28 August 2010

We bought a house!!!

Yes, we finally found a house to buy! We are so excited! Actually, this place feels so right it's almost like it's not as big of a deal as I imagined buying a house would be. Everything is going so smoothly so far, our offer was accepted at a great price. I know many people have asked for pictures, but here is all we have since it's not officially ours yet (we close Sept 27th....just in time for birthday month!) :) 

Our home - not quite finished yet! 

Open Kitchen
Because it is a brand new house we got to pick the countertops, flooring, etc! We went with mostly the standards for now, but upgraded to nice laminate wood flooring throughout the bottom floor and nicer carpet for upstairs.



I also included a picture of the same house ( right next door) that is finished so that you can get an image of what the landscaping and finished look is like.
I'm sure you'll all hear much more about the house later...for now we're off camping (again!) with Jeff, Eddie and Leila.

Pictures of camping at the coast and a week at Yellowstone to come!!!!

03 August 2010

And then there were three...

Meet Lily! Our new pup! She's been part of our family for barely 3 days now, but we absolutely love her! We adopted her on Saturday from the Oregon Dog Rescue. She is SO sweet! She is 4 months and came from a not so great puppy breeder home and wasn't socialized properly. She's shy. We are working on building her confidence and she's already learned A LOT! She didn't even know how to play fetch - but she learned in a quick 24hrs. She can also now climb up and down our stairs...mostly go to the potty outside, but not always... :( and has already learned that the couch is the cool place to be! She loves leaves. She is also pretty quiet, not the barking type. We are loving taking her for walks in our neighborhood and so love that the villebois area has lots of parks! We're not quite sure what type of dog she is, her paperwork says spitz/dachshund/chihuahua. ODR says that the adults in the home looked like American Eskimos (a type of spitz) which is where she probably got her white coloring. Either way, she is a doll and we are having a good time teaching her how to be a good puppy.


Our cute friends and family!

 Here are a few of our cute friends and family! We've been trying to spend as much time outdoors with friends and family as possible and we're loving it!  
Calvin 

Hudson
This is Eddie seconds before Jeff's iphone was accidentally thrown over our 2nd floor patio rail! Luckily it landed in a bush, but the look of pain on Jeff's face once he realized what had happened was hard to watch!!!

Loving the root beer floats in the park!
Leila and Grandma!