Category — Krembs’ Stuff

On Saturday morning while Gigi with Kevin were at gymnastics, Vincent and I waited for the shipment, the landlords’ people to clear out the storage area in the basement, and the sofa factory with our new sofas to arrive. And you guessed it: they all arrived at the same exact time!

We were both pretty excited to see the trucks coming down the road. This is taken right outside our front door. The kids love having the park right across the street.

The living room BEFORE:

And the living room AFTER:

The entry room BEFORE:

The entry AFER:

The Ganesh was placed front and center right away. We still need to hang all of our art work.

The sunroom BEFORE:

The sunroom AFTER:

Right now, this is our coziest room. We just hope it won't get too cold in the winter in this windowed space.

Here you have the guest room on the first floor up, the TV room, Gigi’s room on the next, then Vincent’s room, and finally our room at the top:

(The two little red candy boxes are for our guests tomorrow morning. Adrian and Kate arrive!)

Aside from being our TV room, this is also known as the "Red Room."

Gigi is now sleeping in her room--granted, Vincent is there too, but that's going to be a hard habit to break. They are used to sharing a room.

We're looking forward to getting all Vincent's awesome art work up on his bedroom walls.

I divided my room up in two: there's a little changing area for myself behind the bed.

The kitchen–it is so nice and big!

And the outside of the house:

The garage is replete with goods: bikes, rollerblades, balls, hula hoops, or and a washer and dryer!

That’s our house!  I’m missing some outdoor shots, but that saves for another post.  We have a barbeque which we use at least once a week.  We just bought a drill too for hanging all our art–which we definitely have the space for, but I’m kind of waiting for Adrian and his expertise in placement.  We really enjoy our new home.  It is by far the most spacious we’ve ever had.  As I look around, I find it hard to believe we fit all of our belongings in our little sanctuary in Juhu Beach, Mumbai, India.  But we did! Home is where the heart is, and while we miss our old home, we are making the best of this new one.

Vincent was such a sport.  He rode a too-small, florescent pink bike all summer.  He knew he was waiting for the big moment in Beijing when he would get his New Bike.  We went the second day here to the Giant store near by.  He went with a racer blue bike and Gigi got a pink one with tassels on the handle bars.

By the second day on the bike, Vincent was quite comfortable.  As I was sitting on our little porch, Vincent went whizzing by shouting, “Watch Mommy!”

He was going so fast, the photographer couldn't catch a shot of him.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to witness his upcoming move because of the tree in the way, but I was able to hear it.  All of a sudden there was a double ka-boom, ka-boom-boom-boom!  Then with about 2 seconds to follow the crash, we heard the very loud scream to follow.  Both Kevin and I went racing to find Vincent tangled on top of a manhole with bits of his face scattered about.  He had a doozie of a fall!

We took him in and tried to get him cleaned up.  His face wasn’t all that got the brunt of his wheelie attempt over the manhole.  His right middle finger was also quite mucked up.  After the initial scare of his fall, Vincent still wouldn’t settle down.  Every ten seconds or so he’d yell out in agony.  It was at this time that we considered a visit to the hospital.  But as all parents know, with the mention of the “h” word, he was all of a sudden able to bend his finger.  Luckily we didn’t have to take him in, and hopefully, just hopefully, Vincent was able to gain some caution when it comes to the wheelie attempts.

The next day, he was out at it again back in the saddle! (You can see the marks on his face--it's not dirt.)

Here's Gigi on her little pink number sans training wheels!

Before I even begin to start blogging summer events–you know, about all the fun we’re having out here at the cabin in Spirit Lake–I’m going to clear my blog roll.  All of a sudden (and especially now that I have Internet again), I’m finding awesome new blogs to follow and sites for fab info.  While some of the blogs you see on the side will stay (like my sister’s and of course the Target Addict and probably Oh Joy!), I’m gonna start new with some great new finds that have helped with finding tiki umbrellas for showers (soon to be blogged) and awesome recipes found on the web for all the cookouts @ the Kremb de la Kremb cabin.