Grandma Birdie and Dad came down for Christmas!
12.31.2005
12.16.2005
12.14.2005
12.11.2005
12.05.2005
Flashback alert!
Here's a flashback post from summer 2001. Lee and I had just gotten married, and dad, mom and Brad visited on their way through California on a road trip. Here we are at one of Bidwell Park's many swimming holes, Bear Hole. I love this first picture, because it shows how amazing the landscape is there. Quite a lot of this area was formed by volcanic lava from Mt. Lassen. Isn't it beautiful!
12.01.2005
Bleariness!
Well, the Thanksgiving holiday is officially over. Mom left yesterday to return home... we wish she could've stayed another week! Or better yet, move in! (nudge nudge!)
It is extremely stormy out today, the wind is kind of at that scary stage where you start thinking about the integrity of your trees, and what you would do if one fell on the house. It's low 50's and has been raining on and off for the last couple of days. Ich! But looking on the bright side, I can wear my sweaters and boots now! Hard to believe that just a week ago when my family got here it was in the mid 70's and sunny, still summer.
Well, we really miss Lee's side of the family. It's been almost a year since we've seen them, with no future trips on the horizon. :( I function best away from family when there is a future trip to look forward to. We will have to get on planning something for the spring.
I don't know if I updated you all about the house. We took it off the market a couple of weeks ago. We decided to refinance instead, and take some c/o for some rennovating. Our existing garage is puny and an add-on, so we are going to tear it down (salvaging the newer materials) and re-build a larger structure that will serve as a Master bathroom/closets, and small laundry room accessible from our bedroom, and a door out of the living room to stairs to the garage's second story, which will be a large office/guest bedroom. By doing this, we'll be increasing the square footage by at least 350-450 sq feet, and adding a bathroom (big plus), and an office seperate from the house so that I can have a part-time job at home, prob. doing billing for Holiday Pools, if Lee's partner agrees. Isn't it exciting! Lee and I will sit down tonight to sketch the floor plan and building specs, then go have a prof draw them up. From there to the City for permits, then we can get busy! Lee's bro Jared will hopefully be our main man, along with others who would like to make some extra cashola.
Anyway, way too much info, I know. Can you tell I'm getting really jazzed about it!
Have a great day, everyone!
It is extremely stormy out today, the wind is kind of at that scary stage where you start thinking about the integrity of your trees, and what you would do if one fell on the house. It's low 50's and has been raining on and off for the last couple of days. Ich! But looking on the bright side, I can wear my sweaters and boots now! Hard to believe that just a week ago when my family got here it was in the mid 70's and sunny, still summer.
Well, we really miss Lee's side of the family. It's been almost a year since we've seen them, with no future trips on the horizon. :( I function best away from family when there is a future trip to look forward to. We will have to get on planning something for the spring.
I don't know if I updated you all about the house. We took it off the market a couple of weeks ago. We decided to refinance instead, and take some c/o for some rennovating. Our existing garage is puny and an add-on, so we are going to tear it down (salvaging the newer materials) and re-build a larger structure that will serve as a Master bathroom/closets, and small laundry room accessible from our bedroom, and a door out of the living room to stairs to the garage's second story, which will be a large office/guest bedroom. By doing this, we'll be increasing the square footage by at least 350-450 sq feet, and adding a bathroom (big plus), and an office seperate from the house so that I can have a part-time job at home, prob. doing billing for Holiday Pools, if Lee's partner agrees. Isn't it exciting! Lee and I will sit down tonight to sketch the floor plan and building specs, then go have a prof draw them up. From there to the City for permits, then we can get busy! Lee's bro Jared will hopefully be our main man, along with others who would like to make some extra cashola.
Anyway, way too much info, I know. Can you tell I'm getting really jazzed about it!
Have a great day, everyone!
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