I would go from the first slideshow up if you want my sarcastic, 1 am, delirious comments to make sense... but that's just me! Sorry it took me a few days!!!!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Kaylen's Faces
Kaylen has started making faces on command. It is the cutest thing. I will ask her to show me her sad face and she will stick her bottom lip out. I will ask her to show me her surprised face and she will put her hands on her face and open her mouth wide. She is too funny. Here are some of her faces:
Window and Driveway!
Here is what the window has looked like for the past week or so:
The new window:
Driveway progress: This is last week when they started digging up the driveway:
Once the driveway was completely dug up: After this point it rained buckets... what a mess!
Where we were at as of yesterday! I think it is going to be great once we get the retaining wall built and the driveway poured. We are really widening it and extending it out more than it was. We are also leveling it out at the top.
The new window:
Driveway progress: This is last week when they started digging up the driveway:
Once the driveway was completely dug up: After this point it rained buckets... what a mess!
Where we were at as of yesterday! I think it is going to be great once we get the retaining wall built and the driveway poured. We are really widening it and extending it out more than it was. We are also leveling it out at the top.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Amber Graduated College
This weekend we celebrated Amber graduating from college. We are very proud of her and I know she is so glad to be done!!! I am totally jealous as I frantically try to complete my Masters Degree!!! Amber plans to go back and get her MBA so I have to say that I dont envy her too much! At least I am almost done forever. Anyway, it was really good to see family and also celebrate Mother's Day all together. I didn't think that Amber was going to be able to stay on Sunday so that was a great surprise!!! I don't actually have party pictures... I was too busy having fun to snap any photos but we did take some on Sunday. I hope you enjoy!!!! PS. I haven't had time to edit these photos in photoshop so dont be too critical... :)
The first three pictures are of Amber... some are just being funny and I am hoping to turn one of them into a good portrait for my mom to document Amber's big achievement.
Here is a shot of me and Amber - considering all of the wind from the day... it didn't turn out too bad... 
We tried to do one of all of the girls... this is the best we got... I may try to do some fancy photoshoping because everyone has a different picture they look good in... they just aren't all in the same pic! So we will see what I come up with!
The two images are of my dainty little girl... wait... not so much! She found a gigantic stick in the yard that she just had to carry around! What a goof!
As for things going on at our house this week... The excavators showed up at our house this morning and began ripping up our driveway... no turning back now! So Scary!!! They also began ripping out the brick for the window so we should have a nice hole in our house when we get home... again... scary! i guess if anyone wants to rob us... now is the time! I hope no one that actually robs people really reads my blog or I am in trouble! Anyway, I think we are all friends here. I think that we are supposed to get our fence this week as well. So lots of things going on! Oh, and they ripped up our front sidewalk. There is no good way to get to our house right now! I am anxious to see it!
The first three pictures are of Amber... some are just being funny and I am hoping to turn one of them into a good portrait for my mom to document Amber's big achievement.
Here is a shot of me and Amber - considering all of the wind from the day... it didn't turn out too bad... 
We tried to do one of all of the girls... this is the best we got... I may try to do some fancy photoshoping because everyone has a different picture they look good in... they just aren't all in the same pic! So we will see what I come up with!
The two images are of my dainty little girl... wait... not so much! She found a gigantic stick in the yard that she just had to carry around! What a goof!
As for things going on at our house this week... The excavators showed up at our house this morning and began ripping up our driveway... no turning back now! So Scary!!! They also began ripping out the brick for the window so we should have a nice hole in our house when we get home... again... scary! i guess if anyone wants to rob us... now is the time! I hope no one that actually robs people really reads my blog or I am in trouble! Anyway, I think we are all friends here. I think that we are supposed to get our fence this week as well. So lots of things going on! Oh, and they ripped up our front sidewalk. There is no good way to get to our house right now! I am anxious to see it!
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Please Pray for the Smith's
Eddie and Martha Marie are friends of mine from Indiana. Martha Marie is having brain surgery today so please be in prayer for her. I know they have to be so very scared. They have 2 sweet little babies. The oldest is Kaylen's age... and then they have a new born. If you want to read about what is going on click on their link under my friends... the smiths. I dont have time to link it in this post... I am trying to get some other things done too! See ya!
House is coming along..
Brief update: Kaylen had a fever but never really got sick. YAHOO!!! She is completely fine. I, on the other hand am on my third day with this migrane. Yesterday it got so bad that I had to leave work and give myself an imetrex shot. DIDN'T HELP! I just want it to go away!!! Anyway, my cookout was great last weekend and since it started at 4:30 it was over early enough for me to go to the movies with my friends. I went to see Made of Honor and I have to say that I had a hard time with Patrick Dempsey being the guy that I wanted to end up with the girl. He was sleeping with lots and lots of ladies and then after he has been a rediculously gigantic jerk to the main girl for years by totally disreguarding her feelings, he finally says, "I love you". She just forgets about all of the sleeping around he has done over the years and they live happily ever after? He is a completely changed man? Hummmmm.... I don't think that relationship is really going to last. Alright, I am getting off my soap box now.
Moving on... This weekend we are throwing my sister a graduation party. I have no idea what I should get her. I gotta figure it out quick! I will say that since we had the cookout last weekend, I got a lot done around the house and Allen was a huge help! I think things are starting to shape up. There are a few things that I am really hoping will get done this week (I am doubtful since Paul[the GC] wont even return my phone calls... grrr). Well, here are some pictures of how things are looking:
These first two pics are of my bedroom. I got lazy and bought panels for the windows instead of making them but I think I am going to sew some ribbon on them to dress them up a bit because I dont really like them too much right now.
This is Kaylen's bathroom. We are using her shower curtain in our bathroom right now because our glass door isn't done yet. I don't know when it will be done either!
This is Kaylen's bedroom... I just showed this room the other day... not much has changed yet but it will. I can't wait for the shutters to be done!
Of course, Kaylen wanted her picture taken as well. She is so cute and I really am going to put some video of her talking on here so you can hear her voice. I just can't find my camera battery! I finally got the charger and now can't find the battery. Wouldn't ya know!?! Anyway, she is such a little jokester these days!
The next two are of our master bathroom. I dont think I have put any pictures of this on here. My favorite part is the skylight. I really think that made the bathroom!
Allen picked out these 4 art pieces and brought them home. I love them! He did a great job with it. Usually I dont let him buy artwork so this was seriously a great surprise!
Here is the downstairs bathroom... What do you think of my W stickers on the glass doors? They were boogers to get all lined up and on there perfectly but I think they turned out great!
These next two are of the bonus room. It is finally cleaned out and set up. We will eventually add one more piece of furniture to sit on and possibly sleep on... we haven't decided on what yet. But I had my students help me with the curtains... I thin they did a great job! Right now, these curtains are my favorite because I think they really made the room look homey. We have plans to put Miss Pac Man up here after we get it fixed. I think that will be fun.
Here is the spare bedroom. These curtains were the hardest to make because they had to actually function but they do!!!! I am so excited about this! I plan to put some sort of valance on top to finish them off and if that turns out, I think these will be my new favorite curtains.
Moving on... This weekend we are throwing my sister a graduation party. I have no idea what I should get her. I gotta figure it out quick! I will say that since we had the cookout last weekend, I got a lot done around the house and Allen was a huge help! I think things are starting to shape up. There are a few things that I am really hoping will get done this week (I am doubtful since Paul[the GC] wont even return my phone calls... grrr). Well, here are some pictures of how things are looking:
These first two pics are of my bedroom. I got lazy and bought panels for the windows instead of making them but I think I am going to sew some ribbon on them to dress them up a bit because I dont really like them too much right now.
This is Kaylen's bathroom. We are using her shower curtain in our bathroom right now because our glass door isn't done yet. I don't know when it will be done either!
This is Kaylen's bedroom... I just showed this room the other day... not much has changed yet but it will. I can't wait for the shutters to be done!
Of course, Kaylen wanted her picture taken as well. She is so cute and I really am going to put some video of her talking on here so you can hear her voice. I just can't find my camera battery! I finally got the charger and now can't find the battery. Wouldn't ya know!?! Anyway, she is such a little jokester these days!
The next two are of our master bathroom. I dont think I have put any pictures of this on here. My favorite part is the skylight. I really think that made the bathroom!
Allen picked out these 4 art pieces and brought them home. I love them! He did a great job with it. Usually I dont let him buy artwork so this was seriously a great surprise!
Here is the downstairs bathroom... What do you think of my W stickers on the glass doors? They were boogers to get all lined up and on there perfectly but I think they turned out great!
These next two are of the bonus room. It is finally cleaned out and set up. We will eventually add one more piece of furniture to sit on and possibly sleep on... we haven't decided on what yet. But I had my students help me with the curtains... I thin they did a great job! Right now, these curtains are my favorite because I think they really made the room look homey. We have plans to put Miss Pac Man up here after we get it fixed. I think that will be fun.
Here is the spare bedroom. These curtains were the hardest to make because they had to actually function but they do!!!! I am so excited about this! I plan to put some sort of valance on top to finish them off and if that turns out, I think these will be my new favorite curtains.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Kaylen is sick...
Kaylen had to come home from school today because she has a fever of 100.1. :( I hope she isn't throw-up sick... I don't know what I will do!!! Anyway, please pray that she is just getting a tooth or something. I really don't have time to get everything done as it is. I need her to feel good. I am trying to do as much homework at school as possible. I don't think it is just a tooth though because she has been coughing at night and acting a little bit off from normal. But check out the picture two down of her in her room! that is this morning! Funny how kids can switch so quick.
All about Kaylen
Kaylen likes to have a snack of cheese in the afternoon's. Muggsley is always close by... wishing, hoping that she might drop even the tiniest of pieces. She screams when he gets some.
Kaylen's room is coming along. It isn't finished but we are getting there. I am getting a pink bedspread from a student and then making a quilt for her this summer. We got her mini chandelier hung yesterday. The shutters will be coming in a few weeks... we are getting measured for them tomorrow. I am not done with the artwork behind her bed. I painted the canvases and still plan to put ribbon around them and "hang" them from that as well as attach some floral stuff to the canvases. You will just have to see it when I am done... I think it will be cute. we will see!
Kaylen's room is coming along. It isn't finished but we are getting there. I am getting a pink bedspread from a student and then making a quilt for her this summer. We got her mini chandelier hung yesterday. The shutters will be coming in a few weeks... we are getting measured for them tomorrow. I am not done with the artwork behind her bed. I painted the canvases and still plan to put ribbon around them and "hang" them from that as well as attach some floral stuff to the canvases. You will just have to see it when I am done... I think it will be cute. we will see!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Massive Yard Work!!!
So the people that lived in our house before us did not take care of anything. The house was run down. The yard was run down. Everything was bad. The neighbors on either side of us let their bushes and such grow up as much as possible so they wouldn't have to look at our house! Awesome! Anyway, we have been working to rid ourselves of the forrest that was our yard.
After you read my post yesterday, I am sure you were really worried for my sanity. As am I! Anyway, Allen and his dad decided to chop the forrest behind our house down so that we could see the golf course. It looks amazing but you have no idea how much work it was! The pictures give you a fairly good idea. After I had completed all of the homework I could stand, I went out and drug a major majority of all of the trees into the front yard. Allen and his dad were both covered in scrapes and cuts. See all of the trees were covered in briars and poison oak. I dressed in long pants, a sweatshirt, tennis shoes, and gloves. The last thing I want right now is poison oak all over me! Anyway, enjoy the unexpected post.
Things expected to happen this week: a fence! The two windows installed. Maybe get my cabinets fixed around the microwave (if not this week, then next). And we are having more trees cut down! Two on the side of the house because they will be in the way of our new expanded driveway (which we may have to wait a few months to install) and that really ugly cedar tree in the front of our house!!! I am most excited about getting rid of that ugly thing! So a few exciting things on the horizon.
Oh, yesterday I had Allen stop by Hancock Fabrics to pick up one tiny little spool of ribbon for the curtains I am making. He came back with that plus 4 big pieces of artwork for this big wall near our kitchen area! He is such a sucker for a sale! They are really nice and he did an amazing job finding them! I am glad he got them and extremely surprised! I will post a pic of that once they are hung.
After you read my post yesterday, I am sure you were really worried for my sanity. As am I! Anyway, Allen and his dad decided to chop the forrest behind our house down so that we could see the golf course. It looks amazing but you have no idea how much work it was! The pictures give you a fairly good idea. After I had completed all of the homework I could stand, I went out and drug a major majority of all of the trees into the front yard. Allen and his dad were both covered in scrapes and cuts. See all of the trees were covered in briars and poison oak. I dressed in long pants, a sweatshirt, tennis shoes, and gloves. The last thing I want right now is poison oak all over me! Anyway, enjoy the unexpected post.
Things expected to happen this week: a fence! The two windows installed. Maybe get my cabinets fixed around the microwave (if not this week, then next). And we are having more trees cut down! Two on the side of the house because they will be in the way of our new expanded driveway (which we may have to wait a few months to install) and that really ugly cedar tree in the front of our house!!! I am most excited about getting rid of that ugly thing! So a few exciting things on the horizon.
Oh, yesterday I had Allen stop by Hancock Fabrics to pick up one tiny little spool of ribbon for the curtains I am making. He came back with that plus 4 big pieces of artwork for this big wall near our kitchen area! He is such a sucker for a sale! They are really nice and he did an amazing job finding them! I am glad he got them and extremely surprised! I will post a pic of that once they are hung.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Allen lost his wedding ring
I had to post this seperately because I am not actually mad about this... to include this with the last post would put off the wrong vibe. Anyway, I told Allen I would be posting this out on the WWW for all to know and razz him about. So all you nurses out there... please feel free to torture him relentlessly about this.
This wedding ring hasn't been missing for a day or two... it has been missing for months! I am actually a little sad because it was engraved and for sentimental reasons I hope we find it. But he said he had to get rid of it because it was messing with his game. I told him that I would be more concerned about his face messing with that game than I would be his wedding band. Okay... so I can only say that because I know I am married to a great catch with a good looking face. And I know that the ring must be somewhere on that silly golf course. I am also glad that I dont actually have to worry about his ring since I know he is all mine. Some people really do have to be concerned and I am blessed to have a faithful mate. Just a forgetful one and I will not make this easy on him. He would absolutely kill me if I lost my ring! But that is because mine is worth a bit more than his. Anyway, sock it to him! (This post right here is why I am glad he never actually looks at this blog of mine!) This will show him!
This wedding ring hasn't been missing for a day or two... it has been missing for months! I am actually a little sad because it was engraved and for sentimental reasons I hope we find it. But he said he had to get rid of it because it was messing with his game. I told him that I would be more concerned about his face messing with that game than I would be his wedding band. Okay... so I can only say that because I know I am married to a great catch with a good looking face. And I know that the ring must be somewhere on that silly golf course. I am also glad that I dont actually have to worry about his ring since I know he is all mine. Some people really do have to be concerned and I am blessed to have a faithful mate. Just a forgetful one and I will not make this easy on him. He would absolutely kill me if I lost my ring! But that is because mine is worth a bit more than his. Anyway, sock it to him! (This post right here is why I am glad he never actually looks at this blog of mine!) This will show him!
AGHHHHH!!!!
I really try to keep this a positive site where friends and family can come and see a happy, fluffy version of what goes on in the wilson home. Today will not be a post like that. So you may just want to move on to the next blog. I need to vent. I really just want to cry, go back to bed and ignore all of my obligations.
Okay so my weekend was full of house work and school work. no time for play or rest. A quick run down of all that allen, his dad, and I accomplished. 1. the boys broke up a row of bricks that were in the ground, hacked down a big ole bush bigger than both of them that was covered in vines and surrounded with poison oak (which they aren't allergic to but I am!!!), fixed the cords from the TV so that they are more hidden, and hung the blinds in our bedroom. That was all Sunday afternoon - until 10:30 pm. I worked on sewing curtains for the spare bedroom (see we need to get window coverings upstairs because the sun is roasting the rooms and heating up everything)oh and I didn't get as far as I wanted because of my dumb sewing machine, I ironed the panel curtains that I bought for my bedroom, started and finished (at 1 am on sunday night) a big paper that was due this week for my masters program,went to panoply breifly since my students had work up, went to a birthday party of a friends little girl, hung some ferns, did laundry, and had to organized a ton of my clothes that had been in the amoir because allen set the tv up in there. We have a few events coming up and we want this crazy house to be in order. Oh, I almost forgot that we hung stuff on the walls and organized the bonus room, put together a new toy chest for kaylen, and unpacked boxes that we still hadn't touched.
So a lot has been happening... what else? Well, I woke up VERY late for school today. Missed first period. Great. Have a virus on my computer that is effecting the printer... along with all of Huntsville City Schools. Trying to deal with that. Got an email from the band director... we are fueding. They are trying to make me not take certain students into my advanced art program if they are really talented in band. Even though the student has chosen to take advanced art instead of band, I am supposed to pretend that they aren't talented enough to make it in and then they are forced to stay where they are at. All for the sake of the program... not the actual students in the program! I guess I need to keep this PG so I better stop there. It is completely rediculous and right now I don't have the energy to deal with such crap. I am not even fighting for my program... I am fighting for the students to have their own choice!
Moving on... I have a portfolio due May 14... I thought I had 10 out of 20 domain indicators that are due absolutely completed. My advisor emailed me to let me know that only 4 out of the 10 were good enough to be completed. So that means I have to work on 16 domain indicators as well as all of my regular weekly work. This is a pass/fail type situation. I am really not sure if I will pass. I keep telling allen about my stress with this but he doesn't get it! I am definitely not upset with him. He has been helping me with Kaylen a ton lately so that I can work on this as much as possible. He just keeps thinking that maybe the advisor didn't see all that I had turned in and I keep telling him that there is no way for her to have missed anything. I truly have this much work looming over me. So you would think with all of this work I wouldn't have anything else but homework to worry about. WRONG!!!! Allen decided this weekend would be a great time to have a major cookout at our house. And this is with his golf buddies on Saturday morning. Could he have consulted me about this and waited until after this big homework push was over? I guess not. So our house has to be in order and people I really dont know are going to be calling me to ask what they should bring!!!!! are you joking? I better not say anything else about this... I really do love having company but I love having company when I have the time to devote to throwing a great shindig. None of these people will know what all I have on my plate right now and they will just think that I am a bad party planner. Oh well. And to top that, I am planning my sister's graduation celebration at my house the saturday of Mother's day weekend. So two weekends in a row.... big stinking events at my unfinished joke of a house when I have no time to devote to planning! Have I lost my ever-loving mind?!?!?! I seriously want to cry. The good news is that on May 15 I am going to the beach with my girlfriends. Boy do I need this break! It will come the day after I have to turn in this nasty big portfolio. If I pass or fail... wont matter at that point!
Anyway, if you think about me over the next few weeks.... please pray for my sanity and that I can be nice to, oh... anyone at all!
BTW... dont expect many posts in the mean time! :)
Okay so my weekend was full of house work and school work. no time for play or rest. A quick run down of all that allen, his dad, and I accomplished. 1. the boys broke up a row of bricks that were in the ground, hacked down a big ole bush bigger than both of them that was covered in vines and surrounded with poison oak (which they aren't allergic to but I am!!!), fixed the cords from the TV so that they are more hidden, and hung the blinds in our bedroom. That was all Sunday afternoon - until 10:30 pm. I worked on sewing curtains for the spare bedroom (see we need to get window coverings upstairs because the sun is roasting the rooms and heating up everything)oh and I didn't get as far as I wanted because of my dumb sewing machine, I ironed the panel curtains that I bought for my bedroom, started and finished (at 1 am on sunday night) a big paper that was due this week for my masters program,went to panoply breifly since my students had work up, went to a birthday party of a friends little girl, hung some ferns, did laundry, and had to organized a ton of my clothes that had been in the amoir because allen set the tv up in there. We have a few events coming up and we want this crazy house to be in order. Oh, I almost forgot that we hung stuff on the walls and organized the bonus room, put together a new toy chest for kaylen, and unpacked boxes that we still hadn't touched.
So a lot has been happening... what else? Well, I woke up VERY late for school today. Missed first period. Great. Have a virus on my computer that is effecting the printer... along with all of Huntsville City Schools. Trying to deal with that. Got an email from the band director... we are fueding. They are trying to make me not take certain students into my advanced art program if they are really talented in band. Even though the student has chosen to take advanced art instead of band, I am supposed to pretend that they aren't talented enough to make it in and then they are forced to stay where they are at. All for the sake of the program... not the actual students in the program! I guess I need to keep this PG so I better stop there. It is completely rediculous and right now I don't have the energy to deal with such crap. I am not even fighting for my program... I am fighting for the students to have their own choice!
Moving on... I have a portfolio due May 14... I thought I had 10 out of 20 domain indicators that are due absolutely completed. My advisor emailed me to let me know that only 4 out of the 10 were good enough to be completed. So that means I have to work on 16 domain indicators as well as all of my regular weekly work. This is a pass/fail type situation. I am really not sure if I will pass. I keep telling allen about my stress with this but he doesn't get it! I am definitely not upset with him. He has been helping me with Kaylen a ton lately so that I can work on this as much as possible. He just keeps thinking that maybe the advisor didn't see all that I had turned in and I keep telling him that there is no way for her to have missed anything. I truly have this much work looming over me. So you would think with all of this work I wouldn't have anything else but homework to worry about. WRONG!!!! Allen decided this weekend would be a great time to have a major cookout at our house. And this is with his golf buddies on Saturday morning. Could he have consulted me about this and waited until after this big homework push was over? I guess not. So our house has to be in order and people I really dont know are going to be calling me to ask what they should bring!!!!! are you joking? I better not say anything else about this... I really do love having company but I love having company when I have the time to devote to throwing a great shindig. None of these people will know what all I have on my plate right now and they will just think that I am a bad party planner. Oh well. And to top that, I am planning my sister's graduation celebration at my house the saturday of Mother's day weekend. So two weekends in a row.... big stinking events at my unfinished joke of a house when I have no time to devote to planning! Have I lost my ever-loving mind?!?!?! I seriously want to cry. The good news is that on May 15 I am going to the beach with my girlfriends. Boy do I need this break! It will come the day after I have to turn in this nasty big portfolio. If I pass or fail... wont matter at that point!
Anyway, if you think about me over the next few weeks.... please pray for my sanity and that I can be nice to, oh... anyone at all!
BTW... dont expect many posts in the mean time! :)
Friday, April 25, 2008
My amazing art teacher!
After i fixed mrs. wilsons hair, i took a beautiful picture of her!! Shes always on the phone, so i thought, "Why not make a memorable moment out of it!" and also, she looks like this every day, she just trys to act normal in public. What she doesnt know is that, everyone can see through her cover! paha. jk. i love her!
-Sara Lauryn LyBrand aka. her favorite student
-Sara Lauryn LyBrand aka. her favorite student
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Middle School dances are the coolest! One of my co-teacher friends took this picture of Allen and I at the last dance. It is always a pretty interesting night. Just another fun part of my job. The best part is that you can totally dance it up because all of the students are not the best dancers either. So who cares what you look like! Anyway, we had a good time! Have fun this weekend.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
house stuff
So I tried to stain our new mantle... it didn't go well. My painting crewleader spent 3 hours yesterday sanding and scraping what I had done. ugh. no telling how much that will cost me! Anyway, she isn't done fixing it but we all decided to set it up where it will go to make sure we are all on the right track... this is how it will look. The TV cords will be gone when things are all in their actual place. We have ordered our fireplace doors and they should be in soon.
Allen had a dinner program last night so I decided to move all of the furniture into the spare bedroom with the help of Kaylen, of course. To be honest with you I thought he would be really surprised because I seriously moved some heavy stuff... a dresser, the bed, a big club chair... but no. He didn't seem all that impressed. He was glad it was done but that was it! Anyway, I guess he just thinks I am ultra strong and isn't surprised by that. We now have to start hanging stuff on the walls and I need to sew some curtains for some of these rooms. The big thing is that all of the furniture is in its correct room! I have a few more boxes to unpack too.
Oh, Allen's parents came by after I had gotten all of the furniture moved and I got his dad to help me move the desk into the room. So, that one item I did have help on. I am not Shera! Geez.
The next two pics are of Kaylen's bathroom. The mirror isn't hung and there needs to be a few more small things done for this room to be complete but I really love the beadboard in here.
Sidenote* I feel like I should let the blog world know that we have sent Laci to Jeff and Aline's for a while. I hate that dog! She had been doing so well until about a week ago. In the last week she has peed ON MY LAP 3 times. Last night was the second night in a row. I couldn't take it anymore. Why is she doing this to me? I need the dog whisper. I will admit that I was really hard on her months ago but lately I have been nothing but nice. Doesn't help! She still pees all over me! I can take my own daughter peeing on me but not my dog. GRRRRRRRR.
Allen had a dinner program last night so I decided to move all of the furniture into the spare bedroom with the help of Kaylen, of course. To be honest with you I thought he would be really surprised because I seriously moved some heavy stuff... a dresser, the bed, a big club chair... but no. He didn't seem all that impressed. He was glad it was done but that was it! Anyway, I guess he just thinks I am ultra strong and isn't surprised by that. We now have to start hanging stuff on the walls and I need to sew some curtains for some of these rooms. The big thing is that all of the furniture is in its correct room! I have a few more boxes to unpack too.
Oh, Allen's parents came by after I had gotten all of the furniture moved and I got his dad to help me move the desk into the room. So, that one item I did have help on. I am not Shera! Geez.
The next two pics are of Kaylen's bathroom. The mirror isn't hung and there needs to be a few more small things done for this room to be complete but I really love the beadboard in here.
Sidenote* I feel like I should let the blog world know that we have sent Laci to Jeff and Aline's for a while. I hate that dog! She had been doing so well until about a week ago. In the last week she has peed ON MY LAP 3 times. Last night was the second night in a row. I couldn't take it anymore. Why is she doing this to me? I need the dog whisper. I will admit that I was really hard on her months ago but lately I have been nothing but nice. Doesn't help! She still pees all over me! I can take my own daughter peeing on me but not my dog. GRRRRRRRR.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Jam-packed weekend!
Okay, so I get home on Friday and begin cleaning the house. Neither Allen nor I are paying much attention to Kaylen because we are both working on the house. So I walk through the Dining Room only to find my lovely daughter on top of the table dumping out the last few remaining drops of a full bottle of windex onto my new dark rug. Sigh. Can we have nothing nice? Allen and I spent a long time cleaning the rug to the best of our ability and we were lucky to not have any type of stain. After we were finished with that drama we dropped Kaylen off at her grandparents house (we needed a break) and went to dinner and then Lowes for a new rug. Next we went to the middle school dance and cut a rug. We got home and I waxed the floor in the Living Room so that we could put our furniture in there. Finally we were finished around 2am!
So I slept in on Saturday. But once I got up and going here is a run down of all I did: I went shopping for a few things for Kaylen's room. I did 10 loads of laundry... that's right - 10! It wasn't all clothes. I had some fabric to wash, sheets, the dogs things, etc. I met Allen for lunch at the club and then we went to Southern Home and Hearth. We got a new mantle!(will post a pic once it is hung - still drying) It was unstained so we stopped by Home Depot to pick out the color. I did the staining while Allen and his Dad put up the mount for the TV in the Living room. I was so proud of Allen... he learned how to hang things into brick. He did a great job and of course it is in just the right spot! The furniture was moved into the living room.
I had to cook some finger foods for a birthday party we were going to Saturday evening. I tried to clean a rug for the eat-in kitchen but I am not sure it was saved. We left for the party and stayed until 9ish. The Dining room was put back in order. We moved all of Kaylen's furniture into her new room (first I had get the paper and drop cloths up, sweep and mop the floors and dust everything off). We were in bed by 1 am and had to get up early to go to early church. I am going to make a quilt for Kaylen's room so I got things ready to begin that project. Here is a sampling of the colors:
Here is Kaylen's room so far. We have one small glitch. The footboard isn't attached. The bedrails that I have only attach to the headboard and so I set the footboard there for the pic. If any of you have bedrails that attach to the head and foot of a bed that you aren't using... I'm your huckleberry! I haven't hung anything on her walls yet but I have some cute art ideas ahead. Also, anyone have any window treatment ideas? I am at a loss! I think I need to call a professional for blinds help because I dont know how to hang anything on that.
Pictures of Kaylen's room wouldn't be complete without Kaylen! She wanted to do these two poses for the camera in her new peent chair.
After church we cleaned, organized, I did my homework, oh... and I took a nap from 3-6 pm! I have a cute Kaylen story. I was putting her to bed last night and she had a little pink cat that was going to sleep with her. She was sitting up in bed and she held the cat in her lap. She patted the bed beside her and told her cat to sit here. The she bounced the cat on her lap and talked for him and said, "no, here". She then turned the cat over and spanked it and said, "Obey, Cat!". I am pretty sure she understands what is going on when she gets in trouble! Anyway, I made it to bed by 12:30 but got no sleep. Kaylen woke up crying at 2:30 and ended up in our bed. Okay, the next four pictures are of the kitchen. It's pretty much finished minus the replacement of that one window. What do you think of the backsplash? OH! Something else I did on Saturday... I replanted 6 plants into new pots. You can see some of them in the kitchen.
Okay, so I get home on Friday and begin cleaning the house. Neither Allen nor I are paying much attention to Kaylen because we are both working on the house. So I walk through the Dining Room only to find my lovely daughter on top of the table dumping out the last few remaining drops of a full bottle of windex onto my new dark rug. Sigh. Can we have nothing nice? Allen and I spent a long time cleaning the rug to the best of our ability and we were lucky to not have any type of stain. After we were finished with that drama we dropped Kaylen off at her grandparents house (we needed a break) and went to dinner and then Lowes for a new rug. Next we went to the middle school dance and cut a rug. We got home and I waxed the floor in the Living Room so that we could put our furniture in there. Finally we were finished around 2am!
So I slept in on Saturday. But once I got up and going here is a run down of all I did: I went shopping for a few things for Kaylen's room. I did 10 loads of laundry... that's right - 10! It wasn't all clothes. I had some fabric to wash, sheets, the dogs things, etc. I met Allen for lunch at the club and then we went to Southern Home and Hearth. We got a new mantle!(will post a pic once it is hung - still drying) It was unstained so we stopped by Home Depot to pick out the color. I did the staining while Allen and his Dad put up the mount for the TV in the Living room. I was so proud of Allen... he learned how to hang things into brick. He did a great job and of course it is in just the right spot! The furniture was moved into the living room.
I had to cook some finger foods for a birthday party we were going to Saturday evening. I tried to clean a rug for the eat-in kitchen but I am not sure it was saved. We left for the party and stayed until 9ish. The Dining room was put back in order. We moved all of Kaylen's furniture into her new room (first I had get the paper and drop cloths up, sweep and mop the floors and dust everything off). We were in bed by 1 am and had to get up early to go to early church. I am going to make a quilt for Kaylen's room so I got things ready to begin that project. Here is a sampling of the colors:
Here is Kaylen's room so far. We have one small glitch. The footboard isn't attached. The bedrails that I have only attach to the headboard and so I set the footboard there for the pic. If any of you have bedrails that attach to the head and foot of a bed that you aren't using... I'm your huckleberry! I haven't hung anything on her walls yet but I have some cute art ideas ahead. Also, anyone have any window treatment ideas? I am at a loss! I think I need to call a professional for blinds help because I dont know how to hang anything on that.
Pictures of Kaylen's room wouldn't be complete without Kaylen! She wanted to do these two poses for the camera in her new peent chair.
After church we cleaned, organized, I did my homework, oh... and I took a nap from 3-6 pm! I have a cute Kaylen story. I was putting her to bed last night and she had a little pink cat that was going to sleep with her. She was sitting up in bed and she held the cat in her lap. She patted the bed beside her and told her cat to sit here. The she bounced the cat on her lap and talked for him and said, "no, here". She then turned the cat over and spanked it and said, "Obey, Cat!". I am pretty sure she understands what is going on when she gets in trouble! Anyway, I made it to bed by 12:30 but got no sleep. Kaylen woke up crying at 2:30 and ended up in our bed. Okay, the next four pictures are of the kitchen. It's pretty much finished minus the replacement of that one window. What do you think of the backsplash? OH! Something else I did on Saturday... I replanted 6 plants into new pots. You can see some of them in the kitchen.
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