Under Construction

With every new child comes a little rearranging of the house. Depending on what number baby you are having or space we all have decisions to make. Should so and so share a room? Should we convert the office to a bedroom? How soon should we make these changes, you know the baby will sleep in our room for the first 4 months or more?

Well what to we decide to do in the middle of the busiest time of year?

Looking into Serafina's room


Looking up into the lofts from inside Serafina's room and the new safe stairs!

Remodel. Yes that is right. For those of you who have toured our house you are quite aware of our unsafe steps in Serafina's room that lead to the kids play area's (two lofts, one above the boy's room the other above Serafina's room.) Well they are now gone and new safe stairs are being built.

But that is not all.

Since finding out that we are having another boy that would mean 3 boys in one room ages 7yr, 2yr and 0yr. That didn't seem right to Sam. Poor guy he has enough trouble trying to get a goodnight sleep with the 2yr old then we throw a baby in as well. It seemed like he need his own space. Sooo...when the new stairs are done we are going to convert the loft area over the boys room into a bedroom for Sam. He is so excited to be getting his own space.

Our builder is fantastic and he is pushing to get the stairs in as fast as he can. Knowing perfectly well how it is impacting us during construction. For one Serafina's room is unusable, she is currently sleeping in our sewing room on a toddler bed. Her's and Sam's clothes are strewn about in what ever closet and drawer we can fit them in. Which of course is just an adventure to them and they are totally loving it.

However the one part that truelly has impact us this weekend is that our playroom is totally unassesable. And did I mention it rained a good portion of the week and weekend?! Oh yeah, we have been doing major arts and crafts and legos because those are the things we can find. (Yes I was not thinking before they started constrution so I didnt pull any toys down! Go me) Noni and Nono came and took them for an adventure in the rain stomping in puddles. They all had a blast and we got a nice dinner out just adults! It was like heaven. Noni took cute pictures, I will have to post them after I get them from her. All in all it has been going great. I was sorry I didnt get before pictures or progress pictures during the week. I hope to be more on it this week, only time will tell.

Somedays...

....you just have to strap everyone in their car seats, turn on your music, and drive from Arroyo Grande to Nipomo in order to get a Starbucks at a drive through.

The Purpose of Christmas

I would love to recommend a book to everyone this Christmas: The Purpose of Christmas, by Rick Warren. It is a short read. I am currently reading it with a group of friends as a bible study for Christmas time and am loving it. The book is a great reminder of the true reason for Christmas and God's love for you! So if you haven't read it pick it up, if you have...celebrate with a birthday party for Jesus!

Christmas Letter

This year we decided to tryout a new way of writing the tradition "Christmas Letter", instead of including a letter with our Christmas cards I included our blog address. My thought was family and friends could come here and see more of our little family.

Then I thought, "My goodness, they probably don't want to read the whole blog." So, I decided to write a small Christmas Letter post, then add a link so our loved ones can find it easily!

So, here we are . . .

We hope this Holiday Season finds everyone in the best of spirits. We feel so happy and blessed this year; a new baby is on the way and my mom's treatments coming to an end. We are so thankful for all the good things God has blessed our family with.

Matt is now working as the COO of a new company called Azzule. Azzule is a QA/Food Safety compliance data management company, in the food industry. Matt helped to create with is boss and co-workers from PrimusLabs.com. Around June of this year Matt made the official switch over to the new company. He still spends a portion of his time working for Primuslabs.com, but spends most of his time growing Azzule. He of course loves his new position: finding it challenging and rewarding.

Sam is amidst is second grade year at The Laurette. He has a fantastic teacher and classmates. Second grade has proved to be a bit more challenging then First grade but Sam is learning how to cope. His reading has grown leaps and bounds. Starting just at grade level, he is now approaching a 4th grade reading level. However, what we are most grateful for is that our adoption of Sam was finalized in July of this year.

Serafina continues to hold true to the meaning of her name: Fiery Angel. She is a social butterfly, and loves to mother everyone she comes in contact with. But don't think she doesn't have her own opinion on this! She has spunk and will let you know it. She was so excited this year to get her ears pierced, that is her big news.

Matteo. What to you say about him. Our two-year-old. Loves trains, planes and water. Giving him any of those 3 things to play with and he will be happy for hours. He spends his days being Nana's or my shadow, helping us fold laundry, making dinner, whatever he is all for it. He is just a little love.

As for me, I am still here keeping us all running together. I have enjoyed all the time I have had with my mom this year and am going to miss her so much when she goes back to work in January. I am also so happy to be pregnant again and feel our new little guy growing. What a blessed year it has been.

We hope that you all remember the importance of the season and are able to party with your loved ones. Merry Christmas and God Bless.

The Regusci's

3rd Annual Family Compound Thanksgiving

We have had such a wonderful Thanksgiving break. There are so many things to be thankful for but mostly for being able to have so many family and friends around to help celebrate. On Thanksgiving we held our Annual Family Compound Thanksgiving and some how managed to increase the number of people from last year's 20 to 30 this year. And amazingly enough we were missing to very special people this year, my cousin Tyler who is away at college for the first year and good old Uncle Jon, who also is away at college. We missed you both!!

It was a beautiful day here and we had awesome food prepared by all who came. Because we were all having such a great time we didn't get many pictures. But here are a few to give you a feel of our Thanksgiving feast.

Enjoying a break from cooking


Rainbow Jello

Jamie's Norman Rockwell Turkey

The Boys Cooking


The Fest!

Then on Friday we decide to start a new tradition in our family. Remember our 12 dollar, 125lb pumpkin we bought for Halloween. Well with the Christmas decorations making their way out we need to say good bye to the pumpkin. We knew our goats would enjoy munching on it but how to get it down the hill to their pen?! For those who have been to our house they know the "hill" we are taking about, vertical straight drop. And thus we began:

The Annual Pumpkin RollThe kids helping Matt push it across the flat part of the driveway

Serafina's turn to push by herself.

Sam's turn to push by himself. This was the push that sent it down the hill.


And the pumpkin takes flight.

The pumpkin decides to go off roading.
(note my dad's car in the trees, yeah next year we will make sure no cars are parked at the bottom of the hill. At this point we realize Matt's and my car were down there too!! Luckily the cars were spared!)


The pumpkin in its final resting place. It hit a rock when it went off road which split it open. It also ran into our shed busting one side of the door. The thunk sound it made was wonderful, and luckily Matt managed to fix the door!

Matt moving it into the goat pen. It was still heavy even with part of it missing!

We are looking forward to next years pumpkin roll and learned a few lessons with this first one!! I am also hoping that Trevor and Jen decide to bring their big pumpkin over for use to roll down the goats. That way we can get a pumpkin roll on video!! YouTube baby!

Oh deer...

No that is not a typo in my title.

It was bound to happen.

We live on a country road, between hills, with lots of wild animals.

Turkeys, foxes, deer, etc.

It was dark..no street lights....


Then there were a pair of eyes...right in front of my car...deer eyes.


I couldn't swerve in either directions....I did hit the breaks, trying to slow and give the deer some time.

But the deer was frozen by my headlights....

We hit it.

My mom and I were in the car, it was a big thug we didn't know what to do but the car was still driving and we were just a few feet from our road. So we headed home. Matt said we did the right thing.

The next morning we looked at the damage done to the car and found this:

Dent in the hold and the silver panel thing broken and lose.

And the bumper was out of whack too.

I assumed this was going to cost a pretty penny to fix, and with the headlight out and that silver piece flapping every time we went anywhere it was not an option to just leave it ugly for awhile. Oh and the poor deer did die, he was on the side of the road the next morning. He was young had about 2inches of antlers starting to grow. We were thankful he was not a full grown deer and that we were not in my dad's mustang.


The story doesn't end here.

Yesterday (2 days before Thanksgiving, our one day with no kids) we stop by an auto body shop to get a rough estimate. Basically will it be more than $500.00 because if it is we will turn it into insurance. Well duh, it is going to cost more that $500.

As the man was looking at the car, he turns to me and says "And the car is driving fine?"

To which I hesitate and say "Yes it has been."

Why would he ask that, what does he see?!?

My mom and me drive off home (in my car) to call the insurance company and get the ball rolling. We are about 3 miles from home when all the electrical in my car shuts off. Ok weird. But we can make it home. About 2 miles from home at the corner of Corbett Canyon and 227 (for those of you who live around here) The engine cuts off and seconds later as I am trying to coast us to a safe spot, the steering locks. Yes locks. Poor mom we were headed straight for a small ditch and she had no clue I still had breaks (Thank the Lord) So she was freaking and I was freaking for other reasons. But we managed to stop the car in a somewhat safe spot.

Then we had to call AAA for a tow.

Called Betsy and Karlee for a ride home.

Come to find out my alternator was shot.

The repair my said it could have been the deer, but they cant say exactly.

I am blaming the deer.

That has been our Thanksgiving week excitement. Oh and the best part of AAA was when the guy ask for landmarks around me or weather I was in a residential area or business. I had to laugh and answer him, "I am staring at hills, cows and horse!!" Yeah for living in a small rural town right!

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving

90% Sure

It's a BOY!!!!


Can you believe it. I can.

Try as hard as I might I was trying to hide the fact that I was breaking out like a mad women (which I did with Matteo and didn't with Serafina), peeing every five minutes weather I drank any liquid or not (which I did with Matteo and didn't with Serafina), and the fact that every time I insisted it was a girl something inside of me said no its a boy.

My OB would only give a 90% answer because I am still on the early side for determining gender (16wk) and the baby is in a breech position which can make it a little difficult. However with Serafina he gave us a 75% girl call at 16wks and well he was right. He does check one more time to make sure there are not surprises. But his accuracy right is pretty high.

So there you have it, intelligender was wrong. That is now 2 people (myself and a friend) who have had false results (her said boy and it was a girl). So sad.

I am very excited. I think Matteo will be an awesome big brother to a boy. And well it gives us a good excuse to try for one more!!

Oh and the baby is doing great also. Everything looks great. After the appointment I went and did the huge 2nd trimester blood draw (filling 5 vials of blood) to check all mine and babies levels and stuff. Everything is just moving right along.

As for names we are now saying anything right now because we really haven't talked much about boys name. Wehave one in mind but not officially decided, so you might find out before he is born or you might not just depends on if we keep thinking or not. Once we make a decision we are normally not good at keeping it a secret.

(Oh and for those who are wondering my mother-in-law is still invited to Thanksgiving)