A little more settled?

It's been a busy and exhausting week as we've been working and trying to unpack and get settled in our "spare" time. But, things are starting to take shape around our new home. We've discovered in the last few weeks how much "stuff" we own (this reality hits hard when you have to pack and move all of it!). But, we're enjoying our new place! A big thanks goes out to our great friends who helped with the move (and childcare) last weekend (Aaron & Amy, Tim & Carlie, and Mom)--you guys are awesome!!

The Wired City?

Supposedly Tacoma is considered to be "the wired city." Something about the miles and miles of cables & fiber optics buried beneath our city streets and suspended in air from numerous poles around town (I'll have to check with my good friend Randy Sherman who is responsible for several miles of those fiber optics). Well, it certainly hasn't been the case for our house - at least not for the past 4 months.

But we're back and man does it feel good. It's surprising how much we use the internet. For awhile there, we had no real connection to the outside world. We didn't have internet, we didn't have phone (well, at least not a landline - we'd never cut off our precious cell phones), we didn't have newspapers, and we didn't even have TV. We were a bit out of touch with the world around us - which for awhile is really not that bad. It was pretty quiet around our house (short of the almost-two-year-old singing and playing games), but it was good.

But with the purchase of our new house, we decided it was time for our self-imposed exhile to end. We've decided to ante up and get the internet fired back up at our house. Hopefully, that will mean we'll be able to post a little more often...we'll see how that goes (there's something about home repairs that makes me think I won't have quite as much freetime as I had thought).

So from the perspective of our new home, Tacoma has gotten a little more wired and we've gotten a little more connected. Ahhh...this feels good.

Sawdust, Sawdust, everywhere!!

Well, it has been a very busy weekend of pulling up carpet, sanding down the wood floors, applying stain to the wood, and coating with lacquer, but we're almost finished with the floors! We are waiting right now for the first coat of lacquer to dry, then we'll apply the final coat and voila...we're done! The floors look beautiful and this will soon be worth all of the effort!

It's ours!

Well, today Michael and I went to sign the mountain of papers to make the house officially ours! As of tomorrow afternoon, we will be first-time homeowners. We were both nervous on the drive to the escrow office. But, we have to say that the homebuying process has been very smooth (and pretty easy) and we feel very blessed for that! I'm sure that is because other people have been working very hard on our behalf!!
Thanks for all of your prayers and encouragement! For those in the Northwest, we'll be having an "open house" once we get settled in. For the rest of you in the country...you're welcome to come and visit anytime!