House Cooling Party

We decided it would be fun to host a "house cooling" party (house warming when you move in, house cooling when you move out).  I would love to take credit, but I stole the idea from a friend.  It was a great way to have all our friends and neighbors come say goodbye to us.  We had so much fun!  A huge thank you to all who came to send us off.  We will miss you!

 Jack and his buddies being garden gnomes....:)

Zai Jian {Goodbye}

Last Thursday, Lucy had her last day of Chinese School.  We have been fortunate enough to live just 10 minutes from the local Chinese Culture School, JCCC.  Lucy has been going to culture school here since she was 2 years old.  She loves learning the language, dance and culture.  She is going to miss her Chinese teachers and friends, I am too.  I cried when we had to say Zai Jian...goodbye.  :(

 Lucy with her dance teacher and friends.

 Miss Shirley and Miss Lu

 Lucy's dance performance

End of year school program

Tonight was Jack and Lucy's end of the year school program.  It's always hot and packed with a ton of people and of course, I can never get a seat close enough to actually take any photos during the performance.  These were taken just before the program started. 

 Look who's not liking the "mamarazzi"

 There we go....

Jack and his buddy, Jack  :)

Lights, Cameras, Action..

I have a good friend and neighbor who is a local interior designer.  The design company she works for wanted to do a television production segment on home staging.  My friend suggested they use our home.  So, this morning a camera crew arrived at my house to film different rooms of my house and talk about how to stage a home to sell.  

I was a super fun morning and the segment will be airing in 2 weeks.  I will post the link when it becomes available.

 I'm going to miss my kitchen.  Jeff and I spent many hours making this kitchen just how we wanted it.

 Yes, that's the camera guy standing in my bathtub.

When things don't go as planned...

Sorry, I've been neglecting my blog.  I'm not in the best of spirits these days.  I flew to WA last week to be there for the inspection of our new/old home and after the 3.5 hour inspection we decided it would be best to back out of our contract.  I don't want to go into all the details, but bottom line is this home way too many issues that we don't want to deal with.  We have decided to postpone our house hunting until we are together in WA state.

So what now???  We have to be out of our current home in 13 days and we will be renting an apartment for the summer.  This gives us more time to look and find the exact home for us.  This does not thrill me, but I know there's just no other options at this point.  Good news is we will have a pool for the summer.  :)

Please, keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we transition through this.