Well, I thought I should probably update. Although I am racking my brain on what to update about. We have been extremely busy doing lots and lots of yardwork. And of course for me never ending house work. Since the only thing we really have other than trees is DIRT. That is all we ever seem to have in our house is DIRT and lots of it! I will be so thrilled when we get the grass in. Yesterday we received the gravel for the driveway. So it's starting to come together. We are waiting on the tree trimmers to come pull trunks and dead trees out. Then the yard will look better and we can add the trellis for the one grape vine and work towards grass. I am so excited. We are also working on laying rocks back for a nice patio outside our front doors. When we get the yard all fixed I will post before and after pictures. But right now we are just working our little butts off.
Kevin, a guy Mike knows and does work for sometimes is cleaning out the only junk/weedy part of his beautiful yard and is getting rid of a lot of old broken down stuff. He gave Mike a go cart and 2 old snow mobiles. And believe me he could have came home with a boat and more if he knew he wouldn't be in trouble for it all or have a place to put them. Debbie, Kevin's wife, told me that those things are fit for someone who likes to tinker. And Mike (as anyone who knows him) LOVES to TINKER!!!!! Honestly he reminds me of Tim the Tool Man. However, Mike isn't as extreme. And he doesn't hurt himself so much (that would be my department). Well Brooke is so so so excited about her "car". She can hardly wait until its up and running. And I'm sure if Mike wasn't working on the yard, or his mini car for the derby, or the hunt that is coming up soon, her "car" would be in working order and flying. Lol!!
Brooke is having all too much fun playing with her cousins and her friend Jason while he is here. She is loving having dirt in the yard. Especially with dirt hills (which is now down to half of one) in the yard!!!!
Maybe I will have to search my pictures and just post some random ones for an update.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
A Move and a Holiday all in one week!!
Well I guess it's about time for an update. We finally found us a place to live, barely in time!! Things were a little stressful for awhile. But we now live in a cute little house on the east side of town. Actually right behind where we lived when we were first married. The last weekend in June we went in and cleaned up the place. It was just totally remodeled from the 2x4s in. The owner's cleaner wouldn't have come until Monday or Tuesday and our landlords of our old place, wanted to move their stuff in Wednesday. Which meant we had to be out Tuesday. Saturday and Sunday we cleaned, Monday and Tuesday we moved. And I am so grateful to Selena and Amy helping me out so much!! And to Keith and Bo for helping with all the large stuff. I honestly don't know what we'd do without our great friends and family. When I found out that we had this house I called Selena and she and Amy came down Saturday morning eager to help. And the second Bo found out we were moving (even when we didn't know where to yet) he was all set to help us move yet again. And Keith well, that man is just amazing he is always willing to help somebody anytime. I just want to thank all the people who offered their help. We are blessed to have so many people willing to help us when we need it!!!
Okay so we spent the rest of the week setting the house up. Putting things away, and up on walls, etc. etc. Then Saturday morning all 5 of us headed to Aurora. Amy and Selena back home, Mike, Brooke and I for a visit. We love the 4th there. We spent one year down here and I refuse to ever again. Even Mike prefers there over here (even with all the people that's around... Since he really doesn't like being around a huge group of people). I being the smart little me that I am didn't eat breakfast (which is a no no anyway) beyond a few crackers and also took a vitamin that was 90% iron (which I didn't know). My body doesn't take well to iron. I have no idea why but it always makes me sick. Ironic, that I'm anemic and I can't take iron supplements like I should. Anyway I felt sick all day. Which wasn't good seeing how I was going to be in the sun anyway during most of the day. But luckily for me my usual sun headache didn't achieve it's height it was actually pretty melow. Which was nice.
Ok now I've really made this long. Well since I didn't feel good, I didn't know if we'd stay until it reached night time. And we decided to. We decided not to go to the rodeo that night. Instead we helped put on the fireworks over at my parents' next door neighbors the Chamberlains. Brooke was so exhausted she fell asleep during the middle of the fireworks. Which hasn't happened since she was 1. Sunday Brooke and I went to church with my family. Then afterward we had a great picnic outside with one of my alltime favorite family picnic meats... marinated turkey. Yummy not like I remembered it, but oh so yummy.
Also I was able to see a good friend I haven't seen since we graduated, Julie Miller Burns. I was so excited to see her!!! She about knocked me over from behind and I had no idea who she was at first. She is as beautiful as ever and doing great!!! We were able to catch up a little and enjoy the shade!!
We came back home and have been working on finishing putting everything together in our house. I have been so exhausted this week that I haven't done too much. Lazy I know. But it's practically done minus a few high wall hangings. Oh I have to add... we can have a tall Christmas tree, only this year it can be probably 15' YEAH!!! Skinny but tall!! I am so excited I love tall Christmas trees!!
Okay so we spent the rest of the week setting the house up. Putting things away, and up on walls, etc. etc. Then Saturday morning all 5 of us headed to Aurora. Amy and Selena back home, Mike, Brooke and I for a visit. We love the 4th there. We spent one year down here and I refuse to ever again. Even Mike prefers there over here (even with all the people that's around... Since he really doesn't like being around a huge group of people). I being the smart little me that I am didn't eat breakfast (which is a no no anyway) beyond a few crackers and also took a vitamin that was 90% iron (which I didn't know). My body doesn't take well to iron. I have no idea why but it always makes me sick. Ironic, that I'm anemic and I can't take iron supplements like I should. Anyway I felt sick all day. Which wasn't good seeing how I was going to be in the sun anyway during most of the day. But luckily for me my usual sun headache didn't achieve it's height it was actually pretty melow. Which was nice.
Ok now I've really made this long. Well since I didn't feel good, I didn't know if we'd stay until it reached night time. And we decided to. We decided not to go to the rodeo that night. Instead we helped put on the fireworks over at my parents' next door neighbors the Chamberlains. Brooke was so exhausted she fell asleep during the middle of the fireworks. Which hasn't happened since she was 1. Sunday Brooke and I went to church with my family. Then afterward we had a great picnic outside with one of my alltime favorite family picnic meats... marinated turkey. Yummy not like I remembered it, but oh so yummy.
Also I was able to see a good friend I haven't seen since we graduated, Julie Miller Burns. I was so excited to see her!!! She about knocked me over from behind and I had no idea who she was at first. She is as beautiful as ever and doing great!!! We were able to catch up a little and enjoy the shade!!
We came back home and have been working on finishing putting everything together in our house. I have been so exhausted this week that I haven't done too much. Lazy I know. But it's practically done minus a few high wall hangings. Oh I have to add... we can have a tall Christmas tree, only this year it can be probably 15' YEAH!!! Skinny but tall!! I am so excited I love tall Christmas trees!!
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