Now that we had the house and were more than a month in we started renovating. The house itself was brown on the inside. A nice dark brown throughout and lovely 80s fixtures. It really looked like nothing had been touched or upgraded in ages. We updated lighting throughout and even got a Nest thermostat…

Hey! August. what a month. Things quieted down on traveling. We had all but given up on getting the house in Mesa – or anywhere for that matter. Then on one of the websites, we were tracking homes on (we used realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin) we noticed that the house in Mesa appeared again…

Hey! My posts are going to probably continue the same pattern that I’ve had for the past few, at least until I’m caught up. A lot of this is just a mental export for myself over the last few years. Ready for July?! Almost. I forgot one last thing that happened at the VERY end…