Can you believe it? Elise turned the T-H-R-E-E today!
The two most interesting things that are going on right revolve around our house and my career. Our house is still for sale and our purchase agreement on the other house will end tomorrow night at midnight. Our plan is to let the agreement lapse, lower the price of our house and keep it on the market till the end of September. If we do get a decent offer, then we are going to see what is available and suite-able and then decide. If we don't get anything, then we will take it off the market and try again in the spring. If we take it off the market, we will likely do the flooring (carpet and hardwood) and we may fix the back patio.
My career is taking an interesting turn also. When I got laid off, I got a "temporary" contract doing development for a former colleague of mine; not my ideal role, but one that allowed me some breathing space while we figured everything out. The intent was that I would look for full-time work while I was doing the contracting. Funny thing happened though...I started to like the working my own hours from home; I enjoy the flexibility and the freedom. Not sure I can go back to 9-5, especially if it involves a commute. That, on top of a slow job market, has meant my transition back to full time work has been slower than expected.
The upside has been I am well on to my way to getting a two more contracts, both of which will be doing thing I like much better, like sales, pre-sales and business analysis. I am continuing to look for full time work but I am not sure how it is going to turn out.
Anyhoo, back your regularly scheduled programming...
The girls and I had the best summer day ever today. Mom Dalzell came to pick us up at 8:30 and we drove to Lynden for the Fair. We saw bunnies, chickens, cows, a 12 hour old calf, ponies, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, llamas and alpacas. Elise and grandma rode on a merry go round which upset Daniella who laughed when she saw them approaching and cried as they went away-quite cute. They also rode on a car ride. We had a nice picnic lunch then went home because it was super hot and the girls we done. They fell asleep in the car about 10 minutes down the road. At least Elise lasted longer than last year when she fell asleep on Grandpa's head while he was giving her a piggy back ride back to the car!
At home, we played in the pool in the back yard for a while, then vegged on the couch watching tv and eating freezies. After dinner we all biked to the nearby water park and played for an hour. Elise the Adventurer finally got up the courage to run through an overhead sprinkler--amazing!
Needless to say, the girls went down pretty easy tonight!
With two small children, we don't get much time as a couple. So, we shuttled the girls off to a foreign country and went down to Seattle for a few days to get re-acquianted.
We didn't want to do much, so just wandered around doing what ever struck our fancy and ate WHENEVER WE WANTED!!
Day one was Pike Place Market, Belltown, Thai Ginger and The Dark Knight.
Day two started gloriously late and we didn't get going until near 11am! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. We started with lunch (suggested by some guy coming out of the building we were sitting on) in Pioneer Square, then went on a fabulous underground tour. From there we headed out for 3 great hours walking around the Museum of Flight. If you like planes at all, you owe it to yourself to go to this museum. We left after 3 hours, but could have stayed longer, if only our heads could hold more information. We finished the day at The Pink Door, a fabulous recommendation from our Underground Tour guide.
Our last day was a quick trip back to Pike Market for pictures and some food.
We had a great time, the kids had a great time. We simply must do this again!
- Move out.
- ....yeah, move out.