There's a first for everything...

Well, I was so impressed by my friend Ryan's (& Emma's) blog and realized what a great idea it was great way to keep family members and friends in the know about what's going on in your life...especially if you rarely get to see them. Ryan & Emma live out in Portland Oregon, so pretty much as far as you can go from Dave and I, without landing in the Pacific Ocean. :) So, where to start?
Most of you already know that David and I recently built a house in a new single family home development. We really love our new place and I'm really looking forward to filling up all the free space outside with my gardening. It's going to take a lot of work, but it's well worth it to sit out on a nice cool evening, seeing all the flowers blooming, the birds chirping, the dogs running on the grass and hanging out with good friends.
So... rewind back to the present time. :( We're still getting used to our place and it's getting used to us too. Much as we like this place, I'm starting to think that next time... if there is a next time, we're buying a pre-existing home. The builders have had to come by and fix so many things... most of the time, making it worse than it was before they started fixing it. Case and point... it just recently started getting hot enough to turn on the a/c in the house. The house is dual-zone cooling and heating, meaning that there's a unit up in the attic and one in the basement. Well, we turned on the air over the weekend while we went up to Erie, PA for Dave's sister's wedding since we knew that the dogsitters were going to be staying here. When we got back, we noticed that on the main floor, in the office, the paint was blistered from the ceiling 3/4 of the way down to the floor. I felt the blister and it was full of water! Turns out the condensation pipe for the upstairs unit, which travels through the wall, was leaking. So, we can only turn on the downstairs unit. Nevermind that hot air rises... So, we have the a/c guy come out and he can't reach the pipe from where he's busted the wall in, but he thinks he's isolated the leak. He can't reach it because he would have to bust in the wall of our tiled shower. *sigh* So, they're coming on Wednesday and of course, Dave has to take off... again. Hopefully it gets fixed this time because we're having a full house this weekend.
Dave's Mom, nephew Ethan, sister Laurie and her husband Mike are coming for David's other twin nephew's 4th birthday. It'll be a good time and fun will be had by all, to be sure.