Foiled Again

When we bought this house in Arizona, I planned to replace the kitchen with an IKEA kitchen similar to what I did in Minnesota, but after putting together a small table, two chairs and two dressers my plan came to an end.  The carpel tunnel which has not bothered me since returning from Iceland is now worse than ever and so Eileen had to put together the dinning table (not her thing).  Now we are going through the process of getting bids and determining who we want to do the work - not fun like I planned. 

Micah's Mom made this beautiful quilt for us years ago and it served us well in Minnesota and now as you can see it works great here too.

The living and dining room are coming together. We bought an ottoman for the sofa in red but it doesn't work with the rug. Since we don't want to take the rug back we will get a different cover for the ottoman. We need a couple of chairs, some steam work on the sofa cover, window coverings and paint to be done with this area. Of course Eileen wants to paint every room in the house (except she doesn't paint). The only area I will not do is the two story stairs.

One of the blessings of being here is the opportunity to take walks without the fear of slipping on ice.  We have been walking in Heidi's neighborhood with the two oldest in their strollers.  Last night we decided to walk from our house to the library and surrounding area.  It only took 11 minutes to walk to the library which is very nice.  We then just walked around historic downtown Chandler.  The city has put a lot of money into revitalizing the downtown area and beautiful government buildings.