Here's a little continuation of the post about our most likely new address:
pouring the foundation & the cement truck
It makes Micah nostalgic about when they built their home growing up
The view of the mountains and moon leaving the neighborhood one night
(and incidentally our windshield, too)
Micah pacing out the living room
Micah was especially excited to see the roof trusses go up. We almost missed it they did it so quickly!
Mainly finished! The entire building was framed in 7 days!!
Me in the living room, from the kitchen
We've looked at housing here since we got married last spring. This is a condo & townhome neighborhood just a few blocks from us that we've kept an eye on, but never really interested in. We started looking with a realtor again this fall and after a month or so of actually going through homes, we only found one that we were pretty excited about, but way on the other side of town (right now, Micah has a 5 min commute & I have a 2 min). When we were just about decided on that one, prices in this neighborhood, which had been slowly dropping since we'd seen them, suddenly dropped a dramatic $40K overnight, for a total $65K off the price they'd sold for last summer. After some deliberation, we decided that even though it was not really our dream to live in a condo or townhome ("The Office" fans will understand when I say we don't have the Michael Scott-condo-dream-complex), this was definitely the right thing to do for us, so we signed a contract on a townhome! ...which just means that we got to pick colors and have first dibs, but in the meantime if we find something better, we have no obligation to it until we close on it. The floorplan is not our favorite because the downstairs living area is not the most functional, but like I said, we're not staying in this thing forever so we're not worried about our starter home being a dream home- otherwise we are totally excited about it! We only share one wall/it's a 2-unit building. & like I said, since it's only a few blocks away, we keep an eye on it almost daily and it has been going up really fast! We'll soon have room for anyone that wants to come our way ;)
Some fall projects
(Best-I finally finished mine!)
Us girls hard at work in IF
our Christmasy home
and this 2nd pic will NOT delete for whatever reason, so you get a lights on/lights off comparison!
The lights were all synchronated to music...which you probably cant' hear
It makes Micah nostalgic about when they built their home growing up
The view of the mountains and moon leaving the neighborhood one night
Micah pacing out the living room
Micah was especially excited to see the roof trusses go up. We almost missed it they did it so quickly!
Mainly finished! The entire building was framed in 7 days!!
Me in the living room, from the kitchen
We've looked at housing here since we got married last spring. This is a condo & townhome neighborhood just a few blocks from us that we've kept an eye on, but never really interested in. We started looking with a realtor again this fall and after a month or so of actually going through homes, we only found one that we were pretty excited about, but way on the other side of town (right now, Micah has a 5 min commute & I have a 2 min). When we were just about decided on that one, prices in this neighborhood, which had been slowly dropping since we'd seen them, suddenly dropped a dramatic $40K overnight, for a total $65K off the price they'd sold for last summer. After some deliberation, we decided that even though it was not really our dream to live in a condo or townhome ("The Office" fans will understand when I say we don't have the Michael Scott-condo-dream-complex), this was definitely the right thing to do for us, so we signed a contract on a townhome! ...which just means that we got to pick colors and have first dibs, but in the meantime if we find something better, we have no obligation to it until we close on it. The floorplan is not our favorite because the downstairs living area is not the most functional, but like I said, we're not staying in this thing forever so we're not worried about our starter home being a dream home- otherwise we are totally excited about it! We only share one wall/it's a 2-unit building. & like I said, since it's only a few blocks away, we keep an eye on it almost daily and it has been going up really fast! We'll soon have room for anyone that wants to come our way ;)
Look at all that blue!! I promise, there were ALMOST as many cougar fans as lobos!
Micah's side:
on Halloween night, I took Micah on a Halloween date out to a haunted neighborhood, then to our favorite Abq pizza place-Dion's and came home and watched a scary movie!
Thanks for all the birthday calls and wishes!
So for those of you who don't know, I have joined the 9-5 group of Americans...except I only work 8-3. I'm working at "NMSBVI" (New Mexico School for the Blind & Visually Impaired), in the ECP (Early Childhood Program- ie. Preschool) so they make us take a Braille class (which means I am now learning a second useless language....ok ok ok...Braille will probably be more usable than Latvian once I'm done at the school), and means along with working I now am back to being a student! (only this is not nearly as stressful). I think ep needs one of these braillers to make her typewriter collection more complete!
I've never seen a daredevil show like this!
yup, we live in the Southwest
after a couple tries, we found some food that was better than fair...real Pie!!
the rodeo...followed by....
a Diamond Rio concert!!! LOVED it!
A picture for Daddy
Trying to get a group picture with the timer before everyone else left
A neighbor-camper had pity on us and offered to take it for us...of course no one had showered at this point, so I'm not sure we wanted the moment documented....but here it is!
Micah's been waiting for a long time to take me to one of his favorite spots, which happened to be on the way home! Glen Canyon Navajo Bridge:
