The last few months have been a blur. Chandler and living in the Stone Oaks apartments feels like a million years ago with how action packed the last 10 weeks have been. We have finally fully unpacked. About half of…
I Hate Distressed Furniture
In the last couple of months, Chris and I have done an awful lot of furniture shopping to fill our new house. I expected this to be at least a touch more fun than it has been. The problem is…
We’ve Finally Moved In!
Apologies for the massive gap between posts. Moving is busy work. More than that, moving into a new house is hardly something that happens in a day or even a week. We’ve been in Estrella for just over two months…
Goodbye, Chandler!
Today is our last day living in Chandler. We are excited to move on, but it has been a great place. In particular, Stone Oaks by Mark Taylor, was a wonderful introduction to life in the Phoenix Valley. Big shout…
One Week to Go!
On Friday, we went over to Goodyear for our pre-closing orientation. Originally it had been scheduled for 3 PM. We got it changed to 9 AM. I am so glad we did! It ended up taking nearly 5 hours. We…
Citizen Chris
Last week Chris became a naturalized American citizen. We went into Phoenix to the district course house for the ceremony. The court house is absolutely huge and felt a bit like an airport: The actual ceremony wasn’t very long, but…
Biosphere 2
A few weeks ago, we went to Biosphere 2. Many of you may remember it from the news in the early 90s when two teams of scientists were locked in. The first team lived in the dome for a full…
Floors, Cat Chess & The Lego Movie 2
The house is getting so so close. The last time we went it felt the most done it ever had by quite a long shot. It now has title floors in the rooms we chose tile (all but the bedrooms…
Citizenship Test
Early last year, Chris applied for US citizenship. It is quite a long process, so he just only got to take the citizenship test today. I got UK citizenship while we were living in Britain as well and it was…
We’ve Got Doors!
We headed up to Goodyear again yesterday to see the house progress. We have doors! Here is the video: