Like many people in the Phoenix area, we are planning on having a pool and hot tub put into the backyard of our new home. You can’t really test out a built-in pool before you buy it as they are…
The First Ten Weeks: Wild Things and Tech Fun
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…
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…
We’ve Got Doors!
We headed up to Goodyear again yesterday to see the house progress. We have doors! Here is the video:
December House Update
We haven’t updated in a while. This was due in part to disappointment. We were initially told that the house would be ready in late November or early December. We were not actually updated on this change until late November…
Timber!
Apologies for how long it’s been yet again. Things have been absolutely manic in the last few months. This is a house update from the week they put the wood up. This was about half way through in early October:…
Cementing Our Future
A big hello from HiJenx! We apologize for the massive gap in videos. We have been very busy with our real jobs 🙂 At the end of August, we headed up to Estrella in the wee hours of the morning…
A Mad Week of International Visitors and Picking the Contents of an Entire House at the Same Time
It happened that the week we found the right builder, plot and house design was the very same week Chris’s parents were visiting from England. The market moves fast out here, so we didn’t feel we could wait until after…