Hi there! Yes, it's me, I'm alive...just missing from the blog world for most of July. Oops . Work's been crazy busy, and then w...

Like many Americans this year, we decided to take off July 5th so we could turn the 4th of July into a nice, long weekend. Like not so many ...

One of the drawbacks of new construction is that there's zero landscaping to start with - no patio, no deck, no gardens... just a whole ...

As I explained in my last post , the brick took a while to finish, but by mid-June, it was finally done! Another new update was the drywall ...

My  last house update  was of our first time checking out the 2nd floor, after the stairs had been installed - that was basically the status...

Well I came very, very close to giving up on this challenge in May. I stopped just before we left for our 10 day vacation, then when we got ...

We've been on a major caprese panini kick lately - we've had these a couple times a week for the past several weeks. I could totall...

After Edinburgh , we headed back to England for the final portion of the trip - this time traveling down the eastern portion of the country ...

On Wednesday morning, we had yet another big tasty meal with our hosts in the Lake District before making the two-hour drive to Edinburgh. ...

I already talked about our Iceland layover , but I guess I should back up a little and mention what we were doing on this trip in the first ...