Seattle

I am here in Seattle, here are just a couple of pictures for Piper and Reagan to see where I'm staying and who I'm with.

My bedroom
Annika having breakfast, she's becoming my little friend which helps me with missing my girls

dining room

Kitchen

Living room

entry

cutie pie

view from the backyard, the horse wasn't outside but I'll get a picture of the horse for you Piper

more backyard views

they have a lot of rocks to clean up before getting grass, Reagan would be in heaven

The house

the neighborhood, it's pretty new, they are still building houses

some of the new houses that are going up

Fall fun

Mom and I took the girls to Emma Krumbee's in Belle Plaine for their Scarecrow Festival. There were tons of things for the kids to do, they rode ponies, we kept them away from the camel ride, they climbed a giant hay stack, played on some park areas, rode a train, and picked our pumpkins. Piper, in typical fashion wanted to do everything without catching her breath while Reagan just wanted to hang out and was content to go with the flow. Piper is definitely my child, she's headstrong and wants to do things her way on her time schedule, I get so frustrated by her at times because of course, I want to do it my way. We are going to have an interesting back and forth over the years, if I could just rein her in a little while letting myself go a little I think we'll find a happy medium.

train ride, this was a cute little contraption made out of barrels and pulled by a small tractor
they both got up on stage and played instruments while the entertainer was singing

Ooooh ponies, who doesn't want one? Piper is such an animal lover that she just jumped right in there, I was worried about Reagan, she's pretty hesitant around animals but she loved it too, she just didn't make it the entire ride, she was "done" before everyone else.

yeah, I stepped in quite a bit of poop - gross

I love her face, she must have been saying "boo"

our pumpkin selection - the big one was only about 22lbs but the guy pulling the tractor took pity on me and loaded it up for me and then went to find me a wagon to load it onto after the ride. He was so kind, people like that make my day!

Reagan was a little trooper, she was getting tired and tripped a few times but just got back up and took off again.

Piper was on the search for her perfect pumpkin, if we let her she would have spent hours scouring the entire field. I wish I had her attention span.

I love how Rea is looking up at Piper ala Brady Bunch intro, so funny!

Wedding fun

Today Jason's cousin Andy got married, I decided to brave bringing the kids, it was their first wedding (as with Piper's sudden illness they missed Bill's). Considering Reagan didn't get any nap they were great, very wound up, but great. Reagan started yelling for waber (water) during the ceremony so she and I didn't get to watch the entire thing but once we got to the reception hall they went nuts. They started running and Piper made instant friends with a little girl named Katie. It was so fun to watch the girls. Reagan wasn't being very shy today which is so refreshing. Piper is rarely shy so it's fun to watch her interact with people and I just love her confidence! The best part of the entire day was when the band finally started playing a little after 8pm. Both girls had plenty of dancing to do and Reagan being absolutely exhausted finally gave up on the dancing and parked herself front and center on the dance floor and just stared at the band. It was almost like she was watching TV, it was just hilarious!

Rea and I toured the parking lot during the service

Piper and Katie

Our little groupie Reagan. Piper was running circles around her and she never broke her stare.

We are still here

We are still here, hanging in there with our projects. It has been a busy month with tearing our house apart, taking a 4 day road trip to DC and then having 3 days of garage sales. We've made a little bit of progress, it's so hard to tell with all these different projects going at once. We have our kitchen cabinets done (because we didn't do it ourselves), they look really nice and now after I paint the kitchen will look much better and hopefully help sell the house. Jason has finally been able to finish tiling and grouting the shower. He has spent many a (very) late night working on that shower. He did a great job, it's looking great and I'm so happy he did the tiles instead of a shower insert! Bill built us a cabinet in the bathroom, now we need to install the doors, shelves and stain it. Bill also put in the ceiling in the bathroom. After 3 1/2 years it is really starting to come together. Ha ha! I have carpet being measured on Monday and hopefully we can get it installed next Friday, finish painting all our rooms and give the place a really good scrubbing and get it on the market. I also took some really cute pictures of the girls about a month ago, I'll get those up and posted eventually.

please excuse the mess, I haven't put lunch away yet