New House!

Alright, I am back in action! After a 4 month hiatus, the blog will be back in full swing. We have officially relocated! The kids love the house, their new school, and the new friends they have down here, although they do miss their friends back home! I left Evergreen last week and am currently interviewing for a couple positions down here, hopefully I will hear something this week. Dave has a new store, which so far he seems to really like. We are slowly getting adjusted to our new town and new routines. Here are some pictures of the house, mius the playroom (never clean enough to get a picture of LOL). We still need to paint the kids' rooms, but other than that we are pretty comfortable with the house right now.

Greatroom:

Dining Room (the picture is now hung on the wall):

Backyard (G-Daddy and Amaya were busy this weekend clearing out the bark and laying down grass, we love it!)

Newly painted downstairs bathroom:

Kid's Bathroom (amazingly enough our shower curtain somehow matched the pre-exisiting paint!)




Amaya's Room:

Tyson's Room:

New Year and New Beginnings

January brought some exciting changes for our family! After months (or even years!) or discussing it, Dave and I have decided to leave the beautiful (but way too expensive!) Seattle area and head back down south to Vancouver. I grew up there and Dave's grandparents lived there all his life, so we feel like we are going home. We decided to try and buy a home, hoping to finally settle down and plant roots for us and the Wee Beasties. We looked at several houses one weekend and decided on a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, built in 2005. It is in the cutest little neighborhood, very close to grocery, dining and a preschool about a 2 minute walk away. We are closing on February 24th and are praying all goes well. While we are so sad about leaving our close knit group of friends, who really have become a second family to us here, we are excited about new adeventures! Below is a pic of the house and our trip to the Portland zoo (using our new zoo pass courtesy of Aunt Karen and Uncle John!).

More December!

December came and went! We tried to squeeze as many Christmas-y activities into it as we could! We went to see the gingerbread houses, rode the carousel, went to the Teddy Bear Suite, Candycane Lane, and even went to see the Squeakuel! Our family came up from Oregon for Christmas and having great-grandparents and cousins here was really special! I picked just a few pictures out of the hundreds that we took in just a week! Santa was really good to the Wee Beasties and they sure were happy to see he ate his cookies, drank his milk and the reindeer had their carrots too!