Monday, January 4, 2010

Happy 2010!

We've been enjoying settling into our new house...

We even had some snow, a few days after Christmas...

As long as we've been together, Bret and I haven't been big on presents for each other...but this year with the sale of our house in Wyoming we treated ourselves to a used pop-up camper (to replace the Airstream)...

We found it on Craigslist...bought it from a family who was upgrading to a small RV. Can't wait to explore more of Oregon in it! (Sabine and Vivian are happy exploring it in the yard!)



And a piano...

we bought it from The Piano School for the Blind -- the only school in the world that teaches blind and visually impaired people to tune and repair pianos. They take donations of pianos that their students fix up then they sell them -- partially to raise money for the school. The piano we got used to be a school piano. I've wanted a piano for a long time, and am looking forward to learning and playing with the whole family.

We went to the farm of some other homeschoolers to cut down our Christmas tree (reminding us of Wyoming)...




We had a small New Year's Eve party (at which I completely forgot to take pictures!), and enjoyed roasting marshmallows in the wood stove when the snow fell!

All in all a lovely end to 2009 and beginning of 2010!
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6 comments:

Cap'n Franko said...

Wow! What a great post. Welcome to the world of popup campers; we've enjoyed ours. And a new piano. Music, music, music!

hahamommy said...

Can't wait to come visit you in your new blue-door house! ♥

Carolyn said...

Thanks you all! Wahoo! Yes, looking forward to many-a-visitor, awesome camping trips and music!

Zenmomma said...

Oooo... new house, new house! More pics please. :o)

Carolyn said...

I know, I know! I keep telling myself I want to hang more pictures before taking pictures, but maybe I just need to take the darn pictures! :) Or you could just come up and visit and see it in person!

Looking forward to NON-CON!

hi, i'm kat. said...

congratulations on the camper and piano!!! so exciting ;) can't wait to check them out. i need to go get some books for our piano too, have any recommendations?