My parents house.....kind of

Ok, so dumb blogger isn't working again. I just downloaded a bunch of pictures from my trip to Oregon and these 4 are the only ones it is allowing me to keep. I guess I will just have to do multiple blogs to tell the tale of my journey to Oregon. I went out there to see Chrysta, and to go to my brothers wedding. It was so fun!! I hadn't seen Chrysta since my wedding day over 2 years ago!! Crazy. We both don't feel like it had been that long, probably due to our hour long phone conversations every day. We can get sick of each other 3000 miles apart!!! Anyways, while I was there, we went back to my parents old house. They moved to Indiana while I was on my mission so I never got to see it one last time before they moved. I totally still pictured it the way it looked when they still lived there. Well, for those of you that have been to the house, you will be so surprised by how they have redone the living room and kitchen!! It looks so great!! The couple that bought it (the wife rather) has a knack for decorating. They have cute stuff everywhere, and they painted the walls these really great colors. I loved it! It was a little strange being in a house that was still so familiar to me but knowing it wasn't my house anymore. I showed the new owner where I had carved me and all my siblings names into the wood on the staircase. Funny that it was still there. The lady said that they still use the wood fireplace to heat the house!! It brought back bittersweet (mostly bitter) memories of me and my brothers hauling in wood every Saturday morning. 100 pieces each. Ugh. But I have to say, heat from a wood stove feels way better then central heat. There is just something about it that feels cozy. They are still renovating a lot more of the house so I am excited to go back in a few years and see what else they do to it. Ok, I will try again tomorrow night to add more pictures of the rest of my trip.