After being out of our house for about 2 months (hotel #1, hotel #2, rental house, back to hotel #1) we are back!!!! While we were gone we completely gutted our bathroom, we demoed the kids’ bedrooms, we put up a beam in between those bedrooms so we could combine them to turn them into … [Read more…]
December 12 will be our 10 month in Washington! Still crazy to me! We are now in the dark gloomy months that Washington is famous for. I’ve heard November is one of the worst months and we have survived it! It honestly wasn’t as bad I was expecting either. We definitely got a lot of … [Read more…]
September marks 7 months since we left our Arizona home and family and left on this crazy adventure! Time really is flying by! September marks are 7th month here and it is also the first month that we will not see any of our Arizona family. How crazy is that? February before we moved we … [Read more…]
We recently bought a house in Shoreline, WA. As soon as I saw pictures of the house on Zillow I fell in love. When we toured it, I knew I wanted to live there. We hung out at the house for a few hours when we got it inspected and it felt like home. It’s … [Read more…]
Houses here are strange. Its not a normal market so looking at houses is even more interesting. We’ll drive by a house for sale. We like to guess what its listed for and then we look it up using Zillow. What makes the market here so different is that the asking price doesn’t mean much. … [Read more…]
Franklin Falls- 2 miles out and back, 400 feet elevation gain Pass-Northwest Forest Pass Difficulty-2/5 Rating-3.5/5 Has it already been 5 months? This month FLEW by! Partly because I didn’t realize we’d been here four months already until it was half way over. And partly because we had so much company … [Read more…]
Happy Father’s Day! I have been blessed with so many wonderful men in my life! I look at my life and who I am and I know I wouldn’t be anywhere without the men in my life! I have an amazing Father, Happy Father’s day! My dad, Rob. He is the best person I know. … [Read more…]
Our Chandler house is sold! It really is bittersweet to have it gone. Its sweet since we don’t live there anymore. Bitter because we really loved that house. We thought we would be there at least 10 years. We put so much work into it. When Chris got his full time job offer at Intel … [Read more…]
We celebrated our 3 month mark when we were visiting family in Arizona! Its crazy to think that we have lived in Seattle for 3 months now! We are feeling more and more settled. Things are starting to feel like real life, although we are still definitely in the honeymoon period! Chris keeps on adjusting … [Read more…]
Last week we took our first trip back to Arizona! When we moved we knew that Chris’ brother, Andrew was getting pretty close to being engaged so we knew we would be going to Arizona fairly soon. He got engaged right after we moved and he set a date fairly quickly for May 13! The … [Read more…]
Happy Mother’s Day! While I feel so blessed to be a mother, I feel equally blessed to have wonderful Mothers in my life! First I am so grateful for my own mother, Michelle. She really has been my best friend since day one! I never went through a phase where I did not like her … [Read more…]
This past week was Spring Break. Since I was recovering from being sick, and the kids had small colds we didn’t do anything. I guess we did get groceries from the store, but I think that is it! They did play with play dough, and kinetic sand, and they colored, and played outside, but that … [Read more…]
When Chris and I first started talking about getting a different job, and moving, I knew it was going to be a lot of work and stressful, especially for Chris. I knew it was going to take up a lot of time. I wasn’t prepared for how stressful and time consuming it really would be. … [Read more…]
Before we left AZ I knew I wanted to get family pictures done in the desert! We have a family friend that takes great pictures so I contacted her and had her do them! The day before we left we were starting to have major car troubles with our van, I wasn’t sure if we … [Read more…]
We have been in our new home for over a week now. Thanks to my parents we were able to go through all our boxes and unload everything. For the first time in several months I have access to all my stuff! It feels good to be settled. This house is quite a bit different … [Read more…]
