Our new home

Steve, Annison and I are very pleased to announce we are MOVING! Just across the field, that is :)
For those of you who don't know the story of our house, read on.....


In May 2006 my brother, Kasey purchased the home from our neighbor, Clarence. The home was bought more as an investment to Kasey then a home he would ever plan to live in. Clarence's wife passed 9 years ago and they never had any children, so we have always been family to him.
After the tragic passing of Kasey, the house has had great meaning to me. I took over the payments in Oct 2006 in the agreement Clarence was to live there as a renter until he choose to move.
As the years have passed the stairs in that beautiful home have been hard on Clarence's knees. When his sister came to visit a few months ago and fell, things started to change for the future.
2 weeks ago Clarence moved to a very nice retirement facility in Vancouver. Annison and I visited last week and he showed as all around :) He seems very happy and eager to make friends.

Steve and I are so overjoyed and feel so blessed to finally have a home to call our own. We are in the process of making some small changes to the house before we move in. Each room will have a splash of color on each wall by next week, new hardware is on its way for the cabinets in all the bathrooms and Kitchen, house cleaners are coming today to clean/sanitize the house and carpet cleaners come at the end of the month. Hopefully we will be making the big move the first weekend in December!

Clarence left Steve and I most everything inside of his house and barn. So basically the house came fully furnished. We are so very very lucky to enjoy all of his belongings in the near future and finally get to put away all of our wedding gifts! :). Its a great feeling to have this beautiful space to call our home!

The pictures below are just a few of the upstairs. I will take more today and post them later.
This 3,500 sq home has a gorgeous view of the Columbia river and Wind Mountain. It has 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms a large living room upstairs and downstairs, spacious dining room and kitchen.

Here are some of the photos I have taken the last 2 weeks.

Enjoying the view

Kitchen: while I was going through everything and cleaning

After

One of the bathrooms
They all have wall paper on them....next winters project

Our bedroom: in the cleaning process

Annison's first meal at the bar

Dining room: some of the kitchen stuff

Upstairs living room: in the cleaning process

back of the house

Front with view

BOO MOO!

Trick or treat!

Little Miss Annison was a cow this year and got a lot of complements on her costume. Steve and I had a big dinner early, dressed our cow up and headed out around 5:30 pm. Unfortunately Moo had only gotten a 12 min 2 o'clock nap in so getting her in and out of the car seat was a huge task and lots of tears. First house we hit was our neighbor Clarence's then off to Great Grandpa Jerry and Great Grandma Mary's, Mike, Julie and Cam's house and a quick run to Aunt Carol and Uncle Gail's. There we took some fun pic's of the Cousins together in their costumes (Taylor twins 3 mo) and one last stop to Grandpa's. Nana was gone this year but we sent her some pics and raided the cookie jar.

Made me laugh living out here in the country how surprised Clarence was to see a child in costume on his door step as he hasn't seen one in close to 20 years. It sure brought back memories of when I was little :) 

Here is our moo




A kitty for breakfast



Ready for candy

First stop

All in all it was a great time. Our little moo I think had a good time too!

Fall is here

The leaves are starting to fall off the trees here in Home Valley. Annison and I went on a walk to visit our neighbor, Clarence yesterday and ran onto these beautiful leaves in his yard. I captured a few good ones while the sun was still shining.

After we visited a while we came home and made brownies for daddy. Baking in this kitchen means a great deal to me as I baked with Nelta when I was very little. She would be so proud!

yum yum!

We love brownies :)

Pumpkin Patch 2011

The three of us and some friends visited the pumpkin patch this weekend in Hood River. We had great time together and the kids (9mo, 7mo and 3mo) seemed to all enjoy it as well. After while we headed back to our house for a BBQ and carving. Here are some of my fav's taken at the patch :)

Going for a ride

Please don't leave me here!

We all own B.O.B's :)

Cheese!

Annison's pumpkin

Just a few more fun ones :)

Love bug

Went to Cafe sip and play with Erin. Annison really enjoyed the play area

Daddys new truck!

Rod Run car show was sooooo loud!!  :)

The last sunny day. Season is over....tent is coming down this weekend.

The beginning of fall....

Here are some updated pictures of the last few weeks....

We started swimming at the Hood River pool twice a week. She LOVES water

Working on sleep with no swaddle. We have gotten as far as one arm out all night :) Undates to come

Annison's fav pass time

October 1st

Annison turns 6 months old!

While we were in Long beach for the rod run, Annison turned 6 months. Last year at the rod run I was pregnant and we were all discussing how this year Sting Bean would be 6 months old. It was so hard to picture that then....and here we are! Crazy!!
Annison is doing lots of new and exciting things. She started drinking from a sippy cup, eats homemade baby food twice a day (loves pears, peaches mixed with banana and avocado is her favorite).
She is getting pretty good at sitting up on her own. She would rather stand then sit any day! Also enjoys her exersaucer in the kitchen while I cook dinner.
Annison also grew a tooth this past week!!! No wonder she has not been sleeping very well. Poor baby :(
She has taken quite the interest in Tek. Not sure yet if he is a fan but tolerates her at this very moment. I'm sure they will be best buds when she figures out how to toss food off her high chair :)

That's about all to report now.

As for Steve and I, we are good. Working  a lot  but wedding season is coming to an end this month so things will start to slow. Restrooms are in the plans this fall for next years season. So excited to have flushing toilets! Steve has been working LONG hours too. But thankfully we have been able to mix in a little R and R here and there.