Einar was very excited about the trip up because we got to fly on a little Horizon plane instead of the usual Alaska plane. That was the first thing he told Grandpa when we arrived atSeaTac. I thought Horizon was pretty nice because they offered free wine and beer.
On our way up to Bellingham the following morning, we dropped Einar off at Poppa and Farmor's house where he stayed for two nights. He played with the electric train, outside in the dirt, and had an especially good time chasingFarmor with the hose and getting her really wet. Thankfully Seattle was having a heat wave last week and it was in the 80's while we were there. He also went down toAlki to play with his cousins Matty and Sammy.
Soren, however, got to stay with Mom and Dad and go house hunting in Bellingham. We saw 19 houses that day between 10am and 4pm! He is quite adept now at testing out a place. There were only a couple places where he didn't get to try out the floor. It seems like a lot of places to keep straight, but since we'd already spent so much time on theInternet checking things out and looking at whatever pictures had been posted about the places, it was easier than you might think. We were pretty quick in making our first impressions and really didn't want to have to do too much work to the place before we moved in, eliminating many of the properties in our price range.
Long story short, we bought our first home in the Columbia neighborhood of Bellingham. Being close to Western, downtown, the waterfront, parks, the grocery store and 4 blocks from a great elementary school are the biggest perks to our new place. It also has a fenced in back yard for the kids to go crazy outside. It has three bedrooms and one bathroom and is just about 1000 sq ft. Smaller than we were hoping for, but location won out over square footage and amenities this time around. Now it's time to start planning what to get rid of around here before we make the big move so we can fit into our new home.
Our new bathroom on Kulshan street.
Our kitchen. The appliances are on the other side.
Einar went up on Saturday with Jared and Poppa for the house inspection to check it all out and choose his bedroom. Here he is showing where the washer and dryer will go in the kitchen.
In front of our new home!
Here Soren is rearranging the pine cone decorations in the hotel lobby while we were doing more house stuff online. He was such a good house hunting kid!
Our new kitchen sink.
Brand new appliances.
Soren roaming around and checking things out.
Fenced in back yard with a nice 10 by 10 shed out back. I hear that you can chickens in Bellingham too.
A cute little bush that is in the front. It might be a smaller relative of Tor and Jess' fry-guy tree that they have at their place.
