Happy Birthday Preston!!

Today Preston turns 9 years old! Where has time gone? We went out for dinner with Jesa and Dave and their kids to Spaghetti Works and then to Cold Stone for ice cream. Preston put some money in the tip jar and they sang him a fun happy birthday song. Now everyone is in bed.

Preston's birthday party will be Saturday. We are having a double party with his cousin Ethen since his birthday is on the 30th. We will have pictures then!

New house ramblings and pictures!

Lookee! Pictures! I used my nifty cell phone camera. It did pretty nice pictures. These are of our possible land where our new house will go. We have put money down on 2 lots to hold them until our Texas house sells.

View from the street.

View from the street.


View from the alley.

This is what our house will look like! 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, full basement. The garage is in the back with a private street/alley. Don't you love it?

Its been too long

Time really is flying by. We have been here for almost 3 weeks now! We are still not unpacked though we are in our own house. Slowly but surely we will get it done, only to move again, hopefully by the end of the year (or sooner!).

My camera cord is still missing. I feel bad for not having any pictures!

Ok, here is a picture of the cute little house we are living in. I snagged the picture off the County Assessors website. I need your opinions on what colors to paint it! It needs to be 3 colors and no blue, white, or gray for the main color on the house. The reason for no blue white or gray is because every other house in our neighborhood are those colors! We need something different and snazzy. Currently its yellow, white and a weird green color. HELP ME PAINT MY HOUSE!




It looks a lot better right now (this picture is very old). The front has some nice little landscaping done so no more big bushes all over it and the grass is nice and manicured. Now we just need to get the paint looking spectacular!

The kids are doing great now. They love going to Prescott and are making new friends. Maren has recovered from her illnesses finally. Adam is enjoying his new job and learning a lot of new computer things. I am just hanging out and not getting much done around the house!

We will be back in Texas on May 10-12th so keep any eye out for us!

We survived!

We made it to Nebraska! We got here at midnight on Saturday, or I suppose it was really Sunday. We crashed at my sister Jesicah's house and then Sunday morning some wonderful men from our new ward and some family members helped to unload the truck. It only took about 2 hours and I was so surprised it went so fast!

Not much was harmed in the move. That made me quite happy. The move TO Texas 3 years ago was a little hard on my new furniture.

We are still staying at my sister's house and slowly getting our house put together and unpacked. We hope to be sleeping there by Saturday. Email me to get our new address and phone numbers!

The kids started school today. They think its great to be going to the same elementary school that I went to when I first moved to Lincoln. Not much has changed inside the school! Sort of brings back weird memories of going there.

Adam is in training for the next two weeks with his new job. He likes it but is still nervous that he does not know enough. I keep telling him that they would not have hired him if they thought he didn't know enough or couldn't do the job!

Maren is sick. She needs to go see a doctor. She had tubes put in a week ago and now she's sick and rubbing her ears again and has had a fever for 2 days. This poor girl just can't get a break. Tomorrow I have to call our old pediatrician and see if they will take us back as patients and add Maren into the mix since she wasn't here last time we saw them. I really hope they will, because we really liked our doctor.

My camera is hiding from me so I have no pictures to show of the move or our house. I'll try to find it this week.

Wish us luck unpacking and getting settled in!

Hellooooooooo tubes!

Today was the day! Miss Maren got tubes in her ears. She was such a trooper. Never cried once! She really didn't like the ver-sed (loopy juice!) they gave her but after about 10 minutes she was quite mellow and was just watching everyone as they rolled her away. The procedure was super fast. I sat in the waiting room for maybe 3 minutes before they came out and told me it was done! They told me that little kids seem to be howling monsters when they wake up from anesthesia but Maren was totally quiet and very still and just watched everyone for a while in the recovery room. She was so good that they brought me back early to see her. She whined a few pitiful whines when she saw me and I picked her up and that was it. She got to nurse and we snuggled for a while and then they said she could get dressed and go home. They gave her a fun wagon ride out to the car and she just sat back and watched and held onto the blue bear they gave her and her pink bunny from Easter. She had a good nap and then ate some lunch and has been a little clingy tonight but thats it. I am so glad its done and her ears can heal now.

Happy Easter!

We had a fun time on Saturday with cousins Brenna and Andrew, aunt Melissa, uncle Chris, uncle Ben, uncle Mark and Grandma. We had a little egg hunt in the front yard for the kids. Maren didn't quite understand what to do but loves playing with the plastic eggs and her bucket.

Ramblings on selling a house

It really sucks!

Adam took work off all this week (its Spring Break for the kids too) so we could work on getting the house ready to put on the market on March 24th. The realtor will be here that day to take pictures and put the sign in the yard! Then the gossip can begin and I am sure everyone in our ward will be calling us to ask us whats up.


Here is a list of what we have accomplished so far.

• installed the new faucets in upstairs bathroom

• fixed cabinet door in upstairs bathroom

• reinstalled laundry room shelf

• caulked and paint touch ups on shelf in laundry room

• scrubbed both doors in laundry room

• fixed hole in wall in laundry room, the doorknob hit it when the doorstop was off when tiling
  

• installed new light in laundry room

• planted 6 new bushes in front of house

• weeded flower beds

• cleaned all light fixtures in the kitchen, those things got greasy!
  

• paint touch ups in kitchen

• sorted through all clothes to donate to goodwill (7 bags full!)

• caulked new sink and toilet in half bath

• paint touch ups on baseboards in half bath

• started priming Maija's room so we can paint it a neutral color. NOTE to those considering painting... DON'T USE COLORPLACE PRIMER! Its awful and doesn't work. We took the rest of it back and bought Kilz. Lesson learned.
  

• put all baseboards back up, caulked and paint touch ups on them, they were taken down when we tiled the floors

• paint touch ups on front door and trim

• lots of wall cleaning from dirty kid fingers and paint touch ups here and there
  

It is a good start. Its only Tuesday night. The biggest projects will be doing the tile in the upstairs bathroom, priming and painting Preston's (very blue) and Maija's (very pink) bedrooms and finishing the stain on the wood fence in the back yard. There is one wall left in the garage to paint too. The rest is little stuff and then lots of throwing stuff out and donating things. We decided to call the carpet guy our housebuilder uses to have him come finish the carpet edges where it meets the tile we laid. One less thing to figure out how to do on our own, we are running out of time! We have also sold a TON of things and are saving all of that money to pay for the move. Downsizing is quite liberating.

All of these crazy projects we started a long time ago have all crept up and hit us now that we are selling. We should have finished them years ago and sat back and enjoyed our work. I think we will join procrastinators anonymous!