Kaiser Casa.....

Today Chris and I got to do an inspection of our home. We could not be more excited or in love with this house. It is so exciting to see it all come together and we cannot wait to move in! Our date of possession is November 27th. Not too much longer and we will be official home owners.....very exciting but also a little nerve wracking haha. We know that this house is just right for us and will make a wonderful family home for many years to come! So here are the pictures to keep you all in the loop of what the new Kaiser Casa will look like. Hopefully it will compel all of you to visit soon;)

The siding is almost complete. The area around the garage will all be stone.

Chris walking from the mudroom up towards the front door

The kitchen is almost complete. Those three pendant lights are not the ones we picked out.....they installed the wrong ones but will fix them asap.

Kitchen nook looking out towards our deck

Corner walk-in pantry.....cannot wait for this!

View from the nook at our deck

family room and fireplace.......I know Chris is dreaming of his big screen TV above that fireplace

Front entry from the kitchen

Laundry room

Bonus room upstairs

Guest bathroom upstairs

Tub in the guest bath

View of the bonus room from the bedrooms

master ensuite tub......this is what I cannot wait for!!!

master walk-in closet

view from the master down into the hallway of bedrooms and leading into the bonus room

view from the bonus room up toward the bedrooms

view into the mudroom and powder room. Both the tile and the banisters look more brown than they are in reality

view into kitchen and nook

So there it is and there isn't a whole lot that needs to be done before we are ready to move in. I will certainly post more pictures when everything is complete and we have our furniture in.  As you can see we have plenty of room for visitors and cannot wait to host and entertain in our new digs.....start booking your trips now:)

Other than the house excitement everything else is going great in Calgary. We ran a groupon promotion  for the clinic this week and had a fantastic response. All in all we are still adjusting to life in Calgary but know that this is a fantastic place for us to start the business and our (hopefully) settled down lives.......after the last few months I definitely don't feel like moving again haha

Alberta Bound.....

Life for the Kaiser Clan has been pretty nuts since August. In August I FINALLY graduated!!!! Can you believe it.....Kelly is not a student anymore haha. My graduation was such an amazing and special time. This was honestly the only graduation I actually wanted to attend and it was a great way to celebrate the end of a really long road. What made my graduation so special was having both my incredible parents and in-laws with Chris and I. It meant the world to me that the four of them made the trip to celebrate the day.

Finally a graduate!

My biggest handsome hubs and greatest support!

Everyone got to graduate that day.....

Kimmy and I right before saying bye with a lot of tears:(

Dani and I on my last day in Florida Gym



The next thing on our agenda after graduation day was to have a going away and grad party. We were so happy to have all of our friends get together for one last hoorah! Dani and Darren were awesome and offered up their place for the party. It was such a great time and really the best way we could have imagined making our transition out of Gainesville. There were definitely a lot of tears that day as we made such incredible friends in Florida that we miss so dearly.

Sim my graduation buddy and I.....finally celebrating the end!!!

The next day was moving day and boy was it weird to see our little apartment empty. Our last apartment in Gainesville was our home for our last 3 years and our first as a married couple. Although 3 years doesn't sound like a long time, it is by Gainesville/Graduate school standards. We made so many wonderful memories in that apartment and will certainly cherish all of those important times we shared there with our friends and family.

au revoir apt #106, thanks for the memories

After emptying out the apartment we spent one last night with some of our dearest friends in the south. The next morning was nothing short of heart wrenching having to say our "see ya soons". After a whole lot of hugs and tears we hit the road with our two vehicles, Mum and Dad and Moose as our co-pilot.

The trip north west was nothing short of fantastic. We had an absolute blast and I am so happy we got to share the trip with my parents. Our first stop was in Nashville and was also Chris and I's first wedding anniversary....what a way to celebrate eh! move accross the continent. I think it was actually quite appropriate to celebrate one big milestone with another!

  

Dad, Chris and I also snagged a really great deal when we found a boot shop in Nashville that sold three pairs of boots for the price of one! Who would pass up this awesome deal?! 

The travelling Larkin-Kaiser clan in Wall, South Dakota 

Mt. Rushmore was unbelievably impressive. I'm so glad we made sure this was en route.

Deadwood South Dakota was definitely the fan favorite stop of the trip. Mum and I even gambled haha. Chris and Dad thought this was the greatest little town they had ever seen and we all had a total blast

 

 

 Dad was in all his glory with all of the historical land marks we got to stop at

This is Montana Moose. One last state along the trip and it was definitely his favourite with all of the wide open spaces he got to run around in when we stopped

One last pit stop State side at the duty free before heading across the border. Moose knew the way.....

And can you believe it......after 5 days in the car, alot of great sight seeing and an overall awesome trip with fabulous memories made, we were finally in Calgary!

One very busy summer.....part 1

This spring and summer has been nuts for the Kaiser's. Not only was I working non-stop to finish up my PhD, Chris was working like mad and all we seemed to do was travel. Starting in May Chris and I flew to Calgary for job interviews. Following the visit I was offered a great job at the University of Calgary and Chris got all set up with a dream position starting his own clinic. We are both do excited to be starting this new adventure and moving to Calgary!!! So we are officially going to be Alberta bound on August 13th!

After Calgary we drove up to Atlanta to visit the Nocera's in their new digs. We miss having these guys in Gainesville with us so much so it was great to see them and catch up:) We had a lot of fun sight seeing, eating yummy food and going to a braves games.

Brave's game.....Nicky is about to pop!

The vortex. The boys choice from Man vs Food

Out for a great dinner downtown Atlanta

Following that trip I flew to San Francisco for a conference. It was a short lived trip but I managed to squeeze in some sight seeing.

Sea lions that looked like Moose

Fisherman's wharf

On a full house street car. Definitely the highlight of my trip!

After returning from that trip it was time to buckle down even harder and get ready for my PhD defense on June 19. It was pretty intense year leading up to this day. The defense went really well and I was very happy an relieve following. I had a room full of great friends and a lot of support so that made things easier. Most importantly, I couldn't have done it without my hubs. He was so supportive and definitely kept me sane. Without him I probably would have eaten popcorn for dinner every night and been living in a mess.

Here are some pics post defense:)

with Kimmy immediately post-defense!

My #1 fan and support system.....aka best hubs ever!