Christmas 2009, Part 3

Skiing

Half Dome from Glacier Point

Happy Easter!!

These are pictures from the Chihuly Exhibit at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Our next door neighbor is a ranger there and treated us a couple weeks ago. The picture above is of his piece titled "The Sun" - I thought it was appropriate for today. Dale Chihuly is a glass artist who has pioneered in glassblowing- all of his sculptures are blown glass. The Sun is over 700 tubes wired together. For each exhibit (it's a traveling exhibit), the pieces are wired together, so the pieces never turn out the same way. Chihuly also comes to the location, and chooses where he wants the pieces and builds the garden into his art. It was amazing! Even just the Desert Botanical Garden was incredibly beautiful.




Heather and I in front of a very rare crested saguaro- this is a mutation that only happens rarely.







Happy Easter!
Love,
Laurie

Here's our tiling project.

More recent pictures of the outside of the house

P.S. Now I see what you mean about the pictures loading backwards. Very odd.

The Floorplan and other details

I haven't measured anything, so please disregard the numbers. This is the layout of the house. I built it upside down, so north is at the bottom. Whoops.

It is 1289 sq ft, built in 1989. It is about a mile from our last apartment, before we moved to the condo last year. It is on a corner lot in the middle of a little neighborhood, with a grass "square" in the middle. At the end of the street there is a walkway that connects to the elementary school and the nearby park, and also to a walking path that runs east-west from the dog park and swimming pool on Kyrene (south of the Kyrene apt- for those of you who saw the jogging path there, it is not the same one- I wish! this one is concrete sidewalk- can't run on it...) to the small airplane airpark on McClintock. We are smack in the middle- Kyrene is 1 mile west, and McClintock is 1 mile east. The seller wants a 60-day escrow, so we're scheduled to close June 15th.

Our house :)

Here's the house that we are signing the contract for tonight!

Back yard

House from the front

Looking at the front door

Looking from the front door

Kitchen

Dining room

Family room

Third bedroom

Second bath

Second bedroom

Master bath

Master bath

Master bath

Master bedroom