It's Hot

For the first time this year we had to turn on the air conditioner... it was warm and humid which made it feel very hot and sticky.... I'm thankful that we at least got into June before windows weren't enough.... and Boy was it nice to have the air on and not feel all sticky last night... it's still really gross outside... it may be an inside day... it's supposed to get pretty warm =)Maybe I'll let Tobin watch his first movie ever I'm thinking Toy Story the original to get myself ready for Toy Story 3

Old CD's

I pulled out an old CD today by Delirious? Glo ... words to encourage and music that I love to listen to, can't get much better than that....
I really like the whole CD but specifically My Glorious and Jesus' Blood

the list

This is a list of the things we could think of that need to be done to the house... * is for things that only need to be done if we're moving. Alan's room - nothing (the floor could be refinished but it's not horrible. Our room - paint* it's purple =). Tobin's room - door need painted, ceiling painted (roof leak needs to be fixed), Broken window, water access panel (hole in the wall). Sun room - paint ceiling and fix crack in ceiling, fix broken window. Stairs nail down carpet (both sets) fix railing spindles loose broken or missing. Living room - fill wood gaps from house settling*, Oil wood trim, paint windows, replace broken quarter round on bottom step. Dining room - electrical wires replaced, repair termite eaten studs, fix the messed up joists, insulate wall, refinish floor, drywall, texture, paint, trim. Kitchen - replace ceiling tile we had to cut out, counter tops, floor, paint door, paint cabinets*. Laundry room - sub floor, Floor tile, paint, finish wall were we had to fix the leaky pipe. down stairs bathroom - Sub floor, floor, tile shower, paint, punch nails in paneling so they don't show. Basement - fix the ceiling where the shower leaked through (again), clean carpet, tape carpet, install carpet permanently, finish trim, fill in the hole we drilled in the concrete, finish the drainage tile, seal sump pit hole. Out side front - paint the whole house, replace wood along brick line, fill in sink hole (again, probably to no avail), fix grass south of driveway, work on the front porch, paint the columns, paint the area behind the glass next to the door, reseal those pieces of glass, finish driveway addition (dig dirt out, put gravel, sand, and brick down). Back yard - finish drainage from driveway, lay brick by garage, get dirt to slop yard by kennel, grass around sandbox, clean deck*, fix the rock boarders, finish fence, pull weeds, get rid of or use lava rocks for basement tile. And for the room we're working on Up stairs Bathroom - fix drywall, replace trim, paint, replace fixtures, hook up water to tub, fix the heating duct opening to match the duct, fix the vanity/ sink, fix leaky faucet. Today the tub got caulked, so I took that one off the list. As you can see there's allot to do to the house much less the normal things like wash windows and anything that we'd want to do (like finish my kitchen pantry) =/

House Work

Aaron and I wrote out a list tonight of all the things we need to do to the house to be able to sell it. It's a big stress in me in its current state, thus the list... If we averaged crossing off 1 thing a week every week it'd take over a year (62 items) to finish, which of course won't happen, something else is bound to break. I just hope we start making progress... I'm tired of everything falling apart.

Garage sales!

I love this time of year, it's nice outside, i can do gardening, i love having the windows open... But I really like garage sales, and today there were some good ones! Toys, clothes, firniture... I'll look at pretty much everything, but i'm picky and cheap =)... Today I found some good stuff though, toys: 2 dump trucks for sand boxes one of them is the metal Tonka truck (retails $35 or $40) it's a little scratched and missing a sticker but for $5 you can't beat that, the other one is for mimi's house and makes noises (it may not make it to the sand box)and a lawn mower for Mimi's house. We also found a fasterner cube, with a zipper velcro a button... stuff like that, it needs new batteries so we'll see what it does, however it's already been played with so maybe we don't need batteries hummm... we found a popper that sings... the one that doesn't sing costs 12 and i found this for 2... and the last one we found was a fireman puzzle...they don;'t make ambulance puzzles for uncle 'nunun' so we get as close as we can. I found a table that i'm going to put some sides on for tobin to play cars or trains and 2 end tables...a fresh coat of paint and we'll be good to go (all for $12). I saw alot of great baby stuff... if only my brother lived closer...
I also found some great vinage sheets for amy (mimi) and 2 mini muffin tins and a cheese cutter that will actully work... i'm excited to try it out

Observations of life without a Dog

We had to let our dog go a little while ago, he was very possessive of the kids and I and we couldn't have people over and feel comfortable with him in the same room. Fortunately we were able to give him back to the people we got him from so we know he's doing well. However, things are different around the house without a dog. 1. There's no barking, which is good and bad... no one to wake up the babies when they're sleeping or just randomly back a person walking across the street, but also no one to let me know that someone has come home or someones at the door. 2. There's allot less hair and dust around the house. This is a big one when you have hard wood floors, I can kinda keep up with the house not looking so dusty now. 3. No one to clean up the messes on the floor. Either the food Tobz dropped on the floor from eating or the messes he made, like yesterday, (video to follow) or Zeke's spit up or something dropped while I'm cooking, it all now has to be swept or picked up by hand. 4. Tobz is missing a play mate... the cats just don't interact the way the puppy did. 5. I've got no running partner. 6. No dog poo to pick up... That's a really nice one... I can just send Tobz to the backyard and not have to worry about him. I've sure there's more but now by baby's awake and I must go. Despite the list I still miss our Jack.

zekers

poor baby spit up blood last night. we took him to the er and had some test done... we'll hopefully get more answers tomorrow... poor guy I want to help him to feel better =/