OUR HOUSE..... MAYBE

Well, we put an offer in on this little beauty last week.

The couple selling the home took another offer that was slightly more.

The other offer couldn't get financing.

The house was back on the table this afternoon.

I was heading out tomorrow to look at other houses but when my realtor called back and said the sale on the Loma property fell through, do you want to make an offer?

I think I screamed yes into the phone.

I haven't been able to wipe the grin from my face all night.

 

Why?

Not sure?

This is not my dream home.

Promise.

Maybe it is the sinking floors.

The carpet in the bathroom.

The single pane windows.

The carpet period.

Every wall is made from a different material, sheet rock, plaster, wood paneling.

Did I mention the carpet.

The drooping ceilings.

Weird Remodels.

It's a hundred years old.

Well not quite but really, really close.

 

But, the land is beautiful.

It is a safe beautiful place.
We could build our dream home... eventually... hopefully soon.
I told Nate if we do get this home, which hasn't happened yet but is a greater possibility.

Then we will have to have his friend make a custom arch for the driveway, which is really a dirt road.

I said, what should we call our little homestead?
I suggested, Green Acres
or

Hole on the Green.

(Tongue and Cheek of course, but you really should see the inside of that house, which I will have to make do or make better at least for a little while.)

Nate suggested, Yes! Farm, giggling so hard, or Amish paradise.

Then we could sing, we are livin' in an Amish paradise.

We will decide if everything works out, we will keep you posted.

 

 

DEAD

 My camera DIED

I was taking James first year picture.

Set the camera on the counter.

Tripped over the cord connecting it to the lighting equipment.

It fell on the tile.

IT's DEAD!

It won't even turn on.

I am so sad.

Look at how bad these pictures are.

But my old Canon Power Shot S21S will be the only thing I have to take pictures with for a while.

To say I am sad is an understatement.

 

My friend Jess from Pittsburgh gave me this camera when I moved here to Fruita.

I have used this camera exclusively for three and a half years.

IT was a good run.

Love you Jess.

Love the camera.

Love all the beautiful pictures I took with it.

SIGH.

Goodbye.

Hobby over till I can find the money to buy a new one, which maybe a while because I am trying to convince Nate to buy me a home.

1 YEAR OLD

 James is one.

I can't believe it.

He has brought us so much joy in the last year.

He loves to eat and he can't miss a snack or a meal without a melt down.

He has the cutest smile on the planet.

He flutters his eyelashes to flirt.

He loves his mom but his second favorite person is Sierra.

He walks everywhere.

He doesn't say a single world but loves to yell, "Ah. Ah. Ah." Just so we know he is still alive.

He is a fabulous sleeper but only at home in his own bed.

He loves his pacifier.

He loves all foods with tomato sauce, spaghetti, rigatoni, and pizza.

He gets into everything. EVERYTHING.

 

He had a thrift store birthday. I and the girls picked out his presents.

Then we brought them home and carefully sanitized each of them.

All his presents are pictures and we spent less than 10.00 on him.

Which is amazing considering the Little People plane and accessories were brand new and they thrift store wanted $8.00 for it.

All the books, the fisher price vintage play board, the fishing pole and microphone were all less than two dollars. He loved all his toys.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CUTE BOY.

 

FRIENDS

 Madison and Brooke let me take their picture.

She comes to play sometimes.

We love it.

We love her.

BASKETBALL, SWIMING, and EXCERCISE

I have been taking the girls to the Fruita Recreational Center after school.

They love it there.

We have been swimming and playing basketball.

One night Sierra and I ran out of the house together and snuck up to the exercising equipment and ran on the treadmill.

Man, that girl has the makings of an Olympic athlete.

She cranked that thing as high as it could go and ran for ten minute intervals and stopped every once and a while to get a drink.

She must have exercised at full speed for thirty minutes total.

I finally had to convince her to stop.

The next day she was hobbling.

I asked her if her legs hurt.

She insisted they didn't and wanted to go back the next day.

 



LUCY and ME JUMPING ON THE BED

 Lucy came to play today.

Madison was so happy.

 

MY FAVORITE DAY

Yesterday was Sunday.

I had some errands to run.

Nate wanted tortillas.

I didn't want to make them.

Sierra volunteered.

Before I left she asked if the recipe said, three cups of oil.

I said, "No, a third a cup of oil."

I was nervous to leave her but I figure it was the best way for her to learn.

I came back and Madison was cooking tortillas.

Nate was eating them.

Sierra was rolling them out.

I asked her why she didn't use the press.

She said she forgot about it.

She did great.

Yeah for a daughter old enough to cook.

I went to bed thinking of all they amazing ways this was going to change my life.

I DON' T KNOW.... IT IS JUST FUN

A friend of Nate's owed him some money.

He asked if he could settle some of the debt with some camera equipment.

I am not into eighties backdrops and studio lighting.

My first reaction was I don't want it.

Nate didn't and doesn't care about the debt, it has been forgive.

When the friend made the offer I thanked him and asked if we could think about it.

I realized that he was trying to do the right thing.

He was trying to do it in a way he could.

It wasn't very Christian of me not to allow him.

We have been having a bit of a party with the lighting equipment, even the backdrop is kind of awesome.

I admit it has been a ton of fun.



Love this picture of James.

What are you doing mom?

Not sure, but I like it.

You don't have to use the backdrop.

Still awesome.

 Not sure what I was thinking in this pictures but probably... I am hot.

 

My favorite picture.