7 years of Stuff

It's now May and we have lived at 1732 for almost 3 weeks.  For the last 6 months we have been doing nothing but construction, little moves and preparation yet we are still living in a sea of boxes and repeatedly ask "where is the...?"

But it really pays off when Sophia wakes up happy

in her bright & cheery purple bedroom.

Or can walk herself down to her friend's house to

hang out with them for a solid 5 hours.

Or when it's so quiet that we can hear things

scurrying in the yard.

We're still under construction, and will be for at least 6-8 more months. 

• The final walls and fixtures going up in the second floor bathroom.
• Building a fine looking temporary/canning kitchen.
• Tricking out awesome closets for all of our junk.
• Fixing up the first floor bathroom.
• Ripping out the walls and reconstructing the kitchen.
• Rearranging the "natural" landscaping.
• Painting the first floor.
• Buffing the floors on the first floor (no real sanding, thankfully).
• and about 104 other things.
• whew, that's a lot of things



finishing the canning kitchen cabinets

fabulous use of a weird closet

getting settled



do you see the halo?

 Next up - What's going on with that garden, is something living in there?







We're Leaving Home

1st Grade!

As I write this, my brother, who has recently moved into our old house on Layton Blvd, is posting photos of our old (his new) backyard. 

The backyard where the first days of school were photographed.

Building the Big Girl Bed

The house where things were

built for the first time.

Amazing cakes for my 40th

Big (40th) birthday
parties were had,

as well as countless
 holiday parties,

Thanksgivings, and
celebrations of all kinds.

So, as we say goodbye to Layton Blvd and hello to 49th Street, it is bittersweet.  We will miss our friends, but we hope they come visit us!  Our new block is full of kids, more girls than you can possibly imagine!  People BBQ all summer, drink beer in the front yard on nice days and cut your grass for you when you don't yet have a mower (soon!).  We are looking forward to making new memories!  Come visit us, we have room to spare.

Sophia and Mara Gramling looking like sad American Indians