Busyness

I know, I know. No new posts. Just what the heck do I do all day anyway? I should have plenty of time to blog.

We closed on the house Friday. Mom and Catelin started boxing up toys and books today. The movers will be here next Friday to move the furniture over to the new house.

The utilities are all taken care of and two fence companies have come to give estimates for a fence. Wow, fences are expensive!! And, here we were complaining that the backyard wasn't that big...

So, everything is rolling right along. We can't wait to get settled and get back into a routine. It just seems like everything has been crazy for a couple months now. We have all passed-around a stomach flu and cold virus. Even The Big Puppy was sick for a few days.

The Big Puppy is now called Abbey. Abbey and Alex are going to be best buddies. He just thinks she is great. She will probably be housebroken before Alex is potty trained.

The glamour of puppy ownership has worn off for Catelin, as she realized that she would actually be expected the help care for Abbey. *gasp*
A puppy is alot of work and you have to take them outside and walk around the yard with them and you have to play with them and feed them. WHO KNEW....

Well, better wrap it up for the evening and get some sleep. I may have to go hunt up some more boxes for packing tomorrow!

New Home!

It rained the whole morning of our inspection, of course.

Driveway-end of house.

The redwood deck is off of the breakfast area.

Front Door. Dining room is to the left. Hallway to right leads to bedrooms. Living room behind me.

Living Room, with Breakfast area to right. Gas fireplace.

Dining Room, this is the bay window you see on the front of the house.

Breakfast area, door leads out onto the deck. To the right is the kitchen.

Kitchen, looking into the breakfast room.

Kitchen from breakfast room. At the end is the laundry room. Thru the doorway is the dining room.

We are not really digging the green formica countertops, but it will be easy enough to change when we're ready.

Family room in the basement. Wet bar. Thru the door is the bathroom.
Catelin is playing a slot machine.

(Please Lord, make them come back and get the slot machine...)

Wet bar area.

This is the other end of the family room. The door out to the backyard is on my left. Thru that door is a bedroom. Around the corner to the right is the garage entrance, stairs up and another bed room on the front of the house.

Ummm, I can explain....

Alternate titles for this post:
Catelin Made Me Do It!
Alex said, "Mine, Mine beebee arf-arf."
She's Chocolate (and white), who doesn't love chocolate?
The cat was getting too cocky.

She is about 3 months old. The Pet Rescue Group said, their best guess, is Australian shepard and New Foundland mix.(?) She has golden eyes, like a chocolate lab. There were 3 puppies in the litter, they were rescued from the local landfill when they were only a few days old. Their names are Hershey, S'more and Reese. We have Reese, but were not sure if we are going to keep that name or change it...

30 Seconds Alone With A Bottle of Baby Powder

Wordless Wednesday

A Sunny Winter Day

I will take a break from talking about houses to post some pictures! I knew you'd be happy about that!

This is what a 2 year old can get up to when you are not looking.

It was a beautiful day today. Sunny and about 69 degrees. Not to rub it in or anything, but, the daffodils are blooming here.

We spent most of the afternoon playing in the backyard. Alexander was as happy as a clam!

If he's a good boy, for fun, we let him move the wood pile.

It's a special treat.

Load the wood, move the wood to another area of the yard. Unload the wood.

Reload the wood into your wagon. Move to another part of the yard. Unload the wood.

Repeat endlessly.

Remember how Alex used to like to 'line things up', trains, cars, etc.? I think I may have a whole post I could write about this little eccentricity of his...

I swear, I had him tested, he is NOT special!

He just likes things order-ly.

Of course, Alex playing in the yard would not be complete without his trusty sidekick. Whenever Alex goes out, he calls Lucy to come out with him. Very cute, especially since he calls her "My BeeBee". He stand at the back door and calls, "BeeBee, BeeBee gout" (yes, he says 'gout' not 'go out', it's not a typo). And that cat comes running for him.

We can't figure it out... but she had a lovely time rolling in the dirt.

She's finally grown and put on some weight. We were starting to think she was going to be a runt forever.

Eventually, he will take off his shoes and socks. If you're lucky you'll catch them before he pitches them over the fence.

Now, I did not deliberately leave out Catelin. She allowed me to take one picture so everyone could see her hair cut. Then she was off to do more important things than play with us in the backyard.

Although she did leave instructions for me to be sure and take some pictures of Lucy. See how good I follow instructions!

THE END!

A New House!

We have a hoouusse, we have a hoouusse, we have a hoouusse, hooray!
The seller signed off on the last counter offer yesterday evening!

For those of you who received spamish type e-mails from me with pictures of houses; it is the big beige two story house. Five bedrooms, big family room in the walk-out basement.

It is just the next neighborhood down from where we live now, so we don't have far to move.

This is one of the very first houses we looked at over last summer, before we were even seriously house-shopping. The size of the house and the way the floor plan is laid out is going to be perfect. The fact that the price kept dropping was appealing as well. Ha, Ha!

Our closing is in the middle of March. Now, we have to find a good home inspector and start pricing a fence for the backyard.

More pictures will come.