After 3 + months of being too busy I have finally re-emerged into the blogging world.
I am excited to surf through all of my favorite blogs to find out what everyone's been up to!

As for our family, we started looking for a house early this year and in April finally found one. We closed on May 7th and moved over the following few days ( I HATE moving!) Anyone who knows me well knows that I love old things...especially old houses. I have always loved the 40's and 50's era houses, but knew that an old house comes with old problems! When we found this house the owners told us that they had re-done a majority of the plumbing, the kitchen, the bathrooms and much more, so we were very excited to finally find a vintage house with a lot of updates. This particular house is on the National Registry of Historic Places, which is a fun fact. Another fun fact is that the architect based the design of his houses on Frank Lloyd Wright's Ranch House. The architect also sat the houses at an angle to preserve their view (so that they weren't looking directly into their neighbor's houses!) The kids are really adjusting well and are excited about the big change!

I love the roses and the awnings...two of my favorite things about the house.

Up the south side of the house is a flowering wisteria vine, which we LOVE! This spring a Robin made her nest in the wisteria and from the inside of the house we could watch her baby robins ~ until last week when they "flew the coop" (literally!)

(the wisteria from inside)

The kitchen was a big selling point. They put a new kitchen in in '08, so we didn't have to do anything to it (Hooray!) I love having windows in the kitchen, especially after my old house has NO windows in the kitchen!

I'll have to post more photos of the inside some other time...
We live one block from the river/walkway. We love being so close and go on many evening family walks. It's a great place to run, too!

I have so many more things to post...not the least of which are Chase's birthday and baptism!