Apologies for the massive gap between posts. Moving is busy work. More than that, moving into a new house is hardly something that happens in a day or even a week. We’ve been in Estrella for just over two months…
Goodbye, Chandler!
Today is our last day living in Chandler. We are excited to move on, but it has been a great place. In particular, Stone Oaks by Mark Taylor, was a wonderful introduction to life in the Phoenix Valley. Big shout…
Citizen Chris
Last week Chris became a naturalized American citizen. We went into Phoenix to the district course house for the ceremony. The court house is absolutely huge and felt a bit like an airport: The actual ceremony wasn’t very long, but…
Floors, Cat Chess & The Lego Movie 2
The house is getting so so close. The last time we went it felt the most done it ever had by quite a long shot. It now has title floors in the rooms we chose tile (all but the bedrooms…
Citizenship Test
Early last year, Chris applied for US citizenship. It is quite a long process, so he just only got to take the citizenship test today. I got UK citizenship while we were living in Britain as well and it was…
Bothering Birds
Today at the Chandler Fashion Lego Store, we happened to run into a long time Instagram follower of ours who also blogs, Steve of Bothering Birds Here’s a short video:
Jess Learns to Drive
Part of the reason that our blogs have been released so infrequently in the last few months is because I had a significant extra item on my plate: learning how to drive. I’m sure many readers assumed I could already…
Chris’s Parents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary
Chris’s parents were here on their 50th wedding anniversary last month. The actual day fell on a Friday, but we celebrated twice so that they could have a blessing done at the local Catholic Church. Everyone at Saint Andrew the…
A Year of Cats
We have now had the cats for a little over a year. We absolutely would have posted this on the day, but we have had a month of visitors and a few other major developments that we will tell you…
Doctor Who Series 11: Part 1
With the change of day for Doctor Who from Saturday night to Sunday night, I haven’t generally had time to write reviews like I did for series 10 with the next day being a Monday as I do prefer to…