The First Day

Our house is now legally ours! YES!! We actually own a whole home. It's freaking ours. When we are done with it we have to actually SELL it. No telling a landlord we are vacating next month. No, no, no. $10,000 dollars and a buyer are all we need.

After a little wait we got on our ferry. It was a gorgeous day. The kids were content. There was peace in our world. We stopped off at the Red Apple, piled into one car and drove to Shellie's property. Wow. She's got a nice place. They had a bonfire going, James talked to her husband for forever and a day. Shellie showed us a tree frog she caught. Will and I wandered around and took pictures. Finally James was done talking and Shellie handed us two plants and a bag full of goodies with our key attached to the bag. She put it on a Whidbey Island key chain. She is the best!! We took off for the Red Apple and got our other car. Then we took off for the new home!

When we got there the place was open. The lock was gone so we just turned the knob and let ourselves in. Will rode his trike around the bare floors and had a great time. We opened every window because there is a funky smell. We think its the carpeted stairs. I put the plants Shellie gave us (mints) in the sunny window to combat the stink. We unpacked our cleaning supplies. I swept up all the dead flys and moths. We put a huge blanket down for keekers. We said hi to a neighbor and got down to moderate business.

As I was getting things out of a car, James had Keely and some guy with a 5 pack came up. He was gushing about how cute Keely was and I immediately hated him. T R A S H. He talked to James, went on and on about our kids and finally left. Turns out he never even offered James a beer. I started to feel bad about my first reaction of him. I thought to myself "Jamie, he was probably just being neighborly, sharing a beer, letting us know he was there to help if we needed it.". No. He is trash. Our friends Gunner and Ahna were at her parents house, literally a few houses from us, and they brought over some neighbor girls.

We all went inside, not trashy man, and hung out for a while. I found out the neighbor girls don't like trashy man either and call him "the high schooler". I also found out I will be photographing Gunner and Ahnas upcoming wedding!! We found out our heater in the new house kicks ass. We found out there are Mosquitos. The girls told me they used to play in our yard when the house was empty and I told them they still could. We had an excellent pow wow and we are excited to own that place!