07/19/2018 New house? No.

10/11/18 -- So we didn't get the house at 134 Brookhaven Road. We put an offer in back in July and the time expired without our house selling (or even any prospect of selling). We paid for an inspection and appraisal (money we lost on the deal -- about $800) . We could have extended it out and started putting large amounts of earnest money down to keep the house "ours" but we just weren't brave enough. We continued to try to sell our house through October and while we had lots of people view the house not one offer was made. We finally decided to take the house off the market for now. (This home was removed from the market about 2 weeks ago and the Telford's changed their mind about selling their home which we were also considering.) So we are not sure what the Lord has in mind for us except that for now we stay! The good thing that came out of it is that I was able to clean our house top to bottom, get rid of extra junk, and make things nice here. SO for now we'll stay -- which is OK!!! We really do love our house. It's just a bit big for us! The location and the ward is great though and the house is absolutely wonderful. (Except on the day I get the electric bill which has been running over $400/month this summer -- boo!)

Our house has been on the market since April because Andy felt like it was time to go. We weren't sure where or when or why, just that it was time. We haven't had any real action (we priced the house a little high) -- but we also hadn't seen anything we were in love with...until this.

So we put in an offer Thursday which was accepted Friday and now we dropped the price of our house and are waiting to see what happens. Scary!!! Exciting, fun...

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01/12/26 Just a couple of things going on

Every Monday night we do family night pizza. This has included Eldon and Diane for quite awhile now. They left on a round the world cruise and will be gone from January - May. So we sent them a pic of these two cuties and told them we missed them. Found this fun scratch off -- you can mark everywhere you've been. We want to travel in our retirement and thought this would be a fun way to keep track of it. (We also have a world map but I think 1 on the wall is enough). SO this is our little inspiration wall to remind us to get out and see the world! Holly painted this picture on her wall a couple of years ago. I added some words and music notes in vinyl to it. I'm working on turning her bedroom into my music sanctuary. The WELCOME pineapple sign was starting to peel off. I took off all the vinyl and painted the words instead. Gave it a nice refresh! We signed up for classes at the college too -- currently we are taking World travel, AI (artificial intelligence), Aging an...

06/16/25-06/20/25 Yellowstone

We had a really great week on our Yellowstone trip. We stayed at a VRBO cabin in a remote cabin in Ashton, Idaho. It was just right for our group. We were able to go to Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Mesa Falls, the Yellowstone Playhouse, Lava Hot Springs Pools and Slides. We drove lots, played games, did puzzles, roasted hot dogs, made s'mores, enjoyed picnic lunches, ice cream at the frost top, dinners together made by each lil family and so much more. Loved it! (There are lots more pictures in our shared Yellowstone google album. Also, these pictures are not in order of happening. )

01/13/26 How Many Cookies?!?!?

I planned to visit Washington City and go to the ladies luncheon (they do it monthly on shut off day). I found a new recipe that included putting smashed pretzels in the mix. (I had smashed pretzel, cereal mixture leftover from Christmas). The recipe said it would make 22 cookies. I figured I would triple it and have 66. Welp...they must have been some BIG cookies they were making...cause I got 126 cookies!!!! What the heck?! I backed 24 of them and put the rest in the freezer. Someone will have a nice treat another day!

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