Congrats to the newbie parents!

Two friends (Natalie and Carla) and my cousin (Vanessa) gave birth to their first babies in the beginning of March. All boys too! I wanted to dedicate this post to welcoming them. Also an honorable mention goes to my friend Katie in Boston, MA who is also expecting a boy any day now.

Natalie and "her" Casey had Barnabas on March 1 in Santa Fe, NM.

Carla and Brett had Mason on March 11 in Phoenix, AZ.
Vanessa and Charlie had Weston on March 15 in Seattle, WA.

So much to tell.

So much has happened since the last post. Casey actually wrote that last post on Day 2 without water. That weekend I was in Phoenix for my friend Carla's baby shower. So I came home and it was then Day 5 without water. Our landlord was warned by us and the City of Seattle that the water was going to be shut off due to non-payment. We were getting foreclosure and water shut off notices over the past month. Our landlord said he would take care of it and then said he did take care of it. Lies lies lies. So at Day 6 I contacted the city of Seattle to report this. They came within a few hours to inspect the property. On Day 8 we got the notice to vacate. We were thrilled to get out of the lease at this point. Thanks to the help of our friends at the Westenders Scooter Club and Becky, we packed and moved all of our belongings into a Penske truck within 48 hours. We will be taking our former landlord to small claims court to get the deposit, rent and moving costs returned. Even though we probably wont get a cent out of him we think it is important to at least embarrass him in front of a judge.

The good news is that we are already moved into a new place. A cute house in the NW Seattle neighborhood of Ballard. The place is bigger and cheaper than the last. This is a two bedroom/1 bathroom house with a huge basement, a larger garage, and a big fenced-in yard. Casey signed the lease before even seeing the place! He really trusts my judgment... the words "bigger garage" was all I had to say. We have been here now for 1 week. The unpacking is going slow but after packing moving and unpacking over 3 times in 4 months we are getting efficient with this grueling process.













I have a lot more to tell of the happenings over the past couple weeks with my trip to Arizona and my parents visit to Seattle. I will save all that for the next post. Now it's time to take a much needed break.