It's time for Parade of homes and this year Angie and I are serious!! We know that as we get more kids that being able to getting away will be harder and harder. So this year our goal was to do every single home and we almost did it. If we had one more day we could have done it. Our husbands were so nice and let us abadon them for a whole week while we toured homes. There was a lot to see and Angie and I had so much fun. We saw lots of crazy things, a pool within a pool, tubs that filled from the ceiling, firepits and tubs that were set into the floor, rooftop patios, and color changing pools.


Every year we learn(or are reminded and reaffirmed) something. This year we decided that squishy carpets are the best(double and triple carpet padding), that we love nooks and crawl away spaces, that showers need to be enclosed to protect prescious steam, that closets and laundry rooms should connect(or at least be close), and if you are going to drive all the butt way into nowhere, don't have your house so close to your neighbor that you can reach out your window for early morning high fives.

Our most memorable moments were sneaking under ropes to check out what was on the roof, listening to a woman complain forever about how a tub would kill her, being told that something that was obviously not a microwave was a microwave, and being shocked about how far 450,000 doesn't go with some builders( a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home where you had to share your yard and two of your walls) and how far 250,000 can go with other builders( 6 bedroom, 3 bathroom with a courtyard)