Here's the before picture:

Here's the after (the shiny stuff on her forehead and face is not sweat! It's water from my squirt bottle!)
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”







The last couple of days have been a whirl wind. We have painted, organized, shopped, and spent time as a family which has been great! We played soccer with Indi and Jaed in our fenced backyard while Josie and Kaia dug in the dirt. Zoey loves to be outside! We put a blanket on our deck and sit her on it so she can see us all and she is thrilled. We love the weather here. It’s windy most of the time but still warm so the breeze is welcomed. Since we live on the east side of Washington we don’t get tons of rain which is nice as well.
Since Thayne has put us on a budget (budgets suck!) we only have a certain amount of money to spend on food a month so I made a menu for a whole month and then made a grocery list from the menu. We have to travel 30 minutes to get to the closest Costco and Walmart so we plan on doing that only once a month and do our major grocery shopping then. It’s nice to not have to wonder or stress about what’s for dinner every day Like I use to do. I can just look at my menu, decide what I want to cook that day, mark it off my menu and I know I have all the stuff in the house to make it!! One less thing to stress about now!
We met our neighbors across the street. Wow, I never knew there were real neighbors like the nosy ones on the T.V. show “Bewitched”. If you don’t know or remember that show…….I feel old! Our neighbors across the street are a retired couple and the woman spends most of her time peering out her window to spy on everyone while her husband sits in his recliner and watches sports. I’m sure our family will be a real scene of entertainment for her. She has already come over to tell us about the leash law because the day we arrived we let our dog out of the car and he started running everywhere to check out the surroundings. Every time I go outside I make sure to wave towards her house just in case she’s hiding behind the curtain. Maybe I’ll feel dangerously adventurous and moon her one time …hehehe…..ok, I probably won’t but it made me laugh to think about it!