Our awesome Backyard. It may not have been nicely landscaped but it had lots of space to run and it was fenced and had a large unused Garden area great for digging and getting completely dirty..what more could a kid OR Mom ask for?
We will miss Good friends. We had some other great neighbors who Mia and Maddi loved to play with. Here is Preston showing Mia how to read Hop on Pop. They had a system worked out where she would read all the Large Printed Words and he would read all the little ones.
Mia just recently learned how to climb the tree in our front yard.
A rainbow we saw one afternoon right before we moved.
Someone in our neighborhood was getting rid of their swing set and gave it to us and I can't count how many hours of entertainment the girls got out of that thing. We were VERY sad to leave it behind. I think their faces in the pictures say it all.
We had the BEST neighbors you could ask for in Spokane. Betty was one of our most favorite neighbors/surrogate Grandma. We loved to watch her work in her beautiful Garden, and the girls loved to swing on her porch swing, go visit her cats, or play with her dog Bella.
Oh how we will miss you sky blue room with the airplane border that only went halfway around the room, and with the lovely hardwood floors that allowed us to hear absolutely EVERY footstep that our children ever took in that room throughout the entire house.
We were always finding new little cupboards everywhere like the ones ABOVE the closet. And the rounded built in shelf thing was always interesting.
Floor to Ceiling Wood Paneling...it doesn't get much better than that!
I don't know if you can tell from this picture but the stairs going down to the basement had an opening with no railing down to the floor where our little daredevils spent many a good (mommy's-not-watching) moment jumping off!
Our steep and slippery painted wood stairs to the basement, where (I especially) had many a good fall.
How how we will miss our fun basement pantry with it's perfect-for-canned food shelves. And do you see the little decal on the outside that lets you know that it's the pantry. Haha I love that! With a very small kitchen this pantry was invaluable to us.
Our secret door/underground railroad drawer under the basement stairs. We are just glad it was heavy (and probably scary enough) that no children attempted to get INSIDE it.
We did have a one car detached Garage next to our house that we used for storage, but down in our basement we had this little room that we referred to as the Garage. It was the only unfinished part of the basement, intended to be a workroom and which we used for extra storage boxes. And yes it came with all that random stuff you see on all the shelves.
Well...the girls will miss this lovely little addition to the kitchen....the mini counter right next to the Big Counter....I however...will NOT! It was actually the bane of my existence. Like an open invitation for children to walk with shoes on right up onto the counter and help themselves to whatever they can reach in the cupboards....this was a real issue when Maddi was especially into her raw egg biting, syrup drinking, egg dye tablet eating, Vanilla chugging days. haha I will admit that we had some fun cooking moments with that little counter but more often times than not you could hear us saying, okay everyone off the counter!
Our Awesome Kitchen...you know it's small when the entire thing is the width of the oven. :) And do you notice the MINI Dishwasher...we learned to get very creative with storing food, and dishes....and would you believe we cooked Thanksgiving Dinner for 16 people in this Kitchen?! :)
Oh how we will miss you sky blue room with the airplane border that only went halfway around the room, and with the lovely hardwood floors that allowed us to hear absolutely EVERY footstep that our children ever took in that room throughout the entire house.
We were always finding new little cupboards everywhere like the ones ABOVE the closet. And the rounded built in shelf thing was always interesting.
Floor to Ceiling Wood Paneling...it doesn't get much better than that!
I don't know if you can tell from this picture but the stairs going down to the basement had an opening with no railing down to the floor where our little daredevils spent many a good (mommy's-not-watching) moment jumping off!
Our steep and slippery painted wood stairs to the basement, where (I especially) had many a good fall.
How how we will miss our fun basement pantry with it's perfect-for-canned food shelves. And do you see the little decal on the outside that lets you know that it's the pantry. Haha I love that! With a very small kitchen this pantry was invaluable to us.
Our secret door/underground railroad drawer under the basement stairs. We are just glad it was heavy (and probably scary enough) that no children attempted to get INSIDE it.
We did have a one car detached Garage next to our house that we used for storage, but down in our basement we had this little room that we referred to as the Garage. It was the only unfinished part of the basement, intended to be a workroom and which we used for extra storage boxes. And yes it came with all that random stuff you see on all the shelves.
Well...the girls will miss this lovely little addition to the kitchen....the mini counter right next to the Big Counter....I however...will NOT! It was actually the bane of my existence. Like an open invitation for children to walk with shoes on right up onto the counter and help themselves to whatever they can reach in the cupboards....this was a real issue when Maddi was especially into her raw egg biting, syrup drinking, egg dye tablet eating, Vanilla chugging days. haha I will admit that we had some fun cooking moments with that little counter but more often times than not you could hear us saying, okay everyone off the counter!
Our Awesome Kitchen...you know it's small when the entire thing is the width of the oven. :) And do you notice the MINI Dishwasher...we learned to get very creative with storing food, and dishes....and would you believe we cooked Thanksgiving Dinner for 16 people in this Kitchen?! :)When you know you will be leaving a place you immediately start to realize everything you will miss about it. While we were only in Spokane for a year, we really made some wonderful memories there. One thing we just LOVED about Spokane was all the old houses in the area we lived. It was always so fun to drive around and look at them, or to visit friend's houses because every house was so different. The house we rented was built in the 1930s and they have done quite a few updates although I think that kitchen floor came original. :) It was so different from our brand new (can't tell it apart from the other houses in the neighborhood) house we sold in Indiana right before moving here (which we also loved). I remember the night we got to Spokane and after all the wonderful people in our new ward had helped us move everything in we started getting the kids ready for bed. We had had a little issue with our move in date being too early, the previous tenants not really cleaning ANYTHING (most likely for the entire time they lived there) and the management company not having a chance to come in and fix everything up before we got there. So back to the story, Aunt Jilly had the fun job of bathing the older girls in a tub, that not only looked disgusting but had flakes (of the tub) coming off in the bathtub and the girls hair... yuck yuck yuck. At this point I was about ready to just pack everything back up and go ANYWHERE else. But after a week of cleaning like I've never cleaned before (have you ever HAD to wash everything in the kitchen INCLUDING the ceiling???) I decided I could make it work (the management company came and redid the entire bathtub among many other things...and that helped quite a bit!) But anyway we grew to just love our little house in Spokane as it became our home and while I never would have thought so that first night, we will really miss it and all it's quirky little characteristics.
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I felt the same way about our house in INdiana the first night there. I cried and told my mom not to unpack anything b/c we were finding a new place. I'm glad we stayed, it was perfect. and I'm glad it worked out for you too.
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