the landing that goes to the 2 bedrooms we slept in. To the right is the kids bedroom with their own shower and if you kept walking to the left is our bedroom with our own bathroom. This sitting area will eventually have a couple of chairs so we could sit up here (or send the kids upstairs to watch Disney) and watch TV

Overlooking the entrance

Now for the basement level. This is the sitting area with a TV. We came down here at night and watched movies-to the right is a kitchen with a washer dryer, and to the left is a bedroom, bathroom & exercise room

A better look at the kitchen

The Foosball table-Zach would take the step stool and get up there and play us. It was really funny to watch.

This is the playhouse they built in under the stairs to store the kids toys (well at least some of them)

There will eventually be a pool table there-

The Wii room-also the "solarium" part of the basement-there is a fireplace on either side of this room (the other side is where the pool table will go)

The outside fireplace

Their house was very nice! It was great to have space for the kids to be loud and to roam without feeling like we were intruding. I'm sure there will be a lot more fun times here!

This is long enough, but I still have more pictures from our trip-so check back soon with more pictures from the week!