First house

There was a pretty big event in mid-April that was rather glossed over - I think because so much other stuff was going on right then.  PJr and Nedda closed on the purchase of their first home!  (And moved in just a few days later (April 13 weekend).)  (Roommates Nadia and Pumbaa followed along in a few days.)

kitchen crew in action in new house

PJr and Nedda found a really lovely place about three miles west/southwest from "Village Fairways" - a neighborhood we always liked (and actually looked at several places with a realtor during our wandering-years).  House is pretty recently constructed, in great shape, beautiful yard, mountain views (will stop since am sounding like a listing agent's ad).

Competing events that very weekend included a CPG birthday celebration in California (that included Nicole and EPG), Diamondbacks homestand keeping POC tied up, and a trip by the Reghabis.

kitchen crew posing

So that left Patricia and I as pretty much the only family members in town to assist with moving.  We had dinner with the housebuyers on Friday evening.  Then we helped them, after a fashion, for parts of Saturday and Sunday.  There is something tremendously exciting about the moving process, I never get tired of it. (Recalling the fun associated with the 7th/Washington move-in, discussed in the middle of this post.)  PJ seems to thrive in kitchen packing and kitchen set-up modes.  Nicole brought over lunch on Sunday (before going to another kickball loss), then we also had dinner there Sunday evening.

This will be a good place to gather.  First house = important marker.

(We did a lousy job of taking photos, so I'm just including the few cell phone shots that I have.)

Day two business:  new ping pong table (after hours of assembly work with Pat H)