October 2017

We went to the Phoenix Zoo and saw the dinosaur exhibit with our neighbors/freinds, the Beechers! Gwen was so scared, but she is so brave! If I can point out something familiar in something she perceives as scary, she doesn't find it so scary. During the dinosaur walk, if something scared her I'd point and say, "Oh look! It has red! You like red!" and she would say, "Oh! Okay! It's cute then!" but prior to that, she'd be saying, "Oh my gosh! It's so scary! It's too scary, Mom!" She is so stinking perfect.

GWEN RODE A CAMEL. At the zoo. With Adam. It. Was. Magical. 

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!

We were pre-approved and started looking! A house that we had seen was over our budget, but we (us and our real estate agent, Becca) just really enjoyed looking at houses, so we did this only once! We saw the house before it was listed because we'd followed its progress on social media, and it was under contract the first day on the market for a full price cash offer. No surprise there! We looked at our real options and found a few we liked, but nothing too great. I caught wind that the offer fell through on the expensive house, so we came and looked at it again and decided to just SEE what they would do if we made an offer, and we got it!!!! We moved in on Halloween Eve and Halloween, and it's a beauty. We're getting a pool fence this weekend, and we feel like royalty in this place!

I started a new job. I've been working a few days at Aesthetic Family Dental Care in Chandler. It's very close to us, and I like it a lot!

Breakfast babe

Working!

One of our last days at the rental!

Our moving crew, minus a few! We are so blessed with the best friends!

Halloween! Gwen is Minnie and Farris was Elsa at the downtown Mesa trick or treating event!

Gwen and Adam on the camel! Gwen loved every second of this!

Otterpops after sports class are a must!