Start again

 Am I the only one who dreams about blogging? I think about posting, Dream about  posting however I never really end up doing it. Well now it’s time to get back onto it.
Over the last year and a half our life has changed more than I could have every dreamed, or expected!! We have lived here and beautiful Southern California there is nothing in the world that could take me back to our first dream house!!  Now we have a life here it is perfect it is wonderful and as always full of so many challenges!!!
Our boys have just started back to school, and I have starting studying for my a credential that should help me at work, and as always working to keep our house and family on track for life!!!
There are many things I will post about in the coming weeks... Its all about accountability right?
-Owning to renting
-smart home to not smart home
-making new friends as an adult
-working with the challenges of Ewan
-how to transition to a public school education.
-doing what you love and getting a paycheck for it!

2.0 House

This is our cute little house in Cali!  I cant wait to decorate and make it our own.  

This is my quote for our new home

Even though its not super small, it's gonna be a change for our family! 

Barber Dream house 2.0?

So yes I stopped blogging for a long time.  Well no good reason, just didn't blog.
I feel that its time to revisit.... because.  well

We sold our Barber Dream house! 

We are moving to southern California!  More on that in a few days.  We move May 26! Just wanted those who still look at this from time to time to know! :)

  

So many things I could write but for now I'm just going to share the beautiful photos of this house from our listing.

"JUST 2 YEARS OLD...THIS CUSTOM RAMBLER BUILT BY LODDER HOMES OFFERS THE HIGHEST QUALITY THROUGHOUT*THE MAIN LEVEL LIVING HAS VAULTED CEILINGS PROVIDING OPEN, SPACIOUS LIVING AREAS THAT FLOW INTO THE KITCHEN*GOURMET KITCHEN WITH KNOTTY ALDER CABINETS, SOLD GRANITE COUNTERTOPS, GAS COOKTOP THAT INCLUDES CUSTOM PULL-OUT SPICE RACK AND WALL OVEN*JUST A FEW STEPS OUT TO ENJOY THE COVERED PATIO*MASTER SUITE OFFERS A JETTED TUB AND WALK-IN SHOWER, DOUBLE SINKS & IS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE HOME FROM THE OTHER BEDROOMS FOR PRIVACY*ENGINEERED HARDWOOD AND TILE FLOORS*PLANTATION SHUTTERS*GAS FIREPLACE*LOWER LEVEL OFFERS ROOM TO ADD BEDROOMS, BATHROOM, REC ROOM AND THEATRE ROOM...AND...HAS A WALK-OUT TO THE SIDE/BACKYARD*3RD CAR GARAGE BAY HAS EXTRA HEIGHT FOR YOUR TOYS*HURRY!! THIS ONE WONT LAST LONG!"

Office and back to school

So I tried it out and I LOVE IT!!!

It took quite a bit of work and help from the wonderful hubby but I LOVE how it turned out.  

Back to school and Office Organization.

As I've stated before I LOVE back to school!! I love school supplies and all that!  I don't know why but $.50 box of crayons make me GITTY!!!!
My oldest is heading back to school (3rd GRADE) in just over a week and I'm ready to help make this the best year yet!!
In the past few years, we have made homework more of a kitchen counter/table process.  HOWEVER I don't think that's gonna work for us this year.  So I'm working on ideas to make this happen!

Right now we have a BEAUTIFUL OFFICE!!! honestly dreams can come true in here!! :) jk

However as you can see its pretty tight and doesn't give us a good space to do some tutoring and team work on homework.  So I'm thinking of new ideas and ways to switch things up.  

Here is the plan.  Not sure what we will officially do but this is whats going on in my brain! 

Go from this beautiful desk, 

and take off the extra side and make it this!

Am I CRAZY? I'm not totally sure I'm doing that,... but I think i am!!! I'm gonna try that and see how that works first.  I'm not even sure the desk will allow me to do that! but I think that will give me a big open space to try! 

Im excited to see how that works out!!

and as we get closer to school starting we will be building a wall for studying and help with getting everything done!! 

yard woes step 2

This winter had been a really tough one for us with owing a home. We have had one flood after another in our basement. So far we haven't really had any really bad damage, however it still totally sucks!!!!!!!

Issues 1:

Our drain pipe wasn't working correctly in turn putting all the draining water right up next to the house and filling up our window wells with water, which in turn leaked through causing our basement to start accumulating water.

We have done a few things to fix it so right now we aren't having issues. We also have clean up down to a science!!!

Pump the outside and shop vac up the inside! 

Issue 2: our new found one :(

Our master tub leaks. Come to find out, with the help of a local plumber, it's the faucet that is leaking. So we are getting that fixed. However with that we noticed there is a lot more water then would just be cause by that leak.

We pulled out the bottom half of the insulation and it seems we have ground water coming in. Makes me super sad and frustrated,.... But that's the name of the game. 

That's the next project for us!!!

Here are some of the pics I've been too depressed to post 

Yard woes!

So I started this blog as a place to cronical us finding, building, creating and making our dream house.  Sadly things don't always go as planned.  We do have a beautiful home and a project list a mile long.  The thing about new construction however is there is this thing called a yard.   In our first home we loved our little backyard we redid right before moving and it was perfect and wonderful and that was in the plans for our new house.  The part that wasn't planed for were the imperfections.  I've almost written about this quite a few times, but the short of it is... after getting our yard in (about 80%, we still have our patio to do which was to be done this year) we loved it and it was everything we could hope for.  Until one day we started to notice water pooling in our window wells. Through a tough long winter of constantly pumping water out of window wells and cleaning up the floor in our basement, we knew that 2016 summer would NOT be patio..... it would be repair!  :'(
Sadly it was a blame game between the builder and the landscaper so it came out of our pocket,