Pictures at last!

Sorry about not putting up pictures sooner. We bought a new camera, a very nice one, but it has a much bigger lens so I am not able to get a single pictures of most rooms. When I find my old one, which is around here somewhere I will take some pictures with it. The following pictures are of our living room and dining room with the new flooring.

This picture was taken right after the floors were installed. I hadn't finished putting all of the chairs together yet.

This is the final product, only the lighting isn't very good in the picture.

Here is the living room before I got the area carpet or put up pictures and lamps.

Here is the final product.

Another view of the living room.

Here are pictures of our kitchen. The new granite countertops were installed yesterday. I also changed out the handles and I think they look much better. I still have to replace most of the hinges still (I have bought them, I just need to do it).

The first three are Rilla and Shirley eating lunch at the breakfast bar. I love having a breakfast bar.



The rest are different views of the kitchen.





I will post more pictures of the house later.

Truck!

So, we bought a second vehicle. It is a 2005 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 pick-up truck. Gil is very excited. I like it, too. It will be so nice having a truck. We have been fine with one car until now. It is a 20 minute drive to work for Gil, so sharing the care wasn't very easy or

cost effective. In Arizona Gil worked 3 blocks from home so always walked to work. The truck came with a pretty nice cab as well.

Rilla Paints Her Toes!

While we were at my sister's house, Rilla got into my nail polish and painted her toenails. Amazingly, she didn't get any on the floor are carpet.

Walter's Birthday and Baptism!

A week and a half before we moved from Arizona Walter turned 8 years old. The Friday after his Birthday we had a BBQ to celebrate his birthday and say goodbye to our close friends. It was a lot of fun.


The next day, Saturday, Walter was baptized. We are very proud of him. He is such a good example and such a sweet boy. Sorry, these pictures are blurry. We forgot our camera and took them with our video camera.



Now Walter gets to be in cub scouts. He loves it.

Quick update and 4th of July!

I just looked back through our pictures and I am so behind on blogging. Wow! I have been so busy during the day and then so tired by night time that I haven't done any. I will try and catch up quickly. Our floors were done last week but I don't have the pictures on the computer yet. I love them. It looks so much nicer than the old carpet that was in here. I bought an area carpet for where the couches are and it looks so nice now. We have a lot unpacked now, which is nice. Still quite a bit to go. My next big project is putting the desk together. Walter and Jem started school last Friday. It was only a half day. They were off Monday and had a full day Tuesday. Jem only had school yesterday for this week and next Tuesday for next week (for kindergarten testing). Then he will start full time on the 25th. I will post pictures of them when I get them on the computer.

For this post I will tell about 4th of July. We went to Colorado to my sister's house for a week and were there for 4th of July. It was a lot of fun since we could buy fireworks to set off ourselves. I haven't been able to do that since I was a little kid (because it became illegal in Spokane, where I am from, when I was about 10 or 11). We set off the fireworks we had bought and then walked around the block and watched lots more fireworks (there were a lot). The only thing I didn't like was it was pretty cold.