Our Family Travels and Fun

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Mini Horses

This past Sunday our clients invited us to bring Steven out to their horse ranch for some fun. We had a fantastic time with all of the animals and Steven over came his fear of horses somewhat. We had the opportunity to take the reins of one pretty little gal...take a look....

These two horses below were brought to learn how to pull a cart and take direction from the driver. It was great to see. These two guys were very very playful....kinda like large kittens Steven said.

This hen is sitting on eggs and she let our client walk right up to pet her. In the picture below the horse is actually black, because they blanket the horse during the winter months the hair turned white. As we were petting her we were pulling out chunks of white hair revealing the shiny black coat beneath. Very cool.A trainer was on site training riders how to drive carts. Our client said that they will teach Steven if he is interested when we go back.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Finally we have internet again.

It has been a long and terrible 3 weeks with our internet service. We had AT&T for our internet connection since we moved here and our service has been nothing short of fantastic. The second we move to our house it goes all to heck. We finally had to cancel and we gave clearwire a try. Well four days, two modems, a tech guy making a house call, and we still had bad ...we are talking dial up slow....service. Soooo needless to say we discontinued our service with clearwire and we are now back with the Comcast service we had while in Spokane. We have a Comcast center here so we got to go right down and pick up the modem, we purchased some snazzy router from Costco, and Scott got us up and running. I am so excited to be able to get caught up with my blogs, newsletters, and research. So if you are just tuning in, be sure to look at the next several entries because I have been a picture posting fool tonight. The Slowski's must be so disappointed.

Between moving, spring break, work and unpacking, our lives have been very full. I finished unpacking the last of the boxes yesterday and we need to hang all of our shelves, pictures, and things to complete our adventure. (aka: hellish nightmare called moving)

We sold two more homes since I posted last and we hope to open escrow on 3 more in the upcoming weeks. People are finally realizing that this is the right time to buy property and sell property at market value for today (not 2005 during the big boom). We have been meeting several business owners and independant contractors such as ourselves and it has been great developing a network of professionals and friends in different ventures in our area. I had no idea that this community was so full of people relying on self employment rather then the dreaded corporate employment. The only draw back is medical insurance. We qualify for group coverage through the California Association of Realtors, however we bare the full cost of premiums which totaled over 15k last year. Most of the self employed in our community cannot afford premiums such as this and they are very frustrated with "the system". We are as well but with the medical challenges in our family non- coverage is not an option.

I decided to go short with my hair and had my stylist take off about seven inches and we went crazy with layers. I Love it and everyone is commenting on how much younger I look. It is also alot easier to comb out and the curls just spring right up so it takes no time at all to style in the morning...yahooo. Scott stills prefers baldness and Steven as you can see in the pictures in the Easter posts prefers a buzz cut.

I will try to capture pictures from the inside of our fun little rental home as soon as we finish getting everything hung up and the deco placed in it's most appealing spots. Once I do I will post them.

Steven had a glorious time at the coast with Grandma and Grandpa during spring break and has advised us that he requires two weeks with them this summer. I told him that we would have to space it out over the length of the summer rather then take it all at one time. He recommended that we just take two 7 day cruises and that would work out perfect. Gotta love that kid :) He takes after his grandpa. Here are some cute pictures that grandpa took of Steven playing army men at the beach house.

Easter Morning with Grandma and Grandpa

The Easter Bunny and Grandma, Grandpa, and Nanna spoiled us this year. After opening all of the gifts the five of us went to champagne breakfast at sizzler. Here are a few pictures of Easter morning.

Here is a great picture my dad took the afternoon we brought the kittens home. They're home is the third bedroom/work out room. They seemed to like it in there until they experienced the rest of the house. :) As of today they have access to all rooms and tonight is the first night I am not locking them in their room. Should be interesting to see how this turns out. Wish me luck.

Easter BBQ and Egg Hunt

Our clients and dear friends Melanie and Justin invited us to to spend Easter afternoon and evening with them at Melanie's parents farm for an egg hunt and bbq. The weather was awesome, mid 70's with a light breeze. Melanie's parents farm is huge and they have so many things to see and do out there. They have a duck with chicks, a large goat, huge geese, a man made mini lake with a dock, a go cart track, and custom trucks, tractors, wagons, and cars. Steven liked the lake best because it was full of tadpols, goldfish, and millions of minnows. There was not one mosquito in sight and we were their well into the evening. I found out that is the purpose of the millions of minnows. Makes sense now. There were hundreds of plastic and real eggs and enough food to rival the largest buffet in Vegas. Here are some pictures of our fun day at the bbq.