Happy Leap Day!

So I really don't have anything to say. I just want my post to have a February 29 date stamp. One week from today we will be moving into our new house. I can't believe it will be so soon! Last weekend we bought a garage door opener, a refrigerator, and a house full of blinds for the windows. This weekend we are hoping to find couches/chairs. We founds some we like last weekend and we are going to a few more stores tomorrow. I'm feeling some pressure over this. It's not like you go out and buy new furniture every year. These things have to last us for a long time. Good thing I'm boring and like plain things. That way I can just mix it up with new throw pillows here and there.

Tagged

My sister just tagged me and I still haven't completed my tag from Becca on Feb. 7th. I figured I'd better get Becca's done since I've waited so long.

A: Attached or single: Attached

B: Best Friend: Eric (obvious??)

C: Cake or Pie: Pie

D: Day of Choice: Saturday, Eric is home

E: Essential Item: paper trimmer, how else am I supposed to cut perfectly straight lines?

F: Favorite Color: blue, but red and pink are up there too

G: Gummi Bears or Worms: I like the sour worms

H: Hometown: Currently Marysville, but I'm moving to Renton in a week, but I'm from Bellingham...

I: Indulgence(s): reading blogs, being crafty (I'm currently working on a quilt)

J: January or July: July, love the warm weather

K: Kids: Kaylin, 14 months on Monday

L: Life is incomplete without: My family

M: Marriage Date: December 26

N: Number of Siblings: 2, one sister and one brother

O: Oranges or Apples: I'm from Washington so I guess I'd better say apples

P: Phobias or Fears: snakes, it's my mom's fault, I'm also very afraid of needles... I had 4 shots in my toe today--not fun!

Q: Quote(s): That's a hard one. Any quote from The Office is funny.

R: Reason To Smile: Kaylin stumbling across the room like a drunk woman (she's just learning to walk)

S: Season: spring, I love the flowers and the warmer weather

T: Tag Six: 6?? I don't know if I know 6 people with blogs... Kelsey (ha!), Amy Reid, Nicole, Jen, Jenn, and Rachel.

U: Unknown Fact About Me: I am missing 4 permanent teeth, not including wisdom teeth

V: Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I wouldn't call myself "oppressive", but I definitely eat meat

W: Worst Habit: Wasting time on the internet looking at the blogs of people I don't even know (I copied that one from Becca :-))

X: X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Ultrasounds.

Y: Your Favorite Food: a really good cheeseburger sounds good right now

Z: Zodiac: Libra

pictures inside our new house

Click here for a slide show of pictures of the inside of our new house.

OUR NEW HOUSE!!!

We bought a house! And we are moving WAY sooner than I thought we would. We got mutual acceptance yesterday and we close on March 6 which is less than two and a half weeks away. Augh! I will be so sad to leave our house, ward, and friends here in Marysville. But I am excited that Eric will be only 15 minutes (on a good day) from work. We will be happy to say good bye to the hour and a half commute each way and eating dinner at 8:00 pm. The house is in Renton in an area called the Renton Highlands. For my non-Seattle friends that is 15 minutes south of Seattle (w/o traffic of course). We didn't think we'd be able to live that close in, but amazingly it worked out. We'll be further from my parents (about an hour and forty-five minutes) which is sad, but closer to Eric's family which is great. We'll be about 10 minutes from Eric's parents' and 20 minutes from his brother's family. Hopefully they don't get sick of us!

Needless to say, I have a lot to do in the next two weeks. Thankfully Eric's company is relocating him so they are paying for movers to move all of our stuff for us. Without that there is no way we'd be able to move that quickly. All I have to pack up is a few personal items and cleaning supplies, the movers do the rest.

Our new house is beautiful. We are so excited about it. There is one slight drawback, the side of the house is on a busy road. But that's how we were able to get such a nice house in such a desirable location. I'm not worried about the traffic noise during the day and I'm sure I'll be fine with it at night. It's new construction, so we're going to have to get the back yard fenced and put in sod. Before we can move in we also need to buy a new refrigerator, a garage door opener, and some blinds for the windows. The house doesn't come with those things either. The builder is called Norris Homes and they build a beautiful house. Everything is upgraded. We have granite and tile counter tops, high ceilings, wood flooring, chair rails with shadow boxing, coffered ceilings in the dining and master, and other things like that. I'll post pictures of the inside when I take some. We have a walk-through on Friday so I'll try to take some then. I can't put the link to the floor plan because it's a pdf, so if you click here and then click on "Jefferson" which is in the first section called "Norris Classic" you can see the pdf.

Kaylin's valentine

This is the valentine Kaylin sent to her grandparents and great grandparents. Daddy got one too. So cute. I got the idea from Laura who found it on the Family Fun website. I hope everyone is having a great Valentine's Day.

The lovely USPS

This is what I received in the mail today:

Quilt top

Here is a picture of my FIRST ever quilt top. I finished it last night at my quilting class. A lady in our ward is teaching a quilting class and it has been so much fun. I guess I'm on my way to being a REAL homemaker, according to my sister.