Our Investment Property is finally in contract to SELL!

Our property on South Lake Drive in Antioch, CA is finally in contract to sell! We have had it on the market since the market turned for the worst October 2005. We bought it in horrible condition with the plan to remodel and sell it for a higher price. Well, instead we remodeled it and carried the extra mortgage payments the whole while and now we are selling it for less than we bought it for. That is the risk you take with investments, I guess. You win some and you loose some.

Celebrity

This is a picture of Sadie with "baby puppy". She has had many "baby puppies" but they are always called the same thing. She isn't very creative with naming things yet. Anyway, Sadie doesn't want to go anywhere with out a baby puppy and you can often find her a the grocery store, bank, or at home with her puppy cuddled in her arm. She even sleeps with it. It sort of reminds me of the fad that Paris Hilton or some of the other celebrities you see taking their little dogs with them wherever they go.

Sadie loves to Dance!

This is an old picture (from Christmas time) but it illustrates Sadie's famous dance move. She calls it the insane. She really enjoys dancing and she's fun to watch - if she doesn't know your watching. She even changes her technique according to the music that is playing. She isn't in any classes yet, so I think we will try to get her started in a dance class soon.

Boys will be boys

Braden is definitely in to everything. I don't remember Sadie getting into - and braking - things like Braden does now. It seems like everyday Braden gets into one of my cupboards and breaks something inside. A lid for a pot, a dish, antenna for a stereo, whatever he gets his hands on. Before the dining room was done he got into the wood stain that was in that room and had it all over his hands and face when I got to him. Then the other day he found some lead pellets for Jason's pellet gun in a drawer and Jason found him putting one in his mouth. We called Poison control and since we didn't know if he had swallowed any we had to get an X-ray at the emergency room. Well, this is a picture of another one of his favorite things to do....unroll the toilet paper!

The Dining Room is finished!

Jason worked very hard to get our dining room finished for an etiquette dinner for the youth in our ward. He just needed that extra incentive to get it done sooner rather than later. It has both raised and recessed panels along the wall and on the pillars and door treatment. And under the crown is rope lighting hidden behind a second layer of crown. We are very excited to have this room to use after owning our house for 2 years!