Barnyard Animals

Our daughter's interest right now are barnyard animals. It started when they were told they are going for a field trip in a farm. When you say farm, she will associate immediately with barns and animals that lives in it. I am really amazed how she can get excited when she see farm lands along the way.

One time we were watching one TLC reality show wherein the family was riding on horse along the trail. She exclaimed she want to ride and have to buy horse equipment too. I told her we can try horse back riding in summer but not buy the equipment coz we don't have horse ourselves. This will be one of our activities this summer, to try horse back riding and visit some farms.

House Hunting Diary #2

Okay, it has been a while that I made an update for our house hunting. Now it is not really house hunting since we already found our soon to be first place. Me and my husband decided to go for a new construction. We feel that it will be good for our family to have ready to move in house and we will be the first owner. We can't afford to have a fixer upper one because we have two little ones and too much work for the house will be too straining for us. We already did the paper works and hopefully we can close end of June. Our lease here in our apartment will be over by that time as well.

A week ago we went to the builders' design center to choose the house fixtures, colors, etc. I really like it they have undermount sinks for their kitchens and the standard fixtures looks like it is already upgraded. Our Realtor said that they are making good quality products and we have a good deal. This will be our first place and we can't wait. We thanked the Lord for all these blessings and we are very happy.

Updating Our Insurances

We are very happy and blessed that we are now in the process of having our own place. I did not imagine that we are slowly seeing the fruits of our labor and achieving our goals as a family. As I have said in my previous posts that we were house hunting and now, finally, we already found our first place. I will post update on our journey toward home ownership in my succeeding posts in the future.

So, with this changes in our life we also look into updating our insurances. I know that along with home ownership comes responsibilities that will make our life secure as well as our property safe and covered. With our personal security, my husband thought of us getting additional disability insurance. We also need to increase our life insurance and look into getting our kids as well.

As to the home insurance and other riders, my husband already asked a quote from our current provider. We have a good provider now and hopefully once we can move to our place our premium will not be too high. They gave us a fair amount on the quote. It is doable and we get a bang for our buck.

Outdoor Camping

Lately our soon-to-be 4-year-old daughter is talking about putting up her tent that I gave her on Christmas. She said she like to go camping. I told her it is not a good time for camping yet since it is still cold and always raining. My husband is not an avid fan for camping out in the woods. As a military, he said he have seen and been to many woods or outdoor experience. Maybe one day though he will bring us to some camp but it will be an RV camping of some sort. We don't have an RV but there are ones that we can rent out.

So I told my daughter she has to wait until she is old enough not to get scared walking in the woods. We can get a nice big tent like the Copper Spur UL4 that I saw in one of the outdoor stores online. It is durable and can surely withstand some tough conditions. I remember the last time I went backpacking with my friends back in college. I was bringing my gears that I would say heavier than me. I wish I saw this type of gear before where it is light and I would definitely enjoy more the adventure than agonizing on my heavy gears.

No I am still looking forward to go back doing some adventure with my family. If the kids are already bigger and can basically take care of themselves while outside then it will be fun for all of us. I am just hanging on for now and not to be in hurry as what our DD1 is trying to convince me.