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)

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)

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.

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!

Look, we have a roof!!

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,

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

And the master bath!

My Katie on our sealing day – at 5 months old.

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.

We had trophy’s cupcakes as birthday cake!

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

Katie wanted Pinkie Pie from Build-a-bear…

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

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

Here is what it looks like now.

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…

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.

On saturday we had a beautiful walk.

There are beautiful homes built in the canyon.

Then we played hide and seek.
We had a lovely lunch then headed up to Leavenworth.
Ate Ice cream.

We rode a carriage ride.

Climbed a fountain.

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.

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!

After dinner we watched Harry Potter, then started a fire to make smores.

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.

We went back to Leavenworth to poke around, and found a lovely soda fountain shop called fizzy’s.

We all got a little treat, then ended up wandering around till it was time to head back and start the feast.

Full Easter feast!

We were a little sad, but we tidied up and headed out of our little piece of country.

Next new license time… seriously better photo!

Build a bear put out 2 my little pony’s. Char got to choose – and went for the obvious choice.

So here she is with Pinkie Pie in Princess Aurora finery,

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!