goodbye to annandale

My room!!! I did lot of thinking in this room. A LOT of thinking. I also did a lot of dreaming, praying, and snoring. ; )

The kitchen...I can't even imagine the number of dinners cooked in this kitchen. I can tell you that I probably washed an equal number of loads of dishes in that sink!

Some mornings we'd even have breakfast on the deck...it felt like we were on vacation somewhere special.

Here's the back/side yard. We spent a lot of time back here grilling out and hanging out. This was definitely Mom and Dad's little piece of heaven.


That's the sunroom off the deck. I remember Mom and Dad were very excited about that room but it turned out to be not such a great investment. In the summer it got too hot and in the winter it got too cold...there were basically a few days in the Spring and Fall that the room would get used but otherwise, the doors remained shut.

You can also see our little vegetable and herb garden where my Dad grew tomatoes, cucumbers, mint, and lots of peppers...hot hot peppers.

That's my first BMW....loved that car! Sold it Oct 2005, right before Aiden was born so that I could upgrade to an SUV.


Home Sweet Home!

I used to think this front yard was huge. We used to kick the soccer ball around and pass the football across the yard.


I was the designated lawn mowing person for this house...mainly because I liked mowing the lawn. It was a good work out and a chore that no one else cared to do.


That's my Dad's garden in the front yard. He worked on that garden daily as soon as he got home from work. Sometimes he wouldn't even come in the house until he worked in that garden for a while.


When I think of home, this is the picture I have in my head - this house in Annandale with my Mom and Dad standing there...the only thing that's missing my is Abdullah and a random football laying around and an old flat soccer ball.

I was so sad to see this house empty.