Halloween Neighborhood Kids Party

Hunter got the apple! After the kids were done that water was nasty looking!!!

Miranda being mummified!! Scary!!

Here's our play group! Very lucky to have so many kids in our neighborhood!

October Challenge Swim Meet at Aquatic Center

Best Buds Forever!!

Miranda on the block ready to dive

My cute pumpkins

Tme for an update

Most of the interior work is finally done and we can now park one car in the garage!! Just in time for the rainy season.

We decided to get a gas fire insert as opposed to a wood fireplace. It will be much easier to flip a switch instead of going out and cutting down a tree for heat! We plan on having that installed sometime next month.

This is our closet in the downstairs hallway.

Busy Days

Finally, the painting is (mostly) done! Our garage door is in! And we don't live in the brown lincoln log house anymore......Thanks to wonderful family and friends who helped!!!

The only camping we got done this summer was on our back deck! And Mom thought it would get cold so we had every blanket and comforter from the house on us and we were hot all night!! But it was great fun and the kids had a ball! I went back in the house and snuck in my own bed at 7a.m.!!!

The only pic I got of Miranda not hiding under the covers!

Hunter is playing shy with a book while camping on our deck!

I am going to attempt to update our Blog and I am sure Joel will change it soon!!! Kids are off to their new school! Wade King Elementary!

Wow 2 posts in 2 weeks...a record!

After many years this old house needed a face lift. We had all the paint ready but just needed some decent weather to finally paint.

Saturday morning started very grey with low overcast. I got out of bed at 7:00am thinking I was going to get a head start on painting...not so. I looked outside and promptly went back to bed. 9:00 came around and I tried it again. This time the weather looked a bit more promising. Dad showed up to help around 9:45 and by 1:30 I was spraying paint. (Notice the nice new garage door? This one actually goes up and down all by itself!)

By the look of me, the house wasn't the only thing getting painted!!

Ok another update.

I finally got around to jackhammering my garage floor out so we can get a new door put in that actually works. What a job, 2 full days my neighboors really liked me I am sure. The people that poored the previous one made it about 10"-14" thick. That was a real pain.

Now is all in my front yard!!

What a lame blogger I am

Well I signed in for the first time in just over a month. This is the first time I have been able to sit in my house at my computer and update everybody on what has been going on.





First things first. Yes we moved in to our house. I think it was mid march but it is all just a bit hazy now.





We went to Palm Springs for a well earned vacation for 11 days.





We finally got the downstairs carpet in so now the downstairs is livable.





Miranda has done so well in swimming lessons that she got a spot on the Bellingham Bay swim team. They are pretty hard core, 5 days a week 4:30 to 5:45 pm. She absolutely loves it. I was a nervous wreck when she had tryouts for the team. She had to swim 25 yards (the distance of the lap pool) without stopping doing the breast stroke, then again freestyle, and once again on her back. I must not have paid much attention to her in lessons because she did it like a pro!





And last but not least, Cheryls boss had to have a heart transplant after a major heart attack 3 weeks ago. This has kept her very busy at work trying to keep all the loose ends together.















Since no blog posting is really complete without a picture, this is a great shot of my family in the desert. I have no idea what we were looking for maybe a flower, a lost coin or perhaps a gold nugget. Who knows, but I thought is was a great random picture.

Fun in the sun

We have finally taken a vacation!!!! 3 1/2 years of school followed by almost 10 months of remodel and we decided to go to Palm springs for 11 days. I will post pictures when we get home. We made it to Legoland, Seaworld and the San Diego Wild Animal Park with lots of relaxation in between.

Sorry for the delay...I'm just a little busy here...

Welcome to our grand entry!!! The new front door and windows really helped out with looks as well as making that landing feel much bigger than it is. I no longer feel a draft when I walk by the front door!!

I ended up having to completely sheetrock the entire basement (many thanks to Mom, Dad and Cheryl who helped me get it all ready to texture!!)as well as plumb in a bathroom/laundry room and add 10 can lights. I have no idea why people 30 years ago thought a basement room only needed 2 lights. With 2 lights, a nice dark red shag carpet and cedar walls this basement was like a dungeon, the spiders loved it. Mice evidently did as well, we pulled 8 dead ones out of the walls as we cleaned it up.

We ended up going with a very similar setup downstairs as we did up stairs. French doors with windows on either side. This really added a lot more natural light in as well. After all this we now have a basement that I can live with. After all this we can possibly move in by mid February. Jason has offered to help me put the rest of the flooring down in the bedrooms. I am half way done with the slate entry and laundry room. Once all the flooring is down and the stair rail is complete we will get to move in!!!