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Lake Tapps waterfront with view of Mt. Rainier

// August 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Family, Life

When I found out that my parents were going to try and sell their house so that they could move closer to us, I jumped at the opportunity to help. One way I thought I could help was to design this website dedicated to the house. It’s nothing more than a glorified MLS Listing Sheet, but I’ve added some photos to it as well.

You can see my design at: http://www.laketappshouse.com

Come home to this Lake Tapps retreat. This 3 bedroom 1.75 bathroom modified Pan-Abode cabin has a private boat dock and 2 bedroom guest house!

Take in gorgeous views of the lake and mountain from one of the decks or large patio with built in BBQ. The custom kitchen and dining room with fireplace looks over the lake as well. There is a spacious, detached 2 car garage with loft and craft room. New high efficiency windows and carpet have been installed.

This home has many charming touches like the claw-foot tub in the upstairs bath and the many flower and vegetable gardens. This is a beautiful recreational home just minutes from the city or country!

For more information visit http://www.laketappshouse.com

Lake Tapps was created in 1911 when 3 lakes were filled together to create one that has over 45 miles of shoreline. There used to be a sawmill on site at this property, and when the lake goes down in the winter you can still see the remains of the railroad tracks that serviced the mill. During renovations, the current owners came across a giant saw blade. A reminder of the past history of this land.

Avery learns to write

// July 19th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Family

Lately, Avery’s future career of choice had changed from a firefighter to an artist.  More specifically a painting artist. Although she has phases of wanting to be a marker artist too.  We’ve been really working with her on learning the alphabet.  She can sing the alphabet song now pretty well, and she can recognize a bunch of them if she sees them.  

We’ve moved on to showing her how to write the letters.  We’ve found chalk to be the most fun for her to use, and she loves it.  We have an alphabet poster hanging on the wall in our play room, so we’ll reference that when we pick out a letter to draw.  We draw all the letters, but ‘A’ is our favorite because her name starts with that letter.  She’ll go up to the poster and look at the picture and try and figure out what letter it is.  Once she has it figured out, she’ll go back to her chalk table and practice drawing it.

The other day while she was being a marker artist, I was at work, and Christi was in the living room with Hannah when Avery came running in screaming “I drawed a letter! I drawed a letter  ’A’ !”.  Sure enough, she drew the letter A all by herself without any instruction. 

We are so proud!  She’s not even 3 yet (but will be in September) and we think she’s a genius.  The picture above is her showcasing her lasted marker artist creation.  

She’s planned out her career.

// May 16th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Family

My 2 1/2 year old little girl, Avery, had decided what she wants to be when she grows up. I know this is common for little kids, and will probably change 100 times by the time she graduates high school, but right now she’s quite adamant about being a firefighter.

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