a few photos

As I was sitting in our yard on Saturday, which was a really nice day, I remembered that we have not taken any photos of our place since we moved in. Sorry about the quality, it was dusk and I wanted to take some before I forgot. These are of our front yard:





From the outside looking in:


Topher grilling some steak:


We will be visited by a blinds person pretty soon here and will no longer have a fishbowl living room, which actually hasn't been that bad. We also plan on digging up some of the plants and moving them to the greenway to make more room for a container garden one of these days. So, yes, we have a front yard!

We are still here!

Hello readers,

We are still alive out here in Ballard. I know we have been busy with life, nothing too exciting. The Sounders season started and we have not missed a game yet. I have one more Professional Certification class in May for this school year, thank goodness! We have also been working on the house, still organizing and putting things away. This past weekend we managed to catch 2 movies! We saw The Joneses and A Single Man, both of which were thoroughly enjoyed in completely different ways.

Later!

finally posting

We bought a house! And are moved in to our new big townhouse in Ballad. I am on Spring Break and trying to put everything away, and also have fun. It has been a lot of work and we have also been getting rid of tons of our old stuff. Our small crowded apartment seems to have awakened the packrats within us. Now we have more space and can really spread out and look at things with an objective eye. We are very close to a Value Village, which makes it much easier to load up and car with junk and get rid of it! It feels good. Some of the things I am amazed that we have a ton of; old magazines neither of us are going to read, clothes we haven't worn in 3 or more years, and old candles we were saving to make new ones!

I am reading Gathering Blue, a Lois Lowry a young adult science fiction book and trying to get some of my professional certification done (haven't yet), with my time off as well.

Topher has this weekend off, his parents will be around and the Sounders play on Saturday and his crew is going with us. Fun! I hope it stops raining!!!