My mid life crisis, if that's what you want to call it.

Some guys get sports cars, I want an RV :) Because family time rocks! We've (I've) been looking for awhile, tell me all, what do you think about this. Would make for great road tripping (visiting in Reno).

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/rvs/2659603432.html What do you think?

A class C would be nice too. Just cost a bit more and a bit bigger to deal with...

Church Bells

Sorry we've been MIA this past couple of weeks....

• We have now been homeowners for 9 days. Woo hoo!
• You can hear church bells chime from our house. They're so pretty!
  
• We're 90% done with the painting. So far we've painted the dining room, living room, most the hallway and the 3 bedrooms.
• Why yes, I AM tired...
  
• My fingernails will never ever ever be paint free again, my skin looks and feels like sandpaper from paint exposure, being scrubbed clean & more paint exposure. You'd think I'd learn to wear gloves or something....
  
• Did you know that Home Depot carries Martha Stewart paint? I didn't want to love it. I really didn't. But oh that Martha! Every color was perfection!
  
• I had Ella take a bunch of pictures of our finished painting, but then I left the camera hanging in the coat closet. You know, cause I'm awesome like that...
• Colby pulled up the carpet in the 3 bedrooms and the floor is BEAUTIFUL!!! I don't think it's ever been exposed. I'm giddy, I'm so excited. I think we just need to maybe put a coat of something on it. SO AWESOME.
  
• WE HAVE A NEW WASHER AND DRIER!!!! We got it at the Pre-Black-Friday sale. It stacks. It chimes. It washes clothes without leaving lint behind (curses apartment laundromat! I scorn you!)
• We bought a fridge off craigs list, so hopefully this week we'll also HAVE A NEW FRIDGE WITH AN ICEMAKER! HOORAY! (I never believe in a craigslist purchase until I actually have the item in my hands. But still, kind of excited!)
• We also have a new baby niece! Lucy Marie is awesome and tiny and we hope she starts to sleep more so that Auntie Amber can remember what more than 3 hours of sleep at a time is like.
• Gretchen likes to "pet the baby".
• Cousin Kate doesn't want you to hold the baby if you're her mom. She started crying, broken hearted while her mom held Lucy, "I TRUSTED YOU!!!" (Meghan, she trusted you!)

I think that's about it for now. My head has been spinning with all the things to do, get done, work projects coming up, Christmas, Ack. But it's all good. All good, my friends. And I'm going to bed at 8:30 tonight.

Julian

Do you know what Julian, California is famous for?

Apples! And even better? Apple pie!

I didn't even like pie until I had a Julian crumbly top apple pie. Now? I've become a fan.

Josh, Meredith, Uncle Mike and I took a Saturday trip out to Julian a couple weeks ago, at the VERY end of the apple season.

So the apples were kind of slim picking. Josh and I had to climb trees to find any.

At this particular orchard you pay to pick per bag.

The bag is a 1/2 peck.

(As in, Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers - we picked a peck of apples.)

Uncle Mike sampling the goods. We have no idea what kind of apples we picked. Guess we should have asked, huh?

Orchard Pics!

(This next one may or may not end up on Josh and Meredith's Christmas card. Maybe. Maybe not.)

After the apple picking, we had lunch and then headed to the Julian Pie Co. for some hot apple pie a la mode. YUM. I got mine with cinnamon ice cream. I definitely recommend cinnamon ice cream for crumbly top apple pies. FYI.

We had fun - even the boys did!

I think we should make it an annual trip!