After a tour of airports, hotels and some great locales these past few months, we are finally staying put in the great NW for the foreseeable future (and I say that with a smile because its finally summer here -- 80+ this weekend!) Staying put, yes, but sitting around... NEVER!
Our first weekend at home came with fresh faces to our new place and we loved showing them our new digs! Our college friends (and housemates), the Kachmariks, drove over from Montana to spend a week with Dan's parents in Woodinville. Lucky for us, we got to see them not once, but twice! Dinner/drinks on Friday night were followed by breakfast at our house on Saturday morning with their cute boys in tow. And, as an added bonus Bob's college roommate, Mike, started his Alaskan cruise in Seattle the same weekend so we got to see him for all the fun too!
The following day we finally saw the Whitfields again after several months of talking about getting together. (Elizabeth Whitfield is our friend Chris' sister and we are lucky enough to live in the same area as she and her husband, Doug -- we have loved getting to know Elizabeth and Doug over the years and are excited to have them in Seattle.) We had a great BBQ dinner, caught up, sang songs with their daughter Sophie (she is hilarious) and met their newest addition, Ries. No pics to speak of for that event, but we took excellent mental pictures.
After weeks of looking, ordering and waiting, we finally started actually
receiving pieces of the nursery! Bob picked up the dresser and crib, which is now slowly but surely making its way upstairs. The crib made it up just fine (once we removed it from the box, unassembled), but the dresser is another story. There was lots of measuring, repositioning, packaging removal, more measuring, more repositioning and finally, the consensus that there was no way to get it up our narrow staircase. Bob has been scheming ways to get the dresser in through our window (!) and there was even a question about moving the nursery downstairs (not happening). While we LOVE our home that was built in 1917, it doesn't always love our furniture choices. Who would have thought that a dresser for such a wee little thing could be such a hassle! (Thanks for the help and your patience, Tyler!)
The following weekend we continued our busy-ness in the NW! We spent a day at Bob's company picnic, met up with some LONG time Seattle friends (Alison Easter and Lisa Pillitteri) and headed to a BBQ at the Whitfields to celebrate Doug's most recent triathlon. It was great to spend time with everyone - especially since we got to meet Alison and Ben's little girl, Jaya! Alison and I have known each other since we were babies (she came and visited me in the hospital when I was born and she was two weeks and a day old!) - we went to grade school together (5th - 8th grade), spent summers together, went to high school together and even made our way to Santa Clara together. She is now in Brooklyn, married to a great guy and the mama to an almost one year old little girl. It was great to catch up after too much time away and she got to tell me all about being a mama as we prepare to welcome our own little girl this fall! So much fun.
Promise house pictures are coming... we want to actually have a few rooms to show that are put together :)
