(In this case "series" doesn't translate to "interesting" to anyone except for me.)
(Which is why it's a good thing it's my blog.)
HOME #2 - June 2003- April 2005
(Which is why it's a good thing it's my blog.)
HOME #2 - June 2003- April 2005
(Our first home is here)
Where did we leave off? Oh yeah. It's been 6 years, and although 1400 square feet had felt ginormous coming from an apartment right before we had Sierra, our family had now grown to six. Which meant that while sharing bedrooms was just fine, those rooms needed to be bigger than 8 x 10. Or the children needed to stop growing. Neither of which I knew how to fix.
AND?
A month later we moved in. A whole whopping two streets over from our first house.

Luckily paint color can be changed.

The house needed work, but we gained an extra 500 square feet and we were in heaven with the extra space.


You better believe that an 80's house is going to have an 80's kitchen.


The next phase was paint and ripping out the 20 year old tile,














Just about that time I got the itch. The itch to finally leave Fresno, after spending most of my life there. An itch that was music to my California-hating husbands ears. It was just about that time that his company was opening a new market in the Phoenix area.
Arizona, huh? Neither one of us would mind living there...
Wow. Turns out I love early Rebecca. I look forward to the next installment.
ReplyDeleteI lov the last few lines... we told our kids this weekend when they graduate we are going to live in Arizona 6 months out of the year. We are over stupid wet cold Fresno... too bad our kids are 7 and 4.
ReplyDeleteTime I posted a comment. Tripping down memory lane seeing your house! So, when you staged the 'boys' room, where on earth did you put your boys in the mean time? I remember you had a project in your hall a closet, where you were making some sort of video holder on the back of the closet door. You sort of triggered my love for home stuffs. Nathan surely thanks you!
ReplyDeleteAhhhhhhhhhhh the memories! Sweet memories!
ReplyDeleteYour ALL BOY letters on the wall were too cute! Very creative!
ReplyDeleteFunny how life takes you all kinds of places. I just left sunny Florida for northern Kentucky and I NEVER thought that I would live up north. Never thought I would see so much snow. Never thought I wouldn't see the sun shine for weeks on end:(
ReplyDeleteSometimes life is funny....NOT!
once again, you amaze me... you have always been kewl.
ReplyDeleteI loved seeing the "old" house pictures...fun to read about changes and how our lives and needs change...I'm starting to "need" a "change" Your house was beautiful! Can't wait for the next chapter!
ReplyDeleteTHAT house looks totally different and totally wonderful. You took it from a house and made it into a home! I LOVE it!
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to see your next post!
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