So the year hasn’t turned out to be a total failure (nobody has died this year), but it isn’t over yet!

We ended up having to walk away from our mortgage and let our hours foreclose. Not the most fun thing in the world. In the end our interest rate went way up and our payments almost doubled and it just didn’t work financially to stay. We did get offered “Cash for Keys”. Basically they offered us $500 to hand over our keys and not trash the place when we left. Continue Reading »

So a little over two years ago we started ripping the floors up in our house and putting in wood floors. The projects isn’t finished (need to put some base boards down) but it will be someday!

In the meantime I figured I post the pictures we took two years ago so we could remember what it looked like. Steve helped me do most of what is now the play room. The first thing we had to do was take the old carpet out: Continue Reading »