Saturday, July 30, 2011

here I am

Well it has defiantly been a while since I have posted. My life is slowly coming back together since the escrow, move, Penelope's birthday, our anniversary. We are settling into our new house. Pictures to come. The only rooms left to be painted are the bathrooms. I got a new light fixture for one and new towel racks that need to go in. So I can paint one of them. We also got a ceiling fan for our bedroom that we need to install. It seems like we don't get as much done as we try to squeeze into one day. Plus we are kinda of beat from everything we have done already. After a long day of work, honestly, I just want to take it easy. There are many more things we would love to do to the house. We are still waiting for our kitchen table to arrive. We put our old one in the dinning room and are eating most of our meals at that one. We also ordered Penelope's dresser. And there are several blank walls that I just haven't found pictures for. But I'm not rushing it. If I have to look at the picture I want to want to look at it. LOL. Overall, it is such a beautiful house and I feel blessed beyond measure.

We gave Lucy, our beloved dog, back to the no-kill shelter today. We were all very upset about it but we all knew it was what needed to happen. We will see how Penelope does with missing a pet. We might get a small animal like a gold fish or something. But for right now we are trying to just be a family.

For Penelope's birthday we had a small get together at our new house (had just moved in the weekend before). We invited a couple of friends over and Granna and Papa joined us. Penelope smiled the whole time so it was successful. Russ and I were able to slip away the following weekend for an anniversary date. We went to Fleming's for the first time. It was delicious! And then we saw a theatrical show at Second Space Theater. We saw 'Skin Deep'. It was hilarious and a wonderful date! We need to have those more often.

I'll have to go around and take pictures. I'll add it to my to-do list. LOL.

Monday, May 23, 2011

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My computer battery crashed without warning so I wont be able to finish my blogopic. Not that I was really good at it anyways. In bigger note we put a bid in a wonderful house. We have to wait till possibilly Thursday before we hear anything. But our funds might be redirected away from the computer problems if the house does go through. Keep me in your prayers.


Saturday, May 21, 2011

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Today at the pool


Friday, May 20, 2011

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Um....well I didn't exactly meet my quota. Just skipped a whole week there. But I get an A for effort for coming back on here, right? I've been working a lot and sleeping little for my excuse. Does that get counted, good? And I know these pictures are about a week old too. I have taken other ones but they are with my phone and well, not as good.

We have good news! We met with the broker/ financial adviser and everything seems to be a GO! So we are officially "in the housing market". Keep us in prayer that God will help us find the place He has for us. Who knew that buying a house would have moments of anxiety. The times that I'm feeling calm I think of the song Big House by Audio Adrenaline. We only have the Veggie Tales version, which let me say makes for a very good mood. LOL.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

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The view from Sonya and Trav's place (family and good friends). Redondo Beach.


Friday, May 13, 2011

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Yesterday blogger was down so I wasn't able to post anything. We are down in LA and took some pictures today at Disneyland.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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pics that Russ took of the kids this morning when we were all running around trying to get ready.