Wilson Living

Hard to believe, but it has been almost a month since we moved into 1967 Wilson. The first three weeks were mostly chaos, followed by a week of actually getting things organized (and painted). So far we really feel at home (have stopped looking at utahrealestate.com) and have met most of the neighbors, including a neighbor across the street that has a daughter married to a crazy guy that Chip fought fires with, and another down the street that is on an email list I send out for earthquake-related meetings. Small world. Here are a few photos...more to come (in a month or so):

Kitchen and dining "nook"

OK, so not as nice as our remolded kitchen in our last house, but no hidden coal soot!

Good sign that we're getting old. We're no longer experimenting with random paint colors, but "going with what you know." In this case - Crocodile Tears.

Not surprisingly, the view of Mt. Olympus out the front window is one of our favorite things, which reminds us why we live in Utah.

Finn and I have been away in Yellowstone and Bozeman for the last ten days. The reality of being away so long was sinking in for Finn yesterday as we made our drive back to Salt Lake City. The last two hours he kept commenting "miss Daddy", "miss yay-yay (Hudson)", "hug Daddy"...... Chris was busy while we were away. He managed to paint the living room and front entry, purchase and install a front-loader washer and dryer, tear up a chunk of concrete and plant a grape vine along our driveway, and even squeeze in a few day climbing trip to Idaho. All that on top of a normal work week. He'll be posting photos shortly (since I somehow took all 3 of our cameras with me).

Finn had many rambling stories to tell along the drive home of the adventures we had while we were away:
"Brock cut hair" "Isaac watch"













"Madison like black horse" "Madison feed black horse"
"more buffalo" "steamies" "watch for animals" "animals hide behind trees"

















"play Isaac, Madison, Hannah"
"see Grandpa's rescue truck" 'back Grandma's house"
"play at park" "digger"

In the end I realized that I should have taken more photos. I covered the first weekend at Yellowstone well but slacked from there on out.