Crescent Bar

With all the anticipation of our new home, I asked Joe if we could take a mini-vacation before the big move next month. He agreed and actually made it work out that it ended up as a business trip. We planned to head to Crescent Bar, in Quincey WA. Joe's Aunt Natale and Uncle Dave own a condo at the Sunserra resort at Crescent Bar and have offered their condo out to family which is awesome and thank you so much!!! And we invited the DeRemers to join us for the weekend.

On Thursday, Joe arrived home at 2:30 and helped me finish packing and loaded the car up for our road trip. We actually pulled out at 3pm and headed east on Hwy 2. I ended up driving most of the trip and when we landed in Wenatchee we had some dinner and continued on to the condo. The drive was not bad and I loved, loved, loved the Fall colors. I am IN LOVE with orange right now. We arrived at the condo at around 7pm. The girls loved the huge soaking tub and so did Mama. :) Early Friday morning, Joe was off to his meeting in Chelan and the girls and I spent the morning snuggled up sleeping in and watching our favorite "kid shows." We called Auntie Krissy to see when they were to arrive. Papa got home alot sooner than we all figured and was soon catching up on some sleep. I took the girls to the Walmart in Wenatchee to find a swimsuit for me because I realized I had forgotten mine just outside of Monroe and there was NO WAY we could turn around without making it a MUCH longer drive. No suits, but my sister came through with one . We headed home to have lunch and wait for the DeRemers arrival. The next few days are explained with the pictures...enjoy

THE VIEWS

The View from the deck....lots of storms blowing through. Clouds formations were breathtaking and so were the sunsets


from the bridge

My cutie putie

with a silly face, but LOVED her cookie
The girls and Auntie Krissy baked and decorated the cookies on Saturday afternoon.

We went to the pool and enjoyed the hot tub, but not the bugs. Krissy and I took a few golf cart rides and did some arts and crafts with the girls. Avery is writing so many notes these days. She is writing letters that she is learning at preschool. She has memorized writing Avery Rose Prince.
The goof balls....

The cousins, Natale, Avery, & Danielle. While Auntie Krissy and Uncle Grant took a hike, the girls played in the grass behind the condo. Playing "ring around the rosie", and running to hug each other....too flipping cute!! I need to video it! Oh well??

My girls playing the yard

Avery running by....I heart her!!

and my sweet baby girl!!

Auntie Krissy and Uncle Grant took a hike up the mountain. To see her pictures of this hike see her blog. (Joe kicks ass for inserting hyperlink)

them climbing up....

And us watching there progress....

And the hikers returning.

the guys and their girls

Mama/Auntie with my girls

Our yummy Saturday night dinner, Chicken Kabobs and a delicious macaroni salad. Once we got the babies to sleep, we played Mexican train.

Golf cart rides were exciting and the girls giggled most of our trips

Natale ready for a spin in the golf cart

And All US girls on the golf cart ready for a spin...

The girls LOVING their bath!

Mama and Papa in LOVE!!

On Sunday morning we made French toast for breakfast and starting cleaning and doing the laundry. We were on the road by noon. We decided to take I-90 for a the speed limit. :) Joe flew home and I really enjoyed all the fall foliage...I LOVE the FALL. I think my new house might end up with an orange wall?? We got home around 4 pm and then quickly headed to the house to check it out. We had a FUN and relaxing weekend away with some great company. Thanks for coming along DeRemers!! Always looking forward to our next adventure!!

Again here is Auntie Krissy's blog
http://deremerblog.blogspot.com/

House Update: Days 29-34

On our way home from our getaway, we realized we hadn't been to the house in several days and wanted to see what had been done.

Walls are all primed and textured, light switch plates and outlet covers are on, lights are installed and a few even turn on and the door bell was installed and works.

Avery is testing the doorbell....ding dong!!

doorbell

Joe is showing off that the lights work in our master bathroom

these are the vanity lights

the lights over the kitchen island

dining room

outside the garage door

COMING SOON:
Cabinets, Interior doors and the Millwork are to be installed this week....

vanities for the Master bath

doors

kitchen cabinets that are to be installed next week!

20 WORK days to GO!!

Decorating goodies

After the pumpkin patch we headed to Jen and Jacinda's house to decorate cupcakes and have some lunch.

spreading some purple frosting

Visit from Grannie

Our Grannie came home for a visit. Grannie and Pa bought a new home in Arizona this past spring and have made the move over the summer, planning not to return until this spring. Which meant a LONG time before we would get to see them again. Well, Mama won the pot, Grannie couldn't stay away from her great grand babies!! She came home for a 2 week visit. We had a homemade dinner with her and the Marshbanks, I took her by our home site and she took us to lunch and bought the girls a few goodies! :) And tonight Grannie treated us, the Paduanos, and the Marshbanks to dinner at the Golden Corral in Marysville.
Grannie with her new do and her 2 Natales

Grannie and her girls. Natale is really shy and the guy next to us was making her nervous. And Avery loves giving us silly smiles these days

WE LOVE our GRANNIE & PA and MISS them!!

the girls with their heads out the sunroof....we were waiting for everyone to arrive for dinner and playing in the front seat

And we took a Family "Thelma & Louis" in the car

LOVE IT!!

HOUSE UPDATE!!

OK, lots to share.....
First off, As of Thursday 10/8/09 we are half way done. We are at Day 29 of 54 on Monday. So here is what's been going on at the house these last 7-10 work days.

Digging up electrical line and getting the meter attached to the house.

We have wall board (drywall). These first pictures were taken last Friday 10/2/09.

second bedroom

Kitchen

entry

lots of seams

And then on Wednesday evening the heat was on and the mudding and taping had been completed

as you enter the house

fireplace and mantle. There will be a tile are the fireplace

Having walls was a bit strange for me...we had been looking through walls now for a few weeks

third bedroom and faces the front of the house

Natale playing in Mama's room

The master bathroom has green board and Natale wants to have a bath or a shower??

Our GARAGE DOOR was installed!!

from inside

outside

They started to frame the walkway and driveway

just poured driveway

finished driveway

wet walkway

finished walkway and the girls

back porch being troweled (the guy didn't see me)

finished back porch

house as of tonight...10/9/09

Next week we should be getting our cabinets delivered and they start to texture the walls and paint the inside of the house.

OLIVES, anyone??

Who doesn't LOVE to put olives on there fingers? My grandpa Dieter would put a can of olives in our Christmas stockings when we were kids. My kiddos LOVE olives, too! I usually need to open 2 cans to have any olives left for tacos or pizza. This is a new thing for Natale and she loves them!!
showing Mama her fingers

yummy!!

showing off their olives!

Love me some pretty girls and olives!!!