La cerca está terminada! (The fence is done!)

Ya hace unas dos semanas que la cerca está hecha, pero me tomó todo este tiempo descansar y regresar al mundo de la realidad... wow! eso si que fue trabajo duro, pero valió la pena sólo de ver a Bruno disfrutando del patio. (Its been a couple of weeks since we finished the fence, but it took me a while to recover and rest, and that was a lot of work, wow! It was all worth it after seeing Bruno go nuts running in the yard, so cute!)

Trabajando en la cerca (Making the fence)

Los papas de Dave llegaron hace unas dos semanas atras para visitar, conocer Carolina del Norte y ayudarnos con la cerca, y como sorpresa nos trajeron unas cuantas cervezas de Alaska, humm. (Dave's parents came to visit about two weeks ago to get to know North Carolina, help with the fence and they brought us some Alaskan beer!!!)

Luego de una caminata por el vecindario. (After a walk around the neighborhood)
Fuimos a ver un juego de pelota. (We went to see a baseball game, Durhma Bulls)

Y el trabajo de la cerca comienza, buff. (And the fence work starts, woof)


Cavar estos hoyos fue una tarea fuerte. (Digging these holes was a big, exhausting job)

Bruno supervisando el trabajo. (Bruno as a supervisor)

La puerta en progreso. (The gate is under way)

Primera semana! (First Week!)

Aqui esta Dave en la cocina, como ven la cocina ya esta bajo uso y un tanto desarreglada en la foto, pero eso es evidencia de que la usamos mucho. (Here is Dave cooking, and as you can see the kitchen is fully functional and a bit messy... but that is evidence of us really using the kitchen!)
Bruno y su comedor. (Bruno in his dinning room.)
Casa por detras un nuestra terraza y patio. (Back of house, deck and backyard)
Terraza y hierbas. (Deck and herbs)
Comedor, tenemos que pintar y poner mas cosas en la pared... en progreso. (Dinning, we'll probably paint and put more stuff on the walls... working on it still.)
Sala. (Living room)
Living room

¡Hogar dulce hogar! (Home sweet home!)

¡Compramos casa! Hace dos fines de semana atrás Dave, Bruno y yo teníamos planeado irnos de caminata. Teníamos la casa de acampar, todo el equipo listo, el camino elegido, dónde acampar cuantas millas caminar por día... pero los del tiempo se unieron todos para decir que iba a llover, tronar y relampagear todo el fin de semana. Con ese pronóstico decidimos mover la caminata para otro fin de semana y dedicarnos a mirar casas y empezar el proceso de buscar agentes de compra. Bueno para hacer la historia corta vimos tres casas ese fin de semana, incluyendo la finalmente elegimos (tercera casa que visitamos). Conocimos a nuestra representante de compras y al otro fin de semana, el sábado, posimos nuestra oferta y el domingo a las cuatro de la tarde ya teníamos contrato... yupi! Aquí está la foto de la casa, cerramos el 23 de julio así que en un mes pondremos más fotos de la casa, por ahora sólo fotos generales.

We bought a house! So two weekends ago, Dave, Bruno and I were ready to go backpacking. We had the tent, and all the equipment ready, the trail choosen and the stops along the way, but aparently all the weather people got together to say it was going to rain dogs and cats out there with T-storms all around us, so we decided to stay home. Since Dave got his fantastic job and we are now more permanent in the area buying a house is best as to give away the money in rent. We set out to search for houses and got to see 3 that first weekend, including the one we end up choosing. We also met our agent and she is great with what she does, so after visiting other houses we decided to put an offer on the one we liked a lot, that was Saturday June 5th, on Sunday our offer was accepted. The seller will take the playground, but what kind of monster will take kids playgrounds as bargaining... hehehe. Anyway above is a picture of what will be our future home. Plenty of room for all the family and friends that need a room to stay. But we close on July 23rd so not yet people, just a bit longer. Needless to say we are all very excited, Bruno specially... he gets the big yard to run around.

Hugs to all

Primera mitad del 2010 (First half of 2010)

Ha pasado mucho tiempo y ahora vengo con un resumen de algunas de nuestras aventuras desde Navidad... buff. Bueno pues comienzo desde el principio... Luego de quitar las decoraciones de Navidad nos dimos cuenta que donde teniamos el arbolito de Navidad ahora esta muy oscuro, asi que nos dimos la tarea de construir unos bloques de madera unos para lamparas y otros come estanterias. Pues ya termine el proyecto pero no escuentro la foto asi que les debo el producto final... (Its been a while and I come to you now with a summary of our adventures since Christmas.... wow! Well lets start... After taking the Christmas decorations and tree we noticed that the tree corner needed some more light, so we designed some wooden boxes and built it on our deck some will be lamps and the rest will be stands... is pretty cool and I'm done with them but I don't have a current picture so I owe you the end result.)


Tambien hemos estado ejercitando y comiendo mejor como parte de nuestra resolucion y las buenas noticias es que hemos perdido algunas libras, Dave perdio 15 libras y yo 10. Bueno en esta foto fuimos a Eno River con Bruno que ya esta grande y toda una maquina de destruccion. (We have also been exercising and eating better as part of our new year's resolution and the hard work paid off, we've lost some pounds too, Dave lost 15 lb and I 10. In the above picture and the next one we are at Eno River with Bruno that has been growing and getting strong.)


Nuestra amiga Jennifer y su hijo Owen nos dieron una visita y aqui nos fuimos a Umstead Park con unos amigos de Jennifer. (Our friend Jennifer and her son Owen came for a visit and a hike she also met a couple of her friends from college and we all had a great day)

Para Pascua de Resurreccion nos ruinimos en casa de nuestro amigo Mike (en su casa nueva desde Navidad!) (For Easter we got together at Mike's new house and had a very nice meal!)
Randy y Nika trajeron a su perro Bali que le dio compania a Bruno. (Randy and Nika brought their dog Bali that kept Bruno some company.)

El fin de semana pasado nos fuimos de camping con Randy, Nika y Bali a un parque Nacional a unas dos horas de Durham llamado Hanging Rock. (Last weekend we went camping with Randy, Nika and Bali to Hanging Rock State Park, about two hours drive N.)
Las vista eran preciosas y la caminata fue intensa de unas 8 millas. (The views were great and the hike of 8 miles was intense)




Nos la pasamos genial (We had a great time, in my top 10 camping spots)
El 22 de abril la hermana de Dave, Karen tuvo su cuarto hijo, Timothy James Foss. (On April 22nd Karen, Dave's sister, had her fourth son, Timothy James Foss, or butterball!)
Y para terminar, Dave tiene trabajo con una compania haciendo investigacion... woooohoooo! (Dave got a job offer, with a very cool company working as a research scientist, woooohoooo!)