Where does the time go?

Lots has been happening over the last month with us. Demo, painting, dog attack, basketball and more! A week before we moved, we did a little prep work at the new house. I painted our bedroom and the living room with help from some very nice family members. Kenny and my bro-in-law junked a lot of stuff from the house—a shed, clothesline, and overgrown bushes to name a few. A week later, we moved to our new house on Feb. 23rd. We had a lot of much appreciated help from family and good friends. Kenny’s mom came out to help from Arizona to help and it was nice to see her. Definitely a busy couple weeks to say the least. On Monday the 25th, we—I mean Kenny—had the pool remodel started. Kenny could be the most impulsive person I know. So, we’ve had construction going on since then in the backyard.


I got home from work that Thursday and saw Sadie chained up in the backyard because of the pool work, and it was such a nice day, so I decided to take her for a walk. We were not even 3 houses away from our driveway when a chow comes from behind us and bites Sadie on her back and starts to throw her around. The chow grabbed her a second time and threw her again. One of our neighbors raced across the street with a rake and started to hit the chow on the back so it would let go of Sadie. Finally the dog did—after the neighbor had broken the rake. I had to take poor Sadie to the emergency vet to have her war wounds stitched up. Not the way that I wanted to spend my first week in our new neighborhood. Anyway, the next day I had an awards party for work in Ojai at a super nice hotel that Kenny got to go to—he was so excited I tell you!! So rather than stay the night there and enjoy the next day in Ventura, we had to go home that Friday night to take care of our poor puppy.

Move forward a week. I got tickets to the UCLA Stanford basketball game. Kenny and I went and it was really fun! I hadn’t been to a game for a while and it was a fun game. UCLA played pretty bad up until the 4th quarter where they tied up the game and sent it to overtime where they won by 10 points and clinched the PAC 10 title! It was fun. Then Saturday comes around and I decided to paint our bathroom and prune the peach trees in our backyard. After it was done I thought the floor looked bad so we decided it would be nice to tile the floor in there as well. So last weekend Kenny and I tiled the bathroom. I learned that you paint AFTER tiling—I have some touching up of the paint to do in there. I told Kenny that I am done with home improvements for a while. We’ve been enjoying our new house and have had a lot of fun having friends over to hang out. I can’t wait for the pool to be done so our backyard is no longer a mess and we can enjoy some swimming.

Guess I should post more often so I don’t have to have these HUGE posts. But I have been busy so hopefully I get a break soon!