Grandma Birdie and Dad came down for Christmas!
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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!
11.27.2005
Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving was so much fun! Brad, Arica, Ille, Mikaela, Aurora, and my Mom came down from WA for the week.
We cooked some scrumptious food and played lots of games...and went on a few excersions around town. The first couple of days were pretty warm, still in the low 70's, high 60's. The day after Thanksgiving was stormy, but it passed quickly and the sun is back out. Ahh!
Yesterday we did Chico all day... the boys going golfing while us girls/kids went downtown to the farmer's market and perused lots of fun shops. Here are a few pictures of the last few days.
We cooked some scrumptious food and played lots of games...and went on a few excersions around town. The first couple of days were pretty warm, still in the low 70's, high 60's. The day after Thanksgiving was stormy, but it passed quickly and the sun is back out. Ahh!
Yesterday we did Chico all day... the boys going golfing while us girls/kids went downtown to the farmer's market and perused lots of fun shops. Here are a few pictures of the last few days.
10.12.2005
Grandpa
I heard from Vietnam today, my mom sent an email telling me that Grandpa Gene had a small stroke while he and mom were at a store yesterday. He's doing okay so far, but there is a big possibility of a larger stroke to come soon if he doesn't take it easy and get medical attention. So he and mom are travelling to Honoi (sp?) today to see Mike Thorstensein, then will be heading back home prematurely. I'm glad this happened while mom was visiting, because she can help him on the long flight back, and take care of him should anything happen.
In other, much smaller news, we may be getting an offer on our house today or tomorrow. I'll keep you updated!
That's all from this edge of the continent. Hope you are all doing really well!
In other, much smaller news, we may be getting an offer on our house today or tomorrow. I'll keep you updated!
That's all from this edge of the continent. Hope you are all doing really well!
Lee decorated this Cinderella cake for the birthday party. Didn't he do an amazing job?!
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The Moms: (l to r) Heather Humphrey, Jenny Cruz, Tamara Liabraaten (on the ground are Ethan and Ella Humphrey)
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9.27.2005
Afternoon, ya'll...
how is everyone? I'll imagine that everyone's saying "fine" since that is always our response, no matter how we are really doing. Anyway, not much to report this afternoon.. these pictures of the kids are from the last couple of days. I know.. not an exciting post for everyone, but it is tremendously exciting for the grandma's! Our days are beautiful... high 70's, low 80's.. perfect in my opinion. Just for a footnote, the photos where Selina is trying to blow a bubble, that gum flew out of her mouth a few times while she was attempting a bubble. That same gum showed up in her hair later today, and had to be cut out. So no more gum play for her! Lucky that she doesn't care yet what her hair looks like! :)
Have a great one, everybody. I'll post again when something happens!
Caio!
Have a great one, everybody. I'll post again when something happens!
Caio!
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