When I was a little girl, I loved kitties so much and constantly begged my mom to get me one. Just one little kitty. Preferably a Siamese. We are siameeese if you pleeeease badumpbabump. Of course, she didn’t (she hated cats) but did end up giving me a stuffed kitty instead. I loved that SiameseContinue reading
Category: Adventure
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Double trouble
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Puppy Tales
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Have I Mentioned We’re Cray? So because building a house and moving in before our rental lease was up wasn’t enough, we threw a puppy into the mix! On my birthday, we went to go meet a litter of German shepherd/husky puppies…otherwise known as shepskies. Apparently they are a registered breed right now. Anywho, IContinue reading
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Shiplap!
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We are big Fixer Upper fans and consider ourselves pretty much like Chip and Joanna. We could totally have our own show. So needless to say, yep…we are doing the shiplap thang. Well not the real shiplap thing. But the fake shiplap thing. Believe me…it’s a thing. Pinterest says so. And before we shiplap all theContinue reading
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From the Ground Up
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It’s defininitely been a long year anticipating the completion of the house. We set up our trail came to take a picture every day. I had plans to do this awesome post with a super cool video showing the progression. Then last month, Jim’s computer died. Along with our once a day photos. Cry. IContinue reading
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I want to make so many things!
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But apparently the garage is full so we can’t make all the things…just yet. But here’s a sneak peak of something that needs to be ready in the next month! Any guesses what it’s gonna no to be? And here’s the laundry list of all the other things to do after we move in: ShiplapContinue reading
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Breaking New Ground
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Finally! So after waiting for someone to move the mobile home for a month, we couldn’t wait anymore and told the builder just to demolish it. We had to wait a few weeks to get the permits through, but the new year happened and we were ready to roll! On the 2nd, they did theContinue reading
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The ins and outs of slowing down…
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Less Busy…Everywhere When we lived in California, we used to either make an appointment at the DMV and only wait a little while. Or on the unfortunate times where you couldn’t get an appointment, you were stuck waiting for hours. So when we needed to get our new Washington drivers licenses, I went online toContinue reading
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Getting Local
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Little Adventures We’ve been here a little over a month now and have done a little bit of venturing out. Unfortunately between work and school and the rain, there’s only so much time. Back before Halloween, we checked out the local pumpkin patch. There was a huge corn maze, a petting zoo, train ride, andContinue reading
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Settling in
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Home…for the next year The rental is perfect for what we need over the next year. We have plenty of storage space here and moved everything from the storage unit we had rented in September. We didn’t unpack everything and are just living with the essentials and out of some boxes. My favorite part of theContinue reading
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First day of school…first day of school!
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Back to the grind Well, the boys had a week off and now it’s back to work they all go! Monday, Jim started his new job and the boys started at their new schools. Matthew even took the bus both ways! More on that in a bit. First… One of our whys We’ve been upContinue reading
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Has it really only been a week?
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Moving moving moving We had an easy trip up Sunday and Monday. It’s so nice to be able to visit with family on the way too (thank you John and Sandy!). Hopefully we can return the favor soon! We arrived to a sunny (but chilly) Washington Monday just before 5pm and met our landlord’s sonContinue reading
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A Whirlwind of Things
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There was so much to get done in September that I’m just now able to sit down and write about it. Finish selling the house Find a rental in Washington Book a trip (moving truck, rental car, hotel, flight, storage unit, oh my) Take a long weekend trip Find a job Find movers and setContinue reading