what a beautiful mess

This is Pike Place Market... I can't believe I wore sandals. Dumb idea.  I love the ocean. and I miss the ocean. Trevors favorite part was the ferry ride to the island.  This was our view at our "fancy" dinner; view was great, dinner was not.  We loved Seatlle. Thanks Candice and Crystal for emailing these pictures to me!

Our front room right now is kind of a mess: Trevor has a lot of work to do...starting with putting in the wood stove. It's going to be so nice to have one really warm room in the house. Right now, I am sitting here in 2 sweaters and wool socks and I'm freezing!

We made it to 14 years~all the naysayers be darned! Our anniversary was nothing short of awesome. Trevor took the day off and I couldn't have been happier. We mainly shopped for home stuff (wood stove, tile...) but we had such a good day doing just that. We had Mexican food and Chinese food and watched The Saratov Approach. Mexican, Chinese, Russia...you could say we were well cultured that day. How can life ever possibly get any better? Well, maybe if we could learn to take a decent picture...

It's the little things that really make a day worthwhile. Although: my ankles hurt, my knee hurt... but I could still run and that means I'm getting better! That's such good news to me.

It keeps rambunctious boys entertained.  My Josh read to his friend Josh for a good hour  and there was no wrestling involved.  So that means there were no heads banging against the wall,  no punches or kicks to the face  and no loud thumping.  It was quietly peaceful. 

So admittedly, it is not our favorite thing to do but we do it each year because:  1. It's expected. What parents don't carve pumpkins with their children?  Bad ones.  2. The kids love it.  Any way possible for us to win extra points with our kids is a no brainer must-do.  Trevor did most of the work with the kids.  I got to make dinner and take pictures.  Now we have one more item we can check off of our  Lets's-Just-Get-Halloween-Over-With-And-Move-Onto-The-Good-Holidays list.  All I have left is finding Annabelle a costume and  convincing Trevor to dress up.  One of those two things is gonna happen and it involves Minnie Mouse. Stay tuned...

Our house has officially sold!!!!!! That sentence deserves so many exclamation marks! Trevor and I signed the paperwork yesterday and the buyers sign tonight. I cannot even adequately express how excited we are to finally be done with that house. It was a great home and we have a lot of happy memories from living there. But it has been so stressful for the past three years to still be owning it. And now because it's sold, we can do some updates on our house now. We have a big list of things that need to be done: bathroom added, floors replaced, doors replaced, coop finished, wood stove installed, knocking out a wall and adding a wall, texturing done, some walls painted...The list would almost be exhausting if we weren't so excited to be able to do these things! To celebrate the end here are some pictures of my favorite parts of the house:  The fireplace before was just sheet rock so Trevor updated it with wood and a new mantel~ I loved it.  Trevor also built us a wi...