In happier news: first photos of the new apartment!
Here’s what you see when you walk in the front door. Bookshelves along the rear wall, the deck (which has become our favorite spot for breakfast and dinner, thanks to the patio furniture that Prairie’s dad gifted us with), our new couch and chair (brand-new furniture, right from a furniture store — we’re really turning into adults, aren’t we?), the fireplace, entertainment center, and dining room.
Another view of the living room, this time from the door to the deck. The three bookshelves on the right will gain a fourth as soon as we can add one, every shelf on those is double-stacked with books.
My office. In the last apartment, my office doubled as the guest room, but now it’s primarily just my office, only acting as a secondary guest room when we have enough guests to need it.
That’s because with a three-bedroom apartment, Prairie now gets an office of her own, instead of having to camp out in a corner of the living room, and her office is now the main guest room. It’s also very girly and pink, which is just the way she wanted it!
There’s also two bathrooms — but those are bathrooms, and not terribly exciting to take pictures of — and our bedroom, which we don’t feel needs to be broadcast to the world. That’s our room, after all. 
We’re really enjoying this apartment. Lots of space, not nearly as cramped, and as we specified wanting a corner or end unit, we’ve got enough windows to get a good breeze keeping the place cool at all times. Since we’re on the third floor, the trees outside keep things nice and private, so we don’t have to worry about people peeking in the windows at us (a pretty common occurrence at our last complex). The deck looks over a small playground, so there’s almost always kids playing out back.
Joke all you want about living in Kent — and I’ve already heard more than a few cracks from Seattleites who don’t get why we’d want to be in the suburbs — but so far, we’re liking it a lot.
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Do you have bus/train service out there?
Yup. Right on the Seattle Metro bus lines, and — while the timing doesn’t work out to be very useful for us, it’s definitely a commuter run — Kent is a major stop on the Sounder train line that runs from Tacoma to Seattle.
hey congrats on the new pad! looks good
soon to see lil hanscoms running around? 
Thanks! But, no — the only little Hanscoms likely to be running around here would be if my brother and his family visited. We’re pretty set on being just the two of us for the foreseeable future!
Way cool, Michael. We received both your e-mail and call. Thanks.
Love to you both
Dad
What and where is your new job? I may have missed a post when I was in Anvik.