House Update

The front of our home!

The Back of our home!

The lights in the kitchen! (cool huh!)

Scott looking out of our front door.

The electrical was finished today. This

evening we are going to go choose the color

of our roof. They were almost finshed with

the ducting, plumbing, and other various ings.

Our Cruise, part 4

Our last day at sea, we spent playing.

Daniel loved the Miniature Golf Course.

We played for a couple of hours.

Scott had two holes in one!

Danny carried the club and ball all over the course.

When we were done, he cried when we gave the balls back.

We had so much fun on our cruise, and definately want to do it again!

Our Cruise, part 3

Danny had fun chasing all the pigeons

Here we are in Encinada, Mexico

This is La Bufadora, (the blowhole) it spurts water

every 20 seconds or so. We went on an

entertaining tour to see it.

Our tour lasted 2 hours. We saw some pretty

ocean scenery, and laughed with our guide.

After two hours, we decided we had enough,

and went back to the cruise ship to relax.

Our Cruise, part 2

On our way to Catalina Island!

Mom let Danny get too close to the waves,

and he ended up wet and sandy.

We had to go back to the ship in order to

change his clothes and wash him off.

I kept him on a tight leash after that!

Danny and I went on a Glass Bottom Boat ride,

While Scott went Snorkeling!

The Cruise, part 1

Danny and Scott asleep on the plane.

Our Boat, the Carnival Paradise!

Scott was really hungry, I couldn't stop him.

We're almost aboard!

Tuesday morning at Catalina Island!

Wiped Out

I do not recommend living on 4 hours of sleep. You drift through your day in a haze, your blood sugar doesn't act normal, and any nap you take seems to remind yourself how little you actually slept.

And if you are a Mom? Then, no matter how tired you are, you have to wait until your little angel is asleep before you attempt to recoup the hours of sleep you lost. Then, inevitably, you look around your house, and would rather use those precious hours of alone time to do anything but catch up on rest. So you start a project, only to get ten minutes into it and realize you can't keep your eyes open any longer.

As soon as you curl on the couch (your bed is made, why mess it up?) You drift into blissful nothingness. For a little while it seems you will have the peace you need so badly. . . and then the phone rings. Whenever this happens to me, I am shocky and cannot think clearly. Half the time I say things I don't remember or it takes me a good five minutes or so to figure out who is on the other line.

Let's say that other person is your sweetheart, who also only got 4 hours of sleep. He is at work, poor thing, and in no condition to take advantage of a sleeping baby. He is exauhsted, you are exauhsted, and trying to communicate is laughable. It takes both of you repeating yourselves several times to come to any conclusions.

This is our condition today. Scott has been at a training in CA the last two days, and arrived home at 3am this morning. He had to go into work today at 8am. Danny woke up at about 8am too. Hopefully tonight we can all go to sleep early. Tomorrow we start preparing for our cruise!

Our Walls

This is the front of our house.

This is the back of our house.

Danny and Scott waving at me!

This is our master bathroom with it's walk in closets.

House Update

We have Walls! Not just the basement ones, but the ones that are on the main level! It is totally cool! We even have a solid floor to go with the walls! The walls already have openings for the window and doors. We didn't get any pictures because it was too dark, so we will try to take them today (which means it will be finished even more!)

Ping-Pong Balls?

Daniel brought home from Grandma's house some ping-pong balls two days ago. He has had them in his hands ever since. He eats with them, sleeps with them, and carries them around. Sometimes he only has one clenched in his fist, but most of the time they are both there. I think that this is what he will be attatched too! I am excite, this means that I can buy a whole bunch of ping-pong balls, and when one gets lost or broken, Whala! there it is!

Flying Anyone?

I was reintroduced to www.flylady.net and began the system again on Monday. This time I took it seriously. I already feel more in control, and my house is still a mess! The reason is that FlyLady has you do everything in baby steps. You add one habit a day until you have a routine that flows. She reccomends that you do things a little at a time, which takes away the overwhelming feeling we can have sometimes. I have found it alot of fun.

Warning, if you sign up for her emails, you get about 15 a day. She reccomends you simply delete the ones you don't want to read. Most of them are reminders to help us stay on task or to give cool little tips.

Twister Fun!

We had a family activity at my brother, Ben's house. Doug, my brother-in-law, challenged the guys to twister. My father declined, but Scott, Ben, and Ryan took him up on it.

I don't remember who won, but it sure was hilarious to watch!

Then, of course, they made all of us wives do it too!

Yes, we are a little obsessed

These will be the stairs into the basement.

This is the framing for the basement, it is just basic right now, but we will be finishing it in the spring!

My Apologies

Somewhere amid the chaos that was the last two weeks, I have failed miserably to update my blog. So, once more I will give you the run down on my life, currently.

Our house has a cement floor now, and framing will begin this week. This is the step we are particularly excited for, as our house will finally look like one! It means that we get to roam the rooms, notice changes, and get excited over the smallest details. Scott and I have created this habit of going to the construction site, and gazing in awe at the house as it changes. One time, we met the guy who was doing the compacting of the foundation. Apparently there were some major setbacks, as our dirt contains a high concentration of Gypsum. Gypsum expands when wet, so they had to bring in road base and top soil, and compact an extra ten feet to give us a firm foundation. It is nice to know that they caught it before they poured the foundation, otherwise we could have had some major cracks after the snow melted.

Daniel still hasn't broken the teeth that he occasionally dissolves in tears over. It has been a month, and still his little mouth is swollen. I can feel them when I press down on his gums (which he only lets me do once a week or so) but they don't seem in any hurry to make an appearance. Saturday (after conference) Daniel played outside with the "big kids" and ended up with a cough that started that night. Unfortunatly for me, he doesn't understand the whole "too cold to play outside" concept. I kept him indoors all day yesterday, and he wasn't happy at all.

Our cruise is fast approaching, and I am suddenly excited in a very real way! I am trying to wait patiently for our itinerary, cause until that comes, I can't make plans (like when we go down to Vegas, or if we should bring diapers or buy them there.) Theoretically we should only bring carry-on luggage (in case they lose our luggage, and it doesn't make it on the trip.) I just don't know if I can bring enough diapers to last us a week, plus clothes for all of us, and keep it to two carry-on bags. Those things are small!

Interviews were done this weekend on potential apartment managers. Hopefully the owner makes some decisions soon, so I can start training them. I am thrilled to be moving. I am going through everything we have and dejunking. If I don't want it in the new place, I am throwing or giving it away. This means that our two closets full of boxes that we haven't hardley touched are going to look a little bare.