Russell got a job in Seattle and we're moving on January 1st. We'll be living in Lynnwood, WA, which is about 15 miles from Seattle, in an apartment complex called Heritage Ridge.
Those are some pictures of our complex (and how they found a sunny day to take the picture on I will never know!)
Across the street from our apartments is a lake (Martha Lake) with a few playgrounds for the kids. You can see our apartment buildings in the background.
This is our complex.
This is our pool.
Here are some pictures of the inside of our place.
We have a gas fireplace.
Our place has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a walk-in-closet in the master bedroom, a laundry room with a nice new washer and dryer (as opposed to just having them in a closet like some of the places we looked at, we have an actual room, so we can hang things up should we feel inclined!)
It will be fun to live in Lynnwood, there are a million things to do, oodles of shops, museums, zoos, aquariums, places to hike, ferries to islands we can take, whale watching, sea kayaking (perhaps we'll wait til Hyrum can sit up before we do that one) and a zillion more things. But after our four days there finding an apartment, we flew home to Montana, and when we walked in our tiny airport with its two gates and watched as all twenty people in the airport exchanged greetings with people they knew and neighbors they bumped into there, I felt like all the fun and exciting things in Washington can't quite compare with the joy and comfort of living somewhere like Bozeman. Perhaps in the future we'll live in a small place again. I hope so.
It's like they said in Run Away Bride: "May the good Lord make you smart enough to live in a small town."
Brielle is starting to talk more and more every day, but one word that she struggles with is Hyrum. She started by calling him "baby", then "Harm" which progressed to "Harem", and now she just calls him "Hummer". It's so cute that we have a hard time not using the nickname as well! We want to call him Hyrum so Brielle can learn the proper enunciation, but more and more often we find ourselves talking to Hummer!
Brielle recently discovered that she could open the fridge on her own, and now several times a day she'll open the fridge door, rummage around for a few minutes, and then bring to us whatever it is she'd like to eat.
At least four times a day she brings us the ingredients for chocolate milk.
Those are some pictures of our complex (and how they found a sunny day to take the picture on I will never know!)
Across the street from our apartments is a lake (Martha Lake) with a few playgrounds for the kids. You can see our apartment buildings in the background.
This is our complex.
This is our pool.
Here are some pictures of the inside of our place.
We have a gas fireplace.
Our place has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a walk-in-closet in the master bedroom, a laundry room with a nice new washer and dryer (as opposed to just having them in a closet like some of the places we looked at, we have an actual room, so we can hang things up should we feel inclined!)
Except I didn't sell my hair....I donated it to Locks of Love, a non-profit organization that makes wigs for children with medical conditions that cause hair loss. Locks of Love
Hyrum was blessed last Sunday and he was a perfect little angel. While he was being blessed he just smiled and laughed at everyone (as opposed to screaming, like his sister had done!)
