Anna Matsunaga

From Anna Matsunaga, Team Momentum, Keller Williams Realty Tacoma

253 353 2662 www.teammomentumrealestate.com

Fall colors behind Bryant Montessori on Ainsworth.

Fall colors

Fall colors, Tacoma WA 98405

Enjoy I'll post more soon! It's so great when the trees show their true colors!

From Anna Matsunaga, Team Momentum, Keller Williams Tacoma, 253 353 2662

From Anna Matsunaga, Team Momentum, Keller Williams Realty Tacoma 253-353-2662

www.teammomentumrealestate.com

In Pierce county and around the nation town homes are fast becoming a popular urban way to live.

Among the many benefits of Townhome living (easy to care for home, not having yard work, safety from close proximity to neighbors and so on) is one that likely you have not thought of.

Weight loss, and better fitness may be a side effect of your new town home? How so?

Well, having 3 stories in your home means you do more stairs than if you lived in a Ranch style home. So not only do you get more squarefootage for your money, you also get more exercize for your time spent in your home. Walking around your ranch home doing your day to day chores and so on will burn about 6 calories a minute, however doing the same when taking the stairs in your 3 story townhome will burn more than double the calories, this of course adds up in the end cumulatively to weightloss.

Not only that but the muscle built from doing stairs will continue to burn more calories per hour even if you are doing nothing than if you had not built the muscle.

To get an idea of the impact take a look at the 2 links that follow regarding stairs and impact on calories burned.

http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/NR/rdonlyres/erodpfuan72mqvpk55qngdskrs3uwpbwb6bj57gmw3tgtoewct6tm7jrtu6gvltq3pmk4um4676nan4cbfscmfr7tsc/calories.pdf

http://espn.go.com/trainingroom/s/1999/0924/75442.html

This 3rd link also in addition to having information about stairs has some good basic information on how to cut calories in other painless ways as well.

http://exercise.about.com/cs/weightloss/a/howtoloseweight.htm

So not only will you likely get more house for your money with your new town home, but you may also get less of you from the resulting weightloss you get using the stairs in your home!

Anna Matsunaga Team Momentum Keller Williams Realty Tacoma

www.teammomentumrealestate.com 253-353-2662

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From Anna Matsunaga, www.teamomentumrealestate.com ,Keller Williams Realty

253-353-2662

Most of us like the word FREE. I always am on the look out for free things, but of course don't want junkie things in the house....so when one of my friends on Facebook posted this I got excited and ordered right away. We already have one that we paid just under $20 for. It's a blanket with sleeves....ok that sounds goofy, but if you have a person in the house who likes to be warm, but is always cold they will love it.

We bought ours for our oldest daughter, she seems to alway be cold and some mornings getting her out of bed is hard because of it. Other times I would get her out of bed only to find her sitting in her chair in front of the computer ( she home schools) doing NOTHING. Why? Well she was cold and did not want to uncover herself. This snuggy blanket has solved this problem.

Get yours for free!

http://suzzly.com/snuggiepromo.html

Have fun and let me know when it comes in 6 weeks. Let me know how you like it!

From Anna Matsunaga, Team Momentum Keller Williams Realty Tacoma

www.teammomentumrealestate.com 253-353-2662.

There are many places in Pierce county I love to go, especially after living in the area since 1992. However one of my favorites is quite close to home....Wapato park. It holds special significance for me since my husband and I had our wedding there ( ok actually our 10 year anniversary, but we had a wedding then since we had not had one when we got married in the first place) I also love it because I have spent many hours running and walking around the lake and also have many memories with my children playing there together.

Just take one look at the beautiful arches near the round about drive and you will know why this is a destination for weddings or at least wedding pictures.....The rest of the park is as well cared for. It has seasonal plantings of flowers that are changed out and kept in color for most of the year. You will also find the following @ Wapato.

Walking / bike trails.

Volley Ball Courts

Horse shoe courts

Picnic areas

Play equipment

Juvenile fishing part of the year

Baseball field

Open play areas

Duck and goose watching

Rating the park

Space-10

Layout- 10

Parking 8.5

Maintainance 9

Ammenities- 8.5

Cleanliness-7.5

Pretty factor 8.5

Play equipment 8

Accessibility-8

Dog friendly-7

Family friendly-8.5

I would love it if there was a small fenced off leash area for dogs since there are none on the S. End of Tacoma and there is enough room there. Judging from the number of dogs that are seen there @ any given time I am guessing it would be popular. The equipment is nice, could be a bit more of it.....once in a while I see trash there and the other issue with cleanliness if the ducks and other water foul can make a mess....but the park is actively working on that issue.

For walking and running, hardly could there be a better set up. According to mapmywalk.com the jaunt around the lake using the main bridge is just about exactly a mile which is great. The paths are wide and fairly level which makes for nice running and walking and you get up and down hills both making a nice varied work out.

I forgot to mention, not just duck watching, but also squirels, there are plenty in the park to see as well.

The location also makes it accessible via bus lines, and to people coming from other parts of town and even other towns since it is right off the freeway. Last week met friends from Lakewood there and they mentioned would be coming back plenty now that she knew how very close and easy to get to it was.

Haven't been in a while?... drop in while the weather is still nice, although, you will not be disappointed even in the rain, you just might get wet though....

--Anna Matsunaga Team Momentum, Keller Williams Realty Tacoma 253 353 2662

www.teammomentumrealestate.com

From Anna Matsunaga, Team Momentum, Keller Williams Realty Tacoma

www.teammomentumrealestate.com 253 353 2662

I have always been a fan of the natural way to do things and once I had kids well I kinda became a Nazi about it. So when we get unwelcome visitors.....

I just don't want to poison the family too or our pets. I also worry about the environment....and with a baby just a few weeks old in the house I really don't want toxic anything anywhere nearby at all.

Problem is the ants like alot of the same food we do.....

So last time they found our honey jar we just put honey outside for them and then washed the floor really well with vinegar where they had been entering and it worked, but they are back and I needed some new ideas so I went online and found this great site.

http://www.thefrugallife.com/ants.htm

Great part is, most the solutions are things you have in your house and so nontoxic ( most of them) that you can eat them!

Hope this helps if you have uninvited guests!

Anna Matsunaga Team Momentum Keller Williams Realty Tacoma WA

www.teammomentumrealestate.com