More House Progress

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We have siding! and Shingles! and Windows!!

We had our design meeting to pick out our interior and exterior colors and stone.

Interior: (don’t have a pic of the hardwood colors, but its a dark walnut color)
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Exterior: (the dark gray is the body, the lighter is the accent, the lightest is the trim, the blue to door, and the rock for the bottom 1/4 of house and accent of entry arch)
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In other news, my favorite high school teacher, mentor, and dear dear friend Mr. Ummel has had a few strokes and surgery, and so I am hoping and praying he gets well soon.

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Bekah is 13

2nd birthday in the 30 day window down!

My mom and Dad, teenage cousin Courtney, and Tim and I took her to Sky City restaurant a top the Space Needle yesterday. The food was as lovely as the view!

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Progress

Look, we have a roof!!

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We meet with the design and options people next week, but I have been working on interior design stuff so here is a sneak peek at the master suite colors and accessories,

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(the light gray in the background is the wall color)

And the master bath!
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Katie’s 9th Birthday weekend…

My Katie on our sealing day – at 5 months old.
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Hard to believe she is already 9!

We headed up to the farm for some quality time. We celebrated the girls birthdays, joining up with one of my nieces and Bekah’s best friend and her parents.

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We had trophy’s cupcakes as birthday cake!

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We played games, flew kites, hiked trails, and played in Leavenworth.

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Katie wanted Pinkie Pie from Build-a-bear…

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Our New Place

We bought a house!!! Here is the one we chose (:

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The floorplan is flipped from our orientation, but I wanted the words to be readable.

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Here is what it looks like now.

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It’s a whole new everything from ward, to schools and we are excited. It should be done around the first of August.

The best part is I get to pick finishes. I already picked my Kitchen Pendants, and my Dining lighting…

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Easter Weekend and aftermath

We took a lovely trip to Cashmere for Easter weekend.
I headed up first, and spent the first afternoon driving up and then a movie night to wind down after settling in.
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On saturday we had a beautiful walk.
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There are beautiful homes built in the canyon.
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Then we played hide and seek.
We had a lovely lunch then headed up to Leavenworth.
Ate Ice cream.
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We rode a carriage ride.
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Climbed a fountain.
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Enjoyed walking around in the sunshine, and before we knew it, we had been there hours and it was time to drive back and start supper.

The kids played games in the grass while I made the food.
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Katie and Tim were back home, Katie was preparing for a Gymnastics meet, at which she rocked!! 2 blue ribbons, and 2 red this time, and got recognized for best floor out of all the levels competing!
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After dinner we watched Harry Potter, then started a fire to make smores.
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When Tim got there with Katie, after her meet we made a few more, then started putting little people in bed to prepare for the Easter morning fun.
We hid 75 eggs around the exterior of the house, the chicken coop, the lawns, and the deck. It took 5 kids over 30 minutes to find them.
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We went back to Leavenworth to poke around, and found a lovely soda fountain shop called fizzy’s.
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We all got a little treat, then ended up wandering around till it was time to head back and start the feast.
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Full Easter feast!
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We were a little sad, but we tidied up and headed out of our little piece of country.

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Build a bear put out 2 my little pony’s. Char got to choose – and went for the obvious choice.
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So here she is with Pinkie Pie in Princess Aurora finery,
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Bad Blogger

Well apparently me – and my blog disappeared off the face of the earth for a bit… but we’re back – and with a bit of new look.

So whats been up?

I did a craft, a cute clock on canvas to finish off my sitting area.
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I taught a class at the elementary school on transferring an image and using watercolor pencils. I even got to do a bit myself (see below). I had a blast and the kids art looked awesome.
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Katie is now in competitive gymnastics. This girl is a star. This means I spend at least 4 hours at her gym a week plus the drive.
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Weight loss is a little stagnant, it might be the lack of exercise. I don’t have a gym membership and apparently I am just awful at finding time to do it at home. IT may have something to do with the fact that there are a million other things to do at home that are equally exhausting and feel much more pressing. I’m considering training for a 5k that is coming up. It would be good motivation. I am hoping to join a gym this week.

I got new glasses (don’t they look spiffy?!)
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I’ve been out with my girl friends to see a few plays recently. Thats been fun, a good break from the mom-monotony.
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Recovered and photo ready!

My images won’t slide show, the ones above are disney pro taken. Follow this link to see more scenery and candid stuff.

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We had a great trip! It was just what the dr. ordered, in spite of little bumps it was a good time. I can’t wait to see where the road takes us next. It was very reinvigorating. Those who don’t think disney is fun without kids, don’t know what they are missing. Don’t get me wrong, it is wonderful with the kids, but there is so much without them as well!

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Coupons, and weekend fun!

I have had a few people ask me if I still coupon, as I am trying to loose weight for over a year now. I have lost 40lbs, and yes I still coupon. People seem to think (much to my chagrin in great part because of the coupon shows) that the only coupons we get are ones for crap. Well its not true. In the past few weeks I have got healthy choice meals for 1.00, Odwalla juices for 1.00. Healthy salad dressings for free! So this week I took a few pics to illustrate some things I got… Now keep in mind I did buy produce and other things in additional trips, this is just to illustrate what I got this week with my crazy couponing. (I get my papers at the dollar store on saturday and buy anywhere from 1-6 depending on the coupons – thats a 50%+ savings on the seattle times!)

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Paper Towels and Planters snacks for the kids… for .07 – good deal and I love cheap snacks that add variety to the granola bars for the kids!

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Lunches for the Hubs, a few whole grain pastas, some extra softener (I was out), some lip care for my girl who bites hers, Chocolate for the kids teachers (that can’t stay around or I will eat it!), and little debbie treats because its valentines week and a little surprise for the kids (I won’t eat those myself but they love them)… All for 13.24! Thats a savings of 69%, and a before coupon bill of over 34.00! The image got cut off at the savings part, but I say any day I can fill needs, and save more than I spend is a good day!

In other events, those of you who saw my FB of my hair disaster, I have before and afters…
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Lesson learned, don’t try to go lighter at home!!
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Ahhh much better! – Lisa at Alderwood Regis Rocks!!!

We kept pretty busy this weekend. Tim and I took the girls (and my honorary 6th child – Lucy) skating with Maura & the Twins.
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Thats Katie in the Pink sweater!

After catching the puzzle bug from my Sister in law, Nanette, we decided to work on some puzzles this week, and ended the weekend doing one with the littles too!
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Our big Alice in Wonderland puzzle that is in the background is 1000 pieces and has been a fun work in progress for the older set. I did lots of puzzles growing up and now my mom wants to play too! I love how stuff like this can get everyone involved.

This week I am focusing on making a Binder of important stuff for when we are going to DL – for my MIL who is staying with the kids. And labeling things, and trying to kid proof the house so there are less trouble spots. Lots of work.

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More Disney Crafts…

So a while back I made tim a Star Wars hat.
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Since this a february trip to Cali, it could be really cold in the morning. Late at night too. So I got knitting again. Last night I finished this new Star Wars hat for Tim’s brother Ivan.
(The flash was necessary, it is more navy than royal blue).
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This is a truer color representation and an aerial view!
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(Thanks for modeling Hubs).

At Christmas time I knit our Sister-in-law Nanette a fair isle disney pattern.
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Then I whipped up the same pattern in some different colors for myself.
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I have also been working it out on the Silhouette machine. We fell in love with this image of mickey made up from a ton of characters from the films.
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So we got to work, and found a way to make a T-shirt out of it for all 4 of us!
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I just used the printable heat transfer for light fabrics and the same image as big as I could fit it on the transfer paper. Since it is transparent on white, I just cut out around the general shape with the silhouette and transferred it on!

I also love some of the Retro style posters they made for California adventure. We tweaked the radiator springs one a bit, but left california screaming as it was. Then I printed them onto the dark heat transfer material, and tilted them so it gave a bit of illusion to the ride (Tim’s idea) and would hide any imperfect placement!
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The last T-shirt craft was a cute set of couple tee’s for Ivan & Nanette. We have our living happily ever after … est. 2003 tees I had already done. So these are their version.
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(The color on the last one washed out because I was trying to get the text without the silver reflecting the flash or anything else back at my phone. I really should use my good camera more!)

Thats the end of the Shirts, sweaters, and clothing items I am making for disney… Who knows if anything else will crop up!

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