Here are the kitchen updates so far. Bit by bit, this house will become model home.
This is the kitchen as they were painting the cabinets minus the doors. It was a battle zone in there. We used our bathroom to do dishes and cook (in the crock pot) instead …
This is our new home. The house we will forvever call the pink house even after we banish …
more ...This website is back online. It’s host computer was packed in a box and in storage for a few weeks. I was worried it wouldn’t survive that adventure, but it seems to have done well.
Moving is a pain. We saved some trouble by paying movers to pack …
more ...I signed away our ownership of our home today… Bryan wasn’t even here for it because we weren’t planning to close on the house this early. He is still stuck in Utah fretting over all of this.
This is the house we brought two of our babies home …
more ...It seems a few miracles were coming our way this fall.
Miracle #1: Bryan was offered a new job in Utah in September, he accepted, and started commuting to Utah in October. He has been staying at his grandparents during the week, house hunting in the evenings, and flying home …
more ...Today we had black beans for lunch. Knowing that my boys would not eat them of their own free will, I bribed them with Cheetos… For each bite of beans, they got a Cheeto. Reece held up his first Cheeto and said proudly “ Barack Obama! I’m eating his head …
more ...My Chinese fortune cookie told me this earlier this week.
Really? I had no idea.
:-)
Back when Carley was only communicating with grunts and squeals, she got a …
more ...The weather this fall has been nice so far. We have been wondering why we are moving because it has been so nice here. And then today Bryan drove off to start his new job in Utah. And the nasty rains came.
I took the boys to their soccer games …
more ...Okay, there were several requests for the yummy granola that I am in love with. So here is the recipe:
Granola
3 c. old fashioned oats
2/3 c. sliced almonds (2 oz)
1 c. broken pecan pieces
¾ c. shredded sweetened coconut
¼ c. brown sugar
¼ c. maple …
We had our furnaced inspected as part of getting ready to sell the house, and we learned that our inducer assembly, or draft inducer, or induced draft assembly (it has many names) was cracked. It was going to be $530 to have it replaced, and in Washington you can’t …
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