Tres Leches
11 months ago
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Yucky
I really do have some cute pictures of the zoo, I just can't do it right now - I sit here at work (working hard, can you tell?) with a bowl in between me and the computer while I heave and try and not let the customer know. Great fun - I am ready to be out of the 1st trimester - here is to moving on to trimester 2!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Another wall done!
I am totally excited with the progress we have made on the walls - I was sure that once we got moved in we would never get any more painted. I was wrong! YEA These pictures are the front entry room or the home teacher room as it is called at my house.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Find out where the instacare is!
I have a few recommendations for anyone that is or has moved to a new house - find out where the instacare is prior to the need for one. When you have an actual need for one you don't want to take the time for find one and who wants to drive all the back to where you moved from. I would also recommend that you determine what hospital is closest to your new home as well on the chance that you may need to go there instead.
I now know the answer to both of these questions! On day last week I got a pain. It was not a new pain as I had one a few days before and one a couple months ago. The thing is that my mother made me promise that I would go to the doctor if I had this pain again as she is a concerned grandma. After about 5 hours of this pain I decided to heed her advise and drove my self to the clinic as I did not want to drag Brian and Kristian out for what I thought was gas pains. Once I got to the clinic I began to wonder. The doctor there asked a few questions and then said that he was going to make a phone call to the ER to see if they would see me, he then asked if I had a ride to the ER as he did not think that I looked like I should be driving my self. It seems that gas pains can be more than gas pains and you should go to the doctor if they are bad. I spent a bit in the ER to find this out.
So it seems that I have gall stones and they REALLY hurt. The doctors say to eat a low-fat diet and not drink alcohol. The alcohol is easy but the low-fat stuff stinks. And from what I can find, it may not even be the fat that triggers them, and what triggered one today may or may not trigger another one. It seems like we are in for a long 8 months. If anyone has any advise I am all ears!
I now know the answer to both of these questions! On day last week I got a pain. It was not a new pain as I had one a few days before and one a couple months ago. The thing is that my mother made me promise that I would go to the doctor if I had this pain again as she is a concerned grandma. After about 5 hours of this pain I decided to heed her advise and drove my self to the clinic as I did not want to drag Brian and Kristian out for what I thought was gas pains. Once I got to the clinic I began to wonder. The doctor there asked a few questions and then said that he was going to make a phone call to the ER to see if they would see me, he then asked if I had a ride to the ER as he did not think that I looked like I should be driving my self. It seems that gas pains can be more than gas pains and you should go to the doctor if they are bad. I spent a bit in the ER to find this out.
So it seems that I have gall stones and they REALLY hurt. The doctors say to eat a low-fat diet and not drink alcohol. The alcohol is easy but the low-fat stuff stinks. And from what I can find, it may not even be the fat that triggers them, and what triggered one today may or may not trigger another one. It seems like we are in for a long 8 months. If anyone has any advise I am all ears!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The dots
I love this wall. My husband is SO creative. He said he wanted to do dots on the wall in the living room, and of course I said 'polka dots? don't you think that is a bit girly and childish?' He then tells me that I have no vision. He had to draw it out so I could see it, and he sold me on it. What do you think?
Monday, August 10, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
First picture of the new house
This is our bedroom - my favorite room of the house. The carpet is about an inch thick, the walls are chocolate color. Big vaulted ceilings and master bath just off to the left of this picture.
I LOVE IT!
Back tracking
I was looking through my pictures to see what I have neglected to post and I totally missed Kristian's birthday - bad momWe went to the Dinosaur Museum down at Thanksgiving Point. He is totally into Dinosaurs. We got some great pictures and it was a nice to spend the day just the three of us.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
I am back (well almost)
Sorry it has been so long since I have been here. Life got away from me. I am just now thinking that I am getting a hold of it. I will try and recap -
We had been looking at houses now for about a year and have put a number of offers in. Nothing had seemed to work so we decided that we were just suppose stay where we were. In early April I was called to the Primary Presidency in our ward. I was very excited to serve and had great fun digging my feet in. Though it was short lived, as the first of May we got a call that they had accepted an offer we had made on a house back in February. Yes I did say February. We had to go see the house again as we had forgot what it even looked like. We made a quick decision to say yes. It was a short sale and very DIRTY. I am not sure that DIRTY really covers it, those of you that saw it understand the understatement that is. We closed at the end of May. Now we own 2 houses. Crazy how the bank seems to think that is ok, as they know how much money we make. We had a TON of work to do at the new house before we could move in so we decided that we would list the old house and see if we could sell it quick. Of course we read everywhere online that the best way to show a house was to move everything personal out. We de-cluttered by the box load. We painted the few rooms that were left to paint. We fixed the things that needed to be fixed. This house looks better than it ever has. We showed it 12 times in 2 weeks and got 0 offers. Zilch, nothing, nata. We had 2 houses in our neighborhood that sold within 2 days of being listed but nothing on ours. So our plans changed yet again. We decided that we would be landlords for another year and try again then. In the mean time I was trying to get the new house ready to move into. All of the walls had to be scrubbed before they could be painted. The carpets had to be cleaned, and some torn out. The plan was to tear them all out and get new but when the house did not sell, we had to go to plan B. It took me 3 full weeks to get the walls clean enough to paint. We had to scrap stuff off the ceilings (GROSS). Did I mention the size of the new house? 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, kitchen, living, and entry room. I cleaned FOREVER. Then I had to start painting. I did get lots of help from family, but it still seemed like a never ending project. We got renters to move in the end of July so we had to move out ready or not. I know you are thinking that 2 months should be enough time to get a house ready to move into, but you did not see this house.
Well we are finally in - YEA. It is not quite home yet but it is getting there. I will try and get some pictures posted in the next couple of days. With the change of address came a change of shift for me at work. It just happened to fall on the same weekend and now I work from 11pm to 3am. I can not seem to figure out when I should be sleeping, my body seems to think that it is ALL the time. My poor kid. I am hoping that with this shift I will be able to post more now that I am on my computer in the middle of the night. We will see how that goes.
Sorry for all the rambling - it is good to be back -
We had been looking at houses now for about a year and have put a number of offers in. Nothing had seemed to work so we decided that we were just suppose stay where we were. In early April I was called to the Primary Presidency in our ward. I was very excited to serve and had great fun digging my feet in. Though it was short lived, as the first of May we got a call that they had accepted an offer we had made on a house back in February. Yes I did say February. We had to go see the house again as we had forgot what it even looked like. We made a quick decision to say yes. It was a short sale and very DIRTY. I am not sure that DIRTY really covers it, those of you that saw it understand the understatement that is. We closed at the end of May. Now we own 2 houses. Crazy how the bank seems to think that is ok, as they know how much money we make. We had a TON of work to do at the new house before we could move in so we decided that we would list the old house and see if we could sell it quick. Of course we read everywhere online that the best way to show a house was to move everything personal out. We de-cluttered by the box load. We painted the few rooms that were left to paint. We fixed the things that needed to be fixed. This house looks better than it ever has. We showed it 12 times in 2 weeks and got 0 offers. Zilch, nothing, nata. We had 2 houses in our neighborhood that sold within 2 days of being listed but nothing on ours. So our plans changed yet again. We decided that we would be landlords for another year and try again then. In the mean time I was trying to get the new house ready to move into. All of the walls had to be scrubbed before they could be painted. The carpets had to be cleaned, and some torn out. The plan was to tear them all out and get new but when the house did not sell, we had to go to plan B. It took me 3 full weeks to get the walls clean enough to paint. We had to scrap stuff off the ceilings (GROSS). Did I mention the size of the new house? 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, kitchen, living, and entry room. I cleaned FOREVER. Then I had to start painting. I did get lots of help from family, but it still seemed like a never ending project. We got renters to move in the end of July so we had to move out ready or not. I know you are thinking that 2 months should be enough time to get a house ready to move into, but you did not see this house.
Well we are finally in - YEA. It is not quite home yet but it is getting there. I will try and get some pictures posted in the next couple of days. With the change of address came a change of shift for me at work. It just happened to fall on the same weekend and now I work from 11pm to 3am. I can not seem to figure out when I should be sleeping, my body seems to think that it is ALL the time. My poor kid. I am hoping that with this shift I will be able to post more now that I am on my computer in the middle of the night. We will see how that goes.
Sorry for all the rambling - it is good to be back -
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