All in a day's work

These pictures are mainly for Ryan (who may not make it back to see the house before we move). Tonight Glenn and I worked furiously to get the kitchen walls done. In about 2 hours, we had the whole room painted...completed! Yay! And I must say, the pictures don't do it justice (I don't have Jon's talent there). The color is just a tiny shade darker than what we had primed it. It's BEAUTIFUL! No longer the pretty, but definitely bathroom looking color.







Now I just need to finish painting the ceiling in the other rooms and touch up the garage...then I'm done! Plant that lovely "for sale" sign in my front yard and I'm good to go.

Ring Around the Rosies (turn your volume way up!)

Wii Time

Ever since Santa dropped off the Wii player, our family has enjoyed playing it together. Since school has started, the kids have realized that it's an earned privilege to play it. They aren't allowed to have any card flips at school (any warnings or such from their teachers) or they can't play it. Jacob's had a hard couple of weeks. Today he finally stayed on GREEN (no card flips). That means Wii time! Even Marcus loves to watch and pretend to play...of course he'll also run off with a remote the moment we turn our heads too...

They're all playing bowling here...




Hi-five from Marcus! He's always so tickled watching his siblings play.

Prayer Rock

At school yesterday, in celebration of Earth Day, the kids at Julia and Jacob's elementary school made pet rocks. Julia, being the incredible young lady that she is, decided to instead make a prayer rock. She decorated it in a sparkly blue and keeps it on the shelf near her bed to help remind herself (and in turn then remind Evelyn) to have personal prayer before going to bed each night. This girl continues to amaze me at every turn. I am so proud of her!

It's time....

You know it's time to move when you see that your lawn needs to me mowed...but you're scared to go into the yard for fear your allergies will flare up again. Therefore you won't mow your lawn and wait for the awesome boy scout to come over and do it for you. :) Jared, you're the BEST!!!!!! (the son of one of my mom's good friends has volunteered to come over once a week and do the mowing and weed eating for me--bless him!)

Video Footage

Lookey what I found!

http://s293.photobucket.com/albums/mm57/echo501-08/Videos/

Here are some short videos of the water training that Ryan did (he's not in any of the videos) and then a short clip of the first aid.

Allergies Suck

So I decided to do something which I've never done before....do the weed eating. It really needed to be done and I'm the only one around here who can do it. So after much tinkering and some help from Tiff, I finally got the thing going on Saturday afternoon. Kimberlie was sweet enough to hang out at my house and watch the kids while I went around the house getting rid of weeds and extra grass growth that was trying to climb up the sides of my house. Gotta tell you, it feels so good to accomplish new things! Well...that was til my body started to feel pretty horrible that night. Very achy and my head hurt. All that night I tossed and turned with fever and then chills. No gooda. I got up at 6am to take some tylenol which took the edge off long enough for me to take the kids to sacrament. By Sunday night it hurt to move my head, couldn't stand any light whatsoever, and I couldn't breathe out of my nose. My accomplishment? Giving myself a sinus infection! Never had one before...never had allergies in April either! It's now Tuesday and I was finally able to venture out of the house today. My head still doesn't like quick movements and I wear sunglasses to help with light. Still can't breathe out of my nose, though my left nostril does like to run now. :P Guh-ross. I've been taking sudafed and tylenol. If this isn't cleared up in a couple of days then I'm buying zyrtec and claritin D and making myself a nice cocktail. The kicker? It rained today (and a bit yesterday) and I can tell the grass needs to be cut again....I HATE ALLERGIES!!!!!

P.S. I'm craving chocolate and indulged in the twix that I've had stashed in my purse...but my nose is so stuffy that I didn't get to taste it whatsoever. :( And I'm still craving chocolate....