Almost settled in!

I almost felt like we lived at a real home this weekend! We're getting

close to unpacked, although we still need to get/build a little more

storage in the laundry room for random things that have no home at the

moment. Our shower officially works now! It still needs a little work

and now we need to find a new shower curtain (extra long) to fit in

the shower. By the end of the weekend, we were actually able to site

on our couch! There's still a few large boxes waiting to be

unpacked/installed including the cooktop range and the hood for that.

We also still have random power tools strewn about that we need to

give back to people. Our countertop should be in this week so the

kitchen will look a little more finished. I put up new curtains and

some more Christmas decorations too, so it actually feels a little

homey now!

Besides working on the house, we actually got out to be a little bit

social this weekend. There were actually a couple of architecture

parties downtown Friday night that I really wanted to make it to, but

we were both just so exhausted that that didn't happen. Saturday

morning I attempted to get a little back into running. That hase

definitely been on the back burner since the whole house renovation

thing has consumed any amount of free time I had. There's a little

running group at one of the parks in Seattle that puts on races every

few weeks, so I hopped into the 5k run. Hopefully if i keep going to

those I'll be motivated to keep running! There's also a HUGE dog park

at that park, so Ryan took Ben to that while I ran.

We spent most of the rest of the day Saturday unpacking and organizing

and doing laundry, but we got some pretty awesome visitors too! Leigha

and Nino brought their little baby Max over for us to meet him! He is

too cute, I can't wait to see much more of that little face. And his

parents are pretty awesome too ;)

Saturday night we headed over to some other friends house who have

just recently bought their house as well and were having a house

warming party. Their process was a little easier since it was move in

ready! It must have been so nice to buy the place and move right in,

but I think it's definitely been worth it for us since we've been able

to make everything the way that we like it. Some day we'll get to have

a housewarming party too...hopefully soon!

Sunday morning we met up with more friends for brunch in Queen Anne

and walked them back over to our house afterwards to show them around.

I love being able to walk all around the little neighborhood, it's so

cute!

Just a few more days of working away at our little house then it's off

to the south for Christmas! It should be a really nice relaxing

vacation which is exactly what we need right about now!